Financial literacy is essential for individuals to navigate the complexities of modern society. In 2021, financial literacy was introduced as a new strand in Ontario's Grade 9 mathematics curriculum, which aims to address educational barriers for historically marginalized groups, such as Black students (Ontario Newsroom, 2021). This article…

Objective: Social physique anxiety (SPA) is characterized by concerns of evaluation focused on one's physical appearance. Past work suggests factors such as gender, body mass index (BMI), and exercise habits uniquely contribute to SPA. However, no study has examined the interactions between these three variables. The current study sought to…

Total Quality Management (TQM) is a way of managing everything in an organisation or institution to get the level of excellence. The study was conducted to investigate the implementation of TQM approaches in public and private universities of Pakistan, to compare the implementation of TQM approaches and results achieved by public and private…

The integration of cultural heritage into mathematics learning remains underexplored, particularly in the context of Indonesian traditional arts. Existing mathematics curricula often overlook the potential of local cultural artifacts to contextualize abstract mathematical concepts. This study addresses this gap by investigating the mathematical…

This study explores how Chinese literary youth from diverse social backgrounds mobilize literary cultural capital and multiple habitus in their participation in New Concept Writing Competition (NCWC), a pathway to benefit "Gaokao" for students with special talents. Drawing on interviews with 15 participants from diverse social…

Using a longitudinal mixed methods approach, this study examined Chinese American youth's experiences and coping with racial discrimination. Participants included 25 second-generation Chinese American youth who participated in an 8-year, three-wave longitudinal study. The participants' average age at Time 1 was 15.5 years. Participants were…

Autistic children are less likely to participate in sport than non-autistic children, but we know little about how patterns of participation in team and individual sport change across childhood. Drawing on a nationally representative cohort of Australian children, this study analysed trajectories of participation in team and individual sport…

With the increasing popularity of the Internet, there is significant interest among academics and the public in understanding the relationship between the Internet and individual development. However, the association between digital games use and creativity has been a topic of controversy, as highlighted in previous research. This study aimed to…

Background/purpose: This study aims to explore how cultural and economic factors shape the welfare of salt-farming communities in Madura, Indonesia. It highlights the importance of integrating local knowledge and cultural contexts into welfare policies, particularly in developing regions where top-down approaches often fail to address the…

The tragedies at Uvalde, Texas, and Parkland, Florida, have shown that our national strategy to end school shootings is failing. "School Shootings in American Culture" uniquely applies systems-thinking to school shootings as a cultural trend. Author Lisa Ross exposes not only the design flaws in our most celebrated prevention…

Using individual-level data from the Add Health surveys, we leverage idiosyncratic variation in gender composition across cohorts within the same school to examine whether being exposed to a higher share of female peers affects mental health and school satisfaction. We find that being exposed to a higher proportion of female peers, despite only…

Given the impact of engineering on society, it is crucial that engineering graduates have an appreciation of the social aspects of the profession and an understanding of the social implications of engineering practice. However, the socio-technical integration in engineering education has proven challenging and it is still a matter of concern. The…

Background: According to the Self-Determination Theory, satisfaction of basic psychological needs for relatedness, competence and autonomy is a necessary basis of motivational self-regulation in students. Supportive academic contexts are expected to satisfy these basic needs. Aims: We aimed to explore the mediating effect of motivational…

This study sought to investigate the motivating factors for Georgia Extension Agents to participate in supplemental professional development opportunities beyond those required for their current role. The study was based on Ajzen's theory of planned behavior, focusing on intention, attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control. The…

Compared with the more physically fragile extremely/very preterm children (E/VPT), moderate-to-late preterm (MLPT) children--the large majority of preterm births--are underrepresented in research. This gap persists despite evidence that MLPT children exhibit more difficulties than full-term peers in certain domains. This scoping review surveys the…