This study explores the significance of Open Educational Practices (OEP) in higher education, emphasizing its role in fostering collaboration, diversity, and knowledge sharing. Prior research has failed to emphasize how experienced practitioners understand OEP. Adopting a phenomenographic approach, this study analyses the perceptions of seven…

This study examined the unique challenges faced by student-researchers in social studies, addressing the scarcity of field-focused research in the existing literature. It employs a basic qualitative design, utilizing written responses and interviews with 29 student-researchers and five faculty members for data triangulation. A reflexive thematic…

Interest in science is critical for science learning. The family plays a major role in supporting the development of children's interest in science by eliciting and fostering interest and engagement with science content and practice. This study characterizes triggers for interest in science in everyday family life and measures the duration of…

Classroom assessment and grading play central roles in education, with important impacts on teachers and students. This study examined the interactions between Canadian teachers' and students' conceptions of assessment and approaches to grading. 219 teachers and students completed a survey with two scales: Teachers' Conceptions of Assessment…

This article challenges the current framing of English as a dominant global language and focuses specifically on African international students' investment in Chinese language learning and the enactment of imagined identity in China. Drawing upon Darvin and Norton's theorisation of "Identity and a model of investment," we present an…

Purpose: The objectives are to show how professional orientation towards cooperatives, as a universal model of social enterprise, stems from a different fit to professional preferences for other kinds of business forms; and to show how specific training has an impact on the change in professional orientation. Design/methodology/approach: The…

This study examines the impact of authentic versus modified text on L2 Turkish learners' reading comprehension. A total of 230 B1-level Turkish language learners were randomly divided into two groups: one reading a modified text (n = 115) and the other an authentic text (n = 115). Both groups completed a surface-level reading comprehension test.…

Educators hold diverse beliefs and attitudes about generative artificial intelligence (AI). Irrespective of their stance, many acknowledge AI's growing influence and the pressing need for greater AI literacy. In this case study, we draw on Davis's (1989) technology acceptance model (TAM) to examine how two English teachers, Fiona and Margot,…

This project is an interdisciplinary endeavor to connect research in the teaching of English with Critical Disability Studies, an intersection that is crucial to disrupting ableism and creating more liberatory schooling and societal contexts that embrace broader notions of human differences. Invoking critical content analysis of five young adult…

Parental educational involvement, anxiety about children's education, and satisfaction collectively influence child development. However, it remains unclear whether distinct subpopulations of parents exhibit different patterns across these factors, and how these subpopulations vary across schools. This study addresses this gap by analyzing data…

The Inventory of Student Evolution Acceptance (I-SEA) was developed to provide fine-grained measures of evolution acceptance in populations with moderate-to-high levels of biological sciences understanding. Although the I-SEA has been used extensively since its inception, understanding of how its 24 items function to produce subscales is still…

This qualitative study explored mothers' and fathers' perspectives on children's play through semi-structured interviews. Fifteen fathers and 19 mothers were interviewed using open-ended questions. Interviews were audio-recorded and analyzed using open coding. Several themes emerged related to the definition of play, use of play, play activities,…

Legislatures have banned CRT across many states in America, altering the country's campus climate. This case study surveys more than 200 students, faculty, and staff on campus to understand their points of view on CRT. The authors find a "pernicious polarization" dividing the university and suggest that university faculty consider a…

The majority of previous research on the language mindset (LM) and academic engagement (AEG) of learners was dominated by the focus on traditional in-person classrooms, whereas less is known about the influence of the beliefs of learners toward language learning on their AEG, which comprises behavioral, emotional, cognitive, and agentic engagement…

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a negative impact on the retention and persistence rates of college students from historically excluded backgrounds while also introducing new resources for remote learning experiences. This action research study aimed to examine and improve the resources needed for community college students from historically…