Month: March 2022
Curriculum Innovation Landscapes: Early Childhood Education [ECE] Sector in Aotearoa New Zealand
Innovation traverses many organisational landscapes and inspires those who work there to use creativity to shape current and future practice …
Examining the Impact of Classroom Group Identity Development in an Urban Chemistry Classroom
In this grounded theory study, we follow the cases of two marginalized female students in their Regents High School Chemistry …
Centralization of Faculty Systems/Processes for an Improved Faculty Experience
There are many challenges associated with the management of adjunct faculty profiles and operations in an online, asynchronous environment. One …
University Students’ Perceptions of Using a Communication Platform for English Speaking Courses
Attributable to the fast pace of globalization, demand for effective English speaking skills has been growing rapidly. It is clear …
The Role of Trauma-Informed Teaching and Learning in Building Resilience Among Racial-Ethnic Minority University Students During COVID‐19 and Beyond
The normal school calendar during the COVID-19 pandemic was dramatically altered as schools were closed with many adopting online learning …
Interpreting International Students’ Experiences in Terms of Their Higher Education Academic Integration
Internationalization of higher education in Central European countries is increasing. In addition to their quality of education, higher education institutions …
Envisioning the Future: Ten Keys to Enhance Resilience Predictors Among Inmates
This study examines the impact of the program Envisioning the Future (EF) by Patrizio Paoletti Foundation on the predictors of …
DDMATH: New Approaches for Teaching Mathematics to Blind and Visually Impaired Students
This presentation is about DDMATH (https://ddmath.eu), a project funded by ERASMUS+ that brings together partners from 4 European Countries (Italy, …
A Precursor to Change: How Understanding Faculty Change Readiness Can Support EDI Change Initiatives
Begun with a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Grant in 2017, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) at CU …
Resilience, Social Support, and Coping in First-Generation Immigrant University Students in the Era of COVID‐19‐related Depression, Anxiety and Stress
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has been suggested as a trauma and stress related event associated with increased depression, anxiety …
Challenges and Opportunities: Musicals in China in the Era of Covid-19 Pandemic
The emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic undoubtedly affected every single aspect of human life, resulting in devastating socio-economic challenges across …
The Study of the Visual Effects of Depth Creations and Perspectives in New Egyptian Archeological Discoveries
Many researchers have worked on the analytical study of the ancient Egyptian art executed in two dimensions as paintings or …
Culture as Data: Notes on the Ontological and Methodological Implications of the Network Turn
After the nine turns in cultural studies as famously described by Doris Bachmann-Medick, here comes another, perhaps among all the …
The Translation and Dissemination of Wuthering Heights in China from the Perspective of Pierre Bourdieu’s Field Theory
The reception of foreign literary works in other counties experiences translation, publication and dissemination. This study’s objective is to explore …
Designing for the Future: Professionalizing the Field of Curriculum Design in the Age of EdTech
Contemporary realities, such as the technology-immersed lives of students and world events such as the COVID-19 pandemic, have emphasized the …
Why Parents Do What They Do: Developing and Validating a Survey for the Mathematical Lives of Parents and Children
Learner variability presents an enormous challenge for teachers and schools. Even as early as kindergarten, incredible learner diversity exists in …
Exploration of Native Speaker Teachers and Non-native Speaker Teachers Within the English Learning Communication
The present research zeros down to the unending and much-debated topic of native speaker teachers (NST) and non-native speaker teachers …
A Redesign of Principal Education Program During the COVID-19 Crisis
COVID-19 pandemic around the world entailed an uncertain reality for higher education system. We, at the Faculty of Education, of …
A Bird’s-Eye View of Curriculum Publications Concerning Seven Countries: A Bibliometric Analysis
This study reports a bibliometric analysis providing a bird’s-eye view of publications on curriculum pertaining to Australia, South Africa, Ethiopia, …
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Trauma-Informed English Language Teaching to Adults
This qualitative paper examines trauma-informed teaching of English as a second language (ESL) to adults. Trauma is highly prevalent worldwide, …
Learning to Express Pain: Book-based Medical Expression AAC Learning for Individuals With Developmental Disabilities
Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) devices emerged in the 1980s as an effective communication support technology for individuals with complex …
Egyptian EFL Writers’ and Instructors’ Perceptions of Peer Written Feedback
