The purpose of this study was to describe the voice change and voice part assignment of male middle school choir members. Volunteers (N = 92) were recruited from three public middle school choral programs (Grades 6-8). Participants were audio-recorded performing simple vocal tasks in order to assess vocal range and asked to share the music they…

The article argues that the COVID-19 crisis is a curriculum crisis, because it is a humanitarian crisis. Survival--physical, psychological, educational--is at stake. As educators have mobilized to meet the emergency, this introductory article to "Prospects" special issue on "Curriculum Responsiveness to Crisis" glimpses…

This study examined the psychometric properties of the Career Transition Inventory after translation into Turkish (TR). A sample of 339 Turkish residents who had undergone a career transition completed the CTI-TR to test construct validity. A second sample of 184 individuals in career transition completed the CTI-TR, the Integrated Hope Scale and…

This paper is a survey paper for the special issue on changes in Eastern European mathematics education in recent decades. In it I attempt to describe briefly the development of Eastern European mathematics education during the years that preceded the changes of the late 1980s and early 1990s, and to indicate certain questions for research…

In the current research landscape, there are increasing demands for research to be innovative and cutting-edge. At the same time, concerns are voiced that as a consequence of neoliberal regimes of research governance, innovative research becomes impeded. In this paper, I suggest that to gain a better understanding of these dynamics, it is…

With some combination of remote, hybrid, or in-person learning with social distancing restrictions--and (hopefully) a bit of time this summer to relax and restore--teachers are ready to take on the 2021-2022 school year. The question on everyone's mind is, "What will our students need?" The idea of differentiation is taking center stage.…

Through a consideration of literacies in theory and international policy, this article pushes at the edges of existing frameworks of functional and sociocultural literacies. In critique of existing policy directives, the author explores an approach to literacy that engages in the affective and posthuman relationality of human and environment and…

In the context of paradigmatic transformations, different approaches have periodically dominated in the field of educational sciences, as happened in other fields. There are views related to which the scientific paradigms are rising rapidly and falling slowly. The purpose of this study is to investigate why? and how? paradigms gain and lose their…

Philosophers of education as well as philosophers, sociologists and other theoreticians are searching for new models and interpretations of teaching, using new concepts, "transversality" being one of them. Some treat the new ways based on transversal competence as an augmentation of neoliberal power and its influence at school, some, on…

Drawing on the experience of one university seeking to improve its faculty mentoring efforts, this chapter provides a model for how organizations can facilitate the broad adoption of new mentoring practices that contextualize individual behavior in institutional norms so what results is more than a "rationalized myth."

The reasons for education reforms -- as a particular form of social reforms -- are either consequentialist or non-consequentialist. However, the reasons for the education reforms that are briefly discussed from the perspective of the philosophy of education in the present paper are above all consequentialist. These are the reasons for proposed…

Calls to increase the number of STEM graduates on a global scale have created pressure on universities to graduate higher numbers of quality engineers. In response, many engineering and mathematics departments have begun to develop variations of calculus courses specifically for engineering majors. Using a mixed methods research design, we…

Nudging is one of the strategies from behavioral economics that aims to influence behavior by changing the environment. We propose that it could also be a valuable means to influence behavior in educational contexts. However, implementation of nudging in education is yet sparse. We describe the relevant issues to consider when applying nudging in…

The article assesses the role comparative research plays from the 1980s in understanding vocational education and training (VET) systems in Europe, driven by political, economic, social and labour market changes. This research has been transformed, moving from national comparisons of VET systems, grounded in institutional theory and engaging with…

In the field of numerical cognition, researchers conventionally assess nonsymbolic numerical abilities with the help of number comparison tasks, in which participants need to compare two arrays. Many studies emphasized that visual (non-numerical) dimensions can serve as strategic cues and influence the decision on numerosity in these tasks. In…