Background: In the dynamic landscape of higher education, innovation through gamification has emerged as a successful approach to enhance student learning and motivation. Archaeological studies have particularly benefited from innovative pedagogy, as traditional teaching methods often struggle to engage younger generations. Aims: To evaluate the…

The contribution intends to illustrate Lombardo Radice's ties with idealism and specifically with the Gentile heritage, starting from the reflection on didactics carried out by the Sicilian educationist. In this way, the 1923 reform isn't a simple legislative update, but takes on the dimension of a broader educational project and at the same time…

This study aims to portray Master Teachers' experience of teacher professional development in post-1976 China. Interview data were collected from 22 Master Teachers from Shanghai in 2019-2020. Analyses of the findings revealed that these Master Teachers experienced three historical stages of teachers' professional development in China: a…

The research investigates Gong Yi's preservation of literacy and the transmission of Guqin music for cultural sustainability. As a skilled performer, instructor, and inventor, Gong Yi has been instrumental in preserving ancient Guqin practices while advancing their musical and educational evolution. His comprehensive study, polished playing…

This paper argues that the failure to implement state technical education in Bolivia was one of the reasons for the country's economic backwardness. The work makes a key contribution to the history of Bolivian education as it studies aspects not dealt with in the literature so far. First, it details the chronology of the development of technical…

This article critically re-evaluates the evolution of African higher education by tracing its development across three key epochs: precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial. Drawing on over 120 secondary sources--including legal ordinances, policy documents, archival records, and peer-reviewed literature--the article adopts a historical-analytical…

This article analyzes children's literature about Juneteenth published over the last fifty years through a counternarrative lens of Black joy and justice. By centering Black joy and justice, scholars and teachers are offered new ways to understand and critically evaluate literature. Specifically, the authors analyze picturebooks about Juneteenth…

In China, the Dalton Plan came to the attention of educators in 1921 and enjoyed its heyday in both educational discourse and practice from 1922 to 1925. Thereafter its popularity declined significantly while criticism dramatically increased. When examining the causes for this rapid growth and precipitous decline, previous research has taken the…

Competition is usually considered a mechanism for the allocation of scarce resources. This paper draws attention to a neglected effect of academic competition: competition provides participants with a normative orientation about field-specific values by informing them about which activities will be rewarded. We conceptualize this as a socializing…

This article aims to investigate the national and transnational influences Mr. Lysimaco Ferreira da Costa had in matters concerning gymnastics. The time frame represents the period in which the educator was in charge of the Normal School of Paraná, in Curitiba, Brazil, and published the document "Educational bases for the reorganisation of…

This article explores the historically contingent and normative descriptions of vocational education and training (VET) as a low-status alternative in Australia's socio-economic process of skill and knowledge development. Rather than repeating well-rehearsed shibboleths, this retheorisation of how status works applies an institutional logics…

In an evolving global knowledge economy, many countries are actively implementing policies to recruit and retain foreign students as potential global talents and valuable human resources. This article provides a comprehensive review of the evolution of foreign student employment policy in China. The study finds that foreign student employment…

Since its founding in 1949, the Southern Association for College Student Affairs (SACSA) has served as a vital professional association for student affairs practitioners across the southeastern United States. This article provides a historical overview of SACSA's evolution, highlighting its foundational values of inclusiveness, professionalism,…

The Romanian socialism spanned over a long period (1948-1989), transforming and shaping the education system so as to accommodate and promote communist ideology. Drawing on expert advice from several didactics of geography published during socialist Romania, on how to use propaganda information in geography classes, I employed discourse analysis…

In this manuscript, I lift Black feminisms as a methodological intervention on a holistic meaning-making theory and its relationship to anti-Blackness. Specifically, I employed a Black feminist literary criticism, which presumes that Black people have cultivated living and survival practices throughout their history in the United States. I…