In a climate of growing intolerance and violence, marked by various forms of injustice across the democratic world, human rights and democratic citizenship education have the potential to help cultivate knowledge, values and skills or competences in the young that are necessary to foster a culture of human rights and democracy. However, education…

This book summarizes new directions in mathematics education research on proving at the university level, thereby providing contemporary extensions of the sub-fields of proof that Annie and John Selden introduced to the field. The chapters each describe an emerging new area of proof research, review the relevant findings in this area, present open…

This article investigates the effect of concept-based instruction (CBI), a pedagogy based on Vygotsky's sociocultural theory, on second language (L2) learners' writing development. A quasi-experimental intervention lasting 16 weeks was conducted involving 88 first-year Chinese university students of English. The participants were assigned to three…

Healthy early childhood development unfolds in the context of relationships with important caregivers, including early educators. Grounded in the evidence on early relational health, the 8-week Hand in Hand Foundations Course for Early Childhood Educators teaches a novel connection-based approach to understanding and responding to young children's…

Guided by Self-Determination Theory, this mixed-methods study investigates how professor-student rapport, grit and motivation affect engagement among Chinese university students learning English. Quantitative data were collected from 721 students through self-report questionnaires, and qualitative data were obtained through semi-structured…

Purpose: This research quantitatively examines what predicts anti-"CRT" and anti-LGBTQ political issues and educational disruptions in US school districts. Our study builds upon prior work that finds educational disruptions to be prevalent in suburbs and adds to an existing body of literature that is largely qualitative and theoretical.…

Using a repeated cross-sectional sample of nearly 55,000 adolescents from the School Crime Supplement over 16 years (2001-2017), we examined the associations between a latent school security measure and 20 different adolescent outcomes, with a particular focus on whether these associations changed over time. Results indicated that the associations…

In school-university partnership work, critical theories such as third space and funds of knowledge have been whitewashed by the predominantly white, female teacher and teacher educator workforces. In this essay, we present an intentionally and explicitly critical framework based on critical race theory, CritPartnership, that can guide…

The present study was guided by the Ontario Leadership Framework for Leadership, which involved 412 minority Grade 9 students (female = 224; male = 188, M[subscript age] = 14.86, SD = 0.71) who were sampled and matched with their teachers' data to understand the extent teacher collective efficacy (TCE) and teacher commitment (TC) co-mediate the…

The Science of Learning (SoL) is the culmination of interdisciplinary research and knowledge informing effective and inclusive teaching and learning in today's classrooms. Harnessing this knowledge is likely to improve educational outcomes, especially for students with learning disabilities who experience the greatest barriers in developing the…

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT has significantly transformed approaches to vocabulary acquisition and autonomous learning, particularly in high-stakes educational contexts. This study investigates how competitive exam aspirants in Visakhapatnam perceive the effectiveness of ChatGPT for vocabulary development…

This paper explores the views of early years teachers who were 'early adopters' of a revised assessment framework for children aged 4-5 years in England (2020-21). Based on interviews with four teachers and a survey involving 58 early adopters (part of a larger sample), the paper examines how these teachers have adapted their practice in…

This study examines the impact of the Mobile-Assisted Language Learning (MALL) application, Memrise, on the vocabulary learning motivation of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners and interprets the findings of the study based on Second Langugae Acquisition (SLA) theories to bridge the gap between theory and practice. Within this context,…

The field of literacy research has seen a recent surge in scholarship focusing on how matter--both human and nonhuman--comes to matter in literacy research and practice. This article explores how new materialist theories may be recruited for literacy research motivated by an anti-racist ethic. We present an illustrative intra-action analysis of a…

This introduction outlines the rationale of the symposium 'Vocabularies of Hope in Place of Vocabularies of Critique: Can Rorty Help Us to Redescribe (Philosophy of) Education?'. In particular, it argues that, despite some early statements of Richard Rorty, he may turn out to be a particularly timely thinker in reference to debates occurring in…