Whom can educators look to as an exemplar of kind and compassionate teaching? Gabrielle Vogt and Ann Monroe explore the life and work of Fred Rogers as an unconventional teacher. By focusing on relationships, treating each child as unique, honoring children's emotions, and communicating a positive message, Rogers showed care for children and their…

Do we structure object-related conceptual information according to real-world sensorimotor experience, or can it also be shaped by linguistic information? This study investigates whether a feature of language coded in grammar--numeral classifiers--affects the conceptual representation of objects. We compared speakers of Mandarin (a classifier…

As technology advances, learning analytics is expanding to include students' collaboration settings. Despite their increasing application in practice, some types of analytics might not fully capture the comprehensive educational contexts in which students' collaboration takes place (e.g., when data is collected and processed without predefined…

The purpose of this article is to add to the debate on the normative status and legitimacy of indoctrination in education by drawing on the political philosophy of Benedict Spinoza (1632-1677). More specifically, I will argue that Spinoza's relational approach to knowledge formation and autonomy, in light of his understanding of the natural…

Public-private partnership (PPP) between Technical Universities (TUs) and industry is important for development. Although the typologies, benefits and the challenges in such partnerships have been studied in the past, the problem of lack of clarity of leadership roles along with the effects of leadership qualities necessary for sustaining PPPs…

Greed and power have morphed into forms of capitalism unaddressed from a philosophical, moral or educative framework. This article seeks to address this important gap in the literature by first outlining how the financialisation of capital constitutes the new educational subject in primary, secondary and tertiary school. The author establishes how…

Faculty can play a critical role in supporting college health professionals' efforts to enhance student health and well-being. However, many college health practitioners have expressed concerns about how to effectively engage faculty. This article, written by current faculty who are all former college health professionals, aims to bridge this gap.…

This presentation was given in late 2020 in response to the ongoing racial justice uprising that had begun in May with the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police. As with educators across the nation since that time, teachers, administrators, and other officials in the Independent Schools Association of the Central States felt a…

Research aims to identify the attitudes of middle school teachers and school principals on lecture inspections. This research uses case study research design. The data collection tool was used in interviews because it aimed to help principals access more extensive data in relation to the comments of middle school teachers on lecture inspection.…

Inherent in the call for this special issue is the idea that Community-University Partnerships (CUPs) matter. In the phrase "community-university partnership," it is just two entities who are forefronted and assumed to be the primary agents and beneficiaries. Conspicuously absent, however, is recognition of the essential contributions…

The theory and practice of spiritual care has transformed over the years. Chaplains have broadened the definitions of their work, formalized spiritual assessments, and gained greater understanding of multi-faith and interfaith support. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic forced a new shift in thinking specifically causing many healthcare chaplains to…

The authors discuss the issues and benefits of collaborative writing in journalistic education, comparing the texts written by students in different conditions: in group collaboration, individually after prewriting group discussion, and individually without any collaboration. We used a survey for collecting both quantitative and qualitative data.…

Playing satisfies basic human needs such as deepening social relationships (Melton et al., 2019) and experiencing an ideal self's characteristics (Przybylski et al., 2012). In addition, games foster student engagement through the use of intrinsic motivation, critical thinking skills, and the use of creative problem solving (Boghian et al., 2019;…

This article explores two questions: (1) Is education a unique and distinct discipline? (2) Is education anything other than the achievement of noneducational aims or objectives? In it, Trevor Norris examines how these two questions are interconnected, specifically analyzing how what we think about education as a distinct field of study informs…

This compilation is made to discuss physical education concepts, applications and teachers and their places in education systems in the world and Turkey. In the developing and changing world, movement education, sports and physical activity have become a part of human life. The effort to act in a more qualified way has always found its place in…