This study examined science teachers' views on the Reconceptualized Family Resemblance Approach to Nature of Science (RFN). Semi-structured individual online interviews including questions related to all categories of the RFN were conducted with eight science teachers to explore their views on the epistemic, cognitive, and social-institutional…

Equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) policy frameworks are enacted to establish and maintain equitable and fair conditions for marginalised students. However, marginalised students, specifically refugees and forced migrants, face multiple obstacles when entering higher education (HE). The ability to overcome many of these hindrances rests in…

Access to good quality comprehensive sexuality education (CSE), while a fundamental right, is not provided everywhere. In Japan, children lack knowledge and skills relevant to their sexual and reproductive health and rights as CSE is not mandatory. Moreover, because of political intervention, the existing curriculum is insufficient, and teachers…

There is a great interest around the world in how teachers are prepared, the content of their education and training programmes, measurements of their effectiveness, and the role of the 'good' teacher in society. While many of the issues are common across different national contexts, the direction of policy and how it is enacted varies…

This paper draws attention to three risks associated with endorsing authenticity as an overall value in education--"essentialism, narcissism," and "relativism." These concerns mimic debates from the 1970s and 1980s, when both conservatives and progressives wrestled with the cultural fallout of the 1960s political movements. The…

It is well within the capacity of a wealthy nation like the United States to provide high-quality education for all its citizens. The resources exist to ensure that every child, regardless of background, has access to excellent educational opportunities. Yet, in practice, our educational systems, particularly admissions to selective schools, are…

Engineers' contribution to society tends to be located in rational, technical constructs devoid of social and political interests. This paradigm presents a challenge to engineering educators tasked with undergraduate engineering curriculum content that links to society in some way. This article reports on a study undertaken by engineering…

Using an interdisciplinary approach, this paper draws on theoretical concepts from political science and comparative education to explore policy-makers' responses to COVID-19 in Georgia. The findings show how the Ministry of Education of Georgia has sought external endorsements from global actors -- Microsoft Corporation and The Organisation for…

This article focuses on the question of how universities respond to authoritarian attacks on their autonomy through a close reading of faculty protests over rector appointments at Bogaziçi University (BU) in Turkey. I draw on digital and social media accounts of the protests and expert opinion interviews with displaced Turkish academics to refine…

This book addresses the gap in our historical knowledge about the roles Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander teachers have played in Australia's history of school education. To date, there are few references to schooling in histories of Indigenous Australians, and Australian histories of Indigenous education and teacher education omit Indigenous…

In addition to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) is one of a handful of universities essential to ensuring America's position as a technological and scientific powerhouse. While "diversity, equity, and inclusion" (DEI)…

This report explores DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) as part of a longer tradition of progressive domestic radicalism, foregrounding the discussion in the history of affirmative action on the campus of the Georgia Institute of Technology (GIT). The authors trace the origins of DEI's underlying philosophy back to the nation's adversaries who…

From a neo-Marxist approach, 'the commons' are defined as utopian, anti/post-capitalist, and self-managed initiatives created by civil society autonomously from the market and the state, organised as open access, horizontal, and assembly-led spaces. In light of their organisation according to these principles, this article addresses the experience…

This paper develops a conversation with decolonisation to pitch a novel mode of engagement; depathologising the university. While higher education institutions are in the midst of an Equality, Diversity and Inclusion revolution, I posit that all is not well. Too often disability staff and students have been sidelined in Equality, Diversity and…

Drawing on political and legislative analysis, the paper situates SB 17 within a strategic right-wing backlash to post-2020 social justice movements, guided by conservative think tanks like the Claremont and Manhattan Institutes. The analysis explores the bill's origins, ideological underpinnings, and implementation across Texas public university…