Pre-education majors sometimes struggle to integrate smoothly into the role of a teacher candidate. Providing them with cross-age peer support through career-related mentoring may give them confidence and success in addition to providing them with personal, emotional, and academic growth. The purpose of this study was to analyze the relationship…

This systematic review explores the experiences and learning outcomes of students without special educational needs (SEN) in inclusive settings. Based on a literature search, 450 records were screened, and 37 qualitative and quantitative studies were included. According to the main findings, peers show good attitudes towards students with SEN,…

This study examines the role of communication with on-campus friends on first-year students' college adjustment, measured by academic self-efficacy, among first- and non-first-generation students. It also tests whether school connectedness, students' perceived sense of being part of the institution, mediates the relation between communication and…

Undergraduate peer mentorship has the potential to transform mentor and mentee alike. In an effort to understand the potential positive effects of a peer mentorship program on honors peer mentors, paired sample t-tests of data from a pre-test/post-test of at least 69 honors first-year seminar facilitators shows that respondents grew in their…

This study examined the effectiveness of a new empathy-oriented prototyping toolkit that was carefully developed to aid empathy gaining in students who find it difficult to express their ideas using only traditional paper-based prototyping materials. The toolkit has a simple structure and uses basic geometric three-dimensional forms made of…

Previous research demonstrated the importance of a healthy instructional environment characterized by institutional support and positivity for student learning. Furthermore, classroom climate is impacted by the qualities of the students and the other individuals in the classroom. Accordingly, the goal of this article was to investigate the…

In the field of early childhood education, play has become synonymous with curriculum but is sometimes viewed narrowly as a pedagogical tool to enhance child development. However, it is known from a range of multidisciplinary work that child-initiated and child-guided forms and contexts of playing can offer rich insight into diversity in…

Both cooperative and collaborative learning are learner-centered teaching approaches in English Language Teaching (ELT) to support active learning, shared learning, inductive learning, and autonomous learning. However, definitional and conceptual clarity of these two concepts did not receive as much attention as they deserve. As a result, these…

The present study sought to investigate the short-term growth in the levels of traditional and cyber forms of bullying and victimization and examine how growth in one form of bullying relates to that of others', for students in late elementary and early high school grades (ages 10 to 15) and to examine how the educational level of the students…

Doctoral candidates' persistence or completion of the degree is influenced by several factors, including relationships with their peers and faculty. Relationships are part of connectedness, defined as "the feeling of belonging and the creation of bonding relationships" (Rovai, 2002a, p. 232). Limited literature exists on doctoral…

We report on the adaptation and delivery of a peer-led, 14-session manualized program, Parents Taking Action, among parents raising Black children with autism in low-income neighborhoods. We engaged a community advisory group made up of parents and grandparents of Black children with autism, a Black self-advocate, clinicians, and other…

As school systems across the United States seek to address school behavior and examine ways to decrease suspension rates, school administrators face challenges that revolve around maintaining a safe learning environment that fosters a positive school climate while facilitating a balanced approach to discipline and relationship building with…

The purpose of this research study was to investigate the growth of middle school students who participated in peer support groups. The students suffered grief, loss, or challenging circumstances due to death of a loved one, foster care placement, separation or divorce of parents, living with a guardian or grandparent, physical abuse, the…

The study analyses variations in school well-being, social inclusion, and academic self-concept in a population of Norwegian children born with a physical disability (N = 311). Overall, the children reported positive experiences regarding their social and emotional inclusion in school but tended to have a more negative experience of their academic…

This paper explores how a transnational emergent multilingual (TEM) student established himself in relation to his teacher and peers in a culturally and linguistically diverse, sheltered English Instruction classroom. Specifically, it documents how the student initiated translingual and cross-cultural social interactions positioning himself as a…