Religious education in secondary schools is a common practice in many European countries. However, there are many voices discussing its usefulness and its role in a deeply secularised. There is not much direct knowledge about such teaching, as its main actors -- the teachers -- and their experiences are usually ignored in discussions about this…

Although educational robotics competitions have become a popular research field in STEAM education, there is a lack of studies concerning the design process that student teams follow to build their solutions. This study aims to propose and evaluate We!Design!ForSTEAM, an approach for supporting design thinking in the context of STEAM and robotics…

Children's evaluations of empathizers were examined using vignette-based tasks (N = 159 4- to 7-year-old U.S. children, 82 girls, 52% White) between March 2023 and March 2024. Children typically evaluated empathizers positively compared to less empathic others. They rated empathic responses as more appropriate, selected empathizers as nicer, and…

This article highlights the primal concern of children at home and in school: knowing where safety lies in relationships of fairness. The article includes scenes where five-year-old children experience breaches in fairness and the framework commonly used to restore and maintain it. The work of Vivian Gussin Paley, the renowned early childhood…

This article offers an original contribution to the crucial question of how digital media impacts children and young people's everyday lives. Focus groups with young people aged 11-21 years, and interviews with teachers in schools in England revealed digital media can be a source of contention between young people and their parents or carers. Our…

Higher education institutions (HEIs) face competition globally. Many HEI's were unable to respond to the changing dynamics amidst decreasing public funds, bureaucratic constraints, and the recent COVID-19 pandemic (Ivetic and Ilic, 2020; Philbin, 2015). This challenging environment contributed to low morale and high staff turnover. Survival in…

Based on prospective data from 291 pre-service preschool teachers in Northwest China, this study attempted to clarify the relationship between work volition and major-job congruence and the mediating effect of major satisfaction. Results showed that work volition at Wave 1 was associated positively with major-job congruence. Major satisfaction at…

Dyslexia and its associated learning challenges are often misconstrued as intellectual deficits, leading to erroneous assumptions that individuals with dyslexia cannot thrive or contribute meaningfully to academic institutions. However, this article contends that the unique thinking patterns associated with dyslexia are complementary to and can…

This paper explores how a teaching sequence designed using the notion of Papert's "powerful ideas" might bridge the disparate institutional logics found in makerspaces and schools. Using a case study approach, we analyzed two elementary novice maker teachers' implementations of a maker teaching sequence while navigating the institutional…

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented challenges to teachers. Teachers need a creative way to continue the engaged teaching process under the constraints of physical separation, emotional anxiety, and insecurity. Technology teachers who develop students' technology literacy or skills should be aware of the importance of integrating…

Discussions on the importance of decolonising peace education have become prevalent in recent years with continuing presence of coloniality and Eurocentrism in peace education coming under sustained critiqued. In this article, we contribute to discussions on decolonising peace education by bringing it together with the notion of agonistic…

Over the past few decades, there has been a growing emphasis on the appropriateness of group-based activities in student learning. Therefore, this study aimed to provide practical evidence or activities for reducing social loafing with the performance implications of teamwork in students. The planning, intervening, assessing, and reflecting steps…

The professional development literature has identified characteristics of effective professional development and investigated teachers' reasoning for their professional development choices. A thorough understanding of teachers' decision-making about their professional development choices can assist providers in developing opportunities that…

Service learning (SL) faculty faced substantial and unique challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of this study was to explore SL faculty perspectives during the crisis. Higher education faculty who taught SL designated courses during 2020/2021 identify and prioritize challenges and strategies to teaching SL courses without direct…

Community-engaged learning (CEL) is a pedagogy characterized by reciprocal partnerships between academic institutions and community partners. Literature suggests that CEL has a potent ability to enhance skill, empathy and engagement in both students and community members. This investigation is a mixed methods study aimed to assess whether CEL can…