Breast cancer is a disease that requires palliative care and comfort. The current study aimed to adapt the scale used to assess the comfort level of breast cancer patients receiving palliative care, for the Turkish population, and to contribute to the literature. A total of 340 breast cancer patients who were registered at a university hospital's…

This qualitative study adopted a phenomenological research design to investigate how preservice teachers perceived compassion. The sample consisted of 43 students from Van Yüzüncü Yil University. The data were collected using a semi-structured interview guide. The data were analyzed using content analysis. The results showed that participants…

The pandemic period creates a feeling of inadequacy in applying the education that students receive. During this period, students who receive online education seem to feel inadequate and experience stress in a practical lesson. It aims to evaluate the level of changing the care behaviors of undergraduate nursing students and the stress they…

This research aims to explore the association between personality traits, character strength, and flourishing in university students (N=384). In the study, Three-dimensional Character Strengths Scale was adapted to Turkish. As a result of confirmatory factor analysis, the Three-dimensional Character Strengths Scale was acceptable for the goodness…

The aim of this study was to explore how English language teachers construct and enact their teacher identities. The data was collected through semi-structured interviews with four in-service English language teachers at Turkish public schools. The findings revealed certain identity stabilizers: the fascination with subject and the job, caring for…

Justice emerges as a need like any other human need and the processes of justice play important role within the organization. Social justice leadership includes the practice of leading and advocating for positive social change, equity, and fairness within society. Social justice leaders work to address and rectify systemic inequalities,…

In this study, the aim was to examine the relationship between the psychological resilience and remembered parental care of college students in young adulthood and whether this relationship varies according to gender and perceived socio-economic level. A correlational model was used as a research model. For data collection purposes, ''a personal…

This study aims to determine pre-service science teachers' caring about the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) for Turkey and for the world and their levels of competence in associating the SDG-related learning outcomes in the curriculum with these goals. The study employed the survey model, which is a descriptive research method. The study…

This study investigates English as a foreign language learners' emotions and questions the authenticity of the communication in language classrooms in Turkey. To become more aware of learners' emotions and to make a speaking module more engaging, the teacher-researcher decided to utilise process drama as a participatory action research…

This article presents findings from a case study of a K-12 school in Turkey where teachers shared perceptions of how the International Baccalaureate Learner Profile attributes related to their own practice. While discussing the interdependency of the attributes, teachers considered that being an "inquirer" is the most valuable attribute…

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…

Our study draws from discussion board data from a telecollaboration including three teacher education courses in France, Turkey, and the USA. Our data analysis of three groups' conversations (n = 21) addressed this research question: How do participants use translingual negotiation strategies in online contact zones as they construct their…

The research objective in this study is to make adaptation of Caring Climate Scale (CCS) that is developed by Newton et al. (in 2007) to Turkish and examine its psychometric properties. The scale comprises of one-dimension and 13 items. 468 students who have been studying and doing physical exercise as certified athletes in the following Schools…

One of the main challenges regarding online teaching involves creating spaces in which learners establish and maintain connections with the teacher, other learners and the content. By exploring the concept of care in online learning, we aim to address this challenge. Framed by Noddings' (2013) ethics of care, this qualitative case study explored…

Biology course can be difficult for students at times as it includes a lot of concepts and a relatively intense content. At this point, students' attitude towards biology and biology course is highly important because having developed a positive attitude would significantly affect behavior. In other words, those students who have developed a…