The new teacher reflections in "The Value of a Teacher's Life" explore the current pressures teachers are under and the importance they have found in self-care while teaching during COVID-19. These are teachers struggling to stay healthy, wondering if teaching is sustainable, staying up late to meet the needs of students, and learning to…

This paper proposes the establishment of a systematic framework for measuring dimensions of democracy within a university. It is shown that certain indicators internationally established and validated for the measurement of the institutional characteristics of democracy can, through appropriate adaptation, be transferred to the university field. A…

The vision of what Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement (CLDE) work encompasses within higher education has evolved from voter engagement efforts to broader approaches, which instill a sense of personal identity related to civic leadership. This chapter sheds light on the culture shift of CLDE work at one institution and the ways in which…

Achievement motivation of Indian women requires research because widespread gender discrimination obstructs their progress. Studies show that facets of locus of control and professional and family values correlated with the achievement motivation of women in college education in India. But identifying the most important correlates would help…

The concept of human dignity arguably has great relevance to education as it is mentioned in several human rights and education policy documents on the national and international level, providing their moral justification. However, when the concept is discussed within philosophical research, it is often seen as consisting of two different…

The paper proposes to study side effects of accountability in education within the theoretical framework of enactment research. The potential value of this approach for the study of side effects is shown by using the example of the side effect "Dependency on Expert Judgements." Therefore, findings from the research project…

Voice is a key component of interpersonal meaning that denotes a writer's value judgement or personal feelings. An important aspect of voice in informational writing is epistemic stance, which indicates a writer's judgement of the information presented. This exploratory study examined adolescents' use of hedges and boosters to convey epistemic…

Values education aims to internalize societal norms in individuals to help them display acceptable social behaviors. This study uses the phenomenological method to investigate Turkish pre-service English teachers' views about values education in English as a foreign language (EFL) curriculum. Qualitative data obtained through survey and interviews…

In this study, it was aimed to determine the level of the peritextual features of Feridun Oral's children's books, the readability of the texts, what the subject and main ideas are. The research was designed according to the holistic multi-case pattern of the qualitative methods. 13 storybooks from the works of Feridun Oral were used as data…

Moral Disengagement (MD) has been found to be related to higher levels of different aggressive and bullying behaviours. Although some studies found that it plays an important role in cyberbullying too, results in this field are still puzzling and the association between MD and cyberbullying is still unclear. Therefore, this systematic review was…

In their quest for broad support for school choice, proponents have conceded to Democrats' policy demands, including limited student eligibility and regulations, therefore weakening the options available to families. However these concessions have not won Democratic policymakers' support and may have alienated Republican policymakers. School…

Currently, the state of Ohio has a separate licensure classification specific to middle-level education, but this was not always the case. Prior to 1998, core teachers were prepared by universities to focus on elementary (K-8) or secondary (7-12). Teachers who obtained their license after the reform are broken into three groups: Early Childhood…

Cyberaggression is a substantial problem for college-aged students. The purpose of this cross-sectional study was to examine associations between social cognitive factors and digitally sharing one's own and others' overt and relational cyberaggressive material among college students. Social cognitive factors included cyber moral disengagement and…

The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore how petroleum industry technicians and technologists describe their experience with and the value they place on online education as professional development in Bonny Island, Southern Nigeria. The social cognitive career theory was used as the theoretical foundation for this study.…

This paper will argue that resettled refugees' experience of failed citizenship in the United States is actually a bellwether for the challenges of democratic community for all citizens. A primary challenge is the political paradox of forming a community that is heterogeneous, yet is committed, connected, and has the capacity to work together…