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From Double Absence To Double Presence: Video-Selfie As Empowerment In A Multicultural Italian Classroom, Maria Ranieri, Ilaria Bucciarelli, Giulia Cuozzo

Journal of Media Literacy Education Pre-Prints

This paper examines the video-selfie as a tool for empowerment in multicultural secondary school classrooms. We draw on data from the European ICME project, focusing on a vocational secondary school in Italy, where 17 of 18 first-year students – approximately half of whom had migration backgrounds – produced short videos presenting themselves through personally meaningful objects. Students then participated in a structured reflection activity after watching each other's videos in class. We combine three theoretical frameworks: critical media literacy, identity and self-representation studies, and Mezirow's transformative learning theory. Our argument is that the video selfie empowers in multiple ways: it …

The Applicability Of A Scale On Self-Regulated Writing Strategies In English For High School Students, Teresa Angelina Kaluge, Sisilia Setiawati Halimi

Jurnal Pendidikan: Teori, Penelitian, dan Pengembangan

Writing appeared to be crucial in learning foreign languages. This study aimed at examining the applicability of a measure on self-regulated writing strategies in terms of its psychometric properties. The scale items were designed from theoretical foundations and previous relevant studies. Questionnaires were distributed online to high school students, collected and analyzed as many as 106. Correlation, confirmatory factor analyses, and calculating Cronbach’s alpha were carried out to make sure the applicability of the scale. The findings showed five main constructs to be applicable. They were self-initiating, planning, text-generating, revising, and acting on feedback.

The Relationship Between Synchronous Online Training Preference And Online Student Engagements, Saida Ulfa, Rex Bringula

Jurnal Pendidikan: Teori, Penelitian, dan Pengembangan

Online training during the pandemic was commonly held using the synchronous learning method. The aim of this study was to explore the relationship between synchronous online training preference, gender difference, and online student engagements (OSE). This study was analyzed with Structural Equation Model (SEM) by using SmartPLS 3 software. The participants of this study involved 35 online training participants and produced the following findings (1) synchronous online training preference has a positive relationship with OSE variables, (2) The relationship between OSE variables is positive, (3) a gender has a positive relationship with skills, participation, and performance, while gender has a …

Developing Scientific Article Writing Materials Using A Hybrid Learning Approach: Insights From An Indonesian Language For Foreign Speakers (Bipa) Program, Ah. Rofiuddin, Didin Widyartono, Gatut Susanto, David Pickus

Jurnal Pendidikan: Teori, Penelitian, dan Pengembangan

This study aims to develop learning materials for writing scientific articles for international students using the hybrid learning approach. This approach was chosen by utilizing the advantages of offline classes combined with online classes. This approach is in accordance with the characteristics of students as millennials. For product development, we used a method consisting of product design, product design, production, and product testing. In the end, we produced learning materials to write scientific articles packaged in the form of a module of writing process-genre-based scientific articles with a hybrid learning approach for international students. The module consists of the debriefing …

Mapping Arabic Calligraphy Education Research Structure: A Bibliometric Analysis Between 2016 And 2021 Using Vosviewer, Nurul Murtadho, Mohammad Dawood

Jurnal Pendidikan: Teori, Penelitian, dan Pengembangan

The purpose of this study is to present a bibliometric analysis of Arabic calligraphy research from the Scopus database from 2016 to 2021. This study identified 43 English documents for further analysis based on the query used and the document screening stages. In this study, Vosviewer was used to visualize the data, and Harzing's Publish or Perish is used to harvest data, calculate metrics, and analyze citations. According to our findings, Arabic calligraphy research publications are increasing, with the peak occurring in 2019, including in terms of citations. The findings indicate that research in language and arts is closely related …

The Effect Of Technological Literacy, Learning Facility, And Family Environment On Students’ Learning Motivation, Agung Winarno, Maria Yorozi Andini Fedin, Norlida Hanim Mohd Salleh

Jurnal Pendidikan: Teori, Penelitian, dan Pengembangan

Student achievement is influenced by a variety of factors, both internal and external, such as school and home amenities. This study intends to assess the effect of technological literacy, amenities and learning environment on the learning motivation of SMK students during the pandemic. This is a quantitative Expos-Fact style of study. This study's population and sample consisted of 58 students majoring in Automation and Office Governance at SMK PGRI Turen; questionnaires and observations were used to collect data. Multiple linear regression test was employed for data analysis. The analysis reveals that technical literacy has a favorable influence on learning motivation, …

