Teachers' beliefs in their ability to positively impact students' learning outcomes has become a strong indicator of teachers' motivation and behaviour towards the instructional strategies they employ. However, measuring the broader concept of teacher self-efficacy is still somewhat problematic as current scales are dated, have measurement…

In Scotland, the work of Friedrich Froebel (1782-1852) has captured the interest of practitioners, policy makers and academics. Indeed, the National Guidance, Realising the Ambition: Being Me suggests that Froebelian practice is an appropriate way to be with young children. Practitioners who train on Froebelian courses, and subsequently implement…

Purpose: Post-event processing, defined by self-critical rumination following a stressful communication event, is significantly associated with reduced quality of life. However, despite its relevance to the stuttering experience, to date, only a few studies have investigated post-event processing among adults who stutter, and no study has…

The present study explored the development and initial validation of a measure of doctoral student self-efficacy for students in Health Profession Training (HPT) programs. There is a gap in existing scales that measure the full spectrum of tasks that contribute to doctoral self-efficacy. The scales that do exist focus on broad self-efficacy (Chen…

Research in creativity often measures creative potential: the number of ideas which can be generated, or the way a novel thought appears in the mind of the thinker. There is much less emphasis on creative thought during the realization of this potential. This paper uses focused cognitive ethnography to explore how creativity is manifest in a…

After decrying the lack of attention paid to identity, equity, and power in leadership education, this article delineates key concepts such as identity, identity development, and leader/leadership identity development. It explores areas of concordance and distinction across leader and leadership identity development models and suggests increasing…

This single-participant idiographic study examines the implications of a student's identity crisis in the climate classroom through the lens of existential phenomenology. The study analyses the ontological sense-making process of a mixed-race, bisexual female student reckoning with the racial dimensions of climate change during an environmental…

This chapter explores the experiences of undergraduate medical educators with the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) and the impact it has had on their educator identity and practice.

Background: In consideration of the central role of motivation to academic (and other) outcomes, the present study is part of a larger two-year project wherein we apply race-reimaged/race-focused perspectives to examine the ways ethnic studies promote motivation outcomes for Latinx youth. In the first year of the project, we examined curiosity as…

In this article, I argue that Ph.D. students' construction of academic identity depends on the boundary-making process in academia. The presented ethnographic account of Ph.D. students at one of the research-intensive universities in Turkey is based on 15 months of fieldwork, including observations and 21 in-depth interviews with PhD students.…

One of the main goals of medical education is to facilitate the development of a professional identity. As part of this effort, trainees are exposed to the values and cultures of the profession in a process known as socialization. Learners must then negotiate incongruent aspects between their preexisting identities and nascent professional…

Early maturation among girls is a major stressful event that might affect their development and wellbeing during the adolescent years. However, the research literature is inconsistent as to whether the impact of early maturation among girls continues into their adult life. Taking a narrative approach, 45 adult women were interviewed and asked to…

The relationship between online game use and creativity remains contentious. Self-worth orientation theory suggests that online gaming can fulfill individual self-worth needs, implying that self-worth may moderate this relationship. Study 1 assessed online game use, self-worth, and creativity among 184 college students through a cross-sectional…

This paper questions how educationally enriching tourism can be, with the aim of challenging the pedagogical value of the touristic form of travel. The author begins with an overview of the history of tourism, discussing grand tourism and the link between education and travel, subsequently developing a parallel between tourism and voyeurism. It is…

This article builds from an exorbitant moment--the invocation of an inspirational quote on the eve of a new school year--to critically explore the larger, commonplace conceptual frame that the best teachers give all of themselves to their students, even to the point of self-erasure, as it continues to manifest across various discourses in…