Transitions into early childhood education in a new country can be challenging for refugee and migrant children, their families, and teachers. This article presents pilot study findings that explored how two ECE centres, collaborating with a settlement centre, support positive transitions for families entering ECE settings. Research highlights…

This study used critical discourse analysis (CDA) to explore how course syllabi may impact disability disclosure in higher education. By examining 15 syllabi from across three disciplines at a public university, the analysis reveals the use of neutral but bureaucratic disability terminology and impersonal tones that may fail to foster an inclusive…

Background: Video games can be innovative, educational and therapeutic tools that have demonstrated positive outcomes in enhancing emotional skills. Many of these programmes have shown benefits in improving children and adolescents' emotional competencies, but there is a lack of research evidence on programmes that aim to intervene within the…

Social comparison and links to motivation, performance, and engagement are well documented across domains. However, research remains limited within dance schools, where training with peers is part of everyday life. To explore how social comparison is experienced in school, we interviewed ten dancers (aged 18-23) from vocational and non-vocational…

School choice is a domain of incessant and contentious debate in today's era of neo-liberalism wherein the mushrooming of private schools in the educational marketplace is widespread. The present study aims at exploring and prioritising the key determinants of private school choice in the Indian Punjab context. The study finds that despite private…

Environmental sustainability and how best to promote sustainable development is a problem of increasing urgency for policymakers and researchers. Several international projects have been initiated to address these issues and provide frameworks for thinking about the development of individuals' environmental awareness and their proclivities for…

As the Latinx Spanish-speaking and emergent bilingual population grows, there is an urgent need for more inclusive language and literacy programs in schools. It's essential to recognize Latinx parents' educational aspirations for their children and the crucial role of Spanish within families. This article explores the language and literacy…

How do young children learn, and what do educators need to know and do to teach them? Covering the full birth-8 early childhood age range, this introductory text delivers up-to-date answers through a unique lens: a deep focus on the neurological foundations of developmentally appropriate practices. Preservice and inservice educators will explore…

This brief seeks to serve as a clarion call for all educators and policymakers who believe higher education is a viable pathway to socioeconomic prosperity and eradicating centuries of generational poverty for Black people residing in the U.S. Despite the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which marked the end of de jure segregation in the…

Although research has explored the experiences of Black and Latina students with racial microaggressions, there is a gap in the literature regarding the unique experiences of AfroLatinas in higher education. In response, this qualitative study examined the impact of intragroup racial microaggressions on nine AfroLatina graduate students at…

Child development is a product of the combination of the experience provided by family/social context and their own. Both child and environmental factors are integral when understanding a child's outcomes. The current study mainly investigated the characteristics of the home literacy environment (HLE) and the relationship between the HLE and…

Languages shape worldviews, inform teacher values and behaviors, and are not disconnected from local political, sociocultural, and ecological contexts. For Indigenous peoples, language, land, and culture are inseparable. In contrast, English carries a human-centered, colonial, imperialist, and assimilationist legacy that persists in language…

The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly disrupted education worldwide and schools used flexible learning as an alternative modality. This study used a quantitative approach and descriptive research to describe the learning context and determine the students' preferences in learning modalities, learning materials, learning tasks, and assessment…

This article offers a circular framework for teaching and learning about resilience in higher education contexts. In order to navigate considerations of resilience as both potentially problematic and helpful, our framework stresses the importance of distinguishing between two different sets of questions: a) questions about the possibilities that…

In recent decades, there has been a rise in global interest in early childhood education and care (ECEC), reflecting an increase in the desire to improve social and educational outcomes for children and to reduce inequalities. This report presents an analysis based on the Study of Early Education and Development (SEED) survey data. SEED is a major…