This article discusses the methodological approach of a collaborative research project situated at the intersection of autism and cinema. The Autism through Cinema project stages an encounter between the titular terms in order to challenge the neurotypical assumptions that underpin cinema as an apparatus, and to mobilise new cinematic…

Ridge beasts on the rooftops of the Shenyang Imperial Palace embody a unique intersection of symbolism, power, and cultural identity within Qing dynasty architecture. This study explores their symbolic evolution and cultural temporality, focusing on how these architectural ornaments were adapted to support political legitimacy and national…

This book examines professional engineering education in the Asia-Pacific region in the context of the history of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Tasmania. It chronicles the development of professional engineering education at the University of Tasmania following the establishment of schools/faculties of engineering in Australia…

This article historicises the global education policy (GEP) field's developmentalism and the psychological and political inequalities that it naturalises. Building upon de- and postcolonial theory and science and technology studies, it illustrates how GEP studies tend to overlook the field's developmentalist premises, which naturalise the norms…

Coursework in civics teaches collaboration--an indispensable skill in a democracy--as well as critical thinking. Knowledge about and understanding of civics is especially important in California, where voters regularly make major policy decisions through the initiative process. To understand how the public thinks about civics issues, Public Policy…

This essay examines how line graphs functioned as markers of status and authority in early 20th-century America, distinguishing intellectual elites from ordinary citizens. Despite education reformers' efforts to democratize functional thinking and graphical representation in the first decades of the century, line graphs retained their position as…

In the 21st century, the idea that students should have opportunities to develop powerful knowledge has been influential in educational research. Social realism as an educational philosophy, and a focus on knowledge derived from academic disciplines, have been advanced as an alternative to social constructivism and traditionalism as a basis for…

This article is inspired by Lo Bianco's theory of discourse planning. Using the case of Indonesia's second president Soeharto, the article demonstrates the usefulness of Lo Bianco's theory to understand how language was instrumental in the discourse planning of "Pembangunan" [Development], and as such, in understanding the nexus of…

This study recognised that there is currently limited understanding of the extent and nature of ability grouping practices in subject areas other than mathematics and English in primary schools. Using survey methods, this research sought to generate data of sufficient scale to extend understanding of the use of ability grouping practices in…

Since the release of ChatGPT, concerns about artificial intelligence (AI) and its capabilities and impact on education at all levels have been voiced by instructors in disciplines ranging from computer science to composition to history. This article explores two specific examples from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) that provide…

The article examines the challenges that urban teachers faced in unitary systems, where students of different ages and educational levels shared the same classroom and were taught by a single teacher. It aims to compare these challenges across several cities including Alicante, Badajoz, Cádiz, Canary Islands, Málaga, and Zaragoza to determine…

Colombian English Language Teacher/Teaching (ELT) Education is a steadily advancing field toward establishing a socioculturally and sociocritically oriented area of knowledge. Whereas in previous years, national ELT was primarily concerned with the development and promotion of communicative skills among English as a foreign language students…

Mental ill-being among children and adolescents have increased in many high-income countries. The causes for this development are still unclear, but due to the scale of the problem, broader societal changes are likely to contribute. One of the societal level hypotheses -- the "educational stressors hypotheses" -- suggests that the…

Scholars greatly criticize ontological and epistemological issues in educational administration and leadership scholarship and call for more in-depth analyses with historical and philosophical examination, in order to challenge taken-for-granted knowledge and create relational dialogues. The purpose of this study is to demonstrate how systematic…

How do education policy processes and networks operate in sectors that have been chronically defunded? This article discusses elements of contestation and doubt in the context of a policy agenda around impact measurement in youth services in England. Drawing on interviews with policy makers, influencers and critics, it combines analysis of a…