This paper explores from an ethical standpoint how higher education institutions in three different countries (Canada, UK, and USA) have framed their policies containing guidelines in regard to the student usage of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI). An inductive thematic analysis of the online GenAI policy sources of 36 universities has…

Purpose: This article explores methodologies used by educators in citizenship education, examining how they perceive their roles when balancing skills and values, and how they approach assessment. It also investigates how transformative learning theory (Mezirow, 1978; Taylor, 2009) is reflected in practice and how outcomes are assessed.…

This study examined how the Chinese state has strategically mobilized the music curriculum as a vehicle for its political ideologies and moral education, as reflected in its officially approved textbooks. Drawing on Michael Apple's conceptualization of education as cultural reproduction and Lucy Green's analysis of the ideological construction of…

This study examines Spanish-language newspapers' framing of Latinxs' education in the United States. Adopting critical race, Latina/o critical race, and critical discourse epistemologies, we investigate how four Spanish-language newspapers with the largest circulation in, respectively, the Northeast, South, Midwest, and West United States frame…

To date, EFL teachers are ever more anticipated to become intercultural educators, supporting intercultural communicative competence for both teachers and students in language classrooms filled with cultural diversity. Using a mixed-methods design, the study integrates quantitative data from a self-report survey with interviews, as it looks into…

A diverse array of families navigate society in current times, yet despite increasing visibility of this diversity within schooling contexts, notions of family as nuclear continue to be (re)produced in these spaces. While this has implications for all children and their families, for gender and sexuality diverse parented families, this state of…

This mixed-methods study explores the gender microaggressions experienced by female teachers in Turkish schools, examining their types, sources, causes, consequences, and frequency. In the qualitative phase, semistructured interviews were conducted with 17 female teachers using a phenomenological approach. Thematic analysis revealed four key forms…

State takeover of school boards is a controversial policy choice aimed at reforming "underperforming" districts. It includes the limiting or complete removal of powers of an elected school board. However, this policy intervention is overwhelmingly implemented in school districts serving predominantly Black communities. Despite extensive…

Environmental education is crucial in fostering environmental protection and awareness within society. This study aimed to identify kindergarten teachers' practices for promoting children's environmental awareness in Jerusalem. A descriptive approach utilizing both quantitative and qualitative methods was employed. The quantitative method involved…

This study used an explanatory mixed-method approach to understand Chinese parents' perceived social presence in their children's online learning and the relationship among parents' perceived social presence, perceived learning, and satisfaction with their children's online instructor. In the quantitative phase, 53 Chinese parents of young…

This systematic review provides an examination of the current literature on rehearsals in literacy-based methods courses for teacher preparation. We conceptualized a rehearsal as a teacher candidate teaching to a peer or group of peers, a teacher educator or mentor, live actors, or through a technology-based teaching simulation. Studies in this…

This study compared task-based interaction with ChatGPT and peer interaction in the effectiveness of learning L2 speech acts (requests and refusals) and explored L2 learners' perceptions towards task performance. Forty Korean EFL learners were randomly assigned to either the peer interaction group (n = 20) or the ChatGPT group (n = 20). Both…

Children are commonly advised to tell a teacher when peer-victimized, but many are reluctant to do so. This study examines possible predictors of assistance-seeking in the fall and changes in assistance-seeking over the school year. Data were collected from 421 fourth and fifth graders (197 boys; M[subscript age] = 9.29, SD = 0.65; 87.4% White).…

How can quality assurance agencies become active drivers of evidence-informed policy and practice? Drawing on new data from the OECD's 2023 Survey of Knowledge Mobilisation in Education and international research, this paper offers considerations and inspiring examples on how to strengthen the role of quality assurance agencies in knowledge…

Purpose: The Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority (TEVTA) plays a crucial role in the socioeconomic development of a country. Still, it is often stigmatized as a secondary choice in the Global South. This study explored the interrelationships and impacts of factors such as family, school, and society on the perception and…