This study aims to investigate the readiness to change the status of the State Islamic Institute (IAIN) to become a State Islamic University (UIN) from the aspect of Lecturer Human Resources (HRlecturer) and Education Personnel. The research location is IAIN KHAS Jember, now transformed into the State Islamic University of Kiai Achmad Siddiq…

Research Findings: All teachers have demanding jobs and work with limited resources. However, working with young children with disabilities may place additional demands on early childhood special education (ECSE) teachers which may impact their well-being. Using the Job Demands and Resources model, the present study aimed to predict ECSE teachers'…

This study examines the perspective of a mathematics teacher educator (MTE) regarding the design and structuring of mathematics teaching method course in the elementary teaching education program. The research was designed as a single case study. The case was a teacher educator who has been delivering mathematics methods course for elementary…

Effective planning lays the foundations for effective teaching in mathematics (Smith & Stein, 2018). The planning decisions made by teachers are many and varied and ultimately inform what, how and why students learn mathematics (Kilpatrick et al., 2001). Critically, these decisions affect students' opportunities to engage with mathematics in…

The aim of this study was to help educators and clinicians better identify and understand the various participation levels of Taiwanese children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) in two different classroom settings. Greater participation is linked to positive health, developmental outcomes and improved physical and mental health. It is also…

Objective: To detail the implementation, benefits and challenges of onboarding campus-based health services onto a health system's electronic health record. Participants: UC San Diego Student Health and Well-Being offers medical services to over 39,000 students. UC San Diego Health is an academic medical center. Methods: 20 workstreams and 9…

This paper contributes to the conceptualisation of digital literacy as a social practice. While previous studies have focused on student digital skills and digital practices in well-resourced environments, there is a research gap concerning digital literacy as a social practice in resource constrained environments, such as South African…

Our reflexive study responds to the need for learning about translanguaging and multimodality as entangled pedagogies in non-English-dominant contexts from teachers' perspectives. This conceptual-empirical article re-examines a yearlong ethnographic study which traced how a community of seven in-service English language teachers in Colombia and…

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the cross-cultural training (CCT) provided to European expatriate executives in New Zealand, and consequently add to the knowledge for human resource management in the Australasian region. Design/methodology/approach: The present qualitative research study is based on open-ended and in-depth…

Family-professional partnerships are an important predictor of student success for children with and without disabilities. However, little is known about the perspectives of fathers of children with complex disabilities regarding their partnerships with educational professionals. This study presents findings from semi-structured interviews with 15…

Over the past several decades, housing costs have risen sharply, and as a result, an increasing number of families have become "housing cost burdened," paying more than one third of their income toward rent and utilities. This integrative literature synthesis considers the known and potential impacts of families' housing affordability…

Purpose: Because of the nature of their work, frontline service employees are highly exposed to customer incivility (CI) and are required to perform surface acting (SA) in such circumstances. Both CI and SA have detrimental impact to a sustainable workforce. This study aims to investigate the psychological effects of CI and SA on emotional…

Minimal scholarship has investigated the possible roles counselors might play within environmental education. We piloted a photovoice collaboration between a counselor and an environmental educator with a classroom of secondary students (grades 9-12) in the southeast United States. Adolescents (N = 14) identified connections with outdoor…

Recently, much importance has been placed on early science education. This study examined the associations between kindergarten teachers' science teaching self-efficacy, outcome expectations, and their integration of science into teaching, and investigated how four potential factors (i.e. mastery experience, interpersonal support, previous science…

Today, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has impact on every facet of our life including education, which has started an era of open online education. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are one of the major outcomes of open online education in the field of education. MOOCs have various dimensions, which open a wide scope for learning…