The EU policies about what to achieve and how to achieve through the education and training of adults have developed like norms for the EU member states which they find difficult to flout. With the declaration to achieve the European Education Area (EEA) by 2025 and its targets by 2025 and 2030, the EU has laid down a framework for developing the…

Research in children's literature has undergone significant shifts over the past forty years that affect the field's current positioning, especially for those who engage in this research. The invitation to present a keynote at the Children's Literature Assembly's online conference of research in children's literature provided the author an…

Current educational and scientific policy must address several critical issues, including not so much the training of highly qualified personnel as the adaptation of the population to exist in a high-tech sociocultural environment. The implementation of the chosen model for developing the scientific and educational system of the Russian Federation…

The research aims to establish the impact of industrial revolutions and resulting technological innovations on the content and structure of professional competencies that an employee should possess at a particular point in time. The author assumes that each subsequent industrial revolution increases the impact on socio-economic processes, causing…

In this research, the authors elaborate on the issue of implementing the idea of tax education through the lens of transforming the higher education system and implementing advanced technologies and approaches, which involve training, information support, and practical help for taxpayers. The methodology is built around the concept of tax culture,…

This work dwells on the problem of developing an algorithm aimed at ensuring the digital inclusion of a university that functions in the conditions of globalisation. To solve this problem, the key theoretical provisions are described and the sequence of evolution of a traditional university to the level of a digital inclusive establishment of…

This paper theorizes transformative agency and its potential to promote justice-oriented science teacher education. We argue that science education often acts as a disimagination machine, constraining possibilities for envisioning and enacting transformative change. To contest this reality, we draw on critical perspectives in science education,…

This paper extends the growing conversations around creativity's metamorphic capacities for good to propose and explore Social Change Creativity (SCC) as a distinct creative domain in which individuals and communities engage in the creative process to combat social injustice and manifest equitable social outcomes. SCC involves the use of creative…

In this article we investigate the role of generative AI in education with a focus on creativity, metaphorically utilising relevant features from Augusto Boal's Forum Theatre as part of a participatory qualitative inquiry. Presenting three distinct perspectives--Gatekeeper, Evangelist, and Diplomat--our article explores emotional and intellectual…

By integrating real-world problem-solving with academic theory, service learning offers students the opportunity to engage in projects that address the needs of local communities while honing their creative and design skills. This learning approach fosters collaboration, critical thinking, and innovation, allowing students to apply design…

Teachers worldwide are rethinking their commitment to the profession and their traditional roles in schools and classroom teaching, evidenced by significant global rates of teacher attrition and subsequent teacher shortages. Research aimed at deepening our understanding of teachers' decisions to leave the profession has primarily reported on…

Pedagogical support in early childhood education and care (ECEC) is often based on individually designed methods, although the most relevant support is the building up of organisational culture as part of the activities of all children and the whole institution. Constructing this kind of socioemotional and behavioural support practice can be…

This book asks whose histories, knowledges, struggles, sorrows, joys, dreams, and expertise matter in teacher education and teacher residencies. It conceives of teacher residencies as a space for the multiplicity of voices and experiences needed to create opportunities for more democratic education and explores how this might be achieved despite…

Drawing on experiences of university protests calling for decolonised education in South Africa in 2015-17, this paper reflects on the challenges and possibilities for teacher education from a Global South perspective. It outlines theories of de/coloniality which highlight epistemic and ontological asymmetries as well as economic, and it explores…

This chapter uses the author's experiences with a Disrupting interview to describe the connections among decolonization, teaching, and the land in the author's home discipline of civil engineering and in their personal relationship with water.