Kesiapan Dan Motivasi Mahasiswa Dalam Mengikuti Pembelajaran Online Di Masa Pandemi Covid-19, Nur Indrianti, Ellen Chung, Ammar Hamid Adil

Jurnal Pendidikan: Teori, Penelitian, dan Pengembangan

This study aimed to determine online learning readiness, motivation, and challenges for students in Indonesia during the COVID-19 pandemic. Aspects considered in this study included supporting devices and skills to use them, independence in learning, self-control for successful learning, learning motivation, and online communication. The study was conducted using an online questionnaire and crosstabs analysis. The results showed that the students had a good readiness and motivation to do online learning during the pandemic. The most common obstacles included internet connection, limited data quota, unsupported devices, and lecturer learning methods.

Phenotypic Plasticity In A Stochastic Environment: Modeling Three Phenotypes And Environments, Sarah P. Williams, Marissa C. K. Douglas, Stephen C. Adolph

Spora: A Journal of Biomathematics

Phenotypically plastic organisms are capable of adjusting their phenotypes in a variable environment. Padilla and Adolph (1996) modeled this process and included a time lag between detection of an environmental change and the responding change in phenotype. We extended the Padilla and Adolph model from two to three discrete environments and phenotypes and analyzed the model computationally. Our results were consistent with their findings: the fitness advantage of phenotypic plasticity is higher when (1) the lag time is shorter, (2) the probability of environmental change is lower, and (3) the fitness disadvantage of mismatched phenotypes and environments is more severe. …

Modeling The Impact Of Treatment During An Ongoing Tuberculosis Outbreak, Bach Le, Anna Robicheaux, Jude Shive, Alana Wells, Erin N. Bodine

Spora: A Journal of Biomathematics

In response to a significant tuberculosis outbreak in Wyandotte and Johnson Counties, Kansas, this study presents a compartmental model of ordinary differential equations to evaluate the impact of standard antibiotic treatment. The model incorporates latent, active, and treated disease states. Parameter values were informed by epidemiological data and uncertain parameter value ranges were explored systematically through uncertainty analysis using constrained Latin hypercube sampling. Cumulative infections and deaths, and the basic reproduction number, were computed over a five-year simulation period. Sensitivity analyses using partial rank correlation coefficients identified symptomatic treatment rate and transmission rate as primary drivers of cumulative infections and …

Belonging As The Bedrock Of Learning, Gloria Mcdaniel-Hall, Nina Weisling

i.e.: inquiry in education

The reasons why we teach are intensely personal. We give our hearts and souls to “the work,” though it is so much more than work to us. It is a calling, felt deep in our souls, to correct wrongs, to bend the “arc of the moral universe” all the way to justice, to realize the dreams that have been deferred at best and stamped out and denied at worst. Because at the core of each day, we find humans, students, families, and colleagues who are inherently worthy of learning, loving, and living a fulfilling life. Yet, for far too many …

Teachers’ Action Research Knowledge: From Knowing To Doing, Firdissa J. Aga Dr.

i.e.: inquiry in education

This quantitative study investigated the action research (AR) knowledge of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) instructors at three Ethiopian public universities. Data collected via questionnaire from 57 instructors revealed that EFL instructors had respectively high and medium theoretical and practical knowledge of AR. Their theoretical knowledge and practical skills demonstrated a significant positive correlation (r = 0.43, p < 0.01). Furthermore, instructors’ preferences showed strong alignment with reflective rationality (context-specific, practitioner-led inquiry) over technical rationality (externally imposed, top-down approaches). While reported levels of reflection-on-action and reflection-in-action were high, tacit knowing-in-action-the deep, personal, often unarticulated professional knowledge-was notably low. This gap suggests that instructors’ AR understanding remains largely externalized, not yet internalized as embodied, intuitive practice. The findings suggest that empowering instructors to convert their tacit knowledge into explicit understanding through sustained, hands-on AR engagement is critical for authentic professional development and transformative classroom practice.

