This study investigates the life purposes and values of higher education students in the Netherlands and Finland (n[subscript Dutch] = 663, n[subscript Fin] = 846). The theoretical framework is built on the conceptualisation of life purpose by Damon et al. as well as Schwartz's values model. The study adopted a convergent mixed methods design…

The cardinal virtues (prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance) have relevance within the areas of character education and integral or comprehensive formation. In recent years, there has been growing interest and a great deal of literature produced on character education and its measurement. In this paper, we propose a questionnaire (a…

School psychologists dedicate considerable time and energy to supporting the mental and emotional well-being of students, often putting others' needs ahead of their own. Some simple self-compassion strategies that are presented in this article can help build the emotional resilience needed to thrive in this challenging role and also model the…

Although widely accepted to be the capacity to exercise control in one's learning, there remains confusion about what exactly this means. Failure to reconcile contradictions has left the field resigned to pluralism, describing 'versions' of learner autonomy according to divergent theoretical orientations. However, each version is incomplete,…

Donald Trump's administration has moved to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies, issuing anti-DEI executive orders, purging DEI staff in the federal government, and arguing that these policies and practices in education and employment have promoted mandatory ideological indoctrination about how people should think. This report…

The ethics of care has regularly been described "via" contrast with deontological, consequentialist, and virtue theories of ethics. Often, such descriptions play care and justice against one another as potentially congruent but frequently competing social goods. This articulation of the field, which moves across major perspectives within…

Invitational Theory is rooted in three theoretical foundations, perceptual theory, self-concept theory, and a democratic ethos (Purkey, Novak, and Fretz, 2020). This essay addresses the third of these foundations, a "Democratic Ethos." While "perceptual theory" and "self-concept theory" provide a relational foundation…

The emergence of moral emotions such as guilt is central in moral and prosocial development. Guilt is an important psychological factor, which motivates prosocial behaviour and is credited for multiple social functions. Importantly, it remains unclear what determines the extent to which children show guilt. The current study examined two factors…

Scientific and technological initiation programs are developed to introduce students to scientific research and technological development. We use the term undergraduate research (UR) to refer to both initiation modalities. Our study aimed to evaluate undergraduate students' research experience, self-perceptions, and scientific production during…

Course-based undergraduate research experiences (CURE) enhance student retention in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), particularly among students who belong to historically excluded communities. Yet the mechanisms by which CUREs contribute to student integration and persistence are poorly understood. Utilizing the tripartite…

Teachers are dealing with a profession characterised by rapidly evolving educational research, societal shifts, and political agendas. They are faced with unforeseen events that create educational futures that are yet unknown, with the global pandemic a clear example. Mentoring has a long history as an approach to support teachers, particularly…

Historically marginalized youth shape public life through civic literacies that are rooted in their identities and experiences with systemic injustices. Literacy scholarship has accordingly traced how practitioner inquiry, a participatory approach to knowledge production, can educationally support the flourishing of these literacies. But while…

Instilling positive motivational beliefs in musical learners is vital to promoting long term engagement with music beyond the school years. This qualitative interview study explores the motivation of nine adolescent instrumental learners in an English school through the lens of achievement goal theory. Participants discussed experiences aligning…

The purpose of this study was to explore how in-service music educators develop, name, and enact the relational practices of their work in schools while participating in a collaborative teacher study group (CTSG), and specifically how those practices relate to presence. Through a multicase research design, we analysed the practices of three U.S.…

This collective case study explored the musical lives of second-generation immigrant children in Miami, Florida, USA, to gain greater insight into music's role in the negotiation, construction, and expression of their "identities in music" and "music in identities." Four children between the ages of 8 and 12 who had at least…