Climate change education (CCE) brings about existential concerns of students. Teachers in turn are confronted with didactic demands to take into account the existential challenge climate change elicits. However, conceptual haziness about how to understand 'the existential' in CCE complicates didactic research on the topic, impedes researchers to…

A theoretical understanding is offered to help explore how students attempt to reconcile divergent narratives around the purposes of Higher Education in relation to their own writing. Drawing from the twin notions of centripetal and centrifugal forces, the paper discusses the ways that students both follow and resist convention in their own…

Academic emotions of learners are important for academic achievement. For the online learning platform, it is of great value to gain insight into the academic emotion of the course in appropriate time interval from the platform. We crawled a large number of student comment texts from MOOC, and used deep learning algorithms (BERT models) to perform…

COVID-19 has emphasized the importance of holistic education with fostering stu- dents' multiple intelligences through effective social and emotional learning (SEL). Understanding students' SEL not only supports students' learning performance, it's also beneficial to inform teachers to provide more adequate social-communicative, metacognitive, and…

This research aims to reveal the risk factors that may emerge in schools and how to take precautions based upon the experiences of school administrators. A total of 15 school principals and 22 assistant principals working in kindergarten, primary, secondary and high schools in Turkey participated in this study. Research data were collected with…

College students have long engaged in various forms of protest and dissent about both structural and human oppression appearing in the form of racial and social injustice, gender inequity, laws, war, and politics. Situating student activism in the context of student learning and identity development is key to fulfilling the role of higher…

There is a shortage of speech pathologists in the United States. Speech pathology training programs are highly selective degree programs, defined as pre-professional programs that have high grade point average criteria for entrance and continuance throughout the program (Halasz & Bloom, 2019). Effective remediation plans could provide students…

Latinas' experiences in special education are often untold or unheard. The process and labeling of a learning disability and how it affects identity is an elusive concept that is not often found in quantitative or qualitative research. This study sought to understand the experience of Latina women, who were previously identified as having a…

This study examined how biracial students at a predominantly White southeastern state flagship university described their experiences. Participants narrated their experiences on a university campus about how the university impacted their ability to find a sense of belonging on campus and the role the university played. The purpose of this…

Generation Z, born between 1996 and 2010, are the most recent generation to enter counselor training programs, furnished with beliefs, values, lived experiences, and cultural identity (Seemiller & Grace, 2016). Interpersonal, intrapersonal, and sociological systems can profoundly affect the development of a core identity; in this case, the…

Most research on Student Affairs practices is centered around student engagement and support; however, this qualitative study focuses on the Student Affairs professionals who support college students. Specifically, this dissertation focuses on the intersectionality of race and religion and how these Student Affairs professionals are able to engage…

Addressing the STEM underrepresentation problem has implications for improving quality of life and, thus, is an issue of social justice. This mixed-methods research study investigates the potential of certain pre-collegiate educational experiences, conceptualized as Sociocritical and Agency Building Educational Experiences in STEM (SABEES), as a…

Transnational flows in people and economy have shaped the need and desire for Mexicans to learn English and so many families enroll their children in cross-border schooling. These children, known as transfronterizos, live in Mexico and cross the border each day to attend U.S. schools. Through ethnography, this article explores the experiential…

Despite the increasing emphasis on the language and literacy practices of immigrant communities, our understanding of Asian immigrants' everyday experiences in their workplaces remains limited. This study examines the language and literacy practices of two Korean adult immigrants within their professional environment--a family-owned dry cleaning…

This article focuses on narrative interviews with mature students at one partner university that was part of the UK higher education (HE) Changing Mindsets project and research (2017-19). Changing Mindsets comprised workshops and training aimed at supporting students and staff in five participating universities to develop a growth mindset and…