During the COVID-19 pandemic, education was greatly affected worldwide. This impact was particularly significant in Egypt, where the education system, educators, and students faced challenges. This research aimed to explore how educators in urban areas of Greater Cairo (Cairo, Giza, Al Qalyubia) in Egypt perceived the sudden shift to online…

With continued effort since the early 1970s, researchers identified three curriculum implementation approaches: fidelity, adaptation, and enactment where they respectively based themselves on positivist, post-positivist, and constructivist paradigms. The purpose of the study was to explore university ELT teachers' curriculum implementation…

This article contributes to the development of systematic knowledge relating to equity policies during a pandemic. Based on Didier Fassin's conception of biopolitics as a theoretical framework, the study makes use of critical discourse analysis to examine the school closure policies of two EU countries (Sweden and Spain) and one non-EU country…

Reforms in STEM education call for reframing teachers' pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) by focusing on development of students' knowledge and scientific literacy through socioscientific issues (Lee, 2016; Zeidler, 2016; Johnson et al., 2022). We developed a two-year professional development (PD) for 6-12th grade STEM teachers that embedded SSI…

Throughout history, artificial intelligence (AI) has impacted various aspects of human life and professional industries, including the field of education, by mimicking human behaviors and tasks to increase productivity and efficiency (Grudin et al., 2023; Haenlein & Kaplan, 2019). Generative AI is a form of AI using deep learning to quickly…

We develop a structural after measurement (SAM) method for structural equation models (SEMs) that accommodates missing data. The results show that the proposed SAM missing data estimator outperforms conventional full information (FI) estimators in terms of convergence, bias, and root-mean-square-error in small-to-moderate samples or large samples…

The study was conducted as a case study to enhance pre-service science teachers' readiness for integration, inquiry-based learning (IBL), the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), and the application of real-life examples during their teacher training courses. The objective of the research was to explore pre-service science…

The importance of Digital Competence in teacher education has increased in recent years resulting in a range of digital competency frameworks aimed at guiding national and regional governments in their integration of digital competence in teacher education. The discourses and assumptions underpinning digital competence frameworks are discussed in…

This study examines job postings for full-time postsecondary Career Technical Education (CTE) faculty to explore job duties. Document analysis was used on the job postings collected on JobsEQ Real-Time Intelligence for CTE instructors in North Carolina. Over a year, 318 job postings were found through specific search terms in JobsEQ, with 205…

The study aimed to assess how teachers adapt to digital skills for sustainable development in education. This study involved 10 teachers from various departments with pre- and post-interviews to evaluate their adaptation levels using qualitative methods. A tool with three open-ended questions was developed and its validity and reliability were…

This exploratory qualitative case study inquired into teachers' Mathematics Pedagogical Content Knowledge and the teaching and learning of Grade 12 Mathematics at two selected secondary schools. Four Mathematics teachers shared their enactment of the teaching and learning of Grade 12 Mathematics when semistructured interview questions were posed.…

Objectives: The study aims to investigate the efficacy of the Poe ChatGPT-based TPACK model on EFL teachers' performance and their students' vocabulary learning. Methods: I designed four instruments to gather the research data: a survey of EFL teaching skills, a teaching knowledge test, an observation checklist for assessing teacher performance,…

Global education policies make a commitment to inclusive education, yet initial teacher education seems to struggle in preparing teachers for this task. We explore this matter in the present article. Life stories, participant observation and individual interviews over a period of two years with 28 preservice specialist teachers in an ongoing…

This study investigates the challenges faced by grade 10 teachers in Engineering Graphics and Design (EGD) classrooms and their impact on learners' performance, particularly related to poor outcomes on the National Senior Certificate (NSC) examination. The study used convenience sampling to select five EGD teachers from two schools offering the…

With the rapid advancement of Internet technologies and the growing emphasis on ideological and political education (IPE) in higher education, College English teaching is facing both challenges and new opportunities. This study takes the lesson "The Shadowland of Dreams" from the "College English Reading and Writing" course as…