This study examined the effectiveness of incorporating a visual element to support perspective taking in learning about the cause of seasonal changes. Participants were 44 sixth-form pupils who studied materials consisting of illustrations and explanatory texts. In the experimental group, the illustrations included a figure of an observer standing…

This paper estimates the effects of moving away from violent environments into safer areas on migrants' academic achievement in the context of the Mexican war on drugs. Using student location choices across space and over time, we recover individual-level migration paths for elementary school students across all municipalities in Mexico. We find…

Narrative authors use their imaginations to generate and select content for their writing. Narrative imagination is central to young writers' agency over their choices. However, writing pedagogies have become more formulaic, allowing little room for personal agency, while efforts to teach imagination have fallen by the wayside, regarded as vague,…

This book offers a much-needed look at the impact of our attainment-driven education system on those children considered 'low attainers'. It reveals how difficult they find it to feel good about themselves, their capacity to learn and their futures, as well as shedding light on the role schools are playing in maintaining inequality and the…

This article is about the pedagogical potentials and challenges of co-drawing in science education. It builds on video data from three primary school classrooms where students worked in pairs to draw some science content on a shared paper. Grounded in a sociomaterialist approach, we analyse how students, drawing tools, paper templates, visual…

This article presents a systematic literature review of Bhabha's Third Space theory in empirical research focussing on children (aged 4-12 years) in multicultural educational institutions. Communities around the world are becoming ever more diverse and, within educational policy, there is a resultant paradox between increasing diversity on the one…

While direct aggression negatively affects teacher-student relationships, the association with indirect aggression (IA), a form of aggression used to damage victims' interpersonal relationships, is understudied and could vary due to its covert nature. Furthermore, the directionality of the association (i.e., whether students' behaviors affect the…

In this study, digital storytelling refers to narrating linear stories using multimedia. Specifically, the study focuses on educational digital stories created by combining multimedia elements to understand and interpret a phenomenon related to a specific subject area, such as natural sciences, mathematics, arts, etc. We claim that digital…

This interpretive study explores the level of satisfaction of primary school students in relation to an observation activity of environmental components (natural plant materials and their representations in photographs and drawings), conducted in a school setting. The research employed a quantitative approach, applying a quasi-experimental…

This paper (re)imagines Melbourne, Australia as the "linguistic landscape" (LL), setting the background for examining everyday multilingualism in a schooling context characterised by superdiversity to advance the concept of "languaging the schoolscape." LL is mobilised and extended in this study to examine multilingual…

Background: STEM is an interdisciplinary holistic approach that combines the fields of technology and engineering in science and mathematics disciplines. STEM contributes to students' academic success, 21st century skills, and perspectives towards science. The scarcity of international studies focusing on the implementation of STEM in primary…

Background & Objectives: Universal social-emotional learning (SEL) interventions provide structured curricula at the classroom or school level to promote students' social, emotional, and academic development (Greenberg et al., 2003). Research has demonstrated that these programs improve elementary students' classroom behavior and academic…

This study examined whether elementary children's executive functions (EFs) moderated associations between observed autonomy-supportive and controlling parenting during math homework help and children's math achievement and anxiety 1 year later. In total, 170 parent-child dyads completed a second-grade assessment (M[subscript age] = 8.02), and 111…

Elementary-school students are increasingly required to compose texts on computers. Composing involves both higher-level (planning, translating and revising) and lower-level (i.e., transcription) skills. It is assumed that automatic lower-level skills enable students to focus their attention on the higher composition demands. However, while…

Following a randomized controlled trial that showed effectiveness of an equity-centered positive behavioral interventions and supports (PBIS) professional development intervention on student discipline in elementary schools, we studied the extent to which the intervention had differential effects on individual teachers' use of exclusionary…