This study aims to examine the effects on users of social and cultural activities organized in academic libraries. In the study, randomly selected users from academic libraries in Türkiye were surveyed and the data obtained were analyzed using a descriptive statistical method. The findings show that library activities have positive effects on the…

This study interrogated public art as a social practice and its interface with art education. The central axis of public art is its dialogical engagement in the context of human relations and the development of critical consciousness. Interviews were conducted with five internationally renowned artists with regard to their practice and…

In this article, we describe the sources of funding cited, and topics of research associated with that funding, in Australian disability research. We conducted a systematic search for publicly available peer-reviewed papers reporting the findings of Australian disability research studies focused on Australia in the 2018-2020 period. Papers…

Indigenous community knowledge is indeed essential for the sustainable development of community and University-Industry Linkage (UIL) initiatives. It provides valuable local contextualized expertise, engages local indigenous stakeholders, bridges the gap between academia, industry, and the community, incorporates local traditions and indigenous…

There is a need to reevaluate traditional career trajectories within higher education to accommodate the significant presence and important contributions of visitors, instructors, teaching assistants, adjuncts, and lecturers (VITAL) faculty particularly at the mid-career stage. The study, conducted at the University of Denver, where full-time…

Worker cooperative entrepreneur spaces are predominantly White despite these companies building the foundation of their business model on equity and sustainability. While some studies have investigated racism in entrepreneurship development, no in-depth study has investigated White privilege in this space. Therefore, this study used a qualitative…

This article looks at how institutional peer leadership roles in higher education reproduce social class inequalities. Through an ethnographic case study of Southern African Development Community (SADC) international students studying at Rhodes University in South Africa, I demonstrate how students from privileged class backgrounds possess the…

One of the greatest challenges facing democracies is how to live together with difference. The growth of globalisation and international migration has presented schools with increased opportunities and challenges related to learning from and living with superdiversity. Yet within current policy settings and educational practices, the alignment…

The policy problem of Vocational Education and Training (VET) development is an ongoing challenge for many developing countries. International organisations and donor agencies conceptualise the problem as one of skill supply and demand mismatch. Such a market-based perspective offers important insights into the problem; however, it does not…

In the current article, the authors outline ways for early childhood educators, such as general and special education teachers, district math coaches, and other personnel involved with school- and district-level math initiatives, to engage caregivers in home math activities, with a focus on concepts already taught in school and aligned with…

This dissertation investigates how early career teachers' orientations of students and their mathematical activity, as surfaced their experience in a simulation, can reveal when their well-intentioned decisions might negatively impact traditionally underserved students. Three early career teachers engaged in two online simulations where they could…

In "Liberating the Classroom," Tessa Hicks Peterson shows how universities can transform into places that directly disrupt injustice and work toward personal and collective liberation. Instead of reproducing social inequity, higher education institutions could become engines of healing. This transformation, however, requires a major…

In recent years, a multitude of innovative educational videos focusing on mathematics and employing dynamic visualization techniques have been published on YouTube. From a sample of videos, we develop a taxonomy of didactical roles of dynamic visuals and supporting animation techniques. The taxonomy is constructed through an open coding approach,…

Research has shown that a sense of belonging is predictive of college student success; however, few studies have examined the factors influencing students' sense of belonging in a remote learning setting. This qualitative study sought to examine what influenced students' sense of belonging throughout the period of remote learning during the…

Decades of neoliberal capitalism have had a corrosive effect on public education, with implications for both the fiscal realities of education systems and the ideological values guiding curriculum and pedagogy. While the culture of neoliberalism has often been studied, it is equally important to expand analyses of the shifting material conditions…