Year: 2022
Reimagining Resilience at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs): Emergent Governance, Leadership, and Crisis Management Practices
The COVID-19 pandemic served as a catalyst for an array of challenges in higher education, particularly at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). These challenges included not only reinventing traditional pedagogical approaches but restructuring their academic service delivery options. As a result, examining these complexities warrants reviewing the role of governing boards, leadership, and their …
From Novice to Pro: A Modified Scaffolding Research Guide for Elementary Students
Research writing was viewed as an advanced skill that should only be taught after students had mastered fundamental language processes like grammar, punctuation, syntax, and spelling. However, with the recognition of research as a crucial component of 21st-century skills, there has been a shift towards introducing research writing earlier, even at the elementary level. The …
Improving Kindergarten Readiness by Upskilling Parents Through a Webinar Series Entitled “Ready, Steady, Zoom” During the New Normal
The pandemic has forced the Philippines’ education system to discontinue face-to-face sessions and adapt to new modes of instruction, but education must continue to advance, and teachers must adapt. Kindergarten preparation has always played a role in how well students do throughout their first week of face-to-face sessions. Other studies indicate that parental participation has …
Integration of Contents of Local Wisdom in Curriculum for Cosmetology Vocational Schools: An Analysis
This study aims to analyze the curriculum in beauty vocational schools in Ponorogo Regency-East Java based on the values of local wisdom. This school’s curriculum is based on the character and resources that exist in the area, both natural and human resources. This type of research is descriptive qualitative with data collection techniques through observation, …
Student Satisfaction With the Internship Experience in the Graphic Design Industry
The Merdeka Belajar Kampus Merdeka (MBKM) curriculum provides opportunities for students to study off-campus for 2 semesters. One of them is the internship program. The Ministry of Education and Culture facilitates this internship program through an independent campus. In addition to certified internships, the study program also provides regular internship programs. The internship program was …
The Effect of Spatial Intelligence and Learning Management on the Learning Outcomes of Mechanical Engineering Students in the Mechanical Drawing Course
The workforce needed in the industrial revolution era 4.0 is not only skilled at operating machines (machine operators), more than that it is required to have a better understanding of AI (Artificial Intelligence) which includes the latest machines. backed by skills. design, the achievement of student design competence from the learning process must be supported …
A Study on Students’ Attitudes Towards Text Crowding on Multilingual Educational Slides
The need for multilingual educational materials in higher education is growing rapidly. It is still largely unclear, however, whether students consider extra-textual information, i.e., the same information in two or more languages, as a distraction or an increase in cognitive load or not. Recent research on multilingual subtitles in videos has shown that viewers tend …
The Influence of Communication Skills on the Work Readiness of Vocational School Students in Building Engineering Expertise
Vocational high schools (SMK) have a goal to produce graduates who are ready to work. The problem that occurs is the high level of open unemployment (TPT) for vocational school graduates in Indonesia, especially in the city of Surabaya. An important aspect of producing graduates who can compete and succeed in work in the world …
Application of Project Based Learning Methods in Distance Learning During the Pandemic
To prevent the spread of Covid-19 in the university world, one of the methods is online learning, which is carried out using a smartphone or laptop. However, in online learning, lecturers must be innovative so that learning objectives are achieved, obstacles in online learning include internet signal disturbances, sleepiness, boredom, and health problems such as …
Island of Individuation: Teaching With a New, Dynamic Approach to the Development of the Human Psyche in the Singapore Context
The fostering of not just better mental health outcomes, but a more creative, knowledgeable and versatile workforce (Watermeyer, Chen & Ang 2021) has been at the forefront of Singapore’s development of her people since the seminal events of the late 2010s: the passing of Mr Lee Kuan Yew, the Singapore Bicentennial, the COVID-19 pandemic, and …
EFL Teachers’ Experiences and Attitudes to Emergency Remote Teaching at Japanese Universities
In 2020 teachers worldwide faced an unprecedented situation in the form of the COVID-19 pandemic. In Japan, this forced educators to quickly adapt face-to-face programs to online ones as the new academic year started in April 2020. Although Japan is a technology rich society, the use of technology in education had been limited up until …
Critical Core Skills Profiling and Development in the Singaporean Workforce
Soft skills, core competencies and generic competencies are exchangeable terminologies often used to represent a similar concept. In Singapore, such skills are currently being referred to as Critical Core Skills (CCS). To understand how CCS are demanded and developed in different occupations of the Singapore workforce, this study adopted a mixed method approach. Drawing on …
Multimodal Communication in the Literacy Classroom
