The concepts of student motivation and student engagement have emerged from related but distinct fields of study. Contemporary scholars suggest that student engagement is shaped by various sociocultural, contextual, and personal factors (including motivation), and that it serves as a pathway to various positive student outcomes (e.g., academic…

The purpose of Jewish education is language acquisition in its broad and metaphorical sense. More precisely, Jewish education should create the conditions for the development of the capacity to produce language. Or more colloquially, Jewish education should help students become speakers of Jewish language. This article defends this idea,…

Societal changes during the last few decades have given rise to the expansion of extended systems in nations across the world. Despite differences regarding age groups and relations to compulsory school, the task of extended education is primarily to provide participants with possibilities to learn general or specific content and foster their'…

This study examines how 10 pre-service teachers from a teacher education institution in Manila integrate ChatGPT into their academic tasks and navigate the resulting moral dissonance. Through semistructured interviews, the findings reveal that while ChatGPT is employed for paraphrasing, organizing ideas, information retrieval, and simplifying…

Private international education is on the rise, but we still have limited knowledge on how different commercial actors operate in this field and how it affects local teachers and their work in the schools abroad. Swedish school companies have been active in exporting schooling in the international arena, including "Swedish" education…

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…

Digital nomads are borderless, mostly self-employed remote workers who interact with cities in a way that's entirely different from a tourist, but still doesn't quite reach the status of resident. In this paper we extend the notion of the working nomad to the learning, 'Knowledge' nomad. New technologies allow for academics and students to study…

Engagement with the digital world and the utilization of digital platforms enhance teaching and learning in higher education institutions (HEIs) by providing interactive resources, fostering collaboration, enabling real-time feedback, and expanding access to diverse educational materials. Accordingly, this article explores students' perceptions of…

This article explores into the search for a meaningful and joyful life by intertwining personal philosophy with a literary reflection on Neelima Dalmia Adhar's The Secret Diary of Kasturba. Through the lens of Kasturba Gandhi's inner world-a woman often shadowed by the larger-than-life presence of Mahatma Gandhi--it explores themes of emotional…

This paper develops and estimates an empirical framework that evaluates the impact of charter school choice on education quality in the aggregate. We estimate the model using student-level data from North Carolina. We find that North Carolina's lifting of its statewide charter school cap raised the average public school's value-added by around…

Background: Black engineering graduate students represent a critical and understudied population in engineering education. Gaining an understanding of the lived experiences of Black engineering graduate students while they are simultaneously weathering two pandemics, COVID-19 and systemic racism, is of paramount importance. Purpose/Hypothesis:…

Around the world the prevalence of mathematics anxiety and disengagement point to a poor sense of student 'mathematical wellbeing'. Mathematical wellbeing is defined here as the fulfilment of one's ultimate or core values, accompanied by positive feelings and functioning in mathematics education. Yet student wellbeing and how to support it in…

This paper examines the psychometric properties of the 30-item Moral Foundations Questionnaire among a sample of 370 young adults between the ages of 18 and 26 years who were born in Punjab and who had lived there since their birth. Initial analyses did not support the internal consistency reliability of the five scales of moral predispositions…

Historically, adverse events have reflected poorly on both the practice of dissection and the perception of the discipline of anatomy. The recent public dissection of a body donor is a regression to an unethical historical practice and was strongly denounced by anatomists around the world. The individual whose donated body was sourced from a…

As adults, we intuitively understand how others' goals influence their information-seeking preferences. For example, you might recommend a dense book full of mechanistic details to someone trying to learn about a topic in-depth, but a more lighthearted book filled with surprising stories to someone seeking entertainment. Moreover, you might do…