Teachers are deeply affected by the same cultural influences as their students; directly and indirectly. This is certainly true in the rise of masculinity influencer, extremist, and alleged sex trafficker Andrew Tate and the brands of individual and cultural misogyny he perpetuates. Using data collected from the /r/Teachers subreddit community of…

This qualitative study examines how underrepresented students, specifically international students, can be supported through the Culturally Engaging Campus Environments (CECE) model at predominantly white institution in the SACSA region. Fifteen students from a variety of countries and degree programs (visiting, undergraduate, 2+2 degree, and…

The solar energy sector plays a critical role in South Africa's energy transition, especially as it is one of the country's fastest-growing renewable energy sectors. It is envisaged that this growing sector will create numerous jobs in the short-, medium-, and long-term for intermediate-level skills development and will serve as an important…

Sylvia Hurtado's 1992 article, "The Campus Racial Climate: Contexts of Conflict." remains a groundbreaking contribution to research on campus racial climates. In their 2007 publication, "Nine Themes in Campus Racial Climates and Implications for Institutional Transformation," Shaun Harper and Sylvia Hurtado synthesized 15 years…

Drawing on three decades of practical investigations, this book establishes new understandings about the importance of learning through work, outlining its purposes, contributions, conceptions and the curriculum, pedagogical and personal practices that shape its effectiveness. Against views proposing it as being informal and leading to concrete…

This paper examines interactions between educational systems and environments, focusing on the stance leaders take toward instructional guidance in their environment. After analyzing interview and focus group data from 49 school and system leaders across three systems (i.e., Montessori, International Baccalaureate, Catholic), we found differences…

As Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) concerns become central to corporate strategy, business schools are increasingly tasked with equipping executives to navigate this evolving terrain. This study examines the competing educational logics shaping ESG executive education: a compliance logic emphasising regulatory adherence and technical…

This interpretive study explores the level of satisfaction of primary school students in relation to an observation activity of environmental components (natural plant materials and their representations in photographs and drawings), conducted in a school setting. The research employed a quantitative approach, applying a quasi-experimental…

This paper shares an account of our wonderings, happenings, and learnings emerging from encounters between children, iPads, digital microscopes and found natural materials (and bugs!) in a series of workshops at a children's museum. Our intention is to build on and disrupt established theories about children's museums by thinking differently and…

This paper dwells upon what was agitated in a research methods workshop that invited postgraduate researchers to take seriously materiality, movement, bodies and affect -- as a starting place to explore how ecopedagogies might become both more capacious and creative. We explored ways to contemplate how generating knowledge -- about education and…

Introduction: The environment, which is the habitat of all living things and contains the natural resources necessary to sustain life, is an issue of vital importance for humanity. Methods: This study was conducted to examine the conceptual structures that form the concept of "environment" in the minds of 8th grade students and to reveal…

Purpose: This study aims to examine how learners manage their self-directed learning (SDL) in different SDL contexts through the lens of structuration theorizing. Design/methodology/approach: In this comparative case study, data were collected primarily from in-depth semi-structured interviews with three self-directed learners aged between 15 and…

As a black South African student from a disadvantaged background, my journey through doctoral studies at a historically white university revealed the complex, simultaneous dynamics of humanising and dehumanising processes within supervisory relationships. This autoethnography examines how supervisory relationships operate within contested…

Considering the high dropout rates of autistic students and the recent Law No. 21545 which guarantees the rights of people with autism spectrum disorder in Chile, this study seeks to identify the facilitators and barriers that autistic students encounter in higher education. To do this, autistic students were interviewed about their higher…

This research examines the transformative pathways of generative AI tools in the South African higher education landscape, directed by three research questions: (1) specific generative AI tools being utilised, and how are they applied across educational contexts? (2) What are the predominant AI techniques and software tools? (3) What education…