This study examined the understudied phenomenon at the intersection of teachers' social media (SM) use, civic engagement, and English disciplinary instruction. The authors invited 18 in-person preservice teachers and nine online in-service teachers enrolled in their Teaching Multiliteracies courses to engage in a think-aloud protocol (Carpenter,…

Purpose: This paper aims to address how racially minoritized parents navigate the various obstacles they face in schools and at home. Design/methodology/approach: We conducted a meta-synthesis of 38 qualitative studies published since 1990 to provide a comprehensive understanding of racially minoritized parents' involvement in their children's…

School meals play a vital role in supporting student health. Access to school meals was disrupted during COVID-19-related school closures, impacting student nutritional intake and household food insecurity. Data from the National School COVID-19 Prevention Study Survey and school staff focus groups were used to examine challenges to school meal…

This qualitative study explores the experiences of parents of disabled young people in the UK regarding their participation (or non-participation) in the 2022 Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Review public consultation. The consultation followed the UK Government's Green Paper on reforms to the SEND system. The study conducted…

This study aimed to explore how participation in a thematic STEM camp, functioning as an out-of-school learning environment, influences female university students' conceptualizations of STEM education and their awareness of its characteristics and applications. The study employed a descriptive research design, one of the qualitative research…

In this article, the authors focus on a one-week research project examining Frederick Douglass's civic actions to challenge racial discrimination African Americans faced before and after the U.S. Civil War. Our one-week research project was implemented at a free public charter school in amid-sized Southern city. Our project connects to the…

Drawing on the ideas of Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault, this book extends the theoretical understanding of public pedagogy and brings into sharp focus the elements that constitute the public realm; the site of public pedagogy. Karen Charman and Mary Dixon offer a new theorisation of the public, a term at the heart of debate in the field,…

The 2023 edition of 'Key data on teaching languages at school in Europe' depicts the main education policies related to the teaching of languages in schools in 39 European education systems. It answers questions about the number and range of foreign languages studied by students, the instruction time dedicated to foreign language teaching, the…

Prior research has used several indicators to represent parenting, from dyadic interactions between mothers/fathers and children (e.g., parenting styles, parental involvement) to triadic mother-father-child interactions (e.g., coparenting). This study applies network analysis to explore the interrelations between maternal and paternal coparenting,…

The purpose of this paper is to explore the meanings of 'child participation' in international and European policy agendas on children('s rights). The premise here is that policy agendas informed by children's rights principles have the power to shape what a child can (learn) to do and be in a given society. Furthermore, the policy agendas…

Canonical research and identity-evasive best practices have pushed Student Affairs Professionals (SAP) to limit the applicability and effectiveness of involvement for a swath of the student body. By examining the push for involvement on college campuses, it is imperative to critically examine the impact traditional forms of student engagement have…

This study aims to determine the relationship between primary school students' technology addiction levels and their participation in sports. For this purpose, in this study, technology addiction and sports participation levels of students studying in different primary schools in Almaty were examined according to their demographic characteristics.…

The impact of practical instrumental music instruction on students' psychological and sociological well-being is well documented in research literature. The extent to which these findings hold true for disadvantaged populations is unknown. Previous studies focused on young students with little to no research on disadvantaged young adults at…

Although the role of class participation in learning has been studied, there is less scholarship of teaching and learning research investigating the role of "incentives" in increasing engagement. The author describes his experience using multiple incentives to increase class-wide participation in an undergraduate legal course over…

This paper examines women scientists' participation in Knowledge Exchange (KE) with nonacademic actors. We compare three KE types --informal engagement, formal engagement and commercialization-- and find significant differences in participation depending on type. In informal engagement, women and men participate equally, but women participate less…