A Closer Look at Teachers’ Proportional Reasoning
Author(s): Yasemin Copur-Gencturk, Clare Baek & Tenzin Doleck
Keywords: Mathematical knowledge for teaching; Proportional reasoning; Ratios and proportional relationships; Teacher knowledge
Abstract: Teachers’ mathematical knowledge has important consequences for the quality of the learning environment they create for their students to learn mathematics. Yet relatively little is known about how teachers reason proportionally...
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A Dirty Little Secret: Studying Imagination, Imaginatively, in a Leadership Education Graduate Program
Author(s): Gillian Judson
Abstract: This article describes my tumultuous journey studying imagination in a graduate leadership seminar using an arts-based pedagogy called Performative Inquiry. Focusing on my own teaching and learning in this course, I share insights that inform my future teaching and can support colleagues interested in exploring imagination with their students. I accepted risks associated with arts-based performances and entered a shared space of vulnerability with my students...
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A lifetime of experience: an international study on the lives of teacher educators: Theme 2: researching teacher educators, their lives and their learning
Author(s): Clare Kosnik, Lydia Menna, Pooja Dharamshi
Keywords: Teacher educators, History of teacher education, Reform efforts, Literacy teacher educators, Politicization of teacher education, Research on teacher educators, Teacher educators and politics, Teacher educator identity, Teacher educators doing research
Abstract: This article begins by outlining the history of teacher education—from an apprenticeship model to an intellectual endeavor back to apprenticeship-type programs. It shows how the dismantling of traditional university-based teacher education programs by governments led to...
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A method for meta-reviews of research unfolding the unavoidable systemic nature of affect
Author(s): Chiara Andrà, Andrea Amico, Cristina Scalvini, Luca Doria, Peter Liljedahl, Matteo Pezzutto
Abstract: This paper can be considered a methodological contribution for qualitative meta-reviews of research published in the field of affect in mathematics education. We apply this method to a Special Issue and to an ICMI Book, in order to test whether affect emerges in its systemic nature, or whether single affective variables are considered in each paper under consideration. Different types of cases emerged in our investigation…
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A preliminary investigation into the effectiveness of online modules for teaching research and writing skills to multilingual international post-secondary students
Author(s): Daniel H. Chang, Julia Lane, Hope Power
Keywords: Online Instruction, Writing Centres, EAL Writers, Library Instruction, International Students, Writing and Research Support
Abstract: This paper describes a pilot project undertaken in 2019 by library instructors at Simon Fraser University (SFU) to transition from in-person to online research and writing skills instruction within the context of a foundational course for multilingual international students...
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A Two-Eyed Seeing Teaching and Learning Framework for Science Education
Author(s): Connie Cirkony, John Kenny & David Zandvliet
Keywords: Culturally responsive science education; Indigenous sciences; Inquiry-based learning and teaching; Nature of science; Representations; Two-Eyed Seeing
Abstract: Worldwide, education jurisdictions are looking for authentic ways to address First Nations perspectives in the K-12 curriculum, including science education. At the same time, there have been ongoing efforts to integrate authentic and engaging approaches to teaching science, including those that are student-centred, inquiry-based, multimodal, and linked to meaningful contexts...
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A Walking Curriculum: From “Good Ideas for Walks” to Transformative Design for Eco-Social Change
Author(s): Gillian Judson, Michael Datura
Keywords: eco-social change, educational change, ecological policy, Imaginative Ecological Education, walking curriculum / changement éco-social, changement éducationnel, politique écologique, Enseignement écologique et imaginatif, curriculum pour la marche
Abstract: This pilot implementation study examines the experiences of ten teachers who have employed a place-based learning resource called A Walking Curriculum for one to three years…
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Animated Video-Making: A Collaborative Approach to Researching Inclusion and Support for Immigrant Seniors
Author(s): Annie Hung, Ching-Chiu Lin
Keywords: COVID-19 pandemic, arts-based research, community art education, collaborative artmaking, animation, immigrant seniors
Abstract: This visual essay describes how we as artist-scholars used arts-based research (ABR) to examine seniors’ experience during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as to consider ways of fostering social inclusion and integration through an ABR approach to public engagement with research. Central to this inquiry is how ABR, as visual storytelling that combines a narrative with digital content, allows us to capture these seniors’ complex lived experiences while serving as public-friendly research output accessible to a wide range of community members.
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Approaches to Bio-Cultural Diversity in British Columbia
Author(s): David Zandvliet, Shannon Leddy, Cate Inver, Victor Elderton, Brittney Townrow, Lori York
Keywords: environmental and sustainability education; experiential education; Indigenous education; land-based education; place-based education
Abstract: This paper highlights an action research project into some decolonizing practices for environmental learning in the Canadian context of the British Columbia (BC) curriculum through case study and focus groups with Indigenous educators. A key finding taken from... 
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Argument mapping as a pre-writing activity: Does it promote writing skills of EFL learners?
Author(s):  Qing Liu, Zhiying Zhong, John Nesbit
Abstract:  Argumentation is a complex intellectual skill essential for academic achievement in a range of scholarly disciplines. Argumentative writing demands effective coordination of language use, reasoning processes, and background knowledge about a given topic. It is a cognitively challenging activity, especially for students learning English as a Foreign Language (EFL). The Dialectical Map (DMap) is an open-source argument visualization tool that scaffolds argument analysis, evaluation, and construction…
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As rare as unicorns
Author(s): Saba Ghezili, Angel Lin
Abstract: In this chapter, we aim to explore some complications faced by women in academia in their professional journeys. Following a conversation between Saba (graduate student) with Angel (author and full professor) – in which Angel shares her journey as an academic, and Saba further explores the persisting discrimination that women faculty contend with. Using both of their autoethnographic descriptions, Saba identified themes pertaining to both internal and external aspects of women faculty members’ experiences of discrimination...
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Aspects of Canadian versions of so-called “modern” mathematics and its teaching: Another visit to the old “new” math (s)
Author(s): David Pimm, Nathalie Sinclair
Keywords: Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, CMESG, Cuisenaire rods, John Coleman, Math textbooks, Multi-base blocks, Ontario, Professional journals, Professional organizations, Provinces, Québec, Reform, Zoltán Dienes
Abstract: Not often cited as one of the countries making major contributions to new/modern math movements in school mathematics, the case(s) in Canada may seem of lesser interest to the international community. However, in this chapter, we show how the multiple forces acting on...
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Assessing learning processes
Author: Philip Winne
Keywords: CognitionGraph theory, If-Then tactic, learning process, learning strategy, learning tactic, Multimodal data, nStudy software, Process mining, Operational definition, Self-regulated learning, Think aloud protocol, Trace data
Abstract: Assessments of learning processes have relied on surveys and think aloud protocols. Because learners forget, recall with bias and lack expertise for describing learning events, these assessments have limited validity. Multimodal measures of physiological states are proxies for learning processes with similar shortcomings…
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Barriers to Reflective Learning: Perspectives of University Students and Instructors
Author(s): Addisu Leyew Bailie, Engida Gebre
Abstract: Studies have outlined postsecondary students’ lack engagement in reflective learning. However, factors affecting students’ engagement has not been studied from the perspective of students. This study examined barriers of reflective learning as perceived by students and instructors in a large university in Western Canada…
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Being in good relations: higher education's responsibilities to Indigenous resurgence
Author: Michelle Pidgeon      
Abstract: The aim of this book chapter is to explore what it means for higher education to be in good relations with Indigenous peoples' self-determination and resurgence in Kanada, also known as Canada. “Indigenous resurgence means having the courage and imagination to envision life beyond the state” as defined through colonially imposed government structures ...
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Biosemiotics for postdigital living: the implications of the implications
Author(s): Alin Olteanu, Cary Campbell
Keywords: cultural pluralism; evolution; learning theory; modeling; postdigital education; technology
Abstract: The postdigital condition is discussed from the perspective of Paul Cobley’s biosemiotic approach to culture. While semiotics is often concerned with cultural criticism, there has been no explicit biosemiotic approach to culture, until only recently with...
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Can the Monkey King break through the ‘Jin-Gang-Quan’ (金剛圈)? Overcoming the multiple contradictions in EMI education
Author(s): Angel Lin
Keywords: English medium instruction, content and language integrated learning, plurilanguaging assessment, neoliberalist coloniality, translanguaging, affective decolonization
Abstract: Upholding a critical, ethical, multilingual stance presents numerous challenges amidst a myriad of institutional, infrastructural, and societal pressures. Despite significant breakthroughs, such as translanguaging theories and pedagogies and the evolution of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) principles, the journey towards a more inclusive and equitable English language education remains fraught with difficulties…
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Challenging the “Science from nowhere” perspective in the classroom: Action research about a historical case of Brazilian science
Author(s): Douglas Cardinot, Cristiano Moura, Andreia Guerra
Abstract: Studies in the field of science education have discussed using historical approaches. Although previous studies have shown the potential advantages to addressing national sciences in the classroom in countries underrepresented in the history of science, there are still few initiatives in this direction. Thus, this paper aims to explore ...
