This case study shares lessons from an Indigenous research project based on Elder Knowledge about culture camps. Culture camps and land-based learning have become common practices in Indigenous education circles. This project brings into focus "kiskinohmakewina" (teachings) from Elders from two Cree communities who were invited to share…

This case study investigates the practical and methodological challenges associated with conducting interviews with high-ranking public figures ("elites") in politically fragile environments, with a particular focus on education and gender issues in Turkey. The original research utilised a qualitative methodology, emphasising an…

This case study is based on research conducted within the plurilingual context of Vanuatu, formerly a condominium colony of Britain and France. A surfeit of heritage languages exists within this context, alongside the European languages of English and French and the national language of Bislama, an English-lexifier pidgin. With the existence of…

Gifted students who were in a fifth-grade telescoped math class during the 2013-2014 school year participated in an in-person qualitative research study regarding their identity development. During the 2019-2020 school year, these same students, who were now juniors and seniors in high school, were contacted to participate in a follow-up study.…

This case examines the affordances and limitations of using a case-study protocol to investigate teaching interns' (undergraduates studying to be teachers) knowledge of culturally relevant teaching practice. As researchers, we sought to understand whether, and the extent to which, the case-study protocol enables teacher-educators to measure…

Developing a cognitive model of task performance is an important and often overlooked phase in assessment design; failing to establish such a model can threaten the validity of the inferences made from the scores produced by an assessment (e.g., Leighton, 2004). Conducting think aloud interviews (TAIs), where students think aloud while completing…