Extending print-based genre frameworks into the digital media context, this study examined the prevalence, distribution, and instructional quality of informational videos that young children (ages 3–8) viewed on YouTube.

In the digital age, academic success increasingly depends on information problem solving competence: the ability to find, evaluate, process, and synthesize information into knowledge products. This study decomposes the cognitive activities of the AI-mediated IPS process and pinpoints where students need guidance and support.

The role of governance in school leadership is well established, yet high‑profile failures continue to expose systemic weaknesses. This article reports a comparative study of school governance in Manitoba, Canada and England.

This systematic review examines the instruction-oriented middle leadership role of Teaching Research Group (TRG) leaders within Chinese secondary schools. Drawing from both Chinese and international contexts, the study investigates the impact of TRG leadership practices on teachers’ professional development, instructional practices, and professional resilience.

Generative AI tools are having a notable influence on the nature of engagement with information and decision making across society. Our scoping literature review, covering the 2010–2024 timespan, explores the intersection of educational leadership, policy and AI and examines how these have been investigated in relation to compulsory school settings.

This study examined the degree of autonomy experienced by public school principals in the United Arab Emirates under the Emirates School Establishment (ESE), and explored the challenges they face within a centralized governance system.

Collaboration is widely promoted as a driver of educational change, yet policy discourse often obscures the sociocultural, organizational, and political dynamics shaping its enactment. This study examines how collaboration is constructed in Hong Kong’s K–12 system through critical policy analysis and narrative interviews with principals.

The possibility of physical interaction is often described as a supportive element for children’s social-emotional development during the pre-school years. During the COVID-19 pandemic opportunities for teachers and young children to engage in ordinary physical contact was reduced. This study examined whether a decrease in such contact was associated with teachers’ reports of children’s psychological…

There are large individual differences in early numerical skills. The present study aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties of a test assessing the early development of numerical skills in the context of French preschool and kindergarten education.

This study investigated the impact of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library worldwide on children’s emergent literacy skills aged three to five years. The Imagination Library delivers age-appropriate books to children from birth to age five in the United States, Australia, Canada, the Republic of Ireland, and the United Kingdom.

To ensure that all children can fulfill their potential, it is essential to examine the factors underlying poverty-related achievement gaps. This study investigates the extent to which EF explains disparities in academic outcomes among South African preschool children.

This study uses latent profile analysis to examine how individual patterns of play (social, solitary, reticent, and rough-and-tumble), language (vocabulary and pragmatic language), and attention are associated, and how relevant covariates predict profile membership.