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CHAT-ACTS: A pedagogical framework for personalized chatbot to enhance active learning and self-regulated learning
Author(s): Michael Pin-Chuan Lin, Daniel Chang
Keywords: Chatbot, Active learning, Self-regulated learning, Pedagogy, Educational technology
Abstract: The CHAT-ACTS pedagogical framework presented in this paper integrates personalized chatbots into active and self-regulated learning (SRL) to enhance student engagement, motivation, and learning outcomes. Employing three primary learning modes - Personalized Chatbot, Self-Regulated Learning, and Active Learning - the learner occupies the central position, symbolizing their active role in shaping their learning journey…
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Community arts education: Transversal global perspectives
Author(s): Ching-Chiu Lin, Anita Sinner, Rita L Irwin
Abstract: This edited collection offers global perspectives on the transverse, boundary-blurring possibilities of community arts education. Invoking ‘transversality’as an overarching theoretical framework and a methodological structure, 55 contributors–community professionals, scholars, artists, educators and activists from sixteen countries–offer studies and practical cases exploring the complexities of community arts ...
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Conversation Analysis, Critical Literacies, Translanguaging and Flows: The Influence on My Intellectual Journey
Author:  Angel Lin
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Children’s digital play as collective family resilience in the face of the pandemic
Author(s): Anne Burke, Kristiina Kumpulainen, Caighlan Smith
Keywords: Agency, childhood cultures, children’s use of social media platforms, children’s perspectives, co-construction, family involvement, home and community, identity, narrative, play
Abstract: In this article we explore how digital play as conducted through various social media and online meeting platforms facilitated resiliency and confidence building in children during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using day-in-the-life methodology and narrative inquiry...
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Citizenship Outcomes and Place-Based Learning Environments in an Integrated Environmental Studies Program
Author(s): Gordon Robert Sturrock, David Zandvliet
Keywords: citizenship education; environmental learning; learning environments; place-based education
Abstract: This paper discusses the effects of the learning environment on an important and unique 21st century learning outcome—that of active citizenship, in contrast to more conventionally measured cognitive and attitudinal outcomes. In our study, we utilized ...
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Coming to our senses: Zen and the art of ecoactivism
Author:  Heesoon Bai
Keywords:  Zen, metaphysics of domination and control, embodiment and emplacement, animate living nature, interbeing
Abstract:  The inclusion of ‘consciousness’ in Michael Bonnett’s paper signals to me that the right place for examination of the ongoing and deepening environmental disasters that humans face is human consciousness itself: the way we think, perceive, and feel, which flows into the way we relate to and act towards nature…
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Community Arts Education: Transversal Global Perspectives
Author(s): Ching-Chiu Lin, Anita Sinner, Rita L Irwin
Abstract: Introduction: Community Arts Education: Transversal Global PerspectivesThis book is an international collaboration among 55 community professionals, scholars, artists, educators and activists from sixteen countries. ‘Transversality’ signifies both the overarching theoretical framework and the methodological structure for reimaging the complexity of community arts education. The authors explore how community art education shifts our understanding of knowledge from a passive construct to an active component of social life…
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Conceptions of Zero: A Review of Amir D. Aczel’s Finding Zero: A Mathematician's Odyssey to Uncover the Origins of Numbers
Author(s): Sean Chorney
Abstract: In the 2003 Pixar animation Finding Nemo, a clownfish named Marlin is an overprotective father, and for good reason: he has recently gone through the trauma of losing both his wife and all their fertilized eggs save one. Nemo is his only remaining offspring...
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Contemplation as a Quintessential Educational Project for our Times
Author(s): Heesoon Bai, Laurie Anderson, Charles Scott
Abstract: The authors mount an argument in which an etiological link is made between contemporary existential malaise and marginalization of human subjectivity/intersubjectivity and prioritization of the modernist science-driven value of objectivity. We make a case that the failure to validate the inherent value of subjectivity in education has created an imbalanced, incomplete approach to education, resulting in the tide of loneliness, anomie, and disconnection...
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Counting the stars: advancing mathematical activity in a scripting journey
Author(s): Andrew Kercher, Anna Marie Bergman, Rina Zazkis
Keywords: Star polygons, scripting tasks, investigation tasks, teacher education, advancing mathematical activity
Abstract: Research indicates that investigating phenomena, rather than reproducing facts, should be a core experience in the education of prospective mathematics teachers. Corresponding with its centrality to quality teacher education, there are multiple existing methodologies ...
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Cultivating Imagination in Leadership: Transforming Schools and Communities
Author(s): Gillian Judson, Meaghan Dougherty
Keywords: imagination, leadership education, cognitive tools, imaginative education, school leadership, story
Abstract: This comprehensive book provides a theoretical understanding of how imagination contributes to effective leadership, as well as practical tools all educational leaders can employ to cultivate their imaginations and the imaginations of others in their communities...
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Cultivating Leadership Imagination with Cognitive Tools: An Imagination-Focused Approach to Leadership Education
Author(s): Gillian Judson
Keywords: imagination, leadership education, cognitive tools, imaginative education, school leadership, story
Abstract: This conceptual and practical paper aims to expand understanding of imagination in ways that have direct implications for leadership education and research. First, imagination is conceptualized as soil, an analogy that can address misconceptions about imagination and ...
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Data science pedagogical tools and practices: A systematic literature review
Author(s): Bahar Memarian, Tenzin Doleck
Abstract: The development of data science curricula has gained attention in academia and industry. Yet, less is known about the pedagogical practices and tools employed in data science education. Through a systematic literature review, we summarize prior pedagogical practices and tools used in data science initiatives at the higher education level. Following the Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) framework, we aim to characterize the technological and pedagogical knowledge quality of reviewed studies, as we find the content presented to be diverse and incomparable...
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Datafication in and of Education–a literature
Author(s): Ola Erstad, øYstein Gilje, Greta Björk Gudmundsdottir, Rebekka Baunbæk Wagstaffe, Kristiina Kumpulainen, Olga Viberg, Ben Williamson, Jo Tondeur and Sarah Howard
Abstract: As European citizens we live in technology-rich societies, where handling of digital data has become a key economic driving force in what is often termed as the ‘attention economy’(van Krieken, 2018) and ‘surveillance capitalism’(Zuboff, 2019). The foundational element is digital data, which has had a major impact on our conceptions of socio-cultural developments, health management systems and our education systems…
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Definitional ambiguity in mathematics: three cases
Author(s): Anna Marie Bergman, Andrew Kercher, Keith Gallagher, Rina Zazkis
Keywords: Definitions, Definitional ambiguity, Mathematics teachers
Abstract: Definitions are an integral aspect of mathematics. In particular, they form the backbone of deductive reasoning and facilitate precision in mathematical communication. However, when multiple non-equivalent definitions for the same term exist, their ability to serve ...
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Dialogic learning with the “more-than-human world”: Insights from posthuman theorising
Author(s): Kristiina Kumpulainen, Chin Chin Wong, Jenny Renlund, Jenny Byman
Abstract: This chapter extends the literature on dialogic learning with posthuman theorising with the aim of better understanding how children enter into dialogue and develop their relations with the living world. A posthuman view regards dialogue as a relational entanglement across human and nonhuman worlds. We hold that such theoretical advancement has important implications for educational theory and practice...
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Disability Policy in the Context of Intersectionality, Contemporary Oppressions, and Injustices: Toward a Just Future
Author(s): Elizabeth B Kozleski, William A Proffitt, Inna Stepaniuk
Keywords: ability, ADA, disability, intersectionality, equity, policy
Abstract: This article connects the pillars of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to the complexities of living and dying in the United States. Our argument navigates among the emancipatory intent of ADA and the lives of people whose access to power, emancipation, and ...
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Dwelling in borderlands: a conversation between two science teachers-researchers
Author(s): Cristiano B Moura, Andreia Guerra
Keywords: Teacher-researcher, Critical pedagogy, Borderland, Science education, Praxis, Dialogue
Abstract: Inspired by Freire’s principle of dialogue, in this article we present a series of dialogues and critical syntheses between a science teacher-researcher with 35 years of experience and an early-career science teacher-researcher. We explore ...
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Designing Education for Eco-Social-Cultural Change
Author(s): Mark Fettes, Sean Blenkinsop
Abstract: Transforming education in response to the ecological crisis can be approached through the process of systemic design. This chapter outlines three organizing concepts and six design prompts intended to challenge and undermine key premises of the Capitalocene, the socio-economic-political landscape sustaining the current educational regime. The organizing concepts (the wild, the sacred, and the just) were chosen and elaborated as a way to evoke the self-renewing, self-willed interrelatedness of all organic life on Earth...
