There is a need of a component in science education that can orient students to the complexity characterising the natural sciences position in relation to a globalised risk society and the Anthropocene. Recently, the implications of the German philosophical and educational construct "Bildung" have been discussed in this regard. In this…

Background/purpose: Higher education sustainability is one of the primary influences on researchers, teachers, and policymakers due to its impact on environmental governance, institutional management, and student participation. The objective of this research is to understand the development processes of sustainability initiatives, including…

The internship is a crucial component of principal preparation. This systematic research review aims to build on two prior syntheses of existing research on principal internships. We employed an exhaustive review of five search engines for empirical studies on principal internships in the United States between 2010 and 2023. Our search yielded 92…

In Virginia, a contentious school board meeting led to an arrest and trespassing summons. In Utah, eleven people were charged with disorderly conduct after a board meeting turned chaotic. Not long ago, school boards conducted mundane district business. Understudied and underreported, they were an afterthought of centrally driven education reform…

Schools play a central role in supporting young people affected by mental health issues. This article reports a reflexive thematic analysis of focus group and interview data with English secondary teachers about their perspectives on mental health and well-being in schools. Data were collected during the pandemic year 2020-2021, with a research…

The final report of the "Australian Universities Accord" consultation process highlighted the impact of work-integrated learning requirements on students' ability to complete professional qualifications, conceptualising equity in terms of a need to ensure 'equitable participation'. This article uses the case of social work education to…

For nearly 7 years, universities in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region (IKR) have been implementing the Bologna Process (BP) under the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (MOHESR), yet its implementation lacks comprehensive academic evaluation. This study investigates the applicability of the BP in IKR English departments, focusing on…

This article presents the perspective of rural teaching that shows the invisibility and undermining within the prevailing evaluative policy regime in Chile, a country that controls education and its actors based on the structural foundation of accountability. We focus this study on rural territory to answer this research question: What experiences…

This study examines parental decision-making in a Metro Detroit school district undergoing integration efforts, focusing on why families choose to stay or leave. The findings suggest notable racial disparities: Black families often left involuntarily due to misleading choice policies, while White families chose to leave, citing concerns about…

The COVID-19 pandemic offered a unique circumstance for the mass utilisation of digital learning in compulsory education. Official stakeholders in Greece perceived this as a success story leading to Law 5128/2024. The legislation seeks to utilise digitally mediated classrooms focusing on the incorporation of digitalisation into the educational…

This study investigates the Pedagogical Leadership Training Project aimed at enhancing leadership in rural Early Childhood Development (ECD) centres in South Africa. It addresses the prevalent economic-focused leadership that neglects pedagogical issues, hindering access to government funding and regulatory compliance. The research explores the…

This paper introduces a novel four-dimensional analytical framework to examine how universities are positioned within national artificial intelligence strategies amid intensifying geopolitical competition. Through systematic document analysis of policy frameworks across eight major global actors--the United Kingdom, Russia, India, the European…

The study presented here analysed practices of non-formal adult education for sustainable development (AESD) in Slovenia. It employed mixed methods and an explanatory sequential research design. The study also examined and compared the "instrumental" and "emancipatory" approaches to education for sustainable development: the…

School choice policies continue to expand across the globe. Advocates insist that the opportunity to decide where one's children will learn is more equitable and socially responsive. However, these sentiments are widely disputed. In this study I emphasize that school choice is another venue where families experience uneven amounts of privilege.…

Feminist research and mass demonstrations on campuses have proven that Higher Education Institutions are not violence-free spaces. In Catalonia, the legal obligations and institutional discomfort generated by some specific cases have forced Higher Education Institutions to take measures. How much support do these measures provide for survivors?…