In the era of increasingly stringent accountability, teacher voice is pivotal to student learning and school improvement. The nature and dynamics of teacher voice greatly vary with the organizational, societal, and cultural context. However, existing research on the concept of teacher voice tends to focus on issues in a particular domain,…

The COVID-19 pandemic presented novel and heightened levels of uncertainty for educators. Contributing to a growing literature conceptualizing the role of uncertainty in organizational change, this article explores the changes in practice that teachers made during the pandemic as efforts to either mitigate or leverage different types of…

Background: Support staff often face challenges with respect to experiencing meaningful moments of interaction with people with profound intellectual disabilities. Explicating such situational experiences of meaningfulness by staff members could facilitate the experience of meaningfulness for all staff. Method: In this multiple case study, three…

Gymnastics is a sport that has a reputation for being outcome-oriented, leading some athletes to feel anxiety and experience burnout. Coaches fostering a caring and task-involving motivational climate strive to make athletes feel welcomed, nurtured, and safe while also promoting effort and improvement over outcome, fostering cooperation among…

Teachers are struggling with issues and conversations around masculinities in schools. How do we discuss problem areas associated with masculinities, without demonising the young men we are engaging with? How do we create safe spaces for young people to discuss and challenge their masculinities together? It has never been harder to engage young…

Background: The study aimed to identify the perceived role and significance of typically developing siblings in the emergence of self-determination in their brothers/sisters with intellectual disabilities. Method: The study material consisted of information from individuals with intellectual disabilities. The analytical method relied on grounded…

This study investigates parents' perceptions of bilingual education in a metropolitan independent school district and examines how parents' perceptions vary depending on their length of stay in the U.S., educational and income levels. Nine-hundred fifty nine parents' survey responses were collected, whose children participate in bilingual…

Over the past decades, languages and literacies have become a prominent focus in science education research and practice. While there is broad consensus on the central roles of disciplinary, representational, and cultural languages and their associated literacies in learning and teaching science, the field faces a critical moment. An ever-growing…

This book uses the concept of "learning disability" to explore what it means to be human. It argues that we need to learn "with" rather than "from" or "about" learning disability. This crucial distinction means being open to what learning disability can teach us about what it means to be human. This approach…

This article presents the details and findings of a mixed-methods study that explored Scottish primary sector headteachers' enactment of creativity through a Complexity Leadership Theory lens. Although policymakers emphasise the importance of headteachers and their impact on school improvement, there is a growing need for headteachers to enact and…

Narrative-based roleplaying is a mode of active learning that can be integrated into a wide array of educational settings. This paper offers guidelines to create narrative-based role-playing activities to improve learner engagement and educational outcomes. Stories offer unique learning opportunities as they encourage learner participation through…

Experienced P-12 teachers play a crucial role in the learning of preservice mathematics teachers, though the preparation provided them can be inconsistent or even lacking. In this paper, we share two case studies of secondary mathematics teachers serving as mentor teachers as they engage in a professional development experience designed to shift…

Background: Programmes that provide scientists and engineers with support to engage in public policy have proliferated in the United States, with many opportunities available for training, networking and placements within government and government-facing organisations. This trend suggests that an evolution may be occurring at the science--policy…

School nurses and pediatric nurses play vital roles in providing healthcare for children and adolescents in educational and healthcare settings. School nurses operate within educational institutions, serving as caregivers and facilitating communication between the school, families, and the healthcare system. These professionals closely collaborate…

Drawing on Jean-François Lyotard's characterisation of postmodernism as incredulity towards meta-narratives, Lionel Abel's definition of meta-plays, and David Higbee Williams' perspective on metadrama, this paper examines the postmodern reinterpretation of Shakespeare's tragic heroines in Joy McCullough's novel, Enter the Body. The article…