Literacy can be defined in a multitude of academic and non-academic ways. However, for the purposes of this presentation, it will be characterized as multimodal communication. With this in mind, the connection between literacy and popular culture becomes intrinsic and can be seen through both the education and entertainment industries. Educational or academic literacy offers …
Picture Book Categorization Charts: Introducing South East Asian Themes to Young Learners
Picture books are an important part of early language education, they can be used to teach children about countries and cultures as well as for language learning. This presentation reports on the use of picture books with Asian themes and locations in Japanese young learner (YL) classrooms. Although the Japanese government provides guidelines indicating objectives …
Common Pronunciation Mistakes in English for Students From South-East Asia Influenced by Their First Foreign Language
The opportunity to study English language in the country of its origin is a privilege not available to everyone. Thus many students choose to learn English in a non-native environment alongside another foreign language. This article is a part of a big research dedicated to the process of adaptation of the students from the countries …
Transformation Management at a University-Based Business School
This study focuses on the process of institutionalisation of a new management and educational system (MTBS) in a Malaysian top university-based business school, disguised as AGSB. Specifically, the study looks at the changes brought by MTBS transformation programme introduced by government. An explanatory case study method is used whereby data are collected through semi-structured interviews, …
Replacing Video Cameras With Mobile Phones Using the Multi-Phone Livestreaming (MultPLS) Method
Livestreaming has become the new normal for universities. It is common nowadays for academic events such as webinars and conferences to be streamed live to a global audience. A conventional livestreaming session typically utilises multicamera production (MCP) to achieve varied and dynamic video angles. This kind of footage is crucial for the audience to fully …
Investigating the Impact on Learner Interest With the Incorporation of Active Learning Activities in a Tertiary CLIL Context
This interactive presentation will discuss the benefits and time-saving nature of the inclusion of Active learning(AL) techniques emphasizing the positive effect on learner interest (LI) in Japanese tertiary Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) oriented classes. This presentation will offer a brief background into the concept of AL as a methodology for instruction as well …
Physical 3D Model Teaching and Learning Kits for CMOS Integrated Circuits Physical Implementation Lesson
There is a popular call for CMOS (complementary metal oxide semiconductor) ICs (integrated circuits) design courses recently due to the global competition in IC chips. In PCB (printed circuit board) design, the layout, the circuits, interconnect routing etc. can be clearly visualized. However, this is not the case for ICs chips design, where all the …
Developing Conceptual Understanding of Subject-Verb Agreement in Primary One Students Through Assessment-guided Differentiated Instruction
Subject-Verb Agreement (SVA) is an important component of grammatical processing. Students in Primary One (aged seven) level of Singapore schools are taught SVA involving simple nouns and verbs at the sentence level. Teachers observed that students often associated plural nouns with singular verbs and vice versa due to the ‘s’ inflection form most plural nouns …
Examining the Type of Relationship That Exit Between Higher Education and Economic Growth in USA
For a long time, economists and policymaker have argument relationship between higher education and economic growth (especially in long-term economic growth). In the face of the epidemic and financial shortages, some researchers have increased their interest in the rational use of limited resources to drive economic growth. The purpose of this paper is to examine …
Developing a Framework for Using Online Feedback on Teaching Effectiveness to Improve Student Learning
Student feedback on teaching is typically received from formal end-of-course evaluations with the purpose of giving insights into the effectiveness of a lecturer’s teaching. However, such evaluations are usually summative, and the timing of their administration restricts any teaching adjustments that could have been done earlier in the course. This study investigated the development of …
Acceptance Study of Power Plant Main Control Simulator as an Operator Learning Media in Indonesia
The power plant control room simulator is a learning device that resembles the control system in a real power plant. There are not many power plant simulator training providers in Indonesia due to high investment, where complexity and efficacy are exchanged for cost. This research aims to determine the acceptance of the power plant main …
Teachers’ Readiness, Teaching and Research Competence in the New Normal: Implications to Educational Policy
This descriptive-correlation research was conducted to determine the levels of readiness, teaching and research competence of teachers in the Schools Division of Iloilo as they adapt to the new normal. There were 380 public secondary junior and senior high school teachers who were surveyed using an adapted and modified questionnaire. They were categorized into age, …
A Conceptual Framework to Elicit Student Engagement via Development of Extended Reality (XR) Applications Using Project-Based Experiential Learning