The principal aim of this study is to compare between the perceptions of peer feedback (PF) and teacher feedback (TF) …
Children’s Incidental Learning of English Through Cartoons: An Italian Case Study
The presentation concerns a qualitative and longitudinal case study of two young Italian children acquiring English incidentally, while enjoying cartoons …
Innovation and Value: Organ Transplant Abuse in China
Innovation is ethically neutral. Its value depends on how it is used. Technological developments do not change human nature. But …
Inclusive Research With People With Intellectual Disabilities as Co-researchers – Towards Emancipation
Inclusive research covers various forms of participation of researchers with disabilities in the research process. Its idea is that non-disabled …
Exploration of the Relationship Between Housing Conditions and Cultural Capital in Hong Kong
Due to the over-population and less land supply, the housing condition in Hong Kong is undersupplied, which leads to nearly …
Professionalization on the Go: A Latent Profile Analysis in Self-Regulated Learning of Flemish Teachers in a Mobile Learning Environment
Teachers have long been using mobile devices to support their personal learning. Especially during the COVID-pandemic, the professionalization of teachers …
Reimagining Faculty Management with APL nextED Faculty Management System to Improve All of Academic Operations
There are many challenges associated with the management of adjunct faculty profiles and operations in an online, asynchronous environment. One …
Research of the Art Creation on the Virtual and Real Integration of Augmented Reality
In recent years, due to the rise of the metaverse, the virtual and real integration of argumental reality has gradually …
Axiomatic Dimensional Analysis of Art in the Visual Culture of the Ibibio People of Nigeria
The research into visual culture, vis-à-vis art praxis and product, keeps on turning up as tangential to the history, context …
Visual Culture Strategies for Right-Brain Learning in the Early Stages of Maltese as a Foreign Language
The left side of the brain has historically been thought to be the centre of language processing during language acquisition. …
Just a Sham? – An Empirical Investigation of Homeowners’ Misperception of Self-sufficiency in the Context of Fossil-fueled Heating in Germany
To reduce the consumption for space heating and hot water, a transition from individual fossil-fueled heating to district heating (DH) …
What Draws Young Men Overseas? Identifying the Impact of Overseas Business Experiences on Young Men in Dickens’s Life and Novels
In this article, I focus on the impact of overseas business experiences on the young men in Dickens’s life and …
Tragedy to Triumph: Utilizing a Graphic Novel and Instructional Design to Sustain the Culture, Heritage and Resilience of a Community
Arts, design and education can powerfully combine to create relevant and impactful place- and community-based educational resources that engage interdisciplinary …
Significance of a King in the South-East Section of the Silk Road in the Period Between Ancient and Medieval Times
Along the Silk Road, there were different nations that differed not only ethnically, politically, culturally, but also religiously. Southeast Asia …
To What Extent Lebanese University Students Consider Themselves as Intercultural Communicators
Globalization has removed all constrained borders and distances among countries, governments, and business corporations. With this fundamental change, there has …
A Scheme for Enhancing a University President’s Performance in a Transforming World
As society evolves and technology advances, a university like any other dynamic institution will need to change and adjust its …
Cosmopolitan Legal Education: From Irnerius and the Westphalian Paradigm to the Modern Law School
The law school has not always been one that would be predominantly engaged with national legal matter. The subject of …
Return Migration to Japan: Experiences of Japanese Brazilians
In the emerging literature, research on migration and acculturation has focused on investigating return migration (i.e., migration to one’s ethnic …
Symbolism of Selected Wax Prints in West Africa
Wax prints have been a part of the material culture and visual anthropology of West Africa for centuries. Even though …
Recording of a Piano and Violin Duo: A Case Study to Explore Challenges and Opportunities of Recording During COVID-19 Pandemic
During crises, performing arts are usually the first discarded activities. This attitude towards performing arts has not changed much during …
Designing a Curriculum With Custom and Present Virtual Reality
The pandemic has created many challenges for education. Despite many schools now having already returned to instruction in-person as opposed …
Psychological Well-Being Among Immigrants and Refugees in St. Louis, Missouri
The process of migration and integration into immigrants’ host communities has been noted to be a stressful, non-normative event from …
Using a 3CAPs Conceptual Framework to Explore Hong Kong Kindergarten Teachers’ Perceptions About Visual Arts Education
In the past decades, the visual arts in early childhood education were dominated by conventional approaches to shaping children’s artistic …
