The institution of schooling can be an anxiety provoking space for some students (Reda, 2009; White, 2011). One in every five children has mental health illnesses, and anxiety disorders are the most frequent condition (Merikangas, Nakamura, & Kessler, 2009). Teachers are in the unique position of being able to observe students' variations in…

This research investigates the responses of three individuals engaging with the Super Mario World (SMW) platform videogame glitches, and how they learned to solve the problem without formal help. This investigation was chosen because it explores connections between media literacy, critical thinking, and play in adults in the context of responding…

The purpose of this non-experimental, cross-sectional, correlational study was to examine the influence, if any, of mathematical-instructional minutes on academic achievement as measured by the 2014 New Jersey Assessment of Skills and Knowledge (NJ ASK) 6, 7, and 8 mathematics scores. Additionally, the study accounted for other factors that…

In this poststructural case study, I interviewed eight caretakers, teachers, and administrators from one school in a rural county in a southeastern state in order to think about how the intersection of three different discourses---rurality, food insecurity, and disability---and the power relations among caretakers, teachers, administrators, and…

This qualitative study explored multimodal biliteracy found in the Arizona-Sonora borderland, a region thriving with linguistic and cultural diversity despite having an English-only policy. According to Reyes (2012) biliteracy is to think, speak, read, and write in two or more languages, and there are various modes for reading and writing in the…

The teaching profession is often referred to as a revolving door. Educators are leaving the profession in droves, plaguing the United States with a continuous teacher shortage. As a result, educational leaders are faced with the challenge of retaining teachers to establish and maintain a stable teaching workforce that ensures students receive a…

There is a broad consensus across the political spectrum on the need for K-12 education reform. The Obama administration focused on early childhood programs, common standards, charter schools, and more effective teachers. As school districts align curriculum and teaching practices with common core standards, standards-based mathematics programs…

The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological case study was to investigate the experiences of eight New Jersey teachers involved in state-mandated school improvement processes in order to determine what teachers value in the improvement process and identify how involvement impacts their perception of their practice. In-depth phenomenological…

The primary goal of this qualitative case study was to identify instructors' perspectives toward the use of the flipped classroom instructional model in teaching mathematics in universities in Saudi Arabia. Many universities in Saudi Arabia use traditional methods of instruction. The flipped classroom instructional model is a more modern concept…

A body of research suggests that a significant number of academically and intellectually gifted Black male college students have been psychologically and emotionally drained by the constant, insidious marginalizing they have experienced in their elementary, secondary, and postsecondary educations. Studies also present examples of predominantly…

To develop and evaluate a comprehensive intervention combining transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and behavioral training that specifically targets orthographic awareness and reading fluency for in Chinese children with dyslexia, this study selected two Chinese children with different subtypes of dyslexia, i.e., the orthographic…

Studies have shown the ways in which non-Western middle- and upper-class families are seeking to educate their children in the West. The rationale for this kind of social reproduction strategy is the acquisition of 'valuable' cultural and symbolic capitals which can be advantageous in the graduate job market of both their home country and…

Background: Case study is widely used in teaching and learning literature; however, the extant literature contains few examples of student-developed case studies. This study used the situated perspective of experiential education (EE) to highlight context and legitimate peripheral participation encouraging enculturation into research communities…

Background: Over the years, the majority of the Basotho nation and many countries have known Lesotho as a country which has Sesotho and English as the only spoken languages and as medium of instruction in schools. Whereas, in reality, Lesotho has many spoken languages. Many tribes have their own spoken languages which, hitherto, have not been…

The COVID-19 pandemic has raised significant challenges for universities. Digital inclusion "of all learners regardless of their circumstances, learning prerequisites and needs" is a major challenge (Walgenbach, Compes & Lambrich 2019: 9, authors' translation). Starting with accessibility and related concepts such as digital…