Student Engagement is recognized as a covariate of learner outcomes within both online and face to face learning environments. Withal, due to extensive implementation of passive teaching approaches, there is finite guidance about utilization of proactive student-centered teaching strategies to ameliorate engagement among learners like employing Project Based Experiential Learning (PBEL). This paper describes ongoing …
Leveraging WBCL in Higher Education Architecture Programs
Higher education programs in architecture are under increasing pressure to meet the challenges created by expanding integration of digital technologies, new online platforms, and the lingering limitations imposed by the Covid19 pandemic. New expectations for addressing expanding automation, material development, synchronous/asynchronous learning, online communication, increased environmental equity, and climate-change challenges, are triggering comprehensive changes in …
Learning Experiences to Support Equity for Student Living in Poverty
Poverty can affect the background knowledge and vocabulary development of students before they enter our elementary classrooms. As educators it is key to ensure that we provide a variety of learning experiences to help ensure equity inside and outside the classroom setting for these students. Out-of-school learning has the potential to help decrease the academic …
Challenges Encountered by Non-araling Panlipunan Teachers Teaching Araling Panlipunan Department of Education General Santos City, Philippines: Basis for Capability Building
This study intended to describe the challenges encountered by Non-Araling Panlipunan teachers Teaching Araling Panlipunan (AP). It sought to identify the coping mechanism, interventions and identify capability building programs as a solution to the problems. The study employed qualitative phenomenological research to examine individual life experiences of Non-Araling Panlipunan Teachers who have specialization-workload mismatch. Key …
ICO-Cymatic Backstage Design Process: Applying Vernacular Techniques and New Media Into Ephemeral Spaces for Art Installation in South America
Cymatic is a study area of vibrational nodal phenomena. The term is coined in the field of physics. It refers to the analysis of nodal movements in non-conformal media, such as fluids and grains, generating temporary geometric patterns determined by three significant factors: water volume, light and sound. This research will show some design practices …
Teachers’ Sentiments, Attitudes, and Concerns About Inclusive Practice in Higher Education
The policy of inclusive education (IE) regulates schools to provide educational opportunity to all students (regardless of learning disabilities) to study in the mainstream regular schools. However, there has been no consistent findings regarding the outcome of IE. Among the various factors associated with the efficacy of IE, teachers’ perception of IE was identified to …
Academic Motivation and Academic Self-concept of Students with Special Education Needs in Higher Education
Previous studies suggested that students with special educational needs (SEN) in the primary and secondary schools were fragile in self-efficacy and low in academic motivation. Nonetheless, more and more students with SEN completed secondary education and pursue their study at the tertiary level. Past research suggested that students with SEN spent additional efforts in coping …
How to Create Collective Care-based Learning Environments for Youth and Adults?
COVID-19 has shown us that classrooms are not prepared to support individual and collective resilience during challenging times and educators have a responsibility to change that. Building resiliency promotes students’ willingness to learn, increases their engagement with their teachers, and promotes the ability to learn from them. Conversely, students who lack a sense of collective …
Impact of Vertical and Horizontal Mismatches on Earnings Among Highly-Educated Employees in Japan
This study investigates the vertical and horizontal mismatches among highly-educated employees in Japan. The critical point of view on the effects of job-education mismatches on graduate earnings is that job-education mismatches leads to the waste of human capital accumulated during graduates’ study years and brings negative consequences-earnings penalties. Our analysis reveals that vertical mismatch is …
Blended Professional Learning Community Sessions on Action Research
Action Research (AR) has shown a significant contribution toward improving teacher practice. Challenges in its conduct have led to teachers’ struggle in completing such projects. Professional Learning Communities (PLC) had created an improvement in participatory transformation in teaching through collaborative learner-centered solution-making. Thus, the Action Research Professional Learning Community named “SAHA” was formed to address …
Higher Education in India During Corona Pandemic
In 2019, COVID-19 virus swept the globe and wreaked havoc around the world. Many aspects of life have been destroyed by this pandemic including the education sector. In India, after the government declared a countrywide lockdown, all educational activities came to halt, affecting teachers, students and their families as a consequence. The purpose of this …
A Positive Psychology Based Counseling Support Group for Taiwanese Teachers: A Qualitative Analysis on Its Therapeutic Factors
Introduction. Positive psychology based interventions have received evidences in increasing positive emotions, decreasing emotional labor, and improving mental health (Dreer, 2020). As overloaded work stress among Taiwanese teachers has become an important issue (Ho et al., 2017), the researchers aim to develop a counseling support group based on positive psychology approach for teachers. The purpose …