Applying The Framework Of Activity Theory As An Ongoing Complementary Planning And Evaluation Tool For Esl/Bilingual Programs. How To (Meet) And Go Beyond Compliance, Margaret Bouchard, Jason Stegemoller

i.e.: inquiry in education

In this conceptual article, the authors explore the use of Activity Theory as a tool to build a framework for designing, modifying, or evaluating ESL/Multilingual Programs. Demographics of immigrant and emerging multilingual students within educational systems are continually evolving. Educational systems with emerging multilingual students are particularly vulnerable to this phenomenon and must meet changing needs that are often driven by outside influences. These changes might include: increases in immigration from varying student ethnicities, societal/political trends, socio-economic level of a community, legal regulations, and advanced educational research. Designing and evaluating educational programs within a system of change can be a …

Ai Need Not Make One Slothful, Roy A. Kaelin Jr

i.e.: inquiry in education

As National Louis University seeks to plan and advance its way amid the potential perils and pitfalls of so-named artificial intelligence, one finds that with reasonable workflows and guard rails, the use of AI proposes both potential promise and prospect, to assist and augment the natural intelligence that students and teachers bring to the classroom, encouraging them to pursue STEM-related activities with the preparation and deployment of focused and directed AI-bots. This paper presents examples and a case study of that directed and focused approach, the incremental lessons learned to date, and a proposed path to advance worthwhile AI …

Exploring Ai In Higher Education: Reflections On Research-Informed Practices For Teaching And Learning, Angela Elkordy, Stuart I. Carrier, Jack Denny, Donna Wakefield, Ayn F. Keneman

i.e.: inquiry in education

This article examines how faculty at a college of education are integrating generative AI tools into graduate and doctoral educator preparation programs. Drawing on faculty inquiry and course-based observations across multiple contexts — including early childhood education, secondary education, special education, and doctoral programs in education — the article synthesizes emerging lessons and practices of  AI literacy development, pedagogical approaches, and instructional design. We present an evidence-informed, reflective account of faculty practice through the lens of the scholarship of teaching, exploring how educators are navigating AI content, literacy, and practices in real courses, what students are learning, and what instructional …

Ai-Powered Remixes: Using Generative Ai To Critically Examine Text, Genre, And Language In First Year College Writing, Lauren Anderson, Eric Vandemark

i.e.: inquiry in education

As generative AI tools become embedded in writing instruction, educators face urgent questions about how these technologies encode and reinforce language standardization — particularly for multilingual and multidialectal students. This practitioner reflection describes a series of AI-powered "remix" activities developed and refined in corequisite writing labs. Building on a prior action research study, this paper turns to the pedagogical questions that emerged after the study: how AI tools might be used not as writing shortcuts but as objects of critical inquiry. Drawing on frameworks including critical literacy, plurilingualism, culturally relevant pedagogy, and AI literacy, we describe four remix activity types …

Scaffolded Generative Ai In Instructional Planning: Supporting Teacher Candidates’ Culturally Responsive Teaching, Dr. Eun Kyung Ko, Xiaoning Chen, Vishodana Thamotharan, Julie Sidarous

i.e.: inquiry in education

As generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) becomes increasingly embedded in instructional planning, teacher education programs must move beyond efficiency-oriented adoption toward equity-centered, pedagogically grounded integration. This mixed-methods longitudinal study examines a year-long, scaffolded approach to integrating GenAI within an early childhood teacher residency program, with a specific focus on culturally responsive teaching (CRT) instructional planning. Guided by the AI/I-TPACK and CRT frameworks, fourteen bilingual teacher candidates (TCs) participated in this study. Data sources included pre- and post-surveys of CRT self-efficacy, lesson plans and instructional artifacts, reflective coursework, and focus group interviews. Quantitative analyses revealed statistically significant gains in TCs’ CRT self-efficacy …

When The Output Looks Like Learning: Tertiary Algorithmicity, Unproductive Success, And The Case For Pedagogical Friction In K–12 Schools, Micah J. Miner

i.e.: inquiry in education

The rapid adoption of generative artificial intelligence in K–12 schools has outpaced educators' capacity to evaluate its effects on learning. This conceptual article argues that the dominant institutional responses treating AI as either an integrity threat or a productivity tool share an unexamined assumption that the fundamental nature of learning remains unchanged. Drawing on Walter Ong's media ecology and extending it through the concept of tertiary algorithmicity, the article offers a theoretical framework for understanding generative AI as a qualitative shift in the symbolic environment of schooling. For the first time, the prevailing communication technology ctively generates symbolic content, enabling …

Book Review: Hicks, T., & Turner, K. H. (2025). Teaching Writing In The Age Of Ai: Strategies For Teachers Of Secondary Students. Solution Tree., Benjamin