Background: At school, students need to learn to collaborate with others to achieve common objectives. However, we are lacking insights into how students determine preferred collaboration partners, while multiple plausible factors, such as similar goal orientations, can be derived from the literature. Aims: We examined whether students prefer…

Objective: Some international students choose to return to their home countries upon completing their studies. Understanding how these students re-establish connections with their families and broader ethnic communities is crucial for addressing the needs of both the students and their communities. This study aims to explore the everyday practices…

This article investigates how a middle power can drive institutional adaptation within a regional security organization, focusing on Kazakhstan's role in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). While most studies emphasize the dominance of China and Russia, the mechanisms through which medium-sized states influence organizational development…

Background: Perfectionism is believed to have an adaptive (Perfectionistic Strivings) and a maladaptive dimensions (Evaluation Concerns). Research shows that the latter is closely linked to distress and poor psychological functioning, while the former has been considered relatively benign. Objective: The present study investigated the mediating…

Few studies focus on the mental health of deaf population. This study aims to explore the association between social support and optimism and advance knowledge of why and for whom increased social support was effective. 771 deaf and hard-of-hearing (D/HH) students from two special education colleges in China were investigated. Questionnaires…

This historical study examined the admission of girls into the National FFA Organization and documented its impact on the organization. Further, the study illuminated the cultural and societal forces that led to girls becoming members of FFA in 1969 and the influence this decision had on agricultural education and the organization more broadly. As…

This multi-case study examined how state-level FFA nominating committees in one Western state determine "quality" youth leadership. Three committees (2017-2019) were investigated through focus groups with student members, individual interviews with past officers, a chair, and an advisor, and document analysis of publicly available…

Mainstream education in the United States has prioritized Eurocentric ways of knowing and being, favoring dominant cultures while rejecting relevant learning and creativity. The emphasis on standardization and competition have hindered students and teachers from honoring their full humanity (i.e. humanization), including their social, historical,…

As most GenZ and Millenial students now study at home, young people have shifted their media content consumption, with streaming platforms being among GenZ and Millenials favorites since the first lockdown. Could 'Netflix and chill' be turned into a creative learning activity for design students? As theoretical online learning is often associated…

Background: Students form interpersonal and intrapersonal classroom social experiences with peers. While diverse intervention programmes have been developed, few have integrated social-emotional learning into academic activities to maximize the potential for learning and development. Aims: This study examined the effects of collaborative…

As critical race theorists would remind us, those most impacted have the greatest insight to create change. This paper applies a critical race theory framework to explore the leadership experiences of two African American and one Latinx American mathematics teacher educator and how they address issues of race, racism, and (in)justice in teacher…

Addressing the unmet physical and mental health needs of school-aged children in the U.S. has moved to the forefront of the emerging policy conversation about effective, school-based strategies to support students. Although some new and unique challenges regarding the physical and mental health of school-aged children can be directly attributed to…

The purpose of this article is to describe a 40+ year journey during which researchers have endeavored to design and evaluate an integrated, empirically based reading intervention for secondary students and to chronicle the lessons learned as well as suggest future directions for this type of work. Initial development of the intervention began in…

We examined longitudinal changes in new college students' perceptions of belonging and task mastery socialization effectiveness and their relationships to re-enrollment intentions and subsequent GPAs as a function of race/ethnicity and first-generation status. Incoming students completed socialization effectiveness measures before orientation (N =…

Little is known about the professional experiences of trans school workers. This brief describes the demographic characteristics of a non-random sample of 296 trans PK-12 school workers (i.e., teachers, administrators, staff) in the United States and Canada and reports their workplace experiences and the structural and social supports for trans…