The idea of freedom in education has its roots in the social justice movements of the 1950s and 60s. Civil rights groups coalesced independently of other marginalized groups and movements of its time. While similar in nature, environmentalism and civil rights issues rarely crossed paths. As environmentalism made its way into science education and…

Although student voice pedagogies (SVPs) can offer substantive benefits within physical education (PE), a better understanding is needed of how SVPs can be enacted as an everyday pedagogy in PE. The purpose of this research is to offer empirically based examples of how children can be supported to participate in SVPs in primary PE practice. An…

Peer collaboration is widely recognized as essential in children's learning and early childhood education policy and pedagogy. However, research has largely focused on researchers' interpretations, with limited attention to teachers' perspectives. Conducted in a Chinese preschool, this study explored how teachers perceived and interpreted…

Li Pottery, a distinctive traditional craft of the Hainan Li ethnic group, serves as a vital carrier of local wisdom, encompassing ecological adaptation, cultural values, and community identity. In the context of increasing modernization, traditional knowledge systems embedded in Li Pottery face both challenges and opportunities for…

Story-time serves as an interactive linguistic tool through which parents encourage their children to share narratives. Grounded in sociocultural and narrative theories, this study employed a visual ethnographic approach to explore how parents perceive and engage in story-time interactions within 33 Chinese families. Data were collected through…

Immigration, economic, and demographic changes have brought about rich cultural and linguistic diversity in rural communities. With rural schools receiving increasing numbers of multilingual learners, providing equitable educational opportunities for multilingual learners in rural schools is a pressing issue facing educators and scholars today.…

In this critical autoethnography, I draw from MotherScholar, entanglement, and border theories to weave my identity as a Latina mother, doing the work of linguistic maintenance for my bilingual son, and my identity as a language teacher educator, grappling with moral injury. I particularly address my own critical consciousness: the ways in which I…

Based on recent discussions on language and decoloniality and employing an ethnographic approach, this article examines a teacher education program in "primary intercultural education" at a public university in the Southern Peruvian Andes, in a context with a majority Quechua-speaking population and youth with diverse bilingual…

Four educators from Nepal engaged in a collaborative autoethnographic inquiry to examine how community engagement can transform higher education through interdisciplinary, reflective, and contextually grounded approaches. Drawing on data from a two-month pilot residential program in Panchkhal Municipality, Nepal, we explored how students…

This collaborative ethnographic study examines how white Head Start educators in a predominantly white, rural Appalachian community navigate multicultural teaching policies. Using critical discourse analysis of video-cued interviews, field notes, and policy documents, we find educators adapt multicultural narratives to align with local values,…

In this article, we present the benefits of blending the methodological characteristics of the focused ethnographic method (FEM) and case study research (CSR) for a study on auxiliary work processes in a hospital in Barcelona, Spain. We argue that incorporating CSR logic and principles in the FEM produces a better form of inquiry, as this…

This auto ethnographic study examines the difficulty in defining student engagement. Definitions from the author and her students are compared for intersections and disconnect. Trickle down engagement, the teacher setting a contagious engaging tone, was considered. Though many intersections in definitions were noted, one disconnect related to the…

This article features a collaborative autoethnography of its two authors: we are instructors, also life partners, whose teaching of statistics has been transformed through significant, intimate conversations. We implemented the collaborative autoethnography within an integrated theoretical framework, designed to underpin the function of…

America's teaching force does not represent the children in its classrooms. The majority of public-school teachers are white women, while the majority of their students are not. The system within which U.S. educators operate is infused with racist procedures and curriculum presented through a white, western, Eurocentric, patriarchal lens that…

Continuing to negate deficit framings of youth sexuality and amplify youth voices, this critical queer ethnography understands California high school students' experiences with comprehensive school-based sex education. Findings make visible the detailed account of youth voices in the space of sexual health education, highlighting their agency,…