This paper, grounded in Positioning Theory (Harré & Van Langenhove, 1999), investigates the intricate journey of graduate assistants from self-formation to transformation. Through examining the pivotal themes of social interaction, dynamic roles, workplace culture, and professional development, the paper reveals a nuanced interplay of factors…

This article explores notions of spatiality, race, and productive disruptions of whiteness; focusing on two dinners which were one component of a mixed method study on racism, teaching, and implicit race bias with secondary teachers in Toronto, Canada. The dinners were focused on cross race dialogue. White teachers experienced the dinners as…

Precarity of the Ukrainian professoriate is a lacuna in the higher education literature. There was no research on this subject before the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Furthermore, no investigations have been conducted on how university professors handle the hardships of teaching in wartime. This study tries to understand the phenomenon of…

The study investigated Finnish in-service primary school teachers' (N = 815) sense of professional agency and inadequacy in teacher-student interaction over a five-year period. Teachers' professional agency refers to a capacity that prepares for new learning, and consists of teachers' motivation, self-efficacy beliefs, and strategies for learning.…

Engineering identity has been repeatedly linked to the retention and success of engineering students, however, the current methods for understanding identity may not capture the holistic engineering identity journey. This study reviewed the method of utilising journey maps as a new approach to capture student engineering identity experiences.…

This study takes a transformative learning lens to gain insights into Western foreign teachers' identity as educators and professional confidence in online teaching at a Sino-British university. The biographical narrative interpretive method was used for data collection and analysis. The researcher gathered critical incidents during the pandemic…

Purpose: The Women in Leadership Development (WLD) Initiative is a year-long, multifaceted co-curricular leadership development opportunity created to support the unique developmental needs of emerging women leaders. WLD was intentionally designed around the context of second-generation gender bias with a firm grounding of research and theory on…

Building relationships is a crucial part of being a school librarian. But the first relationship the authors states school librarians will want to build is within themselves as a professional. According to the author, knowing yourself and your core values can help when times get tough or if your first tries at a relationship are rebuffed.…

The purpose of the study is to analyze the effectiveness of the formation of culture-general competencies of economics students in the context of the blended learning environment. The following results have been obtained. A blended learning system to teach Econometrics has been introduced at two Russian universities and one Kazakh university. A…

The Professional Quality of Life Scale (ProQOL) has an extensive history of use that often relies on inductions of reliability from precedent literature. We completed a systematic review of the literature and extracted sample-specific reliability estimates for ProQOL subscale scores. Random effects meta-analytic modeling was implemented to…

This article offers the reader a socio-cultural examination of a series of fundamental processes related to the construction and development of the professional teaching identity. By way of illustration, we analyse 39 subjective learning experiences reported by 12 novice teachers in Chile. The objective is to examine aspects of their experiences…

Lacking a union and having a lower salary rating than most of the nation's states, North Carolina has had an increased number of teacher vacancies over the past decade. The problem addressed by this study was the lack of retention of qualified K-6 teachers across the state of North Carolina. The purpose of this qualitative narrative inquiry study…

Educational leaders in a public school system contribute to the success of students and impact the learning environment. Discovering ways to support these important professionals is a worthwhile endeavor. An educational leader's professional identity is significant to their performance and serves as a compass to guide decisions and actions.…

The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore the "lived experience" of choral music teacher educators (MTEs) in hybrid positions at tier 1 research universities. After interviews with eight choral MTEs from across the United States, three themes emerged from our data: inseparable identity components, reciprocity of selves,…

Educational developers can help construct a more socially-just society by promoting equitable learning within higher education (Bass, 2020; Dawson et al., 2010). In this light, The Student Oriented Active Redesign (SOAR) Project sought to proactively catalyze pedagogical and curricular change in high-failure courses. While most participating…