How to Support ESL Learners’ Writing by Using Mentor Texts
To write effectively is a crucial but challenging skill from which everyone could benefit (Kane, 2012). In this article, I report on action research where I utilized mentor texts and mini-lessons to teach writing to an English as a Second Language (ESL) learner who was experiencing writing anxiety because of his dislike of academic writing …
Modes of Learning and Performance Among Graduates During a Pandemic in a State University in Romblon, Philippines
Quality education is a key commitment of Romblon State University. By providing a performance assessment of students exposed to modes of learning during a pandemic, this study aimed to describe their performance in different learning modalities during COVID-19. This study focused on all 2021 graduates from the College of Education in determining their modes of …
Factors Associated With Depressive Symptoms Among Students of a State University in the Philippines
The passing of the Mental Health Act in the Philippines benefits all Filipinos, especially our students. Identifying students who have a mental health condition, particularly depression, is an appropriate strategy for assisting students with their mental health problems. This quantitative study aimed to ascertain the prevalence of depressive symptoms among 619 university students. The University …
The Mediating Role of Emotional Stability Between Critical Thinking Disposition and Self-Knowledge Among Management Students
This study aims to examine the mediating role of emotional stability between critical thinking disposition (Critical openness & Reflective Skepticism) and self-knowledge of the students in a private management institution, in India. A questionnaire survey method was employed to collect data from 384 students enrolled in the management course. SPSS and AMOS software was used …
Parenting and Self Resilience in Dayak Youth Students
Resilience is a basic psychological need that is developed through parenting. Self-resilience is important for youth student to face challenges in education. In Dayak culture in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, women usually carry the double role of being a housekeeper as well as breadwinner. Women in the family has a significant position in fulfilling the needs …
Creating Design Guideline; Online Platform to Encourage Lifelong Learning Among Thai Digital Natives
A National Scheme of Thailand Education for 2017-2039 according to the Office of the Education Council of Thailand, provides a framework to follow in the development of education. One of the important considerations is to support lifelong learning for Thais with high quality and standardization of education at all levels. One of the challenges for …
Media and Information Literacy Skills for Undergraduate Students in Hong Kong: Self Perception vs Actual Skills
This study examines the media and information literacy of undergraduate students in Hong Kong with reference to frameworks developed by UNESCO, Singapore, and Hong Kong. A new instrument is developed to measure students’ self-perception and actual media and information literacy skills. Responses from 513 undergraduate students showed that most students reported adequate perceived media and …
Introducing English in Preschool Education in Greece: An Overview of the EAN Project
Following the 21st century model of creating classrooms that respond to society’s pluralingualism and multiculturalism, English as a foreign language has been introduced in numerous European countries, as well as worldwide, in numerous preschools (Baïdak et al., 2017; Alexiou, 2020). Within this scope, integrating English as a foreign language in all Greek preschools is realised …
Leveraging the ALACT Reflection Model to Improve Academic Skills Development in Bachelor Students: A Case Study
Academic skills are essential in most future professions for students, yet frequently receive sporadic or ineffective attention throughout higher education. Therefore, we set out to implement the ALACT reflection model in a second-year academic skills course within the bachelor’s program in Pharmaceutical Sciences. The model was applied to both presentation and teamwork skills which are …
The Development of Learning Activity of KWDL Technique Combined With BAR Model to Improve Problem Solving Ability in Math
The research entitled The Development of Learning Activity through KWDL Technique combined with BAR model to improve problem solving ability in Math for Secondary 1 (Grade 7) students made use of a quasi-experimental design wherein the experimental group was exposed with learning activities through KWDL technique combined with BAR model while the control group learned …
Applying IRT Model in Validating a Dichotomously Scored Test Item
This study conducted an item analysis to validate a dichotomously scored test using the Rasch measurement model, an Item Response Theory approach for test validation. It aimed to improve the quality of the test items in a departmentalized mathematics examination that had undergone content validity through subject experts. The response data gathered from randomly selected …
Catch Them in Situ: Exploring Pre-service Science Teachers’ Understanding of Indigenous Knowledge Integration in a South African University
Higher education institutions in South Africa are in the midst of a student-driven revolution of curriculum decolonisation through the introduction of indigenous knowledge (IK) in higher education. This design-based qualitative study used individual and group interviews to explore the understandings and experience of pre-service Life Science teachers regarding IK integration during their training and their …
