With societies experiencing growing cultural diversity through international mobility of people, there are concerns about negative attitudes towards immigrants. These concerns have prompted the importance of multicultural learning at schools, which has resulted in a plethora of research on the relationship between students' multicultural learning…

The role of AI in education is slowly growing. As a new technology, its uses and capabilities have not been fully realized or understood. AI provides many opportunities as well as challenges for supporting students, teachers, and skills development. However, from higher education faculty to preschool teachers, the ways in which AI can support…

This study addresses the ambiguity surrounding the third mission of universities, which stems from a lack of a unified definition. It provides a comprehensive investigation of this mission within agricultural faculties by employing a systematic review of 150 articles, culminating in the selection of 32 final articles for qualitative analysis. The…

This study sought to gain insights into how diverse contexts in which teachers interacted with, especially when the Tanzania's expansion policy was in progress shaped and reshaped their perceived professionalism. A qualitative case study was adopted to obtain a holistic overview of the phenomena under exploration. Thirty-six participants from four…

Purpose: As part of this larger project, this paper aims to understand the possible shortcomings of the university-level education system in skill development that may be the reason for low adult proficiency in the country. Design/methodology/approach: To answer the question, national policy document reviews and semi-structured interviews with…

Purpose: The vocational education-industry connection is crucial for students' professional competence development and employability. In the past decade, the Chinese government has issued numerous policies in this regard. This study reviews these policies concerning the context. Design/methodology/approach: This study screened 19 educational…

The fourth Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 4) of the United Nations (UN) 2030 Agenda aims to "ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all". With over 122.6 million people worldwide forcibly displaced, and the number of refugees globally reaching 43.7 million by mid-2024, focusing…

Internationally, there are more and more initiatives that promote Open Educational Resources (OER) and the creation of repositories that facilitate access and reusability of these materials by any member of the educational community. The objective of this study was to review the analysis tools used to evaluate Open Educational Resources. To…

Teacher quality and teacher education improvement have been central discourses for at least two decades in global education. In Australia, despite the pervasive nature of these discussions, there is a lack of substantial evidence indicating the existence of a problem in this regard. Policies aimed at enhancing the 'preparedness' of teacher…

Education systems founded on the legacies and structures of colonisation (for example, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada) have established curricular structures that have perpetuated and entrenched processes and practices that marginalise and delegitimise Indigenous people and knowledge. We argue that the approach to curriculum inclusion used…

Activists in K-12 educational settings have challenged the reach of the criminal legal system into school contexts through the pervasive use of school resource officers (SROs). Community organizations, student leaders, and teachers (among others) have challenged the ways in which SROs perpetuate systemic racism and structural injustice in schools,…

This study provides a descriptive analysis of the content and implementation of smartphone policies across 30 secondary schools in England, comparing schools that do (permissive) or do not (restrictive) allow phone use during recreational time. School policy documents were collected, along with survey data from pupil (n = 1198), teacher (n = 53),…

Activism is becoming more pervasive within academia. Within this paper, we analyse different types of academic activism, focused on the effect these acts will have when enacted by a lecturer. First, a framework is created based on the concept of academic freedom, both in the form of Lerhfreiheit and Lernfreiheit. Second, a scale is suggested,…

Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, also known as EDI, is one of several acronyms that refer to policies and practices of organizations, such as K to 12 school boards and post-secondary institutions, to promote inclusive and equitable environments. While EDI has become a ubiquitous discourse in educational administration, its impact extends into…

Thinking about education from an inclusive perspective constantly forces us to reconsider the way in which we appropriate the curriculum, plan the didactic process and put students at the centre of learning. But also to consider educational policies and administrative supports or social, inter-institutional and community supports. This study aims…