The emergence of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has reignited long-standing debates about technology's role in education. While GenAI potentially offers personalized learning, adaptive tutoring, and automated support, it also raises concerns about algorithmic bias, de-skilling educators, and diminishing human connection. This…

Understanding children's willingness to take risks is crucial for sound educational strategies and play environments. This study investigates children's risk willingness using a virtual reality (VR) playground balancing scenario and examines its associations with sensation-seeking personality trait, age, gender, and the likelihood of failing the…

This study examines liberal arts education model influences in Vietnam's higher education throughout the Vietnam War (1965-1975). Liberal arts education advanced due to the necessity to match market norms and unite qualified people to oppose communism, as well as US specialists. This research article uses source materials from the former Republic…

In this paper, I interpret the perspectives of 19 economically oppressed parents and five teachers from the Indian city of Vadodara, in the state of Gujarat, as they discuss the unprecedented emphasis on the learning of English in education in India. In this ethnographic study, I employed participant observations, sentence completion tasks,…

Objective: Identify the prevalence of food insecurity (FI) and compare sociodemographic, mental, physical, behavioral, and environmental risk factors for FI among students at a private university, community college, and historically black college or university (HBCU). Participants: Adult students attending a private university, community college,…

Study of language, like any other discipline, has naturally been developing ever since its inception. But it assumed an accelerated pace from the early twentieth century onwards with two or more paradigm-shifting outlooks, among which the 'socio-contextual surge onto the consideration of language functioning' led to the emergence of an approach…

Introduction: This study examined the relationship between stress and pre-gaming (i.e., drinking prior to going out to an event) in female college students. Methods: Thirty-four female college students were grouped as pre-gamers or non-pre-gamers based on self-reported drinking patterns. They completed surveys about alcohol use and mental health…

This exploratory study highlights the experience and perspective of educators and school leaders implementing sustainability as a cross-curriculum priority (S-CCP) in Queensland, Australia. The barriers and facilitators for integrating S-CCP were explored through qualitative interviews (N = 16). The findings underscored a profound knowledge gap…

This study, using data from the American Teacher Panel survey given by the RAND corporation in 2017, examined teachers' experiences with teacher leadership (TL) in the United States. Geographic features like urbanicity and teacher demographic characteristics were used to predict different components of TL. Black, Indigenous, and people of color…

In this article, we analyse changes in the language use to describe the content of higher education in Denmark between 2014 and 2021. Based on text analysis of course descriptions of every university course in Denmark, we show steady growth in the use of applied, practical and vocationally oriented terminology. This trend is not only driven by a…

Despite living in a digital age, the lack of diversity among adolescents aspiring to pursue careers in technology is of ongoing concern, particularly due to the low numbers of girls. In this study, we investigate gender differences among 1,658 14/15-year-old Danish students' (49% girls) technology career aspirations and provide insights into…

This report presents findings from data collected through the Reality Now program, providing a long-term study exploring tobacco and vaping behaviours among Australian secondary school students. Conducted from 2018 to 2024, the program collected nearly 30,000 responses from students in Years 7 to 11. Using a social norms approach (SNA), the…

This qualitative study explored the relationship between burnout and reflective teaching among Vietnamese tertiary English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers. Set within the specific cultural and educational context of Vietnam, the research engaged nine EFL teachers across varying career stages--novice, mid-career, and near-end career--from two…

Background/purpose: While digital storytelling (DST) has been widely recognized for its pedagogical potential in language education, the extent to which DST fosters learners' willingness to communicate (WTC) in English as a Foreign Language/English as a Second Language contexts remains underexplored. This systematic literature review seeks to…

This research analysed the cultural factor of metacognition within South African physical science classrooms, by conducting research on physical sciences classes within two KwaZulu-Natal districts. The data from the mixed methods design suggested that Indigenous pupils were not taught in their first language, cultural knowledge was not promoted…