The first known case of the novel Coronavirus appeared on December 31, 2019 in Wuhan, People's Republic of China. The first reported death from COVID was also in Wuhan on January 9, 2020. The first death outside of China was in the Philippines on February 1, 2020 (WHO, 2020). While scientists are still in debate about whether the disease was…

Over the last two decades, technology has profoundly transformed how we function in the world. Conversely, ascertaining how the teaching and learning process will be transformed over the next two decades remains a formidable challenge. The pace of adaptation to this 'new normal' will determine if higher learning institutions are capable of…

The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to identify, classify, and interpret, through the lived experiences of teachers, the subjective barriers to the use of new communications technology in the classroom. Three questions guided this study: (a) What in the teacher's experience prevented him or her in the adoption and active use…

Culturally relevant pedagogy has been highly regarded in its ability to impact the mathematics education outcomes of Black children as it is framed from the "wisdom-of-practice" of exemplary teachers, and recasts teaching as an intellectual, cultural, political, and social endeavor. This study illuminates the challenges in drawing…

Describes a field trip to the Bermuda Islands, for which students chase the focus of the problem, each investigated methods used, and evaluation of results. (CP)

Investigated the effects of cooperative learning on achievement in and attitudes toward mathematics among fifth graders of color in a culture different from that of the United States (Bermuda). Participants completed parts of the California Achievement Test and Penelope Peterson's Attitude Toward Mathematics Scale. Pre-test and post-test data…

This research compared the effects of a Programmed Learning Sequence (PLS) (Dunn & Dunn, 1993) versus Traditional Teaching (TT) on 100 sixth-grade Bermudian students' test scores on a Fractions Unit. Fifty-three males' and forty-seven females' learning styles were identified with the "Learning Style Inventory" (LSI) (Dunn, Dunn,…

This article describes a service-learning collaboration between a research center at a graduate school of social work and a community college. While the goal of the collaboration was to conduct a community needs assessment of the older population of Bermuda, the project offered a unique opportunity to connect community service, teaching, and…