What constitutes 'teacher identity' and 'artist identity' have received considerable scholarly attention but there has been little exploration of how these identities intersect in the practice of 'teaching artists'. This article argues that paying close attention to that practice, as well as the artist's own perspectives and reflections on it,…

Background: Situated in urban Philadelphia, Autores Fuertes was part of a network of nonprofit community writing centers that provided a free afterschool writing academy for children ages 7 to 17. With a full-time lead educator and assistant educator, alongside several volunteer community educators, this center promoted itself as a…

Purpose: Much of the literature investigating farmer engagement with digital technology has focused on farmer-centred adoption factors. However, more recent research has called for new user-centred approaches to technology design to promote more responsive development and ultimately more successful uptake. Methodology: Responding to these calls,…

The study was on career development as a predictor of business educators' job performance in Universities in South-South, Nigeria. Three research questions were raised and three hypotheses were formulated and tested at a 0.05 level of significance. The study adopted a correlational survey research design. The population of the study comprised 158…

We examined how highly rated novice teacher leaders facilitated video-based discussions in Problem-Solving Cycle workshops and found similarities and differences in their ways of contributing to discussions, fostering high conceptual depth. Some leaders consistently encouraged teachers' participation and solicited ideas through questioning,…

The paper compares the value of ingenious handmade toys and ingenious machine-made assembled toys. The methods used are focus group discussions with 39 teachers and 115 students, respectively, and workshops with 131 students in four case schools in Kurukshetra, Haryana state, India. The results show that play value in terms of stories, movement,…

This study explores the effects of embedding Socio-Scientific Issues (SSI) into vocational design education on students' ethics awareness, social responsibility, and design performance. A mixed-methods quasi-experimental design was employed, involving 80 vocational design students divided into an experimental group (SSI-based workshop) and a…

Amid ongoing debates on the rights of queer and trans youth across North America, this study explores novel support approaches within one Canadian province's schools. Amendments to New Brunswick's Policy 713 in 2023, the 2SLGBTQIA + school inclusion policy, requiring parental consent for youth' chosen names and pronouns, stirred controversy across…

How might invoking queer joy praxis address antiqueer, Islamophobic, and settler colonial carceral logics in sexuality education classrooms? In this paper, we delve into the rise of queerphobic and transphobic policies and rhetoric, alongside growing homonationalist and Islamophobic discourses in New Brunswick, Canada. Using data emerging from…

The goal of the current study was to look at the viewpoints of secondary school Agricultural Science teachers with regard to the challenges they encounter when implementing the curriculum in their classrooms. Instructional resources and Continuous Professional Development (CPD) programme workshops need to be provided to successfully teach the…

Objective: To design and evaluate an education and training programme for community homecare workers to deliver falls prevention programmes to older homecare clients. Design: Mixed methods design. Setting: Community homecare organisation. Method: A series of role-based training workshops using a Train the Trainer model were designed using a…

Using the Learning by Design multiliteracies framework, writing workshop was transformed into composing workshop. The researcher worked with a team of four second grade teachers in an urban public elementary school to redesign their Kevin Henkes author study to equally value art and design, guiding their students in creating their own narrative…

This research is proposed 1) to investigate status state, problems, and needs in doing classroom action research of teachers, 2) to guideline the development of classroom action research of teachers, and 3) to monitor and evaluation the guideline of classroom action research development of teachers. Sampling were 8 teachers of Wat Wangyang School…

Many of today's educational organizations around the world contend with complex challenges. Yet, longstanding practices and norms in educational systems can hamper educators' abilities to identify and address these challenges, such as only principals leading change efforts or the use of misaligned "quick fixes" for ill-defined…

Background: Micro-credentials are increasingly considered a key mechanism through which to empower learners by enabling flexible upskilling and reskilling. Despite their apparent importance for higher education institutions (HEIs) and learners, empirical research is limited. More needs to be understood, particularly about the ways in which…