Objective: The main aim of this study was to determine if young adults, who as children and adolescents were heavily exposed to the 2004 tsunami in Southeast Asia, had late reminders of this disaster nine years post disaster and, if so, how they handled these late reminders. Method: The subjects who had been exposed when they were between 10 and…

Contemplative practices are becoming more common in educational environments for attending to whole-student learning, fostering empathy, and promoting social justice and socially just pedagogues. This conversation explores how holistic approaches facilitate and expand the parameters of sociological pedagogy to integrate humanist pedagogies and…

In pedagogical practice, gratitude is recognised not as an emotion, but as an approach to learning. This study introduced gratitude messages into the academic online communication of university students and specifically examined the community in which students shared their messages with gratitude. This study examined the tendency of message…

The aim of this qualitative study was to explore subjective experiences of how "friluftsliv" can support processes of recovery for persons living with eating disorders. Eight participants with experiences with bulimia nervosa and/or binge-eating disorders, and with interests in nature and "friluftsliv" were interviewed twice,…

This study aims to investigate the influence of students' knowledge, attitude, and behavioral intention on their behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic. A survey study was designed using an online questionnaire involving 653 respondents from the first to final-year students at a Malaysian university. A CACQ-COV instrument was designed based on the…

A student's interest level can strongly affect the learning process, and thus, can be considered an important factor in the effort to improve learning. Presently, student interest is primarily assessed by administering questionnaires or conducting case analyses. However, this method cannot provide timely feedback in the learning environment to…

One of the most thought-provoking contemporary developments in the study of governmentality is the concept of "affective governmentality," alluding to how emotions play an important role in the regulation of individuals and populations. This article proposes to examine affective governmentality through the governmental construction and…

The study of engagement has become recognized by engagement researchers, educational practitioners, and administrative policy makers as having the potential for offering solutions to many of the concerns associated with aspects of modern formal learning environments. Engagement may afford protective aspects for students who have (or are in danger…

E-Learning is the most popular open learning multimedia modality of delivering education and training. It is used for enhancing learning opportunities and facilitating student access and success in education. It offers a multimedia environment which supports interactive communication where the users have full control of their learning. The state…

The current study utilized a social learning and achievement goal theory framework to examine and explicate the relationship between multidimensional perfectionism and psychological distress, and the moderating effect of two types of motivational climate among Division I-III student-athletes. Results indicated nonsignificant interaction effects…

Microaggressions are daily insults to individuals that communicate messages of exclusion, inferiority, and abnormality. The term microaggression was originally used to explain the experiences of racial minorities. This term has also been used to explain the experiences of other individuals with oppressed identities. More recently, the term ableist…

The goal of this study was to examine the relationship between two constructs that have been linked to improved teaching experiences and increased academic achievement in schools: academic optimism and teacher flow. While both concepts have been studied at length, there has been only one study to date that has been conducted on the relationship…

Medical error is the cause of an estimated 98,000 to 210,000 deaths in the United States each year. Medical error recovery involves the application of clinical judgment to recognize, identify, and implement the actions needed to prevent patient injury or mitigate patient harm. This basic qualitative study explored senior BSN students' experience…

The disruptions of the pandemic highlighted the role of the presence of the researcher and participants in our conceptions of literacy research and allowed us for a moment to reflect on the implications of our embodied presences as researchers. In this chapter, I draw from theories of affect, emotion, and memory to explore how we have constructed…

Despite high rates of mental health concerns among youth, they are unlikely to receive mental health care, with mental health stigma acting as a barrier. The present study explores youth perceptions of the influences of stigma and what should be done to address it, drawing on a large (n = 705) mixed methods dataset of youth aged 14 to 24 from the…