This paper explores the narratives of participants in museum community engagement projects in Scotland. Emphasis is placed on how taking part in museum community engagement projects can have a positive impact on the participants' wellbeing. This qualitative study employed a dialogical research strategy, which involved careful and mindful…

Teacher authority is culturally valued among Filipinos. This authority however poses a threat to the fundamental principles of learner-centred education as it arguably perpetuates 'teacher-centered' instruction and obstructs positive student-teacher relationships which are necessary for student learning. This problematic role of teacher authority…

Online classes are plagued by the digital disconnect, making students dissatisfied with their learning experience due to the feeling of isolation from the class and the instructor. Previous scholars have suggested ways in which this transactional distance can be bridged, specifically through strategies the professor can implement in order to make…

The paper analyses how educators employed on non-permanent contracts in the non-compulsory education sector in Ireland have fared during the COVID-19 pandemic. These employees were starting from a low base in relation to the terms and conditions of their employment when their places of work dramatically pivoted online in March 2020. We argue the…

Effective leadership will be seen from his exemplary behaviour. Leadership behaviour greatly determine its success in leading an organization and its members, so that the commands and directions given will be carried out as well as possible by its members. The research aimed to describe leadership behaviour of a boarding-school in Indonesia. This…

The article focuses on a tutoring program between high school students and preservice teacher students from a local college. The 10-week tutoring program, which involved two 1-hour tutoring sessions each week. On the first visit to the high school, the teachers and principal provided the preservice teachers with a 30-minute orientation and tour of…

This qualitative case study explores in-depth how one male student teacher reflected on his care practice with infants and how he described his experiences of working with female mentor teachers. The authors used the teacher's daily journal entries, four individual interviews, and weekly team planning meetings as data sources. The data was…

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted university faculty in profound ways, particularly those who are marginalized by gender. While social and institutional injustices have always existed for these faculty, stressors related to caregiving during a global pandemic have exacerbated inequities related to distribution of care work at home and teaching…

The English as a second language (ESL) student population is one of the fastest growing demographics in U.S. public schools (National Center for Education Statistics, 2021). ESL students who attend post-secondary schools are more likely to choose community colleges (David & Kanno, 2020). Despite this, a dearth of research on immigrant ESL…

Purpose: This article investigates the establishment of commitment in pedagogical practices through what are known as 'behavioural contracts'. Such contracts are seen as a participatory element of democratic pedagogy and are linked to the aim of strengthening students' self-determination. The objective is to demonstrate that as a pedagogical…

In the so-called "post-truth" world, there exists widespread confusion and disagreement over what is known, how to know, and who to trust. Current education has largely failed to meet the challenges of this world. Grounded in a new analysis of the goals of epistemic education, we argue for new directions in instruction. Our analysis…

Misalignments in caring between home and school can often be a source of alienation for minoritized students. This study explores how African immigrant middle school students at an urban K-8 charter school experience congruencies and disconnections in caring practice between home and school. The school is academically successful and shares some…

Students perceive care as a quality of highly effective faculty, and building positive relationships is essential to a successful college experience. However, many college students report never having developed caring relationships with faculty. We propose faculty have an opportunity to use technology to help build caring relationships in an…

While engagement has been identified as a key component to enhancing the academic outcomes of college students, less work has focused on specific predictors of engagement for Black college students attending predominately White postsecondary institutions (PWIs). The current study examined the influence of 2 dimensions of student-faculty…

This article explores how three teachers developed a similar mindset and practice of care for Latina mothering students within a caring alternative school located along the U.S./Mexico border. Three narratives are featured to reveal how teachers draw upon a network of support to transform themselves into family-like figures for their students. The…