Black students attending AANAPISI/HSI universities have long been overlooked in communication and interdisciplinary research. In this essay, I draw on bell hooks's (2014) radical transgressive teaching and Patricia Hill Collins's "outsider within" framework to examine the experiences of Black students at minority-serving institutions…

Conducted in a critical transitional period in 2023, this article explores how eight school professionals in New Orleans public charter schools perceived and responded to proposed state-level anti-LGBTQ+ educational legislation. During the liminal period following the proposal of two anti-LGBTQ+ bills in Louisiana, but prior to their eventual…

This article addresses university teachers' perspectives, gathered via interviews, on issues involved in their students' decreasing attendance in formal taught-events, before and during the pandemic, and the implications of this for university teaching in the future. The research was part of a broad enquiry into learning and teaching during the…

Background/purpose. Students with learning disabilities (SLDs), bilingual learners (BLs), and English language learners (ELLs) represent heterogeneous groups. With the rising number of SLDs and the expansion of English as a second language instruction in Saudi elementary schools, a critical challenge emerges: How can learning disabilities (LDs) be…

Dominant sociopolitical ideologies influence educational policy and threaten school-based equity. As teacher educators call to support the development of pre-service teachers (PSTs) who advance justice in their practice, we are compelled to consider our work against the contemporary sociopolitical context. Through collaborative critical…

Following the example of some African countries, Ghana recently implemented a new fee-free secondary education policy called the Free Senior High School (FSHS) programme. Guided by McConnell's (2010) policy success theory, this study examined the success of Ghana's Free Senior High School (FSHS) policy in meeting its quality objectives in northern…

Role-play tasks have long been used by researchers and practitioners to observe L2 (Second language) speaking performance. This social-situated simulation allows students to employ their language skills to converse about real-life themes. While role-plays are highly plausible to actively engage students in interactive learning environments, it has…

This article presents a strength-based, cross-age mentorship program where second and sixth-grade students in a multicultural primary school collaborate in mathematics. The sixth-grade students serve as mentors/tutors for the younger students. Drawing on positioning theory and storylines, we have focused on the mentor's outcome, specifically how…

This paper examines how Black first-generation college students (FGCS) involved in a participant photography project describe their sense of belonging at historically white institutions (HWI). Using visual and narrative data from a qualitative study of 20 Black FGCS at private HWIs, the paper examines their experiences with the campus racial…

Paraeducators are an essential and growing part of the special education workforce, but concerningly, research indicates that paraeducators leave the workforce at higher rates than special educators. Not much is known about the demographic and professional profiles of paraeducators who leave the workforce, nor patterns that make turnover more or…

Literacy is complex and impacts safety in nursing. When using language, nurses are constantly switching between medical language proficiency, academic language proficiency, and social language proficiency. The purpose of this mixed-methods study was to trial an English language exam specific to the nursing profession -- the Canadian English…

This study explores factors influencing teacher self-efficacy among preservice teachers and principal candidates. Through qualitative focus groups, findings highlight the significance of relationship building, social-emotional learning, and support systems in enhancing preservice teacher confidence, emphasizing the principal's role in fostering a…

Collaboration between educators and families is a critical issue in the field of education. This topic becomes even more salient when working with culturally, linguistically, or economically diverse families of children with disabilities. Both research and practice have shown that many educators enter the profession without adequate preparation…

The Young Olympians Program was developed to further a partnership between a university and the local Boys and Girls Club in central Illinois. The program was developed to improve youth participants' academic efficacy and social and emotional learning, while also engaging them in physical activity. This article shares the project-management stages…

Previous studies have found a negative effect on average student performance on standardised tests following the COVID-19 crisis. However, the effects might differ depending on the student's position in the achievement distribution. Understanding distributional effects allows us to determine how to better direct resources to students most…