Purpose: This study aims to investigate the impact of viewing different types of digital environment images on college students' positive emotions, nature relatedness and environmental preference. This aimed to address the gap in empirical studies regarding the effects of digital environment images on these psychological constructs.…

Parental engagement (PE) in early childhood education refers to the different ways parents get involved to help children's learning. Drawing on Ecological Systems and Social Capital as theoretical frameworks, this research explored parents' engagement experiences in early childhood education in primary schools in Debre Tabor Town, Ethiopia. A…

This paper unfolds against the backdrop of the immigrant experiences of the authors, an intergenerational team from two different countries and two different professional roles, but who are united by their immigrant experience and commitments to foster the sense of belonging and advance inclusive excellence across educational institutions and…

Understanding the connection to nature (C2N) in early childhood is vital for fostering long-term environmental stewardship. This study examines C2N among preschoolers from distinct educational backgrounds: a zoo-based school (Z School) offering extensive outdoor learning and a more conventional urban school (U School). The research aims to discern…

Although cognitive and environmental factors are both vital in shaping young children's math abilities, a comprehensive integration of these domains is necessary to understand fully how these interconnected influences related children's math abilities. Especially the executive function (EF), home and school environment are the most primary factors…

Based on ethical leadership and authoritative school climate theories, the current study used doubly latent multilevel structural equation modeling (M-SEM) to test links between school principals' ethical leadership and students' aggressive attitudes through the mediation of authoritative school and classroom climates. Data included three sources:…

Purpose: With over one third of students in the United States exposed to languages other than English at home, there is a growing need to examine the role of bilingual exposure across settings on bilingual language performance. This study explored the longitudinal relationship between language exposure at home and school, and changes in bilingual…

What does it mean to be a good citizen when coping with sustainability challenges in politically polarized and values-conflicting contexts? This study explores Taiwanese students' imagination of good citizens as they deliberate over a highly controversial local environmental policy. Tracing five focal students' learning trajectories, this study…

This study utilized data from a national survey on student health/well-being to examine the complex interrelations between bullying, social-emotional well-being, student-parent relationship quality, and feelings about school among immigrant youth in grades 7-10 from a strength-based perspective. Using structural equation modeling, we explored the…

Background: The home learning environment (HLE), along with center-based early childhood education (ECE) programs, plays an essential role in promoting early childhood development (ECD). HLE can become more or less stimulating over time due to caregivers' tendency to adapt HLE in response to preschoolers' evolving developmental status, of which…

Augmented reality (AR) has been regarded as a useful tool in writing education, with the goal of enhancing students' learning. However, questions still exist about the consistency of student motivation and their writing performance when participating in educational activities driven by AR. This study focused on AR-based writing courses, employing…

Introduction: Societal stressors place a tremendous burden on individuals who identify with a sexual minority identity. While minority stress experienced by racial/ethnic minority groups has been linked to accelerated aging, this link has yet to be examined among sexual minority youth. This study explores whether sexual minority youth who indicate…

As distance learning is a broadening mode in education, students have new roles: they are responsible for arranging their surroundings so that it supports learning appropriately. Eventually, teachers and educational institutes have a decreasing role as facilitators of physical learning surroundings. In this paper, we examine how students…

This article uses a comparative case study to examine how a methodological approach called interaction geography provides alternative ways to animate space, movement, and affect within the context of early childhood education. We take animation to incorporate the methods for representing space, movement, and affect; the social-material environment…

This study investigated correlation between classroom social environment and secondary school students' interest in Government subject in Nsukka Education Zone, Enugu state. The study adopted correlational research design. The population of the study was 1069 Senior Secondary 2 (SS2) students offering Government in 60 public secondary schools in…