The rise of anti-immigration arguments within the European Union (EU) poses significant challenges to our democratic existence. As such, the promotion of critical thinking (CT) for the development of a multicultural citizenship education has been underlined. Recent research also shows a close connection between emotions and cognition with positive…

Background/purpose: Insufficient integration of local history into the national curriculum has resulted in students' limited understanding of their regional cultural identity. In Ciamis Regency, the Kagaluhan values embedded in Sanghyang Siksakandang Karesian (SSKK) hold great potential for character education but remain underutilized in history…

While the teaching of controversial issues has generally been supported by schools and education scholars, new laws and public outcry have impacted whether and how controversial issues are taught. Calls to ban or limit teaching of controversial issues have largely been spurred by conservative parents, policymakers, and political groups. Some…

In the 2020-2021 pro-democracy protests in Thailand, an unprecedented number of high school students participated on all levels: from organizing rallies to small symbolic actions. To better understand this phenomenon, we engaged 691 Thai students from diverse backgrounds to write a letter to a recipient on the other side of the political divide.…

School districts increasingly gauge school quality with surveys that ask about school climate and student engagement. We use data from New York City's middle and high schools to compare the long-run predictive validity of surveys with that of conventional test score value-added models (VAMs). Our analysis leverages the New York school match, which…

This study examined how children's moral reasoning in response to intergroup exclusion scenarios relates to inclusive attitudes and behaviors. A sample of 528 students (M[subscript age] = 9.19, SD = 0.90; 264 girls) in third through fifth grade participated in the "Developing Inclusive Youth" (DIY) program, which provided structured…

This study examines mathematics teachers' perceptions of using artificial intelligence (AI) in teaching. A survey was conducted among math teachers in Tabuk City, Saudi Arabia, encompassing three primary domains (knowledge and awareness, perceived benefits, concerns, and challenges) to ascertain mathematics teachers' views on using AI in teaching.…

This article is based on findings from an anti-racist Métis/Michif partnership between the Gabriel Dumont Institute's Saskatchewan Urban Native Teacher Education Program (SUNTEP) and the University of Saskatchewan's College of Education. The study took a local approach through a series of anti-racist knowledge exchanges amongst 16 urban and…

While critical rationality is an explicit goal of Catholic education, its practice in confessional Catholic religious education can be problematic for epistemological reasons: the prevailing Catholic religious epistemology may not be conducive to critical thinking in the RE classroom. A survey among 1068 teachers conducted in fifteen Catholic…

The study investigated educational values of mathematics in relation to gender and attitudes toward mathematics among 480 Nigerian preservice mathematics teachers from four universities in Southwest, Nigeria using the quantitative research method within the blueprint of the descriptive survey design. Data collected were analysed using the…

In this study which is carried out in the phenomenology pattern, the aim of this course is to determine the opinions of the pre-service teachers about the value concept and values education. In this study, twelve prospective teachers in 4th grade in the department of primary education in a faculty of education were interviewed. The opinions of…

The aim of this study is to examine the tales in Turkish textbooks in terms of the values they convey. In this study, organized according to qualitative research method, the data have been obtained by document examination which is one of the qualitative data collection tools. A total of 29 tales in Turkish textbooks of 3-8 grades in the 2017-2018…

This study investigated personal and professional predictors of professional school counselors' (N = 220) accurate recognition and appropriate reporting of child sexual abuse. Additionally, this study examined instances when school counselors suspected child sexual abuse but intentionally elected not to report it and explored considerations that…

This article considers the need for a professional doctorate pledge that would be relevant to all doctoral awards at higher education level. The proposal includes a discussion around the emergence of the first professional pledge within the medical profession and how the need for a Hippocratic style oath was revived in the later nineteenth century…

Institutional researchers can be confronted with ethical quandaries. Pressures from their institutions can conflict with professional standards and general ethical requirements. Analyses that appear to be neutral can conceal hidden assumptions that are unintentionally harmful to those individuals whom institutions have a responsibility to protect.…