In this dissertation, I explored creativity in practice. I ask: 1) How do the participants define creativity?; 2) In what way does creativity reflect the positioning between actor and resource?; 3) What creative practices emerge when individuals choose to use, or not use, resources?; 4) How do resources mediate creativity? To understand creativity…

The following is a report on state policies regarding personalized learning innovations at public high schools in the United States. The goal of personalized learning practices is to create more personalized and individualized educational environments, focused on relevant experiences and skill development. Successfully implementing these practices…

The following is a report on state policies regarding personalized learning innovations at public high schools in the United States. The goal of personalized learning practices is to create more personalized and individualized educational environments, focused on relevant experiences and skill development. Successfully implementing these practices…

The retention rates of Black male students in Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have been low leading to low graduation rate. To understand this phenomenon, it is important to investigate the factors that affect the academic and leadership development of Black male students in HBCU institutions. Due to lack of policies both at…

Purpose: This paper focuses on analysis of the incorporation of a Lesson Study cycle within the university training proposal, as a teaching strategy in initial training in the Infant Education Degree. Design/methodology/approach: Qualitative research was conducted through a case study methodology. Findings: Proposing training strategies based on…

This study explored the prevalence of the null curriculum in the Ghanaian basic school education system. It also sought to identify the main reasons behind teachers' omission of specific topics or experiences from the basic school curriculum. Three hundred seventy-five basic school teachers from kindergarten, primary, and junior high schools…

The COVID-19 pandemic raised barriers for college students and challenged institutions to rethink approaches to student retention. Academic advising is critical to achieving student retention. During COVID-19, advisors faced increased work demands and adopted coping behaviors to keep workloads manageable. Coping behaviors are conceptualized as…

Ithaka S+R launched a project in collaboration with a cohort of libraries to identify challenges and develop strategies for streaming media acquisitions. The findings from the first part of this project--a comprehensive national survey that tracked the streaming media strategies libraries are adopting and the challenges they are facing-- was…

For over 30 years, the Journal of the Society for Provision of Education in Rural Australia has reported research and practice discourses associated with rural, regional and remote education, with the aim of impacting policy and practices relating to education in rural Australia. The journal, originally named "Education in Rural…

School leaders in Solomon Islands have shifted away from the basic education policy that promotes equitable access to quality basic education to practices that target high enrolment to generate revenue. This research highlights the implications of this shift and its impact on quality education. It aims at finding the balance between the school's…

The purpose of this qualitative, descriptive study was to explore how college students with Deaf, deaf, and Hard of Hearing (D/d/HH) described how their communication and learning needs were being met in the online learning environments (OLEs). The problem was that college students with hearing difficulties had inconsistent access to hearing…

The purpose of this replication study was to examine the leadership practices, instructional practices, and high expectation beliefs employed by school district superintendents in Texas with the aim of eliminating the performance gap between Hispanic and White students in the state. The research employed a qualitative approach, consisting of…

After higher education expansion in the private sector and technical college system starting in 1985, students' opportunities to attend four-year institutions in Taiwan are increasing. This study extends Cabrera and La Nasa's model of student college choice to examine not only choices of institutional types but choices of college pathways after…

Using a conversation analysis (CA) framework, this study investigated how kindergarten-aged learners took initiative during classroom interactions through multimodal communication resources. Over a thirteen-week period, data was collected from kindergarten English classroom interactions between two male native English-speaking teachers (NESTs) and…

The digital transformation of traditional education leads to a change in the classical idea of the content and structure of the teacher's professional competence. The ability of teachers to teach with high quality is undoubtedly a key and very significant part of it, but in the conditions of the dynamic change of the environment both in the real…