Purpose: This paper examines students' educational choices in vocational education and training (VET) to understand the low reputation of vocational education in China. By analysing the individualisation of these choices within structural and individual relationships, the study explores how the decline of state endorsement and the shift towards…

Purpose: This study investigates the role of AI awareness, academic level, information sources, and educational support in shaping accounting students' Attitudes toward AI in Auditing. The research aims to provide actionable insights for integrating AI into accounting education and equipping students with the necessary skills to adapt to a rapidly…

Racist incidents are a regular occurrence within K-12 schools and districts, often requiring educational leaders to steer their schools and districts through the ensuing crisis. Using episodic narrative methods, this study explores the experiences of educational leaders who have navigated racial crises within their schools. Findings emphasize the…

This study investigates the impact of the 2018 immigration raid at Load Trail LLC, a trailer manufacturing company in Sumner, Texas. It analyzes the raid's severe and enduring effects on the postsecondary pathways of students in the surrounding areas. Situated within the broader discourse on legal vulnerability, this research highlights how…

Background: Effective communication between teachers and learners is crucial for a productive educational environment. This study explores communication challenges in secondary schools in Bahati Sub County, Nakuru, Kenya, focusing on linguistic features and politeness markers used in teacher-learner interactions. Objective: To identify…

This study examined the psychosocial experiences of Afghan immigrant students enrolled in Iranian universities, focusing on their motivations for academic migration, the opportunities available to them in academic and social spheres, and the challenges they encounter in both their educational trajectories and daily lives. This qualitative study…

Digital transformation in schools involves the use of digital data to inform teachers' pedagogical decisions. Previous research indicates that a deeper understanding of the factors influencing teacher utilization of learning analytics and a comprehensive school context analysis is required. In this article, we conducted a survey study with N =…

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to propose a research model based on the stimulus-organism-response (S-O-R) model to explore whether social media affordances and media richness as environmental stimuli to learners' involvement elicited by massive open online courses (MOOCs) can affect their learning persistence in MOOCs and, in turn, their…

This study examines the role of family engagement in supporting young children's learning in rural Tajikistan, shifting the focus from the parent-child relationship to the broader family network. Drawing on interviews with mothers and fathers, as well as children's video-diaries from five families in Wakhan, Tajikistan, this study highlights the…

Inadequate physical activity (PA) levels are reported in Indian youth, with lowest levels among adolescents, particularly girls. We aimed to identify barriers to and enablers of PA among school children in New Delhi and examine potential differences by gender and school type (government vs. private). A total of 174 students (private school…

Recently, the need to contribute to the evaluation of the scientific, social, and political impact of Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) research has become a demand of policy makers and society. The international scientific community has made significant advances that have transformed the impact of evaluation landscape. This article reviews the…

Latinx teachers have been positioned as both role models and agents of change in schooling communities that are often racially contentious. As members of both the Latinx community and the school community, Latinx teachers have the agency to (re)define storylines by either submitting to or resisting positioning acts. Storylines discussed in this…

Adolescence is a very complex period. Various teen problems haunt when they grow up to become adults. The same teenagers successfully face the challenges of their development so that they are free from a variety of risky behaviors. However, some of them also smoke, consume alcohol, have free sex, commit violence, and use drugs. This research is a…

Economic information may close aspiration disparities for postsecondary education across socioeconomic, ethnic, and partisan divides. In 2017, we estimated impacts of information on such disparities by means of a survey experiment administered to a nationally representative sample of 4,214 adults. A baseline group was asked whether they preferred…

This study discusses the disparity in numbers between Japanese children and their Brazilian immigrant peers concerning placement in Japanese special education classes. In-depth interviews were conducted with 21 stakeholders including Japanese nationals and Brazilian immigrants to see if there were any ways to explain the larger numbers of…