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Design strategies to integrate creative learning in elementary school curricula through computer programming activities
Author(s): Yumiko Murai, Ryohei Ikejiri, Yuhei Yamauchi, Ai Tanaka, Seiko Nakano
Keywords: Creative learning, constructionism, computer programming education, curriculum integration, elementary education, coding education
Abstract: Cultivating children’s creativity and imagination is fundamental to preparing them for an increasingly complex and uncertain future. Engaging in creative learning enables children to think independently and critically, work cooperatively, and take risks while actively engaged in meaningful projects…
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Dynamic flows of translanguaging/trans-semiotizing in CLIL eco-social systems
Author(s):  Peichang He, Angel Lin
Keywords:  Translanguaging, trans-semiotizing, flow, new materiality, semiotic repertoires, multimodalities/entextualization cycle (MEC)
Abstract:  This article drew on the recent dynamic, distributed view of translanguaging and flows and the New Materiality view of meaning making to explore content and language integrated learning (CLIL) activities in an English-Medium-Instruction (EMI) secondary Science classroom.
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Editorial introduction: Contemplative and Holistic Education as Inside-Out Work for Healing, Peace, Justice, and Equity
Author(s): Heesoon Bai, Charles Scott, Cary L Campbell, Jwalin Patel
Abstract: What does it mean to acknowledge Land in writing, and furthermore—in an open-access journal article that could conceivably be read anywhere and anytime? Importantly, as Khelsilem Tl’aḵwasiḵ’an Sxwchálten (2014, n.p.) community leader and councillor of the Squamish nation, says “Talking about unceded territory does nothing to achieve justice or form restitution with the Indigenous peoples who are dispossessed from their land. Instead—actively live it.”
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Educational Design Principles of Using AI Chatbot That Supports Self-Regulated Learning in Education: Goal Setting, Feedback, and Personalization
Author(s): Daniel Chang, Michael Pin-Chuan Lin, Shiva Hajian, Quincy Q Wang
Keywords: chatbot; self-regulated learning; AI pedagogy; judgement of learning
Abstract: The invention of ChatGPT and generative AI technologies presents educators with significant challenges, as concerns arise regarding students potentially exploiting these tools unethically, misrepresenting their work, or gaining academic merits without active participation in the learning process. To effectively navigate this shift, it is crucial to embrace AI as a contemporary educational trend and establish pedagogical principles for properly utilizing emerging technologies like ChatGPT to promote self-regulation...
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Education as the Practice of Eco-Social-Cultural Change
Author(s): Mark Fettes, Sean Blenkinsop
Abstract: The current ecological crisis is the consequence of entrenched attitudes, discourses and behaviours in human societies worldwide, fostered and reinforced through modern educational traditions, processes and institutions. This book envisions a radical transformation of education to focus on the mutual flourishing of human societies with the rest of life on Earth. In part, the authors suggest approaching this as a problem of systemic design, incorporating principles that challenge and undermine key premises of the Capitalocene...
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Effective Teaching: Linking Outcomes of Active Citizenship to Learning Environments
Author(s): Gordon Sturrock & David Zandvliet
Keywords: Learning environments, Active citizenship, Place based learning
Abstract: This chapter discusses the use of a learning environment instrument, the Place-Based Learning and Constructivist Environment Survey (PLACES) in an environmental studies program that operated out of British Columbia, Canada. In order to access information about students’ perceptions, the instrument was implemented in an Integrated Environmental Studies program called Experiential Studies 10 (ES 10) as part of a range of evaluation methods. The study was retrospective in nature utilizing a mixed method approach to determine the long-term effects of the program on participants’ citizenship activities…
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Emergent Technologies for Developing Mathematical Objects-to-Think-With
Author(s): Krista Francis, Brent Davis, Cathy Bruce, Nathalie Sinclair
Keywords: Digital technologies, Coding, Objects-to-think-with, Number lines, Grids
Abstract: This chapter focuses on a cluster of conceptual tools and strategies that are common across topics in school mathematics and are ubiquitous in coding-based contexts. Borrowing from Papert (1980), we propose number lines and mutable grids as objects-to-think-with rather than as objectives of instruction themselves. Through four vignettes, we illustrate how such objects-to-think-with can be leveraged...
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Emotion regulation in teamwork during a challenging hackathon: Comparison of  best and worst teams
Author(s):  Maedeh Kazemitabar, Susanne P. Lajoie, Tenzin Doleck
Abstract:  Research has demonstrated the power of emotion regulation in managing challenges students face in different learning contexts. However, emotion research in team-learning where challenges become more evident is yet in its infancy. The current study examines case studies of two teams (high and low performing) in a hackathon…
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Encounters With “Love and Math” A Belated Review of Edward Frenkel’s Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden
Author(s): Anna Marie Bergman, Andrew Kercher, Keith Gallagher & Rina Zazkis
Abstract: In “Love and Math” the author intertwines his personal experiences as a student of mathematics and as a research mathematician with an exposition of modern mathematics, focusing on its elegance and beauty. Much is said in previous reviews (eg, Grosholz, 2015) of ...
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English-medium instruction (EMI) in higher education in Taiwan: A review and critical reflection on why, how, and for whom
Author(s): Kao Chia-Ling Gupta, Angel Lin
Abstract: The global spread of English has contributed to the wide use of English-medium instruction (EMI). This chapter critically analyzes the literature on using EMI in East Asian contexts, specifically in Taiwan. EMI in Taiwan is still in its infancy, as compared to some postcolonial contexts in Asia…
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Examining the Relationship Between Socially-Shared Emotion Regulation and Building Team Coordination Mechanisms During a Hackathon
Author(s):  Maedeh Kazemitabar, Susanne P. Lajoie, Tenzin Doleck
Abstract:  For effective teamwork, especially in demanding learning situations like a hackathon, coordination is crucial as it contributes to mutual trust and shared mental models of team members. However, teams experience challenges that mar team coordination. Research has shown that interpersonal skills such as socially-shared emotion regulation (SSER) can be key in dealing with such challenges…
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Exercising space: re-examining young people’s use of digitised health and physical education (HPE) technologies through a spatial lens
Author(s):  Kemal Ahson, Kristiina Kumpulainen, Shirley Gray, Maria José Camacho Miñano, Emma Rich
Keywords:  Space; digitised health and physical education (HPE) technologies; Lefebvre; learning environments
Abstract:  The potential for technologies to transform health and physical education (HPE) has received increasing international attention in both policy and academic contexts. However, what is absent from much of this work is a lack of appreciation of the spatial dimension that recognises the relationship between how young people use digitised HPE technologies and where they use them…
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Explanatory inferencing in simulation-based discovery learning: sequence analysis using the edit distance median string
Author(s):  Teeba Obaid, John Nesbit, Ahmad Mahmoody Ghaidary, Misha Jain, Shiva Hajian
Keywords: Guided discovery learning, Scientific simulation, Sequence analysis, Levenshtein edit distance, Generalized median string, K-means clustering
Abstract: Understanding scientific phenomena requires learners to construct mental models of causal systems. Simulation-based discovery learning offers learners the opportunity to construct mental models and test them against the behavior of a simulation. The purpose of this study was to ...
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Exploring ChatGPT’s Impact on Post-secondary Education: A Qualitative Study
Author(s): Rajabi, Parsa, Taghipour, Parnian, Cukierman, Diana, Tenzin Doleck
Keywords: ChatGPT, Conversational AI, Artificial Intelligence in education, Post-secondaries, Higher education, Assessment
Abstract: As Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer (ChatGPT) gains traction, its impact on post-secondary education is increasingly being debated. This qualitative study explores the perception of students and faculty members at a research university in Canada regarding ChatGPT’s use in a post-secondary setting, focusing on how it could be incorporated and what ways instructors can respond to this technology…
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Exploring the intersections of immigrant seniors’ digital literacies and social connectedness: a Canadian study
Author(s): Ching-Chiu Lin, Li Nathan J., Lee Ena
Abstract: Seniors’ adoption of emerging technologies is crucial to their social connectedness, well-being, and digital participation in society. This article presents a Canadian study on how immigrant seniors established and sustained social connections through their engagement with digital technologies during the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, we aim to (1) deepen understandings of how immigrant seniors’ learning through and about technologies can shed light on our conceptualization of seniors’ digital literacies and (2) suggest programs and pedagogies that could foster lifelong learning for seniors...
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Exploring content and language co-construction in CLIL with semantic waves
Author(s):  Yuen Yi Lo; Angel Lin; Yiqi Liu
Keywords:  Bilingual education, content and language integrated learning (CLIL), classroom discourse
Abstract:  In content and language integrated learning (CLIL) classrooms, it is assumed that non-language content subjects provide more authentic communicative contexts for students to learn a foreign/second/additional language (L2). However, learning abstract concepts and academic language in an L2 simultaneously is also challenging for CLIL students…
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Facilitating the Comprehension of Academic Content in the TOEFL iBT Test Preparation Classroom
Author(s): Qinghua Chen, Angel Lin
Abstract: The Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) iBT test is required by many universities for admission which has fostered training businesses in many Asian countries. Although there is an abundance of academic content in TOEFL test material, most of the research attention has ...
