Physical education teachers use motivational strategies that can (positively or negatively) affect their students' level of motivation and engagement. Indeed, according to their experiences and beliefs, some teachers may focus on strategies that thwart, rather than support, students' psychological needs (autonomy, competence, and relatedness).…

Fixed and growth mindsets describe the underlying beliefs people have about human capacity to grow (Dweck, 2006). The theoretical framework of growth mindset classroom cultures (Murphy et al., 2021) as interpreted in the context of music education provided a solid foundation. This qualitative multiple case study explored the mindset construct and…

Learning through mobile applications has become more relevant as mobile tools have evolved. The COVID-19 outbreak that spread across the globe in 2019 promoted to a brief period of distance learning. The purpose of the study was to investigate how the students' perceptions of distance learning were affected by the use of a mobile application…

The purpose of this study was to gain recently graduated Black high school students' perceptions of racial climate and to examine to what extent their perceptions impact their overall perception of school climate. Additionally, the study explored the opportunities students were given to use their voice and how this may have affected change in…

The adption of the Common European Framework Reference (CEFR) as a guideline in Malaysian English language education has led the Ministry of Education to replace locally-developed English textbooks with a selection of imported titles. While considering the significance of intercultural skills in the English curriculum, there is a need to look into…

Student international mobility programmes (SIMPS) are often described as 'life altering' experiences, a pathway to raising social consciousness, as well as promoting cultural and social understanding. This qualitative research investigated the impact of SIMPs on seventeen students who took part in SIMPs during their course of study in two higher…

This study examines preservice teachers' perceptions of teaching mathematics using social justice topics to make mathematics accessible to all students. Situated at a large, public, predominantly White institution in the southeast United States, where preservice teachers are not required to take a course on teaching diverse populations,…

One of the first plays that the author assigned in his Spring 2017 Shakespeare for the 21st Century class was "Julius Caesar." In conjunction with the play, he handed out an article written by political commentator Andrew McGill that explained the decision by West Virginian coal miners, a demographic that had historically voted blue in…

In their bold vision Forward Framework, the Association for College Personnel Administrators (ACPA; 2018) has defined an explorative divesting of power from colonizers as decolonization. The definition of decolonization is "a long-term process of first recognizing and then divesting bureaucratic, cultural, linguistic, educational, and…

Ongoing curriculum change in higher education is essential to enhance student learning and better prepare them for the job-market. However, research shows that faculty are reluctant to implement such changes because students generally react adversely thereby negating any potential benefits, and moreover, sanction faculty through lower evaluations…

Sanism is the systematic oppression of people who have experiences often labeled as "mental illness." The author, a psychiatrically disabled, queer art therapist, describes her direct experiences of stigma and sanism as a past art therapy student and current art therapy educator. The framework of disability justice, a creative and…

Changing mindsets may influence college students' motivation to learn, which in turn affects how they engage in learning activities. Based on mindset theory (Gollwitzer 1990; Gollwitzer 2012), this study explored the extent to which the concepts of the deliberative and implemental mindset are value-laden, and hence, might have different effects…

Background: The extent to which students view their intelligence as improvable (i.e., their "mindset") influences students' thoughts, behaviors, and ultimately their academic success. Thus, understanding the development of students' mindsets is of great interest to education scholars working to understand and promote student success.…

This study examines freshmen education candidates' perceptions of Title I schools prior to and following a four-day field experience in Title I schools. Analyses of pre and post-field experience surveys reveal the experience affected candidates' perspectives. Over the course of the field experience, they developed a more favorable and optimistic…

Purpose: This paper aims to compare the findings from a survey of a cohort of students at an Australian regional university across two time points: immediately on commencing their first semester of study and at the end of their final semester of study to determine whether, and in what ways, these students' views concerning sustainability appear to…