The present study examines real-life classroom situations in which children display visible emotions.

Immigrant early childhood education and care (ECEC) educators possess unique assets that could enrich ECEC practices, curriculum development, and teacher preparation. However, there is scant research on the professional experiences of these educators in their host countries. This systematic review analyzes 22 studies concerning the construction of professional identity among immigrant ECEC educators.

This research concerns the initial perceptions of pedagogical understanding and competence among students embarking on a blended teacher training program aiming to integrate work and study outside university hubs.

Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, including large language models (LLMs) that can generate novel text output, present promise for creating tailored science communication for broad audiences. However, LLMs might reflect inaccuracies and social biases from their training sources. In this work, we examine the promises and challenges of using LLMs to depict climate issues from…

Learning management systems (LMSs) were foregrounded during the pandemic, yet a paucity of studies has traced the socio-material relationship between LMSs and educator professional selves. Mobilising the mangle of practice, the research explores how materiality is implicated in lecturer positioning.

This article investigates whether the use of instruments providing quantifiable force feedback in manual skill learning can assist students with learning difficulties.

This study explores the perceived effectiveness of an open educational reading programme for primary school pupils with specific learning difficulties (SpLD) such as dyslexia. The programme, implemented by experienced teaching assistants (TAs), encompassed multiple aspects of reading, including phonics, sight word reading, reading fluency, vocabulary development and comprehension strategies, addressing the diverse needs of students…

The Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and Alternative Provision (AP) Improvement Plan has been published for England and includes a recommendation for SEND Assessment and Review Teams guidance.

This research identifies new approaches to education health and care plan (EHCP) provision since the start of the Covid-19 (C-19) pandemic (March 2020 to March 2021). This qualitative research was conducted after the C-19 pandemic and used online questionnaires to identify the perceptions of 64 SENCos recruited from mainstream primary and secondary schools across southeast…

Through emotion socialization, parents shape their children’s emotional development. Parents’ characteristics determine how they do this. We investigated parents’ emotion regulation, belief in the importance of emotion talk, and emotion socialization in the form of emotion talk in relation to toddlers’ emotion regulation. (pdf)

Dance has benefits in children’s development, including increased self-confidence, physical and mental growth. While much research explores preschool children’s experiences in dance courses, most studies involve pre-designed choreographies led by adults. Some argue that young children have limited ability to create their own choreography. This research challenges that by giving children the opportunity to co-create…

Over the past decade, Swedish sloyd educators have grappled with the challenge of integrating "aesthetic and cultural expressions" into their teaching practice. This article examines the evolution of the concept aesthetical and cultural expressions in educational guidelines.