There is a common assumption that changes in developmental movement patterns (process) leads to better skill outcome performance (product); however, limited longitudinal data evaluate this assumption. This study examined (a) the longitudinal relationship among process and product motor skill scores across early childhood (3.5-6 years) and (b) the…

Child abuse reporting policies in the form of mandatory reporting continues to expand both in scope and practice across the United States (U.S.). With this development, it is important to understand whether there is a relationship between mandatory reporting laws and reporting behavior while analyzing how any response differs across professional…

Appreciative inquiry has become increasingly popular as a method for facilitating organisational or systemic change through focusing on the positive aspects and 'life giving properties of a system' as opposed to traditional 'deficit-based' approaches. However, there has been criticism that this process could invalidate negative experiences of…

Global educational reforms and policy trends suggest a growing convergence in educational systems worldwide, often attributed to the culturally embedded nature of nation-states and world-society models. However, in this article, we argue that these explanations are insufficient to fully account for the global diffusion of certain policies, as they…

This article offers a case study of "Small Acts, Big Impacts", an annual public program designed by education staff at Discovery Museum (Massachusetts, USA) to encourage children's development of empathy and social awareness. After observing unfortunate changes in visitor behavior, combined with the societal context of the global…

Amid a challenging political climate increasingly seeking to curtail DEI efforts, Latish C. Reed introduces the innovative Equity Empowerment Continuum (EEC), an introspective and systematic approach to understanding and addressing the complexities of equity in any organization. Dr. Reed offers personal insights and practical tools, demonstrating…

Extensive research documents how teachers' understandings of education reforms impact implementation and outcomes. However, the role of teachers' emotional sensemaking in the context of reform remains underexplored. This article reviews research on teachers' emotional responses to reform and argues that an overreliance on retrospective,…

This paper analysed the specific features of the gap between the university education market and the work market, which change under the influence of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and involve the reduction of the vertical gap but an increase in the horizontal gap. Directions for overcoming the "gap" through the integration of efforts…

There is a pressing need to reform governance of higher education to ensure the academic integrity in response to the contemporary implications of generative artificial intelligence. The aim of this paper is to articulate research which reveals ways in which this can be done. First, it considers what new information would help academic governors…

This paper discusses the emergence and development of popular education in Indonesia. It studies the emergence and development of critical education after the translation of Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed in 1985. In addition to Freire's influential book, the Frankfurt School's critical theory has influenced the development of critical…

Organizational leadership is pivotal to defining an organization's culture, driving team morale, and achieving success. This framework sheds light on empowering leadership of change management for sustainability in high-performance educational organizations. A mixed-method study, which includes qualitative interviews and a quantitative survey,…

The COVID-19 pandemic presented novel and heightened levels of uncertainty for educators. Contributing to a growing literature conceptualizing the role of uncertainty in organizational change, this article explores the changes in practice that teachers made during the pandemic as efforts to either mitigate or leverage different types of…

This article discusses 'another' internationalisation of higher education through the lens of the 'third mission' of engagement from a Global South viewpoint. It recontextualises internationalisation and the third mission through the meanings and practices of university extension in Latin America. Within a Global North perspective,…

Joint dissertations are a deliberate approach to antiracist systems change: simultaneously morphing the process of doctoral completion and supporting scholar practitioners to shift systems through their actions. At the School of Education at American University, scholar practitioners and chairs are learning together how the joint dissertation of…

This article examines the historical and contemporary mobilizations of 'Luddism' as a mode of resistance to technological inevitability, particularly in response to the integration of generative AI into education. Tracing three historical 'waves' of Luddism -- the original nineteenth century machine-breakers, the Neo-Luddites of the late twentieth…