During the first year of lower secondary school, the student's academic efficacy beliefs (AEB) could be challenged. Social and emotional competencies (SECs) could support AEB. The primary aim of this longitudinal study was to investigate links between intra-individual changes in the SECs relationship skills, and emotional regulation with AEB among…

This paper reports the findings of a dialogical narrative analysis conducted by two white academics in distinct higher education contexts -- one based in the United States and the other in South Africa. Through the retelling of actual classroom scenarios, the authors assess their own teaching methods, responses, and classroom practices in order to…

Many adolescents need additional support during the early years of high school to develop their reading skills, but secondary teachers often have few options available that meet the unique literacy needs of this population. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to design and investigate an innovative approach to help adolescent readers with a…

Since March of 2020, when the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, the world changed, and countries closed their schools and moved instruction and student learning to remote and online formats. These changes created challenges ranging from a lack of internet access, the need to learn new technologies, and increased…

Students' learning environments often change during school career, due to school transitions and the introduction of educational innovations, causing discontinuity in teaching and learning. Success of students entering a new learning environment depends in part on their prior expectations of education, as these influence later perceptions.…

Developing empathy skills is crucial for software developers to create user-centric solutions and design exceptional user experiences addressing the diverse needs of customers. This paper presents the findings of a quasi-experimental study that aimed to enhance empathy among computer science students through the exposure of two interventions…

Purpose: The study intends to evaluate students' intention to shift from cash payment to mobile payment system for academic fee payments through push, pull and mooring framework. Push factors comprise risk and service-related factors, pull factors consist of subjective and aspect-based factors and mooring factors include cost and cognitive…

Social Scientists, educators, and parents have often thought of parental engagement as being a major force affecting school outcomes. Over the last more than two decades, there have been some very noteworthy advancements in the understanding of the workings of parental engagement in urban settings. A lot of this progress is due to the growth of:…

A commitment to social justice and equity should appear not only in academics' writing but also in their personal lives. In this Insights essay, I contend with creating coherence between my research and parenting practice through my struggles with unlearning adultism. Specifically, I describe how my middle child, Junior, challenged me to live as I…

As language classrooms become increasingly diverse, educators face a daily challenge of navigating linguistic, cultural, and learning differences among students from different cultures and backgrounds. The diverse language environment, which many educators perceive to be challenging to manage, also presents valuable opportunities for implementing…

In this paper, we illuminate the powerful shift in one teacher's understanding of "language as a problem" to "language as a resource". Drawing on the concepts of "language as resource" (Ruiz, 1984), "multilingual resources" (French, 2016), and "acts of reciprocity" (Windle et al., 2023), we analyse…

In this paper, we present the development and validation of a new measure of attitudinal learning--the Attitudinal Learning Inventory (ALI). While specific scales are available for measuring attitudes, they largely focus on established attitudes, not the impact of instruction on those attitudes. We developed the inventory with two explicit…

Students often naively assume that pursuing sustainability is necessarily costly and difficult. However, proponents of "weak" or "business-centered" sustainability argue that well-crafted sustainability initiatives may simultaneously reduce carbon footprint and enhance financial performance. This article describes a…

The presence of gender-related professional stereotypes has been detected as early as preschool. The value of counterstereotypical role model interventions in triggering changes in the gender perceptions of children has been extensively researched with varying results. In the present study, drawing on the operational tool of exposing children to…

The purpose of this study was to examine the variables associated with the attitudes of students without disabilities toward the inclusion of students with disabilities in the physical education setting as a result of taking part in the Paralympic School Day (PSD) programme. Participants were 143 sixth-grade students, divided into 2 groups…