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Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics (FATE) in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and higher education: A systematic review
Author(s):  Memarian, Bahar, Tenzin Doleck,
Keywords:  Artificial intelligence; Higher education; Fairness; Accountability; Transparency; Ethics
Abstract:  Background: The use of Artificial Intelligence or AI is rising in higher education. With this rise, the morality of AI programs is being questioned. There is, as such, a need to understand how notions of Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics or FATE are identified in the AI and higher education studies to date…
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Flow and Variation Theory: Powerful Allies in Creating and Maintaining Thinking in the Classroom
Author: Peter Liljedahl
Keywords: Flow, Variation theory, Engagement, Thinking, Problem-solving
Abstract: Getting students to think about highly engaging non-curricular tasks turns out to not be that challenging. The challenge is getting students to bring the same level of engagement and thinking to curricular tasks. In this chapter, I look at three examples of what can happen when...
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Fostering Students’ Decentring and Multiperspectivity: A Cross-Discussion on Translanguaging as a Plurilingual Tool in Higher Education
Author(s): Daryai-Hansen, Petra & Moore, Danièle & Pearce, Daniel & Oyama, Mayo
Abstract: This contribution presents results from collaborative research in Denmark and Japan to compare the representations that university students develop around plurilingualism and plurilingual approaches to teaching and learning in two highly differentiated contexts. This collaboration supports a multi-site reflective approach that also aims to pluralize representations of translanguaging for learning, and as a collaborative tool to foster epistemological and methodological discussions in transnational educational research.
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From Cultural Revolution to Contemplative Revolution: Dr. Jing Lin's Inspirational Odyssey in Holistic Education
Author(s): Hyeyoung Bang, Jing Lin, Heesoon Bai
Keywords: interview, Jing Lin, holistic education, Daoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, qi energy, postsecondary teaching practice, interbeing, ecological ethics, climate change, American Education Research Association, “we teach who we are”
Abstract: In this interview, Dr. Annie Rappeport and Dr. Heesoon Bai and give Dr. Jing Lin, a pioneer in holistic and contemplative education, the opportunity to recount the early influences in her life (e.g., the Cultural Revolution in China (1966-1976), her graduate school experiences, her early professorial career, the transformative influence of Daoist, Confucian, and Buddhist philosophies on her personal and academic lives, and her advocacy of those philosophies...
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From performance to perseverance: Equity, diversity, inclusion, decolonization, and Indigenization in Canadian higher education
Author(s): Ee-Seul Yoon, Jeannie Kerr
Abstract: What a rejuvenating Canadian Society for the Study of Education annual conference we had during a warm spring week at York University! It was great to see so many familiar colleagues and friends from coast to coast and to meet new ones. This CJE issue picks up on some of the conversations at…
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How teachers’ self-regulation, emotions, perceptions, and experiences predict their capacities for learning analytics dashboard: A Bayesian approach
Author(s): Yiming Liu, Lingyun Huang, Tenzin Doleck
Abstract: Learning analytics dashboards (LADs) are emerging tools that convert abstract, complex information with visualizations to facilitate teachers’ data-driven pedagogical decision-making. While many LADs have been designed, teachers’ capacities for using such LADs are not well articulated in the literature. To fill the gap, this study provided a conceptual definition highlighting data visualization literacy and integrating abilities as two critical components in LAD capacities. Moreover, this study assessed ...
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How  Socio-ecological Issues are Urging Changes in Curriculum (and beyond)
Author(s): Andrea Amico, Chiara Andrà, Sean Chorney, Alf Coles, Luca Doria, Tracy Helliwell, Jodie Hunter, Mariam Makramalla, Matteo Pezzutto, Laurie Rubel, Armando Solares
Abstract: In this Research Forum, we investigate ways to expand the curriculum of: school mathematics, university mathematics, mathematics teacher education and community groups, drawing on interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches. The aim of this Research Forum is to: (i) increase awareness of ecological and social crises, (ii) raise ecological, socio-economic and socio-political dilemmas and related pedagogical tensions, (iii) explore solutions that rely on mathematics, and support mathematical development, ownership, and responsibility. It has been claimed that “everything we know about the world’ climat —past, present, and future—we know through models” (Edwards, 2010, p. xiv, emphasis original)…
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How Universities Gaslight EDI&I Initiatives: Mapping Institutional Resistance to Structural Change
Author(s): Megan MacKenzie, Özlem Sensoy, Genevieve Fuji Johnson, Nathalie Sinclair, Laurel Weldon
Keywords: equity, diversity, inclusion, Indigenization, higher education policy
Abstract: Despite the visibility of equity, diversity, inclusion, and Indigenization (EDI&I) discourses within large institutions, such as post-secondary institutions, research has chronicled only modest advancements on these stated values. Blocks to advancements in EDI&I stem...
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Information Communication Technology (ICT) and Education
Author(s): Igor Balaban, Bart Rienties, Phil Winne
Keywords: ChatGPT, Conversational AI, Artificial Intelligence in education, Post-secondaries, Higher education, Assessment
Abstract: COVID-19 has accelerated the shift to blended or fully online learning environments, enforcing educational institutions to embrace technology and offer their students an online or at least blended learning experience [1,2]. A large amount of data became accessible through learning management systems (LMSs), but, as of yet, this has not been generally analysed in a proper manner nor used to improve the efficiency of teaching and learning [3]. Institutions usually do not consider such data to drive their strategy, nor are teachers required to use the data to improve their teaching practice [4,5,6]…
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Inquiry activities are not for everyone: teachers’ beliefs and professional development
Author(s):  Gabriella Pocalana, Ornella Robutti, Peter Liljedahl
Keywords: Teacher beliefs, teacher change, inquiry-based learning, teacher professional development
Abstract: This study investigates teachers’ beliefs about the inquiry-based learning approach in mathematics. In particular, as the first research problem, it addresses teachers’ beliefs about the appropriateness of inquiry activities for all students, after three years of attendance in...
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Interactional Ethnography Across Space and Time
Author(s): Kristiina Kumpulainen
Abstract: This commentary chapter moves from the author's personal encounters with Interactional Ethnography (IE) to considering its methodological power to inform educational research from an international perspective. In doing so, the chapter explains how this volume creates contextually rich insights about...
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Introduction to Part II of Mathematical Challenges For All: Many Faces of Mathematical Challenge
Author: Rina Zazkis
Keywords: Mathematical challenge, Undergraduate students, Teachers, Engagement with mathematics
Abstract: In this chapter, I start with a personal reflection on the notion of mathematical challenge. I then comment on the chapters in Part II. I conclude by presenting an expanded view on what mathematical challenge may entail.
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Introduction. A Journey Through the Text
Author(s): Alison Clark-Wilson, Ornella Robutti, Nathalie Sinclair
Abstract: The eight intervening years between this second edition of The Mathematics Teacher in the Digital Era and the frst edition have seen increased attention on the role of the teacher within technology-enhanced educational contexts, leading to a more developed understanding of...
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Introducing Contemplative Practices and Perspectives in Holistic Education
Author(s): Heesoon Bai, Charles Scott, Renee Owen
Abstract: An editorial by Charles Scott, Heeson Bai, and Renee Owen to introduce the artfully curated articles for the Holistic Education Review, Issue 3 Volume 2, Contemplative Perspectives and Practices in Holistic Education.
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Kierkegaard, Music, and Its Relation to the Performing Arts
Author: Yaroslav Senyshyn
Keywords: Kierkegaard, dramatic arts, music performance, music aesthetics, Adorno
Abstract: Kierkegaard's conceptualization of his aesthetic stage of existence is lacking even with a very unstinted acknowledgment of his undeniably profound and brilliant insights. For Kierkegaard the aesthetic stage is based only on the immediacy of feeling, thus a transitoriness that ultimately leads...
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Knowing as Remembering: Methodological Experiments in Embodied Experiences of Number
Author(s): Nathalie Sinclair
Abstract: A premise of this article is that the current methods used in mathematics education research may be preventing researchers from adequately addressing the body and, in particular, the alignment of acting and knowing. Pursuing a non-dualistic and non-hierarchical approach to learning and knowing, I experiment with new methods that aim to increase situated and embodied validity. I do so through a short video clip of a four-year-old child interacting with TouchCounts, which is a multi-touch application designed to support early number sense...
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Landing Sites, Cities, and Nonplaces: Collaborating Across the Conference Circuit
Author(s): Elizabeth de Freitas, Nathalie Sinclair
Keywords: place, learning, math, anthropocene, spatial logic
Abstract: This article keeps tuned to the ritual of scholarly gathering, an activity continued somewhat differently today in the online meeting. We aim to speak to current concerns about place and belonging under new climatic and digital regimes. We pose the question…
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Language and the Sustainable Development Goals: Challenges to Language Policy and Planning
Author(s): Mark Fettes
Keywords: Agency, Capabilities theory, Language equality, Language policy and planning, Sustainable development, United Nations
Abstract: Language is not mentioned in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), nor was it seriously considered as an important dimension of social and economic development in the UN planning process that preceded them. Nonetheless, a close examination of some key ideas put forth in that process challenges us to rethink ...
