This article will explain how a series of educator strikes in 2022 in Ghana led to increased awareness of and calls for tax justice and debt relief from a growing movement of public sector workers and civil society organisations. We chart how the issues and demands of teacher organisations and other public sector workers shifted and increased over…

Purpose: With climate change education becoming more prevalent in schools around the globe, it is increasingly important that we understand parental perspectives on this topic. Children cross the boundaries between home and school culture every day, and their parents' attitudes, beliefs, and practices can influence their academic engagement in all…

In order for climate literacy assessments to be applicable in large-scale studies, it is essential that they comply with the standards of test administration while maintaining consistency with a comprehensive definition of the concept. In alignment with the different educational frameworks and the Climate Literacy Principles of the U.S. Global…

Survey research is regularly undertaken across the fields that comprise literacy education and provide historical perspectives of topics of interest at the time. The field of college reading and study skills pedagogy and research has a rich history of surveys being undertaken since the Great Depression. This article focuses on the major and…

University-based curriculum development often involves adding new content. This 'just add' approach has also been applied to integrating the UN SDGs into curricula, reducing them to a checklist rather than embracing their holistic and transformative aims. This is particularly concerning for SDG 4 and SDG 4.7, which require deep, cross-cutting…

Design education includes many pursuits that deal with creativity, thinking and visual communication techniques in the learning process. This study aims to create a participatory learning algorithm based on a location, while measuring the spatial impact through an emergent situation. The exemplified issue is determined as fire that emerged due to…

Purpose: This study seeks to unravel the psychological well-being of education sector professionals by exploring the mediating role of self-esteem in the relationship between perceived organizational support and burnout among university teachers. Design/methodology/approach: This survey-based study employs a relational, cross-sectional model to…

English language arts (ELA) teachers and researchers have trialed methods for supporting youth who advocate for alternative and more just climatic futures (Beach & Smith, 2024; Datta, 2023). However, many educators are encountering legislation that muzzles critical talk in classrooms. Understanding that schools are not separate from society…

This collective case study documents four research universities' efforts to advance faculty diversity and inclusion on their campuses. Informed by the campus racial climate framework, our research team offers identifies two broad categories of barriers, including structural barriers and active barriers. Structural barriers included institutional…

This study was based on the data of the funding scale, income and expenditure structure and academic output level of the Russell Group universities from 2013 to 2022. By using methods such as the Granger causality test and the two-way fixed effects model, it analyses the relationship between the funding scale, structure and the academic output.…

Integrating climate change education into engineering education is essential to prepare students for an uncertain and problematic future. The waste sector is a major consumer of natural resources and emitter of greenhouse gases, which is why it is a central theme in the training of engineering students. This paper presents the main takeaways from…

School science education needs to change its aims, content and pedagogies if it is to prepare students for the challenges of the Anthropocene. Climate change is the single biggest health threat facing people and other organisms. We argue for embedding EcoHealth as a curriculum aim within school science, as well as other subjects. Findings from a…

Curricula worldwide aim to prepare students for the society they will engage with in the future. The climate crisis and the ecological challenges facing the global community necessitate addressing these issues within the school context. Given the interdisciplinary nature of these crises, topics are often complex and do not neatly align with…

This paper puts forward that primary science education can provide a crucial opportunity to establish a foundational understanding that develops planetary-consciousness -- defined by Kingsley (2015) as an understanding of our interconnectivity and interdependence that allows us to consciously connect, collaborate and care about the future. Through…

This report presents a summary of results from a 2024 survey of School Boards, developed by NZCER in collaboration with Te Whakaroputanga Kaitiaki Kura o Aotearoa--New Zealand School Boards' Association, and with assistance from the Kokirihia Collective. NZCER plans to use the findings to inform the school professional learning and development…