The Design Studio as a Place of Study: Critique as Hermeneutic Conversation
As postsecondary design educators, are we providing students a place of study or are we just instructing? Educational theorist and …
Internationalization at Home through the Pandemic Era: A Qualitative Study on Tertiary Students in Hong Kong and Japan
Internationalization has become a key priority of many higher education institutions across the globe to enhance the intercultural capabilities of …
How Preschool Children Articulate Learning Through Polaroid Photography
The significance of polaroid photography is attributed to the mediums ability to capture the world exactly as it appears to …
Conceptual Collaborative Learning Space in “Studio-based Classroom” for Future Campus
The aspirations of national higher education institutions to achieve a world-class rank based on research and creativity mean that those …
Japanese Characteristics as Seen in Iroha Karuta
Iroha Karuta is a card game that originated in the mid-Edo period in Japan. It is played especially in new …
Mathematics in Southern Europe: Mathematics Education and Performance, Through the Prism of PISA, in Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain
A mathematically literate student, according to PISA and OECD, recognizes the role that mathematics plays in the world in order …
Critical Literature Review: Age Factors on Second Language Acquisition
Our understanding about second language acquisition is constantly updating itself due to new and compelling research. This article supports the …
Engaging/Creating Difference: The Relevance of Cultural Identity as Laypeople Plan a Newscast
This study placed 18 groups of African-, European-, and Latin-Americans (divided by race and gender) into the role of news …
“F O R M S”: Creating Visual Composition Through the Movement of Dance and Artificial Intelligence
What relationship exists between dance and visual arts? How can dance visually express lines, shapes, and visual compositions in space? …
Text Summarization of News in Tamil Epaper Using Machine Learning
Automatic text summarization is the process of reducing the size of original content to reduced computational burden of handling original …
Social Media & Dialogic Engagement: An Exploration of the Facebook Pages of New Zealand’s Elite Arts Organisations
Creating and maintaining mutually beneficial relationships between organisations and their publics is at the core of public relations practice. Social …
Multimodal Learning
According to Bouchey et al. (2021) global digitalization has dramatically changed the way we learn. These authors claim that digitalization …
The 4th Industrial Revolution: A Redefinition of the Role of Higher Education?
The 4th industrial revolution has begun to change -and will dramatically continue to change- the economy, the society, and the …
Health Impact Perceived by University Students at Three Sites in Asia: Two Years Into the Pandemic
Two years since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, education in universities is still being disrupted. Prolonged exposure to the …
Unveiling Educators’ Digital Media Skills in Teaching: A Case of South Africa
The South African education system is under a revolutionary transformation of digital media tools adoption and use in the teaching …
Why Do People Not Attend Arts Events? The Influence of Perceived Risks and Level of Involvement
Many governments invest in arts events such as performing arts, visual arts, and so on to support the tourism industry's …
Investigating Formative Assessment Strategies to Support Differentiation via Digital Technology in Elementary Math Classes
In this study we investigate how digital technologies can support educators’ differentiation and students’ learning through formative assessment (FA) strategies. …
Innovative Design of Sustainable Fashion – A Case Study of Practical Fashion Design Teaching
Recycling of the environment and recycled resources has been an important item in the world's push for environmentally friendly design, …
Fantasized Romanticity: Rethinking the Role of Curtained Motels in Thai Contemporary Culture
Examining through the lens of social-sexual production, this paper focuses on the curtained motel, known to Thais as rong raem …
Adaptation of the Teacher Professional Agency Scale in the Unique Cultural Context of Estonia
Teachers' work-related agency has scientific and practical significance. It is associated with redefining pessimistic projects and finding pleasure in the …
The Influence of Instagram on Consumer Behavior and Brand Community: Effect of Location on Brand Positioning in Northern Cyprus
Nowadays, technology has started to take place in all areas of our lives. Social media has become a part of …
Gen Z College Students, COVID-19 Courses & Beyond
The pandemic thrust the usage of Learning Management Systems, LMS, on teachers in all levels of education. Some students and …
Nudging Resilience: Promoting Sleep Awareness to Enhance Mental Well-Being in Adults Aged 60+
Ageistic stereotypes and practices have become a normal and therefore pervasive phenomenon in various aspects of everyday life (e.g., Ayalon …
The Impact of the COVID-19 on Teachers’ Sense of Efficacy and Their Attitudes Towards Online Learning
