In the contemporary era, the concept of learning transcends the traditional classroom boundaries. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has revolutionized education, offering diverse avenues for lifelong learning. ICT plays a pivotal role in facilitating lifelong learning, empowering individuals to continuously acquire knowledge and…

This study aims to assess the current physical health status and levels of body image satisfaction among Chinese secondary school students and identify the influencing factors of student body image perception. Guided by a mixed-methods research design, data was obtained through collecting 903 secondary student questionnaires and interviewing 15…

Teachers' participation in diverse professional development initiatives is crucial for personal and professional advancement. This study focused on exploring the perspectives of public-school teachers in their pursuit of professional development. A case study was conducted through purposive sampling, utilizing a semi-structured interview to gather…

Spiritual perspectives in organizational theory are relatively recent approaches to understanding the behaviors of complex organizations. Emerging in the 1990s, the literature on modern organizations, especially in the United States, saw a rise in individuals questioning if they could find meaning and purpose in their work. This study investigated…

Background: Low-income students face cultural and social challenges navigating college environments that privilege middle- and upper-class norms, knowledge, and values; these challenges lead to difficulty transitioning to college and disparities in student success for low-income students relative to their higher-income counterparts. Peer…

The retirement is a longitudinal process. From this point of view, it is important to consider the context in which university lecturers are immersed: the needs they present, their work history, how they envisage their future in the short and medium terms, and the proposals they consider enriching their profession's performance and subsequent…

School counselors have critical roles in enhancing college readiness, providing college admissions counseling, and fostering a college going culture in their schools. In fulfilling these roles, school counselors must answer the "Why go to college" question. The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine school counselors' beliefs…

This study compares the impact of transnational higher education (TNHE) on student identity in two types of operating model, namely the international branch campus and Sino-foreign institute. The developmental characteristics of both types in China over the past two decades are reviewed, with a focus on students' identity positioning in the…

This account is a critically reflexive piece about the practice of facilitation of action learning through the lens of my own practice and experienced practice. It occurs as a result of a cathartic moment within an action learning set and follows the subsequent questions that were evoked as a result. It is not a finished article since it raises…

Our bodies are made up of over 250 specific cell types, and all initially arise from stem cells during embryonic development. Stem cells have two characteristics that make them unique: (1) they are pluripotent, meaning that they can differentiate into all cell types of the body, and (2) they are capable of self-renewal to generate more of…

The essay represents teaching as the coming to be of the human individual. In order to do so, it reflects on the character of human life by which it is knowledge of itself. Being knowledge of itself, human life is self-determining or free. Therefore generality and particularity come together in the human being in a distinctive way: a human being…

In this paper I explore the prospects of a Neo-Aristotelian position--according to which the difference between the human species and non-human animals is a difference in 'form'--in the context of the question of how the human form of life is related to the idea of education. Two interpretations of this idea have been suggested by contemporary…

One of the leading theories of social learning today is Wenger's theory of Communities of Practice' (CoP-theory). CoP-theory reiterates basic tenets of social learning theory yet it us set apart from other theories of social learning and education not only by centering on identity-formation but by positing four key dualities as inherent structural…

Four longitudinal models are used to present a short review of research into adolescent psychosocial development. This review reveals adolescent development to proceed in a regular manner. This process of regular development suggests that it might be possible to uncover rules of intra-individual development. The aim of this paper is to propose a…

In 2020, more than 560,617 female marriage migrants (FMMs) live in Taiwan. For over three decades, they have been victims of social, gender, and cultural discrimination and have been considered as an inferior group of "desirable others" from "undeveloped countries." Until today, literature about FMMs has focused on the problems…