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Lay Hoon Seah, Rita Elaine Silver & Mark Charles Baildon: The role of language in content pedagogy: a framework for teachers’ knowledge
Author(s): Qinghua Chen, Amy Hughes, Scott Hughes, Angel Lin
Abstract:  Lay Hoon Seah, Rita Elaine Silver & Mark Charles Baildon: The role of language in content pedagogy: a framework for teachers’ knowledge…
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Learner conceptions of biological processes in a content and language integrated learning context
Author(s): Chunhong Liu, Megan Barker, Qinghua Chen, Maurice MW Cheng, Angel Lin
Keywords:  Biology Education, Thematic Patterns, Learner Conceptions, Content and Language Integrated Learning
Abstract:  In science education, learner conceptions concern how students interpret and understand scientific issues. Recent research into learner conceptions acknowledges students’ knowledge, experiences, language, and resources that demonstrate scientific reasoning rather than their misunderstanding.
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Learning to embrace discomfort: Accepting our historical responsibility and implication in systemic racism.
Author: Roger Frie
Abstract: The article considers what it means to be implicated in histories of racial violence and systems of injustice that we may not have had a hand in creating, but nevertheless have a responsibility to address. Using a series of examples from psychological settings in present-day Germany and the United States, the author analyzes defensive reactions that result when members of the majority are asked to confront the effects of genocide or the experiential realities of racism…
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Learning to innovate: Students and teachers constructing collective innovation practices in a primary school's makerspace
Author(s): Jasmiina Leskinen, Anu Kajamaa, Kristiina Kumpulainen
Keywords: collective innovation practices, innovation, makerspace, students, teachers, primary education
Abstract: The need for formal education to foster students’ competence to participate in the creation of innovations is widely recognized (eg, Keinänen et al., 2018; OECD, 2019). It is argued that individuals must learn to use knowledge in innovative ways to cope with…
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Logs or Self-Reports? Misalignment Between Behavioral Trace Data and Surveys When Modeling Learner Achievement Goal Orientation
Author(s): Heeryung Choi, Philip H. Winne, Christopher Brooks, Warren Li, Kerby Shedden
Keywords: achievement goals, trace data, survey data, latent variable mixture, modeling
Abstract: While learning analytics researchers have been diligently integrating trace log data into their studies, learners’ achievement goals are still predominantly measured by self-reported surveys. This study investigated the properties of trace data and survey data as representations of ...
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Multimodal learning analytics for assessing teachers’ self-regulated learning in planning technology-integrated lessons in a computer-based environment
Author(s): Lingyun Huang, Tenzin Doleck, Boyin Chen, Xiaoshan Huang, Chengyi Tan, Susanne P. Lajoie & Minhong Wang
Keywords: Logs; Multimodal learning analytics; Self-regulated learning; Think-aloud; TPACK
Abstract: Teachers’ self-regulated learning (SRL) plays a crucial role in developing technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK), a complex professional skill. It is crucial to identify teachers’ SRL activities that may lead to favorable TPACK. Previous studies have focused on the analysis of individual data sources from self-reported surveys or log files, which are insufficient to capture all SRL activities in the TPACK context. While multimodal learning analytics (MMLA) has the potential to improve SRL measurement...
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Supporting Indigenous student persistence: empowering student’s cultural integrity while transforming higher education
Author(s): Michelle Pidgeon
Keywords: Indigenous students; Higher education; Persistence; Cultural integrity; Decolonization; Indigenization; Reconciliation; Canada
Abstract: Within Canada, continuing educational attainment disparities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples persist, requiring further efforts to address systemic barriers that perpetuate these inequities. As higher institutions embark on the work of truth and reconciliation (Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC), 2015b), decolonization, and Indigenization, the time for system transformation is now to wholistically support Indigenous student success…
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Teaching English as a Second Language in the Early Years: Teachers’ Perspectives and Practices in Finland
Author(s): Selma Koyuncu, Kristiina Kumpulainen, Arniika Kuusisto
Keywords: second language education; English language teaching; early childhood education and care; teaching practices; assessment in early L2 education
Abstract: Second language (L2) education in the early years has been steadily increasing worldwide. Since second language education at earlier ages is relatively new in many countries, not much research is available regarding teaching practices in this context. Likewise, limited research attention has been directed to teachers’ perspectives on early L2 teaching. This study investigated what characterises teachers’ pedagogical planning, teaching practices and assessment of language learning, and teachers’ perspectives about..
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The 4Cs: Practicing Education for Eco-Social-Cultural Change
Author(s): Mark Fettes, Sean Blenkinsop
Abstract: Educators working for fundamental social change in response to the ecological crisis approach the challenge in a diversity of ways. This chapter summarizes a wide range of practices, competencies, capacities, and capabilities in four complementary “stances”—essentially, four different kinds of educational “ethos” for change. These are the critical educator, who plays the roles of activist (critiquing existing relationships and norms), ally (walking alongside and opening space for voices and practices that have been marginalized), and advocate (articulating and advancing alternatives to the status quo)...
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The role of digital technologies in mathematics education: purposes and perspectives
Author(s): Paul Drijvers, Nathalie Sinclair
Abstract: Over the last decades, digital technologies (DTs) have become ubiquitous in mathematics education. Still, their integration into classroom teaching and learning varies enormously. In this narrative overview, we focus on the different purposes for which DTs are used in mathematics education in order to study how the effectiveness of DTs depends on researchers’ underlying goals and perspectives. We set up an experience- and literature-based framework including five different purposes...
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Translanguaging and Trans-Semiotizing
Author(s): Marianne Turner, Angel Lin
Abstract: This chapter addresses translanguaging and trans-semiotizing as theoretical concepts and communicative practices and explores the different contextual influences of related scholarship. The ‘trans’ prefix has been increasingly used in discourse on globalization, and it refers to creativity and fluidity as much as to crossings. When applied to communication, the speakers/communicators constitute the focus, rather than languages. Different languages are not conceptualized to be discrete entities in themselves but are acknowledged to be social constructs and linguistic analytic descriptions...
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Transforming Education for Eco-Social-Cultural Change
Author(s): Mark Fettes, Sean Blenkinsop
Abstract: The systemic nature of the ecological crisis has prompted a wide range of research into transformative social change. Education, however, is largely absent from that literature, despite clear evidence of its role in contributing to the crisis. Following a review of a few of the main approaches to theorizing change, notably the literature on social-ecological resilience, this chapter focuses on the field of transformative or systemic design as the most promising framework for catalyzing radical educational reform...
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Tirer parti des outils numériques et de la comodalité pour favoriser le plurilinguisme en maternelle? Une étude de cas dans une école française aux États-Unis
Author(s): Nathalie Thamin, Danièle Moore, Nikolay Slavkov
Abstract: Our qualitative analysis aims to understand how kindergarten practitioners in a French school (lycée français) situated in the United States took advantage of digital tools to integrate plurilingualism as a learning resource in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, and after. This ecological research was set up with the aim of: analyzing the effect of adapting the teaching/learning practices to the pandemic context in the case of young plurilingual students, in particular those whose parents do not speak French...
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TL; DR: A Very Brief Guide to Reading and Writing in University
Author(s): Joel Heng Hartse
Keywords: Higher Education
Abstract: So, you’ve just been assigned your first university paper. Stuck on how to start? Stressed about failing or pulling all-nighters to get the work done? Writing instructor Joel Heng Hartse can help you get that assignment done. TL;DR’s quick, concise chapters will help you identify your audience, create an outline, get a handle on grammar and sentence structure, correctly quote a source, and write a strong conclusion. If you want to know what and how professors expect you to write – and why – this is the book for you.
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Mathematical Challenge of Seeking Causality in Unexpected Results
Author(s): Mark Applebaum, Rina Zazkis
Keywords: Intellectual needs, Causality, Unexpected solution, Proofs that explain
Abstract: It is agreed upon that a mathematical problem which is thought of as “difficult” but possibly accessible presents a challenge to the solver. We turn the conversation from a challenging task or problem to a challenging activity. We address in this chapter the challenge of convincing...
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Mathematical Creativity: A Developmental Perspective
Author(s): Scott A Chamberlin, Peter Liljedahl, Miloš Savić
Abstract: This book is important and makes a unique contribution in the field of mathematics education and creativity. The book comprises the most recent research by renowned international experts and scholars, as well as a comprehensive up to date literature review…
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Meeting the JCHE Team: A Reconstructed Interview
Author(s): Heesoon Bai, Charles Scott, Cary L. Campbell, Jwalin Patel, Yifan Sun, Jing Lin, Hyeyoung Bang, Sachi Edwards, Deepa Srikantaiah, Yishin Khoo, and Denise L. McHugh Keywords: "Placeconnectedness; Climate-change; Contemplative pedagogies; Decoloniality"
Abstract: This “reconstructed interview-conversation” involves the entire editorial team of the Journal of Contemplative and Holistic Education (JCHE). Together, the team dialogues around the shared visions, aspirations, motivations, and aims we have in creating this new journal platform...
