Authenticity is critical to meaningful civic learning, from understanding history and exploring current issues to discovering how government works and engaging with diverse forms of civic participation. This article explores authenticity in student-led civics through three dimensions: (1) being authentically connected to the self (culturally…

Every child has the right to learn. Yet for far too many, that right remains unfulfilled. Poverty, environmental shocks, conflict, displacement, disability and discrimination continue to keep children out of school or stuck in classrooms without meaningful learning, or disrupt learning altogether. This is especially true for girls and other…

Purpose: Gentrification continues to transform the culture and context of urban schools and neighborhoods across the United States. Educators (i.e., school administrators, teachers, and staff) can play pivotal roles in producing or constraining school gentrification. In this article, I use micropolitical perspectives on education to examine the…

This qualitative Case Study explored Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia Technical and Vocational Training Institute English teachers' perceptions and practices of learner-centered approaches. Data were collected from interviews, a focus group discussion, and classroom observations involving 12 participants. Findings indicated positive views…

The success of public policies depends not only on their design but also on their effective implementation. This paper examines both the factors that contribute to successful policy implementation and the outcomes of such success using Israel's Second Preschool Teachers' Assistants Reform as a case study. By analyzing this reform, the study…

The Foundation Phase is a pioneering early years education reform that was introduced across Wales in 2008. Based on a progressive, child-centred design, this reform aimed to improve educational outcomes in Wales and reduce achievement gaps for young learners. This paper reports a number of findings from a mixed-methods study that assessed the…

Purpose: This article documents the development of a series of teacher-led book studies conducted over six years by the PDS Focus Group at a high school in a Professional Development School Network. Specifically, we explain how the members of the PDS Focus Group used their learning from the book studies to change their classroom practice and lead…

Career and technical education (CTE) faculty play significant roles in supporting their students down viable professional pathways. Yet existent work has not explored their attitudes of or engagement with disabled learners, who remain greatly unemployed. This hermeneutic phenomenological study draws on 20 interviews to uncover community college…

The 2011 report "Vision and Change: A Call to Action (V&C)" resulted from a national effort to rethink biology curriculum. "V&C" outlines core concepts and core competencies for biology undergraduates and promotes evidence-based pedagogy, undergraduate research, and inclusive practices. However, it is unclear how much…

Universities, as public organisations, exemplify three competing institutional logics regarding governance. First, the state wields considerable control over universities through a Weberian bureaucratic logic. Second, university managers have been granted increased autonomy under a neoliberal, managerial logic. Third, a traditional academic logic…

Critical professional development (CPD) facilitates creative, empowering teacher practice and racial justice accountability. This paper extends United States' CPD literature through a qualitative critical race analysis of a 1-year Canadian teacher education anti-racist cross-racial mentorship project. Focus groups with 13 teacher candidate (TC)…

Background/purpose: The research was conducted to explore how digital transformation can enhance LLCT teaching quality by integrating advanced technologies, improving interactivity, and fostering critical thinking among cadres. The main purpose is to analyze the necessity, current status, challenges, and solutions for digital transformation in…

In this article, we address the collaborative relationships among university teachers participating in a lesson study. Specifically, we examine teachers' changes in response to conflicts that arise during this professional development process. Data were collected through audio and video recordings and interviews during a lesson study conducted…

Purpose: This study investigates mentoring practices within Initial Teacher Education in England during a period of significant policy reform. Informed by Bourdieu's theory of capital and habitus, the research explores how pre-service teachers (PSTs) experience mentoring relationships and how these experiences shape their professional identity and…

In recent decades, there has been a proliferation of neuropsychology training programmes globally, including in South Africa and other low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Almost invariably, programmes in those countries privilege colonial origins of knowledge while excluding local epistemologies. Our objective in this conceptual article is…