The authors write as three education practitioner-researchers with different disciplinary and professional backgrounds and locations, and who met through their involvement in comparative and international education (CIE). The authors' connections with each other, and with CIE, have grown through their engagement with their regional society,…

While research that is embedded in schools is reported widely in education and psychological research literature, studies that focus on how researchers might navigate school-based gatekeepers is minimal. This study addresses this gap. The research presented in this paper reports on the recruitment process that was employed in a study that involved…

This article contextualizes Neus Evans' recommendations for moving Education for Sustainability in Teacher Education forward by introducing advances in this work in the context of Canadian faculties of education. By tracking the developments of a growing national network, and its contributions to research, practice and policy in this field, clear…

I argue that Spinoza attributes to society the role of moral educator, a role that is to be carried out via Religion and Politics and hence also via an educational system. In his account, the social body is given the task of applying and transmitting a notion of virtue whose criterion is enhanced freedom, yet that freedom paradoxically must be…

In this article, the epistemology and pedagogy of an Afro-Brazilian woman named Diva are discussed as a culturally sustaining praxis in the context of the transnational and feminist #BlackLivesMatter movement. Diva works to dismantle white supremacy in her roles as a preschool teacher, doll maker, children's book author, and mother. Findings come…

The omission of epistemologies from the Global South inhibits holistic pedagogical approaches for effective sustainability teaching and learning. Employing the theoretical lens of ecology of knowledges, the structures and dynamics that frame and constrain sustainability education in higher education were critiqued. Six constraints of environmental…

In this article, I reflect on my lived experiences as a disabled graduate student navigating spaces of community literacy. This essay utilizes storytelling as an entry point for understanding the barriers graduate students oftentimes face while accessing community literacy projects. Extending Ada Hubrig's theorization of "disability justice…

Our systematic, unapologetic, and Black education-focused literature review sought to examine how educational researchers, Black teachers, and Black students describe and co-imagine educational policies that advance Black liberatory pedagogies and practices. Our work addresses a need in educational policy studies to shift paradigms and invites…

Good writing instruction can give students power over their lives. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore teacher perception of culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students' funds of identity (FoI) and how reflecting on this information influenced the writing classroom. The purpose of this study was to answer these…

Recent events have drawn national attention to the fight for reproductive rights. However, Black women, Indigenous women, Women of Color, and LGBTQ+ people have long been fighting for reproductive justice, which connects reproductive rights to issues like immigration rights, fair wages, housing, quality education, and safe neighborhoods. There has…

This qualitative case study examines the implementation of humanizing pedagogies in 18 English language arts classrooms. Using semi-structured interviews and observations, we investigated how ELA teachers navigated policy mandates and a compliance culture while enacting reflexive, responsive, and student-centered instruction. As a problem of…

The research presented in this paper aims to shed light on the complex role of mathematics teacher educators who led courses for prospective mathematics teachers. Theoretically, the research combines the documentational approach to didactics and the meta-didactical transposition frameworks, complementing the study with the analysis of the teacher…

Social emotional learning (SEL) is promoted as essential to achieving the education in emergencies (EiE) sector's dual aims of protection and learning. Yet the diffusion of SEL from the Global North to crisis-affected contexts has largely escaped critical scrutiny. This article interrogates SEL's contested histories and racialized assumptions,…

Recovery praxis epistemology, outlined here as the ways of knowing that emerge through experience, reflection, and storytelling, offers a means to produce scholarship and practice to improve the lives of individuals touched by substance use disorders, an invitation to support recovery. To recognize the knowing that comes from experience and…

This paper proposes that the paradigm of relationality, engaged methodologically, can be the basis of praxis that purposefully moves away from business-oriented notions of "best practices" and toward education research that meets the needs of Indigenous and Black communities currently designing futures within settler colonial states…