A Study on the Effectiveness of Integrating Digital Media Audio-visual Materials Into Japanese Listening Courses: Taking the Japanese Listening Course of One University in Taiwan as an Example
The purpose of this study is to find out whether the incorporation of “digital media materials” in Japanese listening courses has a positive impact on students. Non-Japanese learners of Japanese do not have a full Japanese environment after leaving the classroom, so it is important to continue to learn with willpower and self-discipline. In this …
A Cultural-Historical Approach to Children With Specific Language Impairment in China
Specific Language Impairment (SLI) is a developmental disorder in children with lower language capacity than average children in the same age group without vivid physical or mental illness. Children with SLI in China have lower academic achievements than their peers; thus, they could be considered lazy or stupid. In the past two years of our …
A Confirmatory Factor Analysis of Information Ethics for Primary School Administrators Under the Office of Basic Education Commission, Thailand
The purposes of this study were:1) to investigate components and indicators of Information Ethics for Primary School Administrators under the Office of the Basic Education Commission, Thailand; and 2) to verify congruence between a structural relationship model and the empirical data. The samples were 840 administrators and teachers in primary schools under the Office of …
Koto-tsukuri: Education at the Interface
The move to online was a serious disruptor. We reflect here on almost three years of fully online educational work at university level in a science-based curriculum in Japan. Presented as a workshop at the conference, participants experienced a real-time deployment of a class management system put together with low-code tools. Initial setup was to …
Learning From Events
What can be learned from the successful production of large-scale real-world arts events that is useful in the classroom? Through practical examples, this paper attempts to make some connections. We start with a short story of how the same software came to be used to deliver university-level classes on AI and also co-ordinate the international …
The Disaster Risk Reduction in the COPE Floods Storybook for Children’s Awareness to COPE With Natural Disaster
Geographically Malaysia is characterized by two monsoon regimes, the Southwest Monsoon and Northeast Monsoon. The Southwest Monsoon is drier in most states, which happens from the end of May to September. The Northeast Monsoon brings heavy rainfall, mainly on the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia, from November to March. However, in December 2021, continuous heavy …
In Pursuit of Quality TV Programs for Young Children: What Are the Criteria in the View of Their Audience?
There has been concern about the impact of media on young children, especially television. Parents have been looking for appropriate, high-quality media for their children, which is why the criteria of quality TV programs for young children are essential for parents to maximize the benefit of media in developing children’s learning. The ‘Media Quality Rating’ …
Action Research: Learner Reflection on Group Work and Leadership Skills
Learning how to be an effective leader seems to be an important facet of group discussions and group task work. One way to attempt a bottom-up approach to applying and practicing leadership skills is through action research (AR), defined by Burns (2009) as an approach to research that involves teachers researching their own contexts. AR …
Advancing Educational Equality: Using AI Technology in K-12 English Language Education in Rural China
The development of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies provides the opportunity for students from disadvantaged areas to have equal access to educational resources. This paper applies the theory of educational equality to examine AI technology as an alternative to the current ICT practices for the improvement of English language education in rural China. A systematic review …
Remaking Higher Education?: A Content Analysis of the Media Discourse on Online and Blended Education in India
India has the second largest higher education system in the world with 993 universities, 39931 colleges and 10,725 Stand Alone Institutions and improving higher education is a major policy priority of the government. Online education has emerged as the preferred form of education in the COVID-19 milieu. The media has served an important platform for …
Discord Between Transgender Women and TERFs in South Korea
This paper examines the discord between transgender women and trans-exclusionary radical feminists (TERFs) in South Korea, focusing on the dispute between feminists and anti- feminists. This paper introduces a conflict between those two groups in that TERFs believe transgender women highlight gender stereotypes and femininity, in contrast to radical feminists looking forward to the dissolution …
Quality Education and Economic Growth in Sub Saharan African Countries for Developing Countries
Deepened gaps of inequalities, increased extreme poverty, and decline in economic activity due to disruptions of the Corona Diseases Virus -19 (COVID-19) demands developing countries provide a quality education that promotes economic growth. Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), 1948 recognizes the fulfillment of universal human rights, dignity, and freedoms as the foundation for building …
University-Industrial Collaboration in Industrial Design Education: A Practical Model
