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…

Background: Gatekeeping is a common method of addressing rising suicide rates throughout the world. Unfortunately, research suggests that suicide stigma is high among Latino populations, potentially blocking the use and benefits of gatekeeping. Objective: The purpose of this study was to assess how stigma of suicide among Mexican parents and…

This paper provides a comparative analysis of national rationales to higher education internationalization in the global north and south countries using content analysis. The results reveal that the socio-economic rationales are dominant across most of the 27 sampled countries. However, they manifest differently across the global north and global…

In most countries around the world, teaching is a highly feminized profession. However, despite the higher percentage of female teachers in secondary schools, women continue to be under-represented in secondary principal roles. Similar to the United Kingdom, in Australia more than 60% of all teachers in secondary schools are female, and 40% of the…

The article quotes seven of its journalists regarding the future of America's oldest, wealthiest, and most prestigious American university and was precipitated by the university's many conflicts with the Trump administration, which believes Harvard has violated federal laws or government policy in such areas as antisemitism, racial discrimination,…

Background: Artificial intelligence (AI) and generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) technology have rapidly evolved in recent years, posing substantial implications for counselors, counselor educators, supervisors, and researchers. However, research on AI and counseling is in its infancy, and while some counseling organizations have recently…

For randomized trials that use text as an outcome, traditional approaches for assessing treatment impact require that each document first be manually coded for constructs of interest by trained human raters. This process, the current standard, is both time-consuming and limiting: even the largest human coding efforts are typically constrained to…

We fine-tuned and compared several encoder-based Transformer large language models (LLM) to predict differential item functioning (DIF) from the item text. We then applied explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) methods to identify specific words associated with the DIF prediction. The data included 42,180 items designed for English language…

Purpose: The status and attractiveness of vocational education and training (VET) is increasingly the focus of public debate internationally. A closer analysis of the literature on the topic makes it clear that many different terms are used, some with different understandings. What is hidden in the academic discussion behind terms such as status,…

This article explores my process of being emotionally literate, realizing my personal power through this process, and deciding to move ahead with my PhD to explore further my contribution to the flourishing of humanity. In this qualitative reflective self-study, I have used my detailed personal, professional, and academic reflective journal and…

Until very recently, ability and whiteness as relational systems have been uninterrogated by TESOL research, policy, practice, and teacher education. Consequently, monolingual teachers often use students' proximity to whiteness and nondisabled status as a metric for ascertaining their ability or belonging in certain language learning spaces.…

This reflective paper explores the emotions, ethics, and challenges of facilitating training for youth practitioners to tackle gender-related violence (GRV). This paper draws on insights from a training intervention that emerged from an EU-funded feminist project (UK GAPWORK project), which sought to bring together approaches to tackle violence…

In this conceptual essay, the author argues that bad faith is a valuable concept in understanding and challenging racism in higher education. The philosopher Lewis Gordon argues that racism is a manifestation of bad faith. For the actor who sees Black people as less than human, for example, no evidence will allow the actor to see otherwise. Bad…

The purpose of this study was to explore teacher educators' self-efficacy in addressing LGBTQ issues. Self-efficacy is a key component of social cognitive theory and highly predictive of an individual's willingness to act. This study includes 232 teacher educators' responses to a survey exploring their self-efficacy in working with LGBTQ students,…

Theoretically framed in artifactual literacies, this study examined a refugee-background family's visit to a group of university students enrolled in a teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) methods class. One of the authors requested they give this presentation and collaborated with them in writing it. Participants included Maria…