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50 Years Of Publication: A Document Analysis Of Social Justice In The Educational Considerations Corpus, Tracey Conway, Nelofar Khamisani, Vajiheh Shahsavari, Ernestina Wiafe Aug 2024

50 Years Of Publication: A Document Analysis Of Social Justice In The Educational Considerations Corpus, Tracey Conway, Nelofar Khamisani, Vajiheh Shahsavari, Ernestina Wiafe

Educational Considerations

The purpose of this research article is to explore how social justice in education has evolved over the past 50 years of peer-reviewed article publications in Kansas State University College of Education’s academic journal, Educational Considerations. The research sought to unveil how social justice in education has evolved over the past 50 years based on publications in Educational Considerations. The study utilized a qualitative research approach, specifically adopting a document analysis methodology. This research drew its data from peer-reviewed articles published in Educational Considerations spanning from 1973 to 2023. Literature not originally found in Educational Considerations—but relevant …


A Retrospective Of Educational Considerations And The Evolving Nature Of School Partnerships, Eileen Wertzberger Aug 2024

A Retrospective Of Educational Considerations And The Evolving Nature Of School Partnerships, Eileen Wertzberger

Educational Considerations

Over its 50-year journey, Educational Considerations has been a platform embracing diverse voices in education, aiming to stimulate critical thinking on educational matters. From its inception, it invited input from educators and stakeholders, fostering a broad discourse on educational concerns. This inclusivity attracted contributions from various quarters often overlooked by mainstream academic journals: administrators, teachers, non-profit leaders, etc. Their insights have chronicled important shifts in public education, including the evolving nature of school partnerships. These intentional relationships between K-12 institutions and various stakeholders have become pivotal in shaping educational practice and supporting student success. This article explores how Educational Considerations …


Reminiscing African Presence In Text: A Content Analysis Of 50 Years Of Published Works In Educational Considerations, Ernestina Wiafe Aug 2024

Reminiscing African Presence In Text: A Content Analysis Of 50 Years Of Published Works In Educational Considerations, Ernestina Wiafe

Educational Considerations

In an era characterized by evolving perspectives on diversity, inclusion, and decolonization within the domain of education, the exploration of African presence in educational literature emerges as an important endeavor. This study delved into a half-century of published works in Educational Considerations, with a particular focus on texts about and from Africa. Employing a qualitative content analysis methodology, the research traversed a vast corpus of published works spanning five decades. The analysis showed a progressive transition from underrepresentation to an emerging exploration of Africa in Educational Considerations, which signifies the growing acknowledgment of Africa’s invaluable contribution to shaping academia, …


Postsecondary Teachers’ Perspectives On Effectively Engaging Learners In Today’S Post "Pandemic Pedagogy" Era, Deepak P. Subramony Aug 2024

Postsecondary Teachers’ Perspectives On Effectively Engaging Learners In Today’S Post "Pandemic Pedagogy" Era, Deepak P. Subramony

Educational Considerations

This article presents the findings of a recent study surveying and interviewing post-secondary teachers within a college of education at a large, Carnegie "R1" public university in the Midwestern United States to unearth their perspectives of how to better engage their learners within the hybrid/multiple-modality instructional contexts that represent the new normal in today’s post "pandemic pedagogy" era. Within the current context of potentially emerging new variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and/or other pathogens, it also discusses key findings related to the teachers’ views regarding the current levels of institutional support they receive to this end, and their perspectives regarding …


In Search Of More Mature Uses Of Data: Problematizing Education And Poetry, F. Todd Goodson Jan 2024

In Search Of More Mature Uses Of Data: Problematizing Education And Poetry, F. Todd Goodson

Educational Considerations

Alex Romagnoli’s article in this issue, a discussion of the use of quantitative metrics in education and baseball, provides a thoughtful discussion the limitations inherent in those metrics as well as ways they can be enhanced to provide more useful information. This manuscript extends Romagnoli’s manuscript with specific illustrations of the ways grade point averages can be interpreted in context along with a call for a much more nuanced approach to data by policy makers and decision makers.


Fifty Years Of Considering Education: Looking Back And Looking Forward, F. Todd Goodson Jan 2024

Fifty Years Of Considering Education: Looking Back And Looking Forward, F. Todd Goodson

Educational Considerations

In recognition of 50 years of publication of Educational Considerations by the College of Education at Kansas State University, we invited submissions that examined the scholarship from those 50 years, and we invited forward-looking scholarship that anticipated the next 50 years. I am delighted with the contributions to this issue. We have an analysis of the theme of social justice as it manifested itself across the five decades of the journal’s existence. We have an overview of the representations of school-university partnerships, and we have a contribution focused on the presence of scholarship addressing African education. Finally, we have that …