Educational makerspaces have now been established in many Norwegian schools. Makerspace initiators promote active learning by using new and traditional materials, tools and technologies in creative activities. Arts and crafts (A&C) education shares many ideas with makerspaces, inviting pupils to explorative interaction through material…

This study explores the perspectives of professionals working with children on the impact of digital device use in schools on health and learning. A survey was conducted among 62 experts, including doctors, psychologists, and opticians, to determine safe daily limits for time spent on digital devices for different age groups. The results suggest…

As demand for short-term international engagement experiences continues to grow, it is essential to support faculty in designing activities that are ethical, reciprocal, feasible, and academically rigorous. This article offers practical guidance for faculty to design, plan, facilitate, and reflect on short-term engagement activities…

This article explores the potential of place-based, relational, and collaborative musical practices in school to foster agency and belonging. A soundscape project within two highly diverse Irish primary schools is the focus of the discussion. Employing both qualitative and arts-based methods, data were gathered over a seven-month period from…

Background/Purpose: This study explores the role of core competencies in enhancing school performance in Omani schools. Despite their significance, core competencies have not been officially recognized within the Omani educational system. The research aims to assess how these competencies utilized in school management and their impact on…

The increasing percentage of college musicians living with mental illness and anxiety, specifically music performance anxiety (MPA), suggests the need for an anxiety reduction program to be instilled within university programs. Using entrainment as a grounding framework, the purpose of this literature review was to synthesize research on…

In an increasingly dynamic, global, and digitized world, sport managers face complex decision-making dilemmas intersecting various disciplines such as finance, communication, and psychology. To successfully address these dilemmas and interact with the sport ecosystem, sport industry professionals are required to possess a wide range of soft skills…

Purpose: This paper aims to explore how teaching activities can enhance the professional identity of master's students as they explore careers. Design/methodology/approach: The data were gathered through qualitative semi-structured interviews with 57 participants, 2nd-year master's program students from a Russian business school, shortly before…

The development of immersive virtual reality (IVR) hardware and software has accelerated in recent years. The conceptual vocabulary has, however, not received the same amount of attention, especially in the context of collaborative learning settings. Existing concepts such as immersion, presence and interactivity focus predominantly on the…

Early mathematics education presents middle-school students with the challenge of adding and subtracting negative integers. This paper reports on results from the experimental implementation of a proposed educational design for integer arithmetic that utilized the number-line (NL) form as a resource for students to enact simple addition and…

This article illustrates how collaborative artistic creation in a world language class can offer multiple cognitive, social, cultural and professional benefits for language learners. An interdisciplinary mural project undertaken in a community college serves as a case study to examine these ideas. The class was co-taught by the authors, a teaching…

Education as a journey of human becoming involves commitment to one's ethical life project as well as learning to live well and actively participate with others in an ever-changing socio-cultural, political and material world. This paradoxical journey is at the heart of our philosophical criticism of contemporary policy impulses to formulate risk…

The objectives of the present study were, on the one hand, to analyse the internal consistency of four questionnaires referring to the perception and knowledge of inclusion and cooperative learning (CL), and on the other, to discover the perception and knowledge of inclusion and CL in Physical Education (PE) of university students studying courses…

The frequent need that students exhibit for greater academic and nonacademic support than can be offered during the regular school day is a widely documented challenge. Summer programs are a common tool that schools and districts employ to expand the time over which students have access to learning opportunities and resources. For the current…

This reflective piece explores the intersection of creative arts and medical practice through personal narratives of healthcare professionals who have integrated artistic expression into their education and their own healing work. Centered on the work of the Hush Foundation which has pioneered the use of arts in health and on the story of…