University/Industry-Collaboration is not new to Industrial Design curricula, however, the contents of each program vary vastly. For most collaborations, students take in design problems from sponsors and develop design solutions. The sponsor may meet with the students a couple of times to make sure students are on the right track. Eventually, if the design solutions …
Development of Media Literacy Curriculum for Junior High School Students in Thailand
Media Literacy is one of the essential 21st Century skills for students. They must be prepared for this skill for their life as a part of digital citizenship. This research aimed to develop curriculum and instructional manuals in media literacy for teachers to educate junior high school students. The methodology of this research was divided …
Animated Songs in English to Develop Effective Listening Skills Among Adult ESL / EFL Learners
Listening as a language skill is often neglected on the ground that we could hear everything. But Listening is not simply hearing, it is an active process of receiving aural as well as visual stimuli attentively through ears and eyes, followed by comprehension and retention of the message or intention of the speaker and finally …
A Case Study of How Unanticipated Preservers Work on Preserving Local Culture Relating to Textiles in Northern Thailand
This paper aims to present how unanticipated preservers have been part of preserving local culture, particularly in making textiles. The paper contributes to the understanding of the foundations of local cultural heritage practices relating to textiles, to contemporary practices of preserving local culture (LC), and to perspectives on ‘preserving heritage skills’ with different types of …
Digital “Hack Your Future” Event as Approach to Support Entrepreneurial Capacity of Students Through the Design Thinking Process
The hackathons provide rapid, hands-on opportunities to explore the innovative creation of new business ventures, digital solutions, start-ups and students’ entrepreneurship capacity, which incorporate novel technology as a vital component of their business models and operations. A hackathon is an event in which participants involved in software development collaborate intensively over a short period of …
Picture Perfect: Competencies of Educational Leaders From Fifteen Selected Colleges and Universities in the Philippines: Towards a Proposed Leadership Model
This descriptive study used frequency distribution to rank the data from highest to lowest to determine the level of importance of the competency skills seen on the Leadership Inventory Tool. This Leadership Inventory Tool is a 360-degree assessment tool by Rom Parlakian and Barry Nilbert Seibel (2001). Based on The Practices of Exemplary Leadership Model, …
Life Design Counseling With High School Students: A Narrative Approach
According to educational experts and career guidance, the market and global economic forces linked to a postmodern society have led to a crisis in career development models and practices. in such an uncertain changing context students face major challenges during their career development. The life design method was used in this study to increase student’s …
Puruyanan: The Waray Concept of Home in Selected Poems of Victor N. Sugbo
To examine how puruyanan, the Waray concept of home, is integral to the overall poetics of Victor N. Sugbo, this study appropriates Prospero R. Covar’s concept of kapaligiran which is composed of three realms—namely kalikasan or the natural realm, the cultural realm, and the supernatural realm—as constituent parts of puruyanan. The Waray and English self-translations …
Karol Wojtyla’s Personalist Philosophy of Education
Karol Wojtyla and his philosophy is well known among scholars of philosophy for its rich contribution to ethics, anthropology, epistemology, and metaphysics. He is also acknowledged as a personalist philosopher because of the fundamental claims of his philosophy that enrich the movement. When Wojtyla got elected as Pope and took the name John Paul II, …
A Study to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Google Solution on Middle School Teacher and Student Based on the Kirkpatrick 4 Level Model
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of Google Solution (GS) on the application of classes. Participants were 17 teachers and 115 students of ‘O’ middle school in Busan, and the period was from April to September for five months. As a treatment, each teacher was given a Chromebook equipped with Google …
Linguistic Redundancy: Cases Studies by Evaluating Oral Performances for Chinese Students in TEM-4
Oral proficiency of EFL students has been deeply investigated in bilingual studies. This research aims to investigate discourse features of repetition and redundancy of Chinese students in English oral tests. Research concerning repetition and redundancy in bilingualism tends to understand how do they serve as teaching methods in classroom settings. In addition, repetition and redundancy …
Grit and Hope as Sequential Mediators in the Association Between Mindfulness and Flourishing
Flourishing was defined as living within an optimal range for positive psychological and social functioning (Fredrickson & Losada, 2005). Recently, it is believed that fostering flourishing can effectively prevent mental disorders. Empirical studies have also confirmed that individual mindfulness is related to flourishing. However, the internal mechanism of this link is relatively underexplored. This pilot …
Learning Through Storytelling: Supporting Teachers With SDG2 Resources in a Time for Building Resilience and Hope
What can curriculum do? When faced with a global pandemic, lockdowns, and virtual learning, I began working with Roger Thurow and the Hunger Solutions Institute to create an ELA curriculum focused on hunger in 2020 called Learning Through Storytelling. Through the narratives of hunger that Thurow tells in his books and in the Wall Street …