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Misophonia Sound Recognition Using Vision Transformer
Author(s): B. Bahmei; E. Birmingham; S. Arzanpour
Keywords: Deep learning, Biological system modeling, Medical treatment, Transformers, Feature extraction, Classification algorithms, Emotional responses, Misophonia, Sound Classification, Transformer Models
Abstract: Misophonia is a condition characterized by an abnormal emotional response to specific sounds, such as eating, breathing, and clock ticking noises. Sound classification for misophonia is an important area of research since it can benefit in the development of interventions and therapies for individuals affected by the condition. In the area of sound classification, deep learning algorithms such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved a high accuracy performance and proved their ability in feature extraction and modeling…
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Multimodal learning analytics for assessing teachers’ self-regulated learning in planning technology-integrated lessons in a computer-based environment
Author(s): Lingyun Huang, Tenzin Doleck, Boyin Chen, Xiaoshan Huang, Chengyi Tan, Susanne P. Lajoie & Minhong Wang
Keywords: Logs; Multimodal learning analytics; Self-regulated learning; Think-aloud; TPACK
Abstract: Teachers’ self-regulated learning (SRL) plays a crucial role in developing technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK), a complex professional skill. It is crucial to identify teachers’ SRL activities that may lead to favorable TPACK…
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Navigating Intersecting and Conflicting Identities: Experiences of Immigrant Mothers at a Canadian College
Author: Rebecca Cox
Keywords: student-parents, community college, post-secondary education, immigrants
Abstract: This article explores the perspectives of immigrant student-parents who pursued post-secondary education at one community college in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Canada. Drawing from interviews with 10 women who had immigrated to Canada as adults…
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Nuorten kokeman yksinäisyyden tutkimus tarinateatterin menetelmin
Author(s): Tuulikki Kurtelius, Kristiina Kumpulainen
Keywords: adolescents, art-based research, playback theatre, interaction, loneliness
Abstract: This methodological article examines sixth-graders’ (n=16) experiences of loneliness through playback theatre. The research data consist of a video recording of a playback theatre performance, including five stories told by the pupils. In analysing the stories, we work within the framework of a holistic art-based research approach (Leavy 2020). The results of the study showed how an art-based approach enables participants to compare their own experiences with the stories of others, and gives them space to ...
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PBL in STEM – enhancing learning and teaching
Author(s): Stephen Manitta, Spiro Kalantzis, Daniel Green, Michael Ling, Kathy Smith, Jennifer Mansfield
Abstract: The project Exploring Problem Based Learning in Schools, sees teachers and academics working together to develop a pedagogical framework for the design and implementation of authentic and relevant school-based STEM learning, consistent with the principles of a Problem Based Learning (PBL) model of STEM education. In this article, the second in a series of three, 4 participating teachers, working as co- researchers in the project, discuss how the research-informed principles of practice for a PBL model of STEM education have enabled them to reconsider their teaching practice and the conditions necessary for meaningful STEM learning.
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Pedagogical rationales of flipped learning in the accounts of Finnish mathematics teachers
Author(s): Marika Toivola, Antti Rajala & Kristiina Kumpulainen
Keywords: Flipped learning, flipped classroom, pedagogical rationales, mathematics teaching
Abstract: The focus of this study is on the pedagogy of flipped learning (FL) in mathematics teaching. There has been extensive research into FL, but less research on teachers’ pedagogical rationales when adopting this pedagogy. The present study addresses this research gap by examining interviews with mathematics teachers in Finland. These teachers identified themselves as FL advocates…
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Policy Framing in Higher Education in Canada
Author(s): Olivier Bégin-Caouette, Michelle Nilson, Alexandre Beaupré-Lavallée
Abstract: Higher education is a policy field crossed by multiple issues that often have a global resonance but are framed based upon local idiosyncrasies. This chapter examines how policies give sense and address the four following issues…
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Reclaiming a plurilingual voice in EMI classrooms: Co-creating translanguaging space through the multimodalities-entextualisation cycle
Author(s): Phoebe SIU, Bong-gi SOHN, Mei Yi Angel LIN
Abstract: In  Hong  Kong,  plurilingual  teachers  and  students  are  consistently  socialised  to  uphold  monoglossic  principles  reinforced  through  English  Medium  Instruction  (EMI)  education,  under  which  a  foreign  standard  variety of English (often called ‘British English’) functions as the supreme dominant language…
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PROBLEM SOLVING WITH TECHNOLOGY: MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES ON MATHEMATICAL CONJECTURING
Author(s): Shai Olsher, Dor Abrahamson, Abraham Arcavi, Ferdinando Arzarello, Daniel Chazan, Alison Clark-Wilson, Roza Leikin, Nathalie Sinclair and Michal Yerushalmy
Abstract: Research on technology and mathematics education has been a longstanding interest of the PME community. In this paper we revisit the interplay between technology and conjecturing within the process of problem-solving with an intention to capture different aspects of the processes in which students make and explore mathematical conjectures, and roles that both technology and teachers can play in this process... Publication Link

Professional Development for Contextualizing Science Teaching and Learning: A Case From Ethiopia
Author(s): Engida Gebre, Dawit Asrat Getahun
Abstract: In this study we present the results of a two-day professional development workshop on contextualizing science teaching and learning. We worked with 19 science teachers, discussing the purposes of science education, learning expectations in their classes, and data-supported low performance of students in national exams. We then asked teachers to work on discipline-based groups and outline the structure of a typical class in their teaching...
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Principles of assessment in school-based making
Author(s):  Yumiko Murai, Yoon Jeon Kim, Stephanie Chang, Justin Reich   
Keywords:  Maker education; maker pedagogy; classroom assessment; design-based research
Abstract:  While school educators are increasingly interested in adopting maker pedagogy, many schools struggle to integrate making with their existing core curriculum because of the difficulty in assessing the learning that occurs in maker classrooms. To address this issue, we collaborated with educators on design-based research focused on assessment in maker classrooms…
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Prospective teachers’ responses to students’ dialogue on fractions: attribute substitution and heuristic approaches
Author(s):  Anna Marie Bergman, Keith Gallagher, Rina Zazkis
Keywords:  Fractions; attribute substitution; scriptwriting
Abstract:  Knowing how best to respond to students’ mathematical inquiries is an important skill for all teachers to develop. A class of pre-service teachers (PSTs) was presented with a scripting task in which a student conjectured that 1/6.5 was “exactly in between” fractions 1/6 and 1/7. However, instead of addressing the student’s inquiry directly…
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Putting math in its place A Review of Cathy O’Neil’s Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Author: Nathalie Sinclair
Abstract: With its bright yellow cover and its ominous title, this book attracts attention. The subtitle,“How big data increases inequality and threatens democracy” signals very strongly that the “math” in question in the title is primarily that which relates to the statistical and computational means of collecting, analysing and…
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Putting Number in the Hands of Children
Author(s): Nathalie Sinclair, Nicholas Jackiw
Abstract: When first learning to count on their fingers, what if children had an unlimited number of fingers, rather than just two handfuls? Answering this quickly involves setting aside several conventional ideas of traditional early number instruction. Instead of thinking that mathematical ideas are...
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Reconfiguring Measures of Motivational Constructs Using State-Revealing Trace Data
Author(s): Heeryung Choi, Philip H. Winne & Christopher Brooks
Keywords: Trace data, Motivations, Achievement goals, Self-regulated learning, Dynamic SRL constructs
Abstract: This chapter examines opportunities afforded by trace data to capture dynamically changing latent states and trajectories spanning states in self-regulated learning (SRL). We catalog and analyze major challenges in temporally investigating SRL constructs related to a prominent motivational factor, achievement goals.
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Reimagining Assessment for Maker Education in Elementary Education: Findings from a Values-led Co-Design Workshop with Teachers
Author(s): Annemiek Veldhuis, Yumiko Murai, Anna Lin, Kristiina Kumpulainen, Alissa N Antle
Abstract: In maker education, traditional classroom assessments often fail to capture student learning. As of now, most assessment focus on the end product, are language-based, and are teacher-directed. Designing effective assessment processes requires resolving tensions between what teachers hope to accomplish and what they can do. This paper explores the values and tensions of elementary school teachers when it comes to designing assessment activities and tools for maker education…
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Reframing Education for Eco-Social-Cultural Change
Author(s): Mark Fettes, Sean Blenkinsop
Abstract: Education for living within the Earth’s carrying capacity requires shifts in the core assumptions of modern Western culture—that is, the worldview of the Capitalocene, the socio-economic-political landscape sustaining the current educational regime. This chapter reviews five major categories of such assumptions: epistemology (knowing; making; and sharing meaning), ontology (being and becoming), axiology (values and ethics), cosmology (storying our origins), and psychology (understanding ourselves and our development)...
