For online doctoral students, learning the habits, cultures, and practices of the academy can be particularly challenging without informal, in-person interactions. As novice scholars and educators, engagement in the culture of the academy is an important component of the scholarly formation process. In this conceptual article, three online…

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented challenges and opportunities for knowledge management systems (KMS) in various domains and sectors. This research explores the strategies to manage expectational knowledge in higher education after the COVID-19 pandemic. This study employed a qualitative research method with a case study design to…

Community colleges have long been touted as a pathway to increase social mobility through their transfer function, yet this promise has not always been realized. This study uses the lens of community cultural wealth, particularly the concepts of aspirational, social, and navigational capitals, to understand vertical transfer students' experiences…

The persistent deficit positioning of Indigenous students has meant that the combined terms 'Indigenous education' and 'excellence in education' have been kept separate in mainstream discourse. Excellence in education is an under-theorised concept that must consider intercultural and diverse perspectives. Consequently, this paper aims to…

The purpose was to understand two teachers' experiences of implementing the teaching personal and social responsibility model over the span of one academic year due to their development and participation within a community of practice. A case study approach was utilized to gather and analyze qualitative data; three themes were developed. The…

In the era of globalization, nations worldwide have abundant opportunities to share their unique identities for the sustainable well-being of humanity and to preserve national traditions. This study focuses on the innovative application of Mongolian yurts as a resilient and healthy living environment for nomadic people, examining both physical and…

Background: Although most engineering colleges offer a variety of co-curricular and extracurricular activities to enrich students' sense of belonging to the college, existing literature has not fully captured whether and how the various activities serve to support students' sense of belonging and predict student outcomes. Purpose: We investigated…

In the United States, over 60% of youth experience trauma which is associated with a range of psychopathology. Schools are well-positioned to connect youth following trauma to evidence-based interventions (EBIs). Barriers to this process exist on micro- and macro-levels within schools. Process mapping is a data-driven approach producing…

The study explores the students' engagement in the school garden through mushroom farming resulting in reorienting science pedagogy. It particularly reconnoiters the interconnection between entrepreneurship skills through mushroom farming and the pedagogy for the basic-level public schools of Nepal. Also, the study explores the science pedagogical…

In 2018, the U.S. Refugee Admissions Office reported that a total of 678,082 refugees were admitted into the country in the last 10 years and statistics show a steady increase of refugee admissions. The purpose of this narrative inquiry was to understand adult refugee students' experiences in higher education in the Southeastern U.S. The research…

This follow-up study examines whether participation in the Research-Publication (Res-Pub) Training Workshop influenced the epistemic expertise and research rigor of 20 doctoral students in English Studies. The workshop was designed using a reframed Community of Practice (CoP) approach situated within the Disciplinary Writing Expertise (DWE)…

This book explores the nature of teacher and school resilience in times of uncertainty, and how resilience can be nurtured within individual schools and educational systems as a whole. Innovative approaches to exploring these concepts are presented, as well as the role of educational research and practice in providing opportunities for…

This article discusses some of the macro-trends impacting and changing the post-secondary or tertiary education landscape across Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries. It argues that ongoing geopolitical and geo-economic shifts, demographic transitions, and an ageing population, technological and digital…

In the ongoing endeavour to increase student learning, restructuring schools into professional learning communities (PLCs) remains a popular strategy globally. Multiple studies have investigated positive outcomes associated with PLCs for students and teachers, but limited knowledge exists about factors associated with well-functioning PLCs, such…

In 2016, Illinois initiated a statewide transitional math program to support students to be academically ready in college-level math before graduating from high school. This qualitative study focuses on the perspective of community college faculty and administrators on the statewide implementation of transitional math programs. We find that a…