Condition Present, Condition Desirability and Necessary of Coding Education Management for Small Size Elementary Schools in the Northeast
The purposes of this research were to condition the present desirability and necessary of Coding education management. A sample group of the research is 370 small-sized elementary schools and the sample group using the formula Krejcie and Morgan, then using the Multi-stage random sampling method. Sample group has 370 directors, 370 technology teachers. The research …
Insights Into Contextual Factors Related to Social Emotional Learning (SEL) in UAE Public Schools
In the UAE, there is a recognized need to boost Social Emotional Learning (SEL) skills in students, yet there remains a gap between that desire and the knowledge held by decision- makers. Although the Ministry of Education is dedicated to uncovering current SEL competencies, there have been few studies conducted in SEL that relate to …
A Reflection for Art & Design Learning for Digital Natives
Education cannot be separated from rapid technological advances. One of the new paradigms in education is the use of internet network technology. This also applies to education in art and design in Indonesia. During the pandemic, the acceleration of the digital transformation of universities in this field is trying to adapt. Despite dealing with Generation …
Closing the Loop in Design Education: Surviving Disruption in A Digital World
Creative problem-solving, agile and analytical thinking, collaboration and empathy have become essential 21st-century skills required in the current workforce. The upheaval of a global pandemic has accelerated the need to adapt to the changes and disruptions society is facing. The role of future designers is not just to design for the world to be understood …
Developing a National Identity in Kindergarteners of Different Ethnic Backgrounds: Values and Practices of Parents in Hong Kong
Nation-building is important in national politics, but establishing a national identity can be challenging. It has long been perceived as an alarming issue that Hong Kong people’s sense of Chinese national identity is waning. The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government has vowed to reform education “from the bottom” to cultivate an understanding of …
Realization of a Configuration Tool for a Learning- and Gaming-Analytics-Environment for an Applied Simulation in the Context of Psychology Studies
Based on the work in our previous paper, this one describes a novel configuration tool for a work task simulation, including a gaming and learning analytics environment. A central content focus of the study module “Work and Organizational Psychology” in psychology is job design, which deals with the effect of work on the working person. …
Confronting GDP-based Economic Growth With Other Economic Growth Models
The debate on how to measure economic growth and assess economic growth figures is now half a century old. The positions of the so-called “optimists”, defenders of unlimited economic growth, are often pitted against the “pessimists” who consider that there will come a time when the availability of natural resources will limit growth. In the …
Education for European Citizenship – Reviewing EDC/HRE by Using Habermas’s Theory
The purpose of this presentation is to reveal the necessary education to cultivate European Citizenship qualities by focusing on Jürgen Habermas’s opinions on Europe as an integrated body and the theory of Communicative Action. In addition, since 1997, the Council of Europe has been running a citizenship education project throughout Europe called Education for Democratic …
The Discursive Construction of a Nation: Identities and Ideologies in Taiwan’s Bilingual Policy
Though English is widely hailed as the global lingua franca, critical applied linguists (e.g. Blocks, 2018; Kubota 2011, 2013; Piller & Cho, 2015; Ricento 2015; Tollefson, 2013) have scrutinized the promised affordances of English and urged the examination of English language policies especially in non-English-dominant countries to parse out the links between policies and ideologies, …
Developing a National Identity in Young Children of Different Ethnic Backgrounds: Values and Practices of Kindergarten Educators in Hong Kong
Developing a national identity is one of the essential political tasks of nations, but the ability to develop this sentiment is not unproblematic. Indeed, Hong Kong people’s declining sense of the Chinese national identity has long been viewed as an alarming problem. Recently, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Government has vowed to reform …
Superheroes by Design: Soundtrack-driven Content for Students’ Creation of Motion Graphics used in Live Orchestra Performance
The focus of this study is on the collaboration between multi-disciplines; music, design, time-based media and orchestra performance. This is a case study involving a series of motion graphics created by design students for the Superman comics-inspired “Metropolis Symphony” composed by Michael Daugherty (1988-93) and performed by the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra on June 17-18, 2022. …
Enhancing Students’ Cognitive Memory Using Music in the Classroom
In the current educational settings till this day, students are facing certain distractions that disrupt and reduce their learning process efficiency. These distractions also affect the students’ concentration in their learning environment. Music is known to have many capabilities to become one of many solutions to help students override these distractions as/ a huge influential …
From Self-regulated Learning to Computer-Delivered Integrated Speaking Testing: Does Monitoring Always Monitor?
