Higher education (HE) in many countries has been characterized by increased marketization, external accountability, and managerialism. This article examines how academics feel about and respond to HE reforms in Cyprus, a country whose HE sector is heavily commercialized and affected by austerity measures. We analyzed interviews with twenty-three…

Nowadays, the significance of leisure time is increasing in our daily life. In addition to entertainment and relaxation, individuals can make use of their leisure time as self-developed and productive. This study aims to reveal the leisure time trends of university students. The population of the research consists of students studying at Girne…

The aim of this study is to investigate the extent to which emotion regulation is related to emotional and psychological well-being in disadvantaged primary school students. In the research, "Stirling Scales for Children' Emotional and Psychological Well-being" and the "personal information form" developed by the researchers…

This study aims to investigate the hopelessness and life satisfaction level of adolescents after the COVID-19 pandemic. The population of the research consists of 133 women and 77 men, a total of 210 high school students aged between 15-18, who live and study in the TRNC during the 2021-2022 academic year. Personal Information Form, Satisfaction…

The role of emotions in learning has been the focus of much debate in teaching circles, as has the question of discussing controversial issues in the classroom. The aim of this small-scale inquiry was to investigate how two groups of intermediate level students of French as a foreign language expressed emotion in discussing the controversial issue…

Recognizing and appropriately responding to others' emotional expressions is important for children's moral and social development. Impairments in the emotion recognition of individuals high on Callous-Unemotional (CU) traits are thought to explain their reduced empathic responding, interpersonal problems, and persistent antisocial behaviour. The…

This paper puts in conversation Martin Heidegger's concept of "Stimmung" (mood or attunement) with Raymond Williams' notion of 'structures of feeling' to theorize 'mood work' in peace education. It is argued that the perspective of mood provides new insights in peace education that might be harder to grasp through the lens of affect or…

This study aims to map the Asian literature on emotions in learning, teaching, and leadership through a review of published research in Web of Science Core Collection. In all, 862 articles published between 1990 and 2018 were retrieved and analyzed. Bibliographic coupling of the countries, bibliographic coupling of the authors, co-occurrences of…

COVID-19 has created a dramatic and rapid transition to emergency remote teaching in higher education (HE) creating both new opportunities and challenges for lecturers and their students. As HE adapts to these new circumstances, there is a need for instructors to design and teach classes that support collaborative learning and increase…

Peer group integration is a crucial acculturative goal for immigrant adolescents who, in order to reach this goal, may use bullying and/or aggressive behavior. The present study aims to explore the underlying aggression motives by investigating the importance of three motives (anger, power, and affiliation) for five different forms of aggressive…

Emotions have a great impact upon teachers' daily practices and especially on the ways in which they understand and interpret educational policies. Teachers are the agents of social change; hence, their voices, views and emotions should not be ignored. This article investigates the ways in which teachers experience, negotiate and enact on the…

This book presents the first results from the third cycle of the IEA International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS 2023). This study investigated how young people are prepared for life in a world where the capacity to use computers and digital information responsibly, safely, and effectively is essential. The study reports on data…

This cross-sectional study aims to shed further light on the relation between self-esteem and Eating Disorders (EDs) as part of prevention efforts by testing the mediating role of psychological inflexibility in a sample of young teenagers. Four hundred and eighteen Greek-speaking students from one representative public middle school in Cyprus…

Separate lines of research have linked negative parenting practices, victimization, and negative affectivity--separately--with internalizing symptoms in children. However, no previous studies have connected these lines of research to examine internalizing pathology in children. The current study tested complex moderated-mediation models to…

Everyday, technology in our life changes quickly. Every development made by humans in the field of technology affects the way of our life, and education is not an exception. We now have a variety of learning methods in addition to conventional, in-person instruction. This research was carried out in the "Computer for Low" (ITEC190) and…