Teachers’ sense of efficacy has been pinpointed in a rich array of recent studies to determine the teachers’ readiness and …
The Place of Memory and the Memory of Place
A hospital is a place for treatment of diseases. It is a liminal place where ideally people are cured and …
Observing Learning Through the Hands: A Longitudinal Study of the Gestures of an English Language Learner
Hand gestures are an additional window into the mind of language learners allowing a glimpse of how learners might be …
Investigating the Learning and Cognitive Process With Phenomenography: A Case Study of a Visual Experimental Research Course
Experiential learning theory emphasizes on the importance of learning through experiences and reflection. Recently, the question of how to implement …
The Power of Seeing and Being Seen: Feeling Shame in In the Mood for Love and The Grandmaster
This paper is about how the spectator can feel the emotion of shame through the lens of seeing and being …
Historical Study of Chinese Clan Associations in Singapore
Singapore joined the ranks of developed countries in the 21st century, and is a multi-ethnic nation with attention in many …
Parasitism: The Inextricable Connection of the Indispensables
When questioning people about their top three everyday life companion gadgets, the answers are often smartphones, smartwatches, and laptop computers. …
Rising Up: Student Learning in the Post-pandemic Era
Since the start of the pandemic, the University of Massachusetts Global (UMG), like all virtual and dispersed learning institutions of …
Learning Science in Service to Students: Applying Artificial Intelligence and Automatic Question Generation to Scale Learn by Doing
Educational technology has undergone rapid changes in recent years as artificial intelligence has begun to shape how data and content …
Teaching the M in STEM with Robotics: Exploring Understanding by Design for Curriculum Development to Teach Math Concepts Using Robotics
STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education has been at the forefront of national education policies and school reform for …
Catching Up: An Observational Study of Underserved Primary and Secondary Student Mindsets When Introduced to Educational Robotics
Student attitudes toward STEM subjects decline as they progress through primary and secondary school, making interventions even more critical for …
Providing 12-17 Week Transferable and Employability Skills to 30,000 Underserved Learners Across 8 Countries – A Truly Cross Border System
Otermans Institute (OI) is a global micro-organisation upskilling unserved and underserved populations globally with the mission of making them employable. …
An AI-Driven Virtual Teacher That Can Upskill Anyone on a One-to-One Basis Tested From Refugee Camps in Iraq to India
Through AI modeling work done with Otermans Institute, Dev Aditya has built several conversational AI-driven virtual teachers, some as Bots …
Teaching Electricity and Magnetism Using Low-cost Physics-lab Box and Context-based Laboratory Activities
This study describes the authors’ efforts to assess the status of a physics laboratory in a junior public high school …
Using UTAUT to Explore the Acceptance of High School Students in Programming Learning With STEAM Education
Many countries incorporate programming into primary education; the application of artificial intelligence robots in programming education is what the future …
Educators’ Perspectives of Emotional Support in South African Schools Amid COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic disruption in South Africa resulted in the Department of Basic Education (DOE) implementing measures to salvage teaching …
Exploring Wellbeing Related Issues Arising From the Unregulated Use of Screen-Based Technology During Breaktimes in an International Middle School Environment
The following study uses a design-thinking and mixed methods research approach to elicit students’ views on the use of screen-based …
Cross Cultural Learning Experiences Among Graduate Students in the US and France: A Case Study
A total of 27 graduate students enrolled in a teacher preparatory program at a higher education institution in France were …
Creation Research in Digital Painting
The research purpose of this paper is to conduct digital learning through digital painting in order to enhance undergraduate students’ …
The Impact of the Use of Technology on the Nature of Teacher’s Profession in TESOL Classes
During the recent pandemic, Educational programs have recognized the growing need to use computers in classes. It presents unprecedented challenges …
Using Design to Connect Children Through Playful Discovery
This paper presents the first stage of FUSE, a project presented here as an example of how interdisciplinary researchers, university …
Design as a Facilitator to Changing Mindsets for Craftmanship Enterprises’ Resilience
Craftmanship is currently promoted as a foremost cultural manifestation, as they represent the heritage, diversity, and creative potential of a …
Doctoral Side Effects: Damage Limitation Versus Unexpected Benefits to PhD Research in a Pandemic
In May 2021, following up on a publication by PhD Design students of the University of Porto on the topic …