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Re-storying Immigrant Seniors During COVID-19 Through a Lens of Narrative Inquiry
Author(s): Sarita Baker, Ching-Chiu Lin
Keywords: Seniors, COVID, Immigrants, Arts-based educational research, Narrative inquiry
Abstract: For many Canadian immigrants, language barriers and advanced age complicate the challenge of adjusting to a new culture, new surroundings, and new customs. Within the context of the COVID-19 Pandemic, and the emergence of the elderly as the most vulnerable to its effects, these issues have become...
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Revisiting the nature of transformative learning experiences in contemplative higher education
Author(s): Olen Gunnlaugson, Renata Cueto de Souza, Steven Zhao, Allen Yee, Charles Scott, Heesoon Bai
Keywords: transformative education, transformative learning, transformative pedagogy, intersubjectivity, contemplative inquiry, contemplative pedagogy, second-person contemplative approaches, contemplative practice
Abstract: "We are interested in the transformative potentials of intersubjectivity as it is enacted through second-person contemplative approaches. Our work here focuses on contemplative practice as a pedagogy that reveals and enacts intersubjectivity within postsecondary education.
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Revisiting theories that frame research on teaching mathematics with digital technology
Author(s): Nathalie Sinclair, Mariam Haspekian, Ornella Robutti, Alison Clark-Wilson
Keywords: Theories in mathematics education, Evolution of theories, Teaching with technology, Instrumental approach, Philosophical considerations, Axiology, Ontology, Epistemology
Abstract: In this chapter, we offer an overview of some of the major trends in theory development and use in relation to teaching mathematics with digital technology. We showcase some of the developments that have occurred since the first edition of this book (2014). We also provide...
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Roles for Information in Trace Data Used to Model Self-Regulated Learning
Author: Philip Winne
Keywords: Trace data, Learning events, Self-regulated learning, Learning analytics
Abstract: When researchers use software and other technologies to gather data about learning, an operational definition details what to record about timestamped learning events as a learner engages with information, e.g., selecting text in a webpage or tagging selections to index them...
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Rule Formation in Simulation-Based Discovery Learning
Author(s): Teeba Obaid, Philip Winne, Tenzin Doleck, Hosein Aghajani
Abstract: We gave learners a cognitive tool to formulate rules during simulation-based discovery learning about Ohm’s law. We selected four cases from a larger sample based on posttest Knowledge Integration scores and used microgenetic analysis to examine different phases of the learning process. Our analysis identified the steps involved in forming distinct rules and tracked shifts in thinking at each stage, including predictions, selective searches, and reasoning processes when interpreting simulation results…
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Salsa Rhythms and Soul Connections
Author(s):  Lloyd, Rebecca J., Stephen Smith,
Keywords:  flow; relational reflexivity; rhythm; salsa dance
Abstract:  The rhythmic interplay of accent, tempo, and musical mood is expressed in the bodily postures, gestures, and expressions of attuned responsiveness in Salsa Dura, a genre of salsa music from the 1970s featuring improvisational dance solos…
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Scaffolding children’s participation during teacher–child interaction in second language classrooms
Author(s): Selma Koyuncu, Kristiina Kumpulainen & Arniika Kuusisto
Keywords: Teacher–child interaction, Sociocultural theory, Scaffolding, Early childhood education, Second language teaching and learning
Abstract: This study investigates the nature of teacher–child interaction and teacher scaffolding in Finnish second language (L2) classrooms. Although previous research on classroom interaction has highlighted the importance of scaffolding in language learning, much less is known about...
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Science education in a world in crisis: contributions from the South to a defense of a cultural–historical approach in science teaching
Author(s): Cristiano B Moura, Steve Alsop, Tania Camel, Andreia Guerra
Keywords: Science education, Cultural–historical approach, Politicization, Epistemologies of the south, Boaventura de sousa santos
Abstract: We live in a world marked by a crisis that we understand, from post-colonial literature, as a crisis of the knowledge model that underpins Western Modernity. Therefore, science education which deals with the study of the production of scientific knowledge needs to be attentive to this question. We argue that...
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Science in the Spotlight: What Are Monsters Made of?(A Performative Inquiry)
Author(s): Lynn Fels, Karen Meyer
Keywords: Curriculum, Drama and theatre education, Elementary science education, Performative inquiry, Playmaking, Teacher education
Abstract: What if science had a central role on stage? This chapter is the story, a memoir of sorts, of what happened when drama and science encountered each other in an elementary science education classroom with preservice teachers. We have included the script of the play we created with...
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Seeing international students: Challenging the culture trap
Author: Kumari Beck
Abstract: One of the commonly asserted goals of the internationalization of higher education is the development of intercultural learning, intercultural competencies, and global citizenship among all students (Knight, 2021). Postsecondary institutions, in Canada for example, identify student mobility, both incoming and outgoing, as a key strategy to accomplish this goal. International students are recruited on the promise of gaining international and intercultural competencies and a superior “Western” education and are sought after for the multiple benefits to the institution: they are economic assets, enhance institutional reputation, and bring culture (Stein & de Andreotti, 2016)…
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Social structures, everyday interactions, and subjectivity—where (and how) does decolonizing begin?—Attending to desires, fears, and pains
Author(s): Qinghua Chen, Angel Lin
Abstract: When ‘decoloniality’ and ‘decolonizing’ have become words frequently used in conferences and journal publications in our field of Applied Linguistics/Language and Education, as well as on many academics’ lips, we start to worry about how they too can be easily co-opted as...
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Social Ecology and Environmental Diversity in Teacher Education
Author(s):  David Zandvliet, Paul, Alisa
Keywords:  Autoethnography; education for sustainable development (ESD); professional development; social ecology; sustainable development; teacher education
Abstract:  This paper offers reflections on the development and potential of a transformative teacher education project as one component of the Professional Development Programs (PDPs) at the Faculty of Education of a comprehensive Canadian university. The work of our teacher education program is set in Vancouver…
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Socioscientific issues in science exhibitions: examining contributions of the informal science education sector
Author(s): Ana Maria Navas Iannini
Keywords: Public engagement with science and technology, Science centres and museums, Science education
Abstract: This paper examines how a particular subset of informal science education settings—science exhibitions—embraces contemporary socioscientific issues (SSI) and fosters public engagement with them. A qualitative cross-case analysis of two SSI exhibitions about...
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Speculative spaces: Children exploring socio-ecological worlds with mythical nature spirits
Author(s): Jenny Byman, Kristiina Kumpulainen, Jenny Renlund, Chin-Chin Wong, Peter Renshaw
Keywords: affect, children, mythical nature spirit, speculative spaces, storying
Abstract: Drawing on Donna Haraway's notion of speculative fabulation, in this study the authors investigate how a pedagogy grounded in mythical nature spirits, children's imaginative explorations and storying activities created spaces for children to explore socio-ecological worlds...
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Strategies for sisterhood in the language education academy
Author(s):  Angel Lin; Sister Scholars
Keywords:  Academia, antiracism, anti-sexism, collaboration, feminism, language, race, sisterhood, solidarity, women
Abstract:  Almost 20 years after the publication of our co-authored article in a leading North American academic journal, seven female language education academics revisit our evolving analysis of the complex spaces occupied by women of color in the language education academy.
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System and method for ambient noise detection, identification and management
Author(s): Elina Birmingham, Siamak Arzanpour, Behnaz Bahmei
Examples of system for ambient aversive sound detection, identification and management are described. The system comprises an earpiece device with a microphone configured to capture ambient sound around a user and sample it into small segments of the ambient sound...
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Teacher tensions: managed or resolved
Author(s): Peter Liljedahl, Chiara Andrà, Annette Rouleau & Pietro Di Martino Keywords: Mathematics teacher beliefs, values, mathematics teacher practice
Abstract: Teacher practice is rife with tensions. Tensions around what and how best to teach, how to manage situations with students, and how to manage situations with colleagues, administrators, and parents. These tensions are often seen as pairs of opposing internal and external forces…
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Teachers Supporting Refugee Students in Canada during Covid-19: Greater Equity and a Sense of Belonging
Author: Susan Barber
Abstract: Globally, 1.6 billion children and youth have experienced school interruption or closures due to Covid-19 that began in early 2020 (UNESCO 2021). Refugees, and asylum seekers in general, may be particularly at risk of Covid-19 due to pre-existing physical and/or mental health issues, along with...
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The changing patterns of classroom interaction: Teacher interventions in students’ creative collaboration in makerspaces
Author(s): Kristiina Kumpulainen, Anu Kajamaa, Jasmiina Leskinen
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The Cumbersome Burden of Translating Policy Into Practice: Engaging Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CLD) Families in Special Education
Author: Suman Rath, Inna Stepaniuk
Keywords:  Accommodations; Disability Rights Movement; Disability Justice; Universal Design for Learning (UDL); Accessibility; Empowerment; Ableism; Intersectionality
Abstract:  Translating policy into practice is a challenging task for many fields, including education. Despite the legal foundations aimed to support families' involvement in special education, culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) families and schools experience cultural, political, and linguistic barriers…
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The Maple Ridge Environmental School a Case Study: Ten Years as an Outdoor Public Elementary School and What We Think We Know Now
Author(s): Sean Blenkinsop, Jodi MacQuarrie, Clayton Maitland
Keywords: EcoSchool, Maple Ridge, Environmental school, Outdoor environmental education (OEE) policy, Outdoor center
Abstract: This chapter aims to reflect on 10 years in the life of a radical, buildingless, outdoor all the time, public elementary school on Canada’s west coast. In 2011, the Maple Ridge Environmental School opened its “doors” and welcomed 66 students and their families into an extraordinary experiment...
