Drawing on the experiences and demands of South Korean queer and climate youth activists and Maya Chuj youth organisers, this paper shows the limits and containment ideologies undergirding inter/national human rights frameworks. While positioned as a universal ideal for alleviating suffering, youth organisers' experiences demonstrate how these…

In the urgent move from conventional classrooms to online learning made necessary by the COVID-19 pandemic, teachers in higher education made hard choices about pedagogy, student support, ethical responsibilities to professions and disciplines, and a host of other considerations. Equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) are fundamental and explicit…

Background/purpose: Chemistry is one of the five science subfields typically covered in secondary schools in the United Arab Emirates. Chemistry is a branch of science that studies the properties, composition, and structure of substances. Numerous subfields fall under the umbrella of chemistry, including inorganic, organic, analytical, and…

In 2020, Uganda's Ministry of Education and Sports implemented a Competence-Based Curriculum (CBC) for lower secondary education to equip students with practical skills for the 21st century. Despite its potential for socio-economic transformation, past research revealed that many Ugandan secondary agricultural education teachers lack the necessary…

Teacher educators are charged with the responsibility of training teachers who will be required to make numerous daily decisions. One effective method to equip teacher candidates to manage the multitude of teaching demands is through the implementation of reflective practice. This study aimed to investigate the placement experiences of The Ohio…

NC Reconnect, an effort of the John M. Belk Endowment (JMBE), aims to engage or reengage adult learners over the age of 25 in North Carolina's community colleges to bridge the postsecondary education attainment gap and improve economic mobility within the state. This paper applies the Five P Framework to examine processes at 15 community colleges…

Teachers of students with significant cognitive disabilities (SWSCD) face multiple barriers when attempting to provide standards-aligned instruction (SAI) in special education classrooms. Self-efficacy, or believing that one has the ability to accomplish difficult things, is the anchor of the conceptual framework through which this…

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming education by enabling personalised learning, innovative teaching, and administrative efficiency, yet it also raises ethical, legal, and equity concerns. This study examines the integration of AI in education across European countries and Ukraine, analysing national strategies, policy documents, and…

Background/purpose: Instructional interaction barriers--including physical, psycho-emotional, perceptual, semantic, and management-related factors--can impede learning and diminish the overall effectiveness of classroom practice. This study examines the barriers faced by mathematics teachers in Saudi Arabia and their differences across gender,…

The aspiration of the LEGO Foundation is to support children to become creative, engaged, lifelong learners, who thrive in a constantly changing world by experiencing the benefits of learning through play. Learning through play offers deep learning experiences that are joyful, meaningful, active, engaged, iterative, and social. Effective teacher…

There has been sustained research interest in the role of early career researchers in advancing the field and the challenges that they face. However, efforts to document lived experiences of researchers working in a specific research area within science education have been scarce. This paper considers the meaning of innovation in the context of…

From a "prima facie" point of view, Nietzsche's use of virtue may appear to be a form of virtue ethics. Certainly, this is one position that has been established within the secondary literature; however, I argue that a more fruitful philosophical reading is to view his use of virtue as a part of his "drive" psychology. Indeed,…

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to chart the development of Makerspaces in higher education (MIHE), by building a map of existing research work in the field. Based on a corpus of 183 manuscripts, published between January 2014 and April 2021, it sets out to describe the range of topics covered under the umbrella of MIHE and provide a…

Purpose: This paper aims to examine the opportunities and challenges of using ChatGPT in higher education. Furthermore, it is also discuss the potential risks and plunders of these tools. Design/methodology/approach: The paper discuss the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in academia and explores the opportunities and challenges of using ChatGPT…

Decomposition of organic matter controls the flow of carbon and nutrients in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Several kinetic laws have been proposed to describe decomposition rates, but they neglect adaptation of the microbial decomposer to environmental conditions. Here we formalise decomposition as an optimal control problem by assuming that…