The curriculum of public systems of education should include opportunities for fostering a deeper relationship with the places in which learners live. In this paper I work through a ecopoetic inquiry lens to investigate how poetic writing can become a space for investigating ecoliteracy and ecojustice education. My research includes visiting and…

The contemporary society has given rise to the profound need to introduce in the fields of pedagogy and didactics the work with literacies and the transmutation capacity of the teacher as a new actor in these themes, facing them as challenges that allow a more adequate formation in contemporaneity. Our aim is to reflect on the potential of…

Racial literacy is critical pedagogy that seeks to end racism. Developing racial literacy in math teacher education programs is a crucial step in preparing preservice teachers to acknowledge and resist prejudiced and racist math teaching policies and practices before they enter the K-12 classroom. In this essay, I unpack and share how I engaged in…

Effective environmental education (EE) is urgent as climate change and environmental degradation are proceeding. More theoretical models to enhance the effectiveness of environmental education are constantly presented, but a comprehensive view from teachers' perspectives is absent. This paper presents unique results from expert ENO Schoolnet…

The study was conducted to create awareness about environmental literacy as part of the 17 sustainable development goals and mitigate environmental challenges at the primary school level. To achieve this, the study examined primary school teachers' perceptions of picture books and animated cartoons as learning resources to create awareness;…

Gender disparity at the leadership level of large (defined by the National Association of Independent Schools [NAIS] as > 700 students) K-12 independent schools is a critical and persistent issue in the ongoing effort to foster equity and justice in historically white and male-led independent schools in the United States. The number of women…

This research examined the perceived data literacy skills of middle and senior-level administrators in a community college system in relation to leadership competencies. This study sought to determine if the independent variable, administrator type (manager, executive, or chief operating officer), relates to the perceived data literacy skills…

In this secondary research study, we investigate the text/identity/curriculum work enacted in a primary university-school project with third-grade children in Québec who were engaged in inquiry into children's rights through bilingual text production. Drawing on sociocultural perspectives of language and identity as well as translanguaging, we…

This article examines the cultural production of three "transfronterizo" children who daily, physically cross a U.S.-Mexico international bridge. Drawing on theories of identity, border inspections, literacy, and language, the findings reveal that "transfronterizo" children developed "literacies of surveillance," or…

Communication is the result of meaning making based on one's frames of knowing. For students, those frames of knowing derive heavily from multimedia communication, including social networking sites, that allow them to be the makers of content. In this study, I followed an eighth-grade student who fluidly negotiated a multitude of available social…

Originating from the field of physical education, physical literacy is an individual disposition that accentuates the importance of lifelong physical activity. Sport education is a sport-based physical education curriculum and instructional model that has been espoused to operationalize physical literacy. The purpose of this study was to examine…

This paper utilises Bernstein's theorising of curriculum and pedagogical relations to analyse Physical Literacy (PL) assessment with implications for the field of Health and/Physical Education (H/PE). It acknowledges the significance of assessment for what knowledge and skills are valued in PL and in turn, H/PE. PL takes different forms and is…

This longitudinal research study explores the pedagogy of multiliteracies in the first professional 4 years of teaching by recent education graduates in Ontario, Canada. Within this longitudinal study, the philosophical foundations of identity and worldview of practicing teachers are illuminated as being pertinent to how these teachers reflect…

This article examines the transformative educational practices and democratic ethos of Black Mountain College, an experimental institution ahead of its time. Drawing on insights from scholars like Rhea Estelle Lathan and Susan Kates, Muir positions Black Mountain as a site of community literacies, by prioritizing democratic engagement, diversity,…

This paper illustrates the use of curriculum mapping as a process that can support productive boundary encounters between lecturers in an initial teacher education (ITE) programme as part of curriculum review. Using mathematics as the context, lecturers in a 1-year primary graduate ITE programme developed a curriculum map to identify the…