Emerging research shows that the number of young people experiencing trauma is alarmingly high and continuously increasing. In the midst of such pervasive trauma, teachers generally--and particularly in urban schools--must be equipped with a language and paradigm that prepares them to intervene in the traumatic stressors impacting the lives of…

This reflective position paper explores teaching and learning of compassion in educational institutions following the theory of enaction proposed by Varela, Thompson, and Rosch (2016). In the enactive view, information processing and cognition are situated in the dynamic relationship between the embodied organism and its environment. Following…

Positive interpersonal relationships between principals and students are rarely discussed in scholarship (Cranston, 2012). And while the classroom teacher has the most significant effect on students, the principal is believed to have the second most significant effect (Leithwood, Louis, Anderson, & Wahlstrom, 2004). However, the majority of…

An interpretive descriptive qualitative methodological approach underpinned by Caring Science Theory, Relational Caring Inquiry coupled with Aesthetic Ways of Knowing was utilized to discover the meaning of a transpersonal caring relationship as experienced within the context of an online educational environment. Intended goal for this study was…

This is a qualitative action research study that examines teacher perceptions of behaviors that foster caring teacher-student relationships that motivate students to learn. The purpose of this research was to examine the range of teacher behaviors that either promoting caring teacher-student relationships or which behaviors are disrupting such…

The purpose of the study is to reveal the reasons for young children to like and dislike playing with their friends. There were two groups in the study. The first group included 147 preschool children who were in the age group of 5-6 years and were living in Turkey. The second group included 60 preschool children who were in the age group of 5-6…

We live in an age rife with evaluations. Everyone is busy evaluating everyone. Teachers evaluate students; administrators evaluate teachers; the public evaluates administrators. Testing agencies are having a field day creating instruments for evaluating everyone and everything. The circle feeds on itself. In my 45 years of teaching experience, my…

A school-based behavioral therapy intervention at East High School in Rochester, New York, in partnership with a local university, builds resilience for middle-school students with high trauma.

Developing a sound ability of noticing is a crucial competency for both teachers and medical professionals in the respective professional and disciplinary communities. In this article, we investigate noticing in practice--how members of a professional community in the high-tech modern medicine specialty of Advanced Heart Failure use this ability…

In this paper I consider whether forest schools provide a space where we could rethink pedagogy in the Anthropocene. I explore the challenges and possibilities of thinking beyond the business-as-usual of human-centric pedagogies drawing upon an ethnographic study of two forest schools, located in the West Midlands of England conducted in…

Teachers in the US have historically served affective roles of uplift and civic engagement (Fultz, 1995; Gere, 2005), but reforms in the last century privileged technical aspects of the profession (Buchanan, 2015). The COVID-19 crisis, which shifted learning online and isolated students, revealed the limitations of a technical focus in teacher…

Education in the Eastern Caribbean has been heavily influenced by the colonial history of the sub-region. In recent years though, in recognition of the fact that the traditional approaches to teaching and learning are no longer meeting the needs of present-day students, there have been calls for change to more student-friendly ones, with…

One educational structure with its own grammar is the student-teacher relationship. The conventional relational grammar involves teachers and students connecting to pursue academic learning--a grammar rooted in both historic attempts to define the professional domain of teaching as the transmission of academic knowledge as well as current efforts…

Theory and research in teachers' interactional styles and authoritative teaching typically posit two factors, including "response" and a second factor featuring some combination of "demand" and "control." Two survey-research projects examined how teachers construe interactional styles, with results suggesting three…

In South Africa there are few male teachers in the Foundation Phase (FP) of schooling, where children are aged between five and nine. FP teaching is traditionally considered to be a 'woman's job' and essentialist gender discourses play a central role in impeding men's participation in the profession. These discourses are based on polarised…