Anti-Indigenous racism is the result of a lack of knowledge about Indigenous peoples according to Senator Murray Sinclair (Sinclair, 2019). Teacher education is one of the most powerful ways to combat racism towards Indigenous peoples as it impacts not only pre-service teachers but in-service teachers, their students, and their families. Alberta's…

Turkey is currently home to the world's largest refugee population, with more than 3.7 million Syrians and around 322,000 refugees and asylum-seekers of other nationalities under international protection. Situated in a theory of teacher education for social justice, the current study aims to illustrate the lessons and insights that teacher…

Private tutoring has become a pervasive phenomenon in Bangladesh, with significant implications for educational equity and quality. This paper examines the policy landscape surrounding private tutoring and proposes comprehensive strategies to mitigate its adverse effects on the education system. Through a systematic review of existing literature…

Over the last two decades, researchers have portrayed quality professional development for mathematics teachers as collaborative and situated in teachers' instructional realities. However, empirical findings also point out various impediments to transforming teacher conversations into consequential learning. These findings illuminate the need to…

Preparing teachers to teach mathematics is at the intersection of the three areas where cultural and racial knowledge intersects with content and pedagogical content knowledge. Consequently, preparing teachers to teach mathematics must consider all peoples' practices. This highlights two Black girls marginalized by their teacher, which provides…

The digital transformation challenges teachers to constantly keep up to date with new technologies, often leading to a lack of time for further training and uncertainty in using these technologies. To address these challenges, this conceptual paper introduces the Teacher Copilot, a training and assistant system based on Large Language Models (LLM)…

As teacher educators who work in relatively rural and predominantly white regions of the United States, we see a need to prepare our English teacher candidates to do antiracist work in predominantly white contexts. As such, this qualitative study focuses on the problem of preparing white English teacher candidates, many of whom have not been…

Virtual reality (VR) is a computer-generated three-dimensional environment representing the real or imaginary world with the virtual world through various sensory channels. The multisensory immersion feature of VR (Immersive VR-I-VR) reduces the user's awareness of what is happening in the surroundings. The use of immersive virtual reality…

In this address I identify specific and unique roles anthropology can play in the necessary work of decolonizing education. These include: building anti-racist schools that honor all "ways of being human"; decolonizing school leadership and working towards culture creation for equity and anti-racism; decolonizing teaching and learning…

The effective implementation of distance education (DE) depends upon users having a positive attitude towards it. Preservice teachers have been unprepared for unexpected change because of the pandemic, bringing increased involvement of various types of DE. This study examines the level and predictors of attitudes towards DE among 103 preservice…

The rapid move to online teaching brought about by the global pandemic highlighted the need for the educational research community to develop new conceptual tools for characterizing these environments. In this paper, we propose a conceptual framework Instructional Technology Triangle (ITT) which extends the instructional triangle of teachers,…

For pre-service teachers to develop learners' number sense, they need have a broad repertoire of non-standard calculation strategies. In this paper, we present an analysis of selected research literature from 2000 to 2022 on pre-service teachers' mental mathematics published in peer-reviewed journals. The results of this brief review indicate that…

How teachers can experience adaptive professional development (PD) experiences is still understudied in the literature on teacher learning, which for the most part reflects an emphasis on learning outcomes rather than the process of learning. In this study, we use a situated perspective on teacher learning to investigate the coevolution of a…

Regarding children's books' influences on a variety of social and individual components, this study aims to analyze educational components and philosophies in Pippi Longstocking. While there are a few studies which examined Pippi's feelings, thinking, reasoning, and developmental characteristics, there is a lack of research describing why and/or…

In Turkey, preschool education teachers take courses on material development during their university education, and as such are expected to prepare materials to meet children's interest and needs and enrich their learning environment. This study aims to reveal preschool education teachers' views on material development courses and the effects of…