Using interviews with global research stakeholders, this research explores how stakeholders within research-system-level research governance organisations conceptualised, responded to, and reasoned the realities of disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, and how they positioned procedural changes to their governance mechanisms. Given that…

In all research, ethical considerations are crucial to reliability and quality and researchers are guided by various national and international documents and ethical committees. Despite different strategies to guide researchers and to ensure quality, there still seems to be uncertainty in educational science about how research ethics should be…

Decolonial studies, initiated by Southern scholars, scrutinize the coloniality of power, knowledge, and being as a constitutive condition of Western modernity, and explicate otherwise suppressed non-Western onto-epistemes. This paper examines Chinese academia's 'building Chinese education' as a decolonial, 'self-awakening', effort against the…

Mixed methods research studies have the potential to answer increasingly complex questions facing early childhood special education (ECSE) researchers. Despite the value that qualitative methods add to mixed methods research designs, most published mixed methods research in special education are quantitatively-dominant. In this article, we aim to…

Children's desire to read plays a crucial role in becoming a skilled reader, however, less research has examined the experiences of multilingual children. The current study reviewed the peer-reviewed literature on motivation for and attitudes toward reading in multiple languages among children. The review was guided by the following research…

In the ever-evolving landscape of education, implementation of innovative work behavior (IWB) among teachers is crucial. However, the current situation indicates that teachers' contributions to the understanding of IWB have not been thoroughly explored and need further investigation. This bibliometric analysis aims to systematically analyze and…

This scoping review provides an overview of the research related to educational placement decisions for students with special educational needs over a 20-year period in Canada. While educational placement has received considerable research attention in countries such as the United States, few studies have focused on the nature of the…

Background/purpose: This article analyses the importance of University Social Responsibility (SRU), which is driven by a change in the vision of academics. The SRU initiatives appropriately enhance the reputation and brand image of universities. When universities actively engage in social and environmental initiatives, they are seen as an agent of…

This study uncovers the development and structure of the research on English as a second or foreign language in post-Soviet countries. In total, 500 publications from the Web of Science database were analyzed. The findings revealed that the authors involved tend to cross borders in co-authorship publications. There is a small exchange of…

Against a backdrop of intensifying geopolitical tensions, anti-intellectual rhetoric, documented instances of censorship, academic corporatisation and political interference, this article examines how the work of editors and reviewers might offer critical and creative entry points to disrupt the articulation of fascism in music education, academic…

This study aims to provide a systematic review of research in the field of higher education reform in China. We analyzes 30,952 publications collected from China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) spanning from 1949 to 2023 and employs CiteSpace and Microsoft Excel for bibliometric analysis. It was found that the research on higher education…

A trigger warning (TW) is a statement designed to caution individuals about upcoming content that could evoke distressing emotions. The majority of students promote the use of TWs and believe them to be helpful and their use is becoming more commonplace amongst instructors (noting that instructors also sometimes avoid teaching or discussing…

This article is part of a special LDRP research-to-practice series introducing key concepts to enable special education practitioners and other nonresearchers to be more informed research consumers. In the article, we explore how social validity is assessed in special education research and how to interpret social validity assessments. Rather than…

This paper outlines the impact of phenomenography on higher education research and academic development. Interest in phenomenography as an educational research methodology continues to grow, but with interest growing faster than the number of experienced researchers, some misunderstandings of the approach have arisen and been circulating in…

In the field of design, empathy, which is often addressed in design research and practice, has also become an essential aspect of design education. It is both one of the core components of learning processes and a foundation for teaching activities. This paper aims to explore and discuss the impacts of empathy on learning and teaching in the…