The field of information security is experiencing growing popularity within Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), reflecting the increasing recognition of its importance in safeguarding sensitive data, and mitigating cyber risks. This shift highlights the critical need for effective security practices within educational environments, where data…

Due to their transformative potential, student-teacher partnerships offer exceptional opportunities for student participation at school. However, partnering is also found to be troublesome as participants face considerable challenges associated with change processes in complex and hegemonic organizations such as schools. With this study, we aim to…

Using a cross-cultural comparative study approach, this study analyses and compares the leadership discourses revealed through interviews with early childhood education (ECE) leaders in Finland and Singapore. The interviews were conducted both before the COVID-19 outbreaks in 2018 and during the pandemic in 2021. Conducted as focus group…

The educational reform in Thailand is currently in the era of Education 4.0. From the perspective of the concept of modern educators, this completely stimulates the role of educators and practitioners. With the rapid adaptation to the digital age, this is a new education dimension that requires application process. Digital technology contributes…

Teacher job satisfaction is pivotal for retaining competent, qualified teachers, and for enhancing their overall well-being. School working conditions play a vital role in shaping teachers' perspectives on their career and profession. However, international comparative research is still limited in pinpointing the specific elements of the…

This study explores the effects of embedding Socio-Scientific Issues (SSI) into vocational design education on students' ethics awareness, social responsibility, and design performance. A mixed-methods quasi-experimental design was employed, involving 80 vocational design students divided into an experimental group (SSI-based workshop) and a…

Elementary classroom teaching involves complex emotion labour with a wide range of often co-occurring positive and negative emotions. How teachers engage in the executive function of regulating their emotions in the classroom can influence the quality of instruction they provide and promote their own well-being. The objective of this study was to…

Background: Many school principals face challenges in carrying out effective leadership in managing schools, which impacts teachers' creativity in teaching and student learning achievement. Research on the efforts of school principals in improving students' reading ability in elementary schools is still limited. Therefore, this study specifically…

Background/purpose: The study aims to investigate the role of school leadership policy in enhancing education performance towards developing a governance philosophy model for high school principals in Guizhou, focusing on ideology, culture, and leadership in secondary education. Sixteen informants were invited to this study. Materials/methods: A…

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationships between social responsibility, volunteering and social entrepreneurship of university students in Kazakhstan regarding various variables. In this context, the study was conducted with the comparative relational survey method, one of the descriptive survey models. The scope of the research…

Purpose: This discussion paper critically examines the underlying assumptions of a range of conventional health education theories. It proposes a fundamental shift towards a self-directed learning (SDL) approach that reconceptualises health education as autonomy development rather than behaviour modification. Methods: We conducted a comparative…

The habits of mind (HOM) in the "Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing" offer a useful bridge between high school and college writing instruction. As the field evaluates the benefits and drawbacks of the HOM, we would be well served to listen to students' perspectives. This article presents insights from 330 first-year students…

Increasing rates of teacher attrition have exacerbated the shortage of teachers in regions of the United States. In response, some scholars have proposed initiatives that promote the professionalization of teaching, hoping to attract and retain new teachers through greater classroom autonomy and stronger professional development. Others have…

Differentiated instruction is an effective means of addressing student diversity, and is increasingly being adopted by educators within the higher education sector. However, the global pandemic and changes to content delivery have altered the educational landscape. Hybridised delivery has resulted in the need for more innovative and contemporary…

Despite the increase in Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs), the role of governing boards in advancing servingness is under-examined. Guided by two organizational frameworks that offer paradigmatic shifts for enrollment-based institutions (Multidimensional Conceptual Framework for Understanding Servingness in HSIs) and governance (Equity X…