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The Mathematics Teacher in the Digital Era: International Research on Professional Learning and Practice
Author(s): Alison Clark-Wilson, Ornella Robutti, Nathalie Sinclair
Keywords: digital technology in mathematics,, educational technology, educational technology for mathematics, mathematics education, mathematics teacher, mathematics teaching practice, professional development mathematics teacher, teaching mathematics, technology-mediated classroom practices
Abstract: This book brings together international research on school teachers’, and university lecturers’ uses of digital technology to enhance teaching and learning in mathematics. It includes contributions that address theoretical, methodological, and practical challenges for the field with...
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The Power of Example? Lessons Learned About Equity and Inclusion Through COVID-19 Teacher Education Courses
Author(s): D'Amico, Laura; O'Neill, D. Kevin; Davey, Robline; Frandsen, Natalie; Ji, Wei; Williamson, Robert L.
Abstract: The shift to remote teaching during COVID-19 raised awareness of inequities built into traditional teacher education, as well as limitations to the inclusiveness of teacher educators’ accepted practices. Findings from student (n=170) and instructor (n=30) questionnaires are presented from a mixed-methods study that explores how the pandemic experience affected teacher educators’ equitable teaching practices, and the impact of their modeling on the future instructional priorities of their in-service and pre-service students.
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The relation between need for cognition and academic achievement: A meta-analysis
Author(s): Qing Liu, John Nesbit
Keywords: need for cognition, academic achievement, motivation, learning, intervention
Abstract: Need for cognition is conceptualized as an individual’s intrinsic motivation to engage in and enjoy effortful cognitive activities. Over the past three decades, there has been increasing interest in how need for cognition impacts and correlates with learning performance...
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The Ruling Relations of the Internationalizing Canadian University
Author:  Kumari Beck
Abstract: One of the key rationales for internationalization used by Canadian higher education institutions to legitimate what has become an industry in student recruitment is that of educating for global citizenship, intercultural learning, and developing skills to remain competitive in a global marketplace...
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Leadership as a double-edged sword: The social, cultural and institutional contexts of cyberbullying and online harassment
Author(s): Wanda Cassidy, Chantal Faucher, Margaret Jackson
Abstract: The presence of bullying and cyberbullying in elementary, middle and secondary schools around the world is well known (Cassidy et al., 2013; Hinduja & Patchin, 2012; Smith et al., 2018). Increasingly, a picture is being revealed about related behaviours also occurring in post-secondary educational institutions...
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The use of a scriptwriting task as a window into how prospective teachers envision teacher moves for supporting student reasoning
Author(s):  Victoria Shure, Peter Liljedahl
Keywords: Scriptwriting tasks, Mathematical reasoning, Teacher moves, Teacher education, Fraction multiplication, Fraction division
Abstract: The development of mathematical reasoning skills has increasingly been of focus for the teaching and learning of mathematics. This research utilizes a teaching simulation using the methodology of scriptwriting, in which prospective teachers are asked to complete a script of a dialogue...
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Time and Education: Time Pedagogy Against Oppression
Author(s): Petra Mikulan, Nathalie Sinclair
Abstract: Despite pervading all aspects of educational practice and theory, little scholarship focuses on time in education. This book addresses that lacuna questioning our assumptions about time and their ramifications on theories of learning, issues of equity and diversity, and on the purposes of education itself...
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Time in various phases of self-regulation and problem-solving performance in an Intelligent Tutoring System
Author(s): Susanne P. Lajoie, Eric G. Poitras, Tenzin Doleck, Lingyun Huang
Keywords: Self-regulated learning, Time-on-task, Problem solving, Confidence, Performance, Medical Education
Abstract: The present paper builds on the literature that emphasizes the importance of self-regulation for academic learning or self-regulated learning (SRL). SRL research has traditionally focused on count measures of SRL processing events, however, another important measure of SRL is being recognized: time-on-task...
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Towards a Socio-material Reframing of Mathematically Challenging Tasks
Author(s):  Nathalie Sinclair & Francesca Ferrara
Keywords: TouchCounts, Numbers and Operations, Inclusive materialism, Challenge, Task design, Affect
Abstract: In this chapter, we investigate Leikin’s (2014) (Challenging mathematics with multiple solution tasks and mathematical investigations in geometry. In: Li Y et al. (Eds.), Transforming mathematics instruction: multiple approaches and practices, advances in mathematics education…
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Towards an index of linguistic justice
Author(s):  Michele Gazzola, Bengt-Arne Wickström, Mark Fettes
Keywords: language policy, linguistic justice, linguistic disadvantage, language rights, language inequality, index, social indicators, toleration rights, accommodation rights, compensation rights, public goods and market failure, efficiency, fairness, comparative analysis
Abstract: As a step towards a systematic comparative evaluation of the fairness of different language policies, a rationale is presented for the design of an index of linguistic justice based on public policy analysis. The approach taken is to define a ‘minimum threshold of linguistic justice’ with respect to...
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Tabular-to-Image Transformations for the Classification of Anonymous Network Traffic Using Deep Residual Networks
Author(s): Nathan Briner; Drake Cullen; James Halladay; Darrin Miller; Riley Primeau; Abraham Avila; Ram Basnet, Tenzin Doleck
Abstract: With the meteoric rise in anonymous network traffic data, there is a considerable need for effective automation in traffic identification tasks. Though many shallow and deep machine learning network traffic classification solutions have been proposed, they often rely on tabular data, making them unable to detect complex spatial relationships. However, recent advancements in computer processing power have increased the viability of transforming tabular data into images for training deep convolutional neural networks...

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Transformational Opportunities through New (er) Stories: Research Addressing Educational Inequalities
Author(s): Jeannie Kerr
Abstract: Spring is a season of renewal and transformation and each of the articles in this March, 2023 issue reflect that spirit. As curriculum scholar Dwayne Donald reminds us: “A significant curricular and pedagogical challenge faced by educators in Canada today is how to facilitate a new story that...
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Walking Linguistic Landscapes as Ways to Experience Plurality: A Visual Ethnography into Plurilingualism with Elementary School Children in Japan
Author(s): Mayo Oyama, Danièle Moore, Daniel Roy Pearce
Keywords: Plurilingual education, Linguistic landscapes, Inquiry-based learning, Language awareness, Transdisciplinarity, Elementary school, Japan
Abstract: In Japan, where the language of schooling is overwhelmingly Japanese-only, and English the only widespread foreign language offered at all levels of education, elementary schools stand out as a particularly interesting context for observing the development of creative plurilingual pedagogies…
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‘What do we talk about when we talk about climate change?’: meaningful environmental education, beyond the info dump
Author: Cary Campell
Abstract: Learning about the causes and effects of human-induced climate change is an essential aspect of contemporary environmental education (EE). However, it is increasingly recognized that the familiar ‘information dump delivery mode’ (as Timothy Morton calls it), through which...
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What is Geometric About Geometric Sequences? Informal Justifications for Mathematical Terminology
Author(s): Andrew Kercher, Anna Marie Bergman, Rina Zazkis
Keywords: Geometric sequences, Toulmin model, Mathematical terminology, Scripting tasks
Abstract: Certain terms in mathematics were created according to conventions that are not obvious to students who will use the term. When this is the case, investigating the choice of a name can reveal interesting and unforeseen connections among mathematical topics...
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When algebra is not enough: a dialogue on the composition of even and odd functions
Author(s): Niusha Modabbernia, Xiaoheng Yan, Rina Zazkis
Keywords: Even and odd functions, Intellectual needs, Visualization, Secondary mathematics, Teacher education
Abstract: We attend to the composition of even and odd functions, as featured in imagined dialogues between a teacher and students, composed by sixteen teachers in a professional development program. Data were analyzed as aimed at addressing students’ intellectual needs...
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Wild Pedagogies, Outdoor Education, and the Educational Imagination
Author(s):  Bob Jickling, Marcus Morse, Sean Blenkinsop,
Keywords: Wild pedagogies, Outdoor education, Environmental education, Imagination, lyric philosophy, Jan Zwicky
Abstract: This chapter aims, first, to provide a brief introduction to ideas that are central to the heuristic called wild pedagogies [Jickling et al (eds.) (2018) Wild pedagogies: touchstones for re-negotiating education and the environment in the Anthropocene. Palgrave Macmillan]. We frame some of the background influences...
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