As aspiring educational leaders, principal candidates must understand the widespread impact of generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) in education. This qualitative phenomenological study explored the perceptions of aspiring educational leaders regarding Gen AI in academic research, highlighting the ethical concerns and challenges they…

The family plays a vital role in fostering children's learning in science through joint experiences in diverse settings such as homes or museums. Beyond frequency, the quality of parent-child interactions in science significantly influences the children's development. However, research in this area has often focused on single aspects of…

Individual differences in mathematical skills emerge early and are influenced by a range of cognitive and environmental factors. One of these is the Home Mathematics Environment (HME), which includes adult-child mathematics talk. Nevertheless, large variations in methods used to investigate and code adult-child mathematics talk exist. We conducted…

This article reports on an exploratory inquiry into the experiences of novice and experienced female Chinese applied linguistics researchers in their roles as peer reviewers. Using an ecological perspective to situate self-determination theory, we interpret participants' accounts of reviewing, gathered through semi-structured interviews, in this…

This article offers a new definition, conceptual model, and design considerations for student engagement in community service. This new approach draws on 2 years of cross-sector, intergenterational research among students, scholars, educators, community stakeholders, and service organizations. The article provides actionable insights for student…

Process genre approach (PGA), which integrates the strengths and drawbacks of product approach, process approach and genre approach, has long been proved effective in scaffolding EFL writing teaching in culturally divergent contexts. China with the largest EFL learner population worldwide likewise places rising attention to PGA, yielding a body of…

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have gained rising popularity as a transformative approach to making education accessible to a global audience. This bibliometric review aims to map the evolving landscape of MOOCs research from 2008 to 2023, analyzing 2,026 Scopus-indexed articles using VOSviewer 1.6.20. The findings highlight a publication…

Positionality, akin to the art of dancing, requires constant adaptation to the shifting rhythms of relationships within the research field. In youth research, acknowledging positionality is increasingly essential for ethical integrity and accurate representation of participants' perspectives. This article, based on extensive fieldwork with lower…

Background: Despite many adolescents experiencing mental health concerns, a substantial portion lack access to evidence-based treatments (EBTs) for psychopathology; this issue is magnified for adolescents belonging to communities considered marginalized. One way to ameliorate this is by adapting existent EBTs--typically delivered in research…

Case studies are an educational tool that can promote active learning, and make learning more accessible, by serving as frameworks for student meaning-making. This action research project focused on the student experience of case studies; aiming to understand how students respond to being taught with case studies, whether they are able to engage…

This longitudinal phenomenological case study examines a science outreach program called iBEARS from undergraduate mentors' perceptions of their expectation for success, value in the experience, and knowledge gained. Undergraduates (n = 24) mentored K-12 classrooms through biology research projects, participated in pre- and post-questionnaires,…

Recent research finds that a longer clinical experience may be one of the most substantial distinguishing features of teacher residency programs. We need to understand much more about how these field experiences are designed, paced, and scaffolded to contribute to teacher learning and identity development and to center equity. Drawing from case…

This article explores the nexus among research methodology, classroom data and instructional policy enactment through content analysis of lesson transcripts. It is a multiple-case research of four Zimbabwean secondary school geography teachers' classroom practices. Coded lesson-transcripts and post-lesson teacher-interview transcripts subjected to…

The Science of Reading (SoR) movement is positioned as a pathway to equity in literacy development, yet little is known about how equity is defined and enacted within SoR scholarship. This systematic review examined 36 peer-reviewed studies published between 2014 and 2024 that addressed both SoR and equity. Using a framework of nine equity…

Background: The Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) represents a significant shift in service funding for children with hereditary or congenital cognitive disabilities. This PRISMA-based scoping review identifies and maps the NDIS literature to display research gaps and priorities for this cohort. Method: Twenty-nine databases…