Despite the salience of monitoring in self-regulated learning (SRL) and L2 speech production in non-testing conditions, little is known if the metacognitive construct functions in testing contexts and whether it affects learner performance. Given the reciprocal and paramount effects that have been extensively recognised between learning and testing, namely, the fundamental goal of language learning …
An Exploration of Female Agency in an Awarded Thai Novel: The Blind Earthworm in the Labyrinth
The Blind Earthworm in the Labyrinth is Veeraporn Nitiprapha’s debut novel, which won the SEA Write award in 2015. Set during the last quarter of the 20th Century in Thailand, The Blind Earthworm in the Labyrinth points out changes in cultural values and norms, especially those regarding the notion of romantic love and codes of …
Hidden Academic Failure: The Course Experience of International Graduate Students in Japan
More attention should be given to international graduate students enrolled in Japanese Universities. This study investigated the course experience of six international graduate students at one top Japanese University with PAC analysis and semi-structured interviews. As a result, international graduate students still have many challenges and dissatisfaction in their course-learning experience. The challenge and dissatisfaction …
Landscape Paintings Influenced by the Climate of Noto Peninsula in Japan
Pine Trees screen by Hasegawa Tohaku (1539–1610) is considered as the one of the most famous landscape ink (wash) paintings in Japan, and also known as the first original ink paintings ever made in Japan. Ink painting was introduced in the 14th century in Japan, and traditionally many of Japanese painters are influenced by Chinese …
The New Media and Motion Picture Content Creation: A Technological Disruption or Nation Building Tool
The COVID-19 Pandemic and the resultant lockdown set many Nigerians on a never before toured path. As businesses and schools shutdown and income streams dried up, people sought other means of indoor engagement and possible income. This, scholars argue, increased Social Media Content Creation (SMCC) and usage. This study does a comparative analysis of SMCC …
Building Resilience in the Classroom: Empowering Students/Teachers Against Linguistic Discrimination via Linguistic Skills
This study aims to bring Linguistics to classrooms to advocate Linguistic Equality and build resilience against discrimination. Modern linguists regard all languages and language varieties as equal in value; however, academic and social discourse practices regard standard variety as essentially superior to non-standard varieties (Collins, 1999). Such discrimination includes all native speakers, particularly the variations …
Kanban Methodology to Assess ESL Students’ Learning Process
Kanban boards are a visual form of project management very popular among software, Engineering and product development teams, although we claim that its principles can greatly help ESL students learning to perform language tasks with proficiency, as defined by ease, speed, and accuracy of performance, acquired through practice, in order to improve both receptive skills …
A Public University and a Small-Town Library: Community-Engaged Learners Foster Literacy, Diversity and Bilingual Identity in Rural Minnesota
The United States is an increasingly diverse and multi-lingual society, but when Americans imagine populations of native Spanish or bilingual speakers, they often imagine large urban areas or parts of the Southwest. We happen to live and work in a small, rural community in Minnesota whose Spanish-speaking/bilingual population has increased steadily over the past two …
The Integration of Sustainable Development Goals in the Secondary Science Curriculum of Cordillera Administrative Region: An Analysis
Schools play a crucial role in education for sustainable development. The aims of this study are to determine the extent of the incorporation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the secondary science curriculum and the extent of knowledge and attitude of science teachers regarding SDGs. The research design was concurrent triangulation mixed method. Purposive …
Knowledge Exchange for the Solar Decathlon Europe 2021-2022 Team Uniforms Design; Thai Local Craft Community, Fashion Design and Architecture Students
Functionable architecture students’ uniforms are designed by teams of fashion design students as a representative team from Thailand to participate in the Solar Decathlon Europe 2021-2022 (SDE 21-22) competition aiming to build an energy-saving house in Wuppertal, Germany. Therefore, the focus of this study is for lecturers to structure an appropriate study plan, monitor the …
Supporting of Entrepreneurship Education, Entrepreneurial Orientation, and Factors Related to the Intention of Being an Entrepreneur of Generation Z
This research aimed to study the entrepreneurial characteristics of Generation Z students, the relationship between the population characteristics,supporting of entrepreneurship education, entrepreneurial orientation and entrepreneurial intention. It also examined the relationship between psychological factors that affect entrepreneurial intention and the ways to promote new entrepreneurial skills in educational institutions. Data was collected by survey research …
Development of Learning Kit and Module for a Technology Design (RBT) Subject: Insights From Needs Analysis
The electronic design process included in the Malaysian secondary school syllabus pose challenges to the teachers as it requires teaching aids to facilitate more effective understanding and practice of the process. Therefore, this study aimed to identify key elements in the development of a Technology Design (RBT) learning kit for the electronic design topic of …
The Medium-Term Effects of the Collective Reflexive Coaching Device Catching Your Breath on ECEC Managers Well-Being During COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the workload of the early childhood education and care (ECEC) managers and decreased their well-being at work (Bigras et al., 2021). Quebec’s ECEC managers expressed a need for support in dealing with the challenges encountered during the pandemic (Bigras et al., 2021). A collective reflexive coaching device, called Catching Your …
Dancing With Digital Tools: Discourses on Teaching and Learning in School-Age Educare in Sweden
Internationally, there is a growing interest in School-Age Educare and the meaning of aesthetic aspects of teaching and learning in educational settings. Even if dancing is beneficial for human wellbeing and can be understood as both a physical activity as well as an aesthetic expression there are few studies that examine dance in School-Age Educare. …
Public Ivy League Universities and the Lack of Hispanic / Latino(a/x) Representation
The purpose of this study is to investigate the lack of Hispanic or Latinx faculty and student representation in Texas institutions considered Public Ivy League. While the total number of these students have risen in the last decade, we questioned whether this positive impact has led to more fruitful career paths around the state. In …