The goal of the current study was to look at the viewpoints of secondary school Agricultural Science teachers with regard to the challenges they encounter when implementing the curriculum in their classrooms. Instructional resources and Continuous Professional Development (CPD) programme workshops need to be provided to successfully teach the…

This study examines at how e-learning readiness and the Community of Inquiry framework affect higher education students' preferences for various teaching delivery modes. In the study, Latent Class Analysis was used to profile the participants based on autonomous learning attributes, which is the pedagogical sub-dimension of e-learning readiness.…

This article examines Ibn Khaldun's educational philosophy through the lens of contemporary children's geographies. Drawing on his reflections in the "Muqaddimah," we analyze historical teaching practices in medieval North Africa and Muslim Spain, focusing on their implications for child development, spatial learning, and moral…

This study explores the role of creative arts in professional learning through a trauma-informed education (TIE) event for mentor and pre-service teachers. TIE requires educators to make complex relational shifts with students and to cultivate classrooms that promote safety, empathy, and empowerment. The professional learning event integrated…

This paper explores the affordances of learning experiences gained in undergraduate students' professional ethics courses during the pandemic. The article also touches upon the possible contributions of the practices within the scope of the professional ethics course to students' professional and personal lives. Action research was used.…

Drawing on research that informs effective literacy practices, this book pushes back on singular ideologies, programs, and divisive rhetoric and, instead, embraces an inclusive perspective for supporting literacy development and learning. Readers are encouraged to move beyond debates that divide us and look toward the hard but necessary work of…

Co-written by a teacher educator and his students, this practical resource shares the ways a uniquely positioned graduate course implemented key tenets of Culturally Relevant and Sustaining Pedagogy (CRSP) in their teaching and practice, allowing for the reconnection between mind and body, or "Embodied CRSP." By weaving together…

Despite legal protections under the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019, Indian medical curricula lack trans-affirmative competencies, skills essential for providing respectful, evidence-based care to transgender and gender-diverse individuals. This pilot curriculum development study aimed to longitudinally embed trans-affirmative…

Black students are marginalized in mathematics education in the USA, including through their language. However, there is little research on how mathematics teachers can best serve Black Language (BL) speakers. Because BL is a significant sensemaking resource for Black students in mathematics, we investigate how BL-speaking mathematics teachers use…

Over the past two decades, 'inclusivity' has become a key issue in research in applied linguistics and language education. However, the inclusion of teachers, teacher educators, and learners as researchers with key insights into their contexts has not yet been fully examined. This thought-piece explores developments in inclusive practitioner…

Background/Context: Children enter kindergarten with widely varying backgrounds and academic skill levels (Little et al., 2024). Kindergarten teachers face the challenge of meeting children where they are at the start of the year and helping them master critical skills by the end of the year, regardless of where each child starts. Differentiated…

The value of evidence-based teaching practices lies in how these practices are brought to life for all students -- i.e., in their implementation. The Australian Education Research Organisation (AERO) has developed a deliberate and structured approach to support the effective implementation of evidence-based teaching practices in Australian…

This study examined instructional strategies and assessment methods used in online undergraduate and graduate courses, with a focus on student-reported preferences and perceptions of effectiveness. The research aimed to identify commonly used instructional approaches, explore how students experience and evaluate these methods, and determine which…

Leveraging educational technologies, especially digital learning tools (DLTs), to enhance students' performance and engagement in higher education has gained popularity in the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR). The study aimed to examine the impact of integrating DLTs on learners' academic performance and perceptions of DLT-based instructions in the…

Learners' affective responses to pedagogic tasks and the effort that they invest in completing them are critical to the learning that takes place through tasks in task-based language teaching (TBLT) (Lambert, Aubrey, & Bui, 2023). Fluctuations in learners' willingness to communicate (WTC) during pedagogic tasks--or task-specific WTC (Aubrey…