This study investigated 3- to 5-year-olds' (N = 64, 37 girls, 62.5% White, data collected between 2021-2022) ability to use probabilistic information gleaned through active search to appropriately change or maintain expectations. In an online fishing game, children first learned that one of two ponds was good for catching fish. During a subsequent…

Disadvantaged students have struggled to find equal opportunities in STEM; thus, it is critical to challenge global society's structures so that all students have equal opportunities to learn and become proficient in STEM subjects. To even begin to address STEM equality issues, action plans and solutions must address all tiers of society. However,…

In this ever-changing era, the innovativeness of teachers as a collective is increasingly vital to the success of educational change. The study examined the relationship between distributed leadership and collective teacher innovativeness in the context of mainland China. Anchored in social exchange theory and social cognitive theory, the study…

Two polarised logics co-exist in international research and programming on quality teaching and learning. One logic understands pedagogy as embedded in its cultural, structural, political and historical contexts. In contrast, an interventionist agenda seeks solutions to the improvement of teaching practice, and isolates it and its influences in…

A growing number of climate activists and scholars argue that an effective climate movement needs the involvement of the trade union movement, to be able to push forward the radical social transformations required to address the global climate crisis. If workers are to be able to play this kind of role in a global climate movement, a sustained and…

Immersive encounters with nature have the power to catalyze enduring shifts in attitudes towards conservation and foster pro-environmental behaviors. Employing qualitative research methodologies, I delved into the experiences of concessionaire seasonal employees at Canyon Village within Yellowstone National Park (YNP). By exploring how their…

There is a common assumption that changes in developmental movement patterns (process) leads to better skill outcome performance (product); however, limited longitudinal data evaluate this assumption. This study examined (a) the longitudinal relationship among process and product motor skill scores across early childhood (3.5-6 years) and (b) the…

Child abuse reporting policies in the form of mandatory reporting continues to expand both in scope and practice across the United States (U.S.). With this development, it is important to understand whether there is a relationship between mandatory reporting laws and reporting behavior while analyzing how any response differs across professional…

Appreciative inquiry has become increasingly popular as a method for facilitating organisational or systemic change through focusing on the positive aspects and 'life giving properties of a system' as opposed to traditional 'deficit-based' approaches. However, there has been criticism that this process could invalidate negative experiences of…

Global educational reforms and policy trends suggest a growing convergence in educational systems worldwide, often attributed to the culturally embedded nature of nation-states and world-society models. However, in this article, we argue that these explanations are insufficient to fully account for the global diffusion of certain policies, as they…

This article offers a case study of "Small Acts, Big Impacts", an annual public program designed by education staff at Discovery Museum (Massachusetts, USA) to encourage children's development of empathy and social awareness. After observing unfortunate changes in visitor behavior, combined with the societal context of the global…

Amid a challenging political climate increasingly seeking to curtail DEI efforts, Latish C. Reed introduces the innovative Equity Empowerment Continuum (EEC), an introspective and systematic approach to understanding and addressing the complexities of equity in any organization. Dr. Reed offers personal insights and practical tools, demonstrating…

Extensive research documents how teachers' understandings of education reforms impact implementation and outcomes. However, the role of teachers' emotional sensemaking in the context of reform remains underexplored. This article reviews research on teachers' emotional responses to reform and argues that an overreliance on retrospective,…

This paper analysed the specific features of the gap between the university education market and the work market, which change under the influence of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and involve the reduction of the vertical gap but an increase in the horizontal gap. Directions for overcoming the "gap" through the integration of efforts…

There is a pressing need to reform governance of higher education to ensure the academic integrity in response to the contemporary implications of generative artificial intelligence. The aim of this paper is to articulate research which reveals ways in which this can be done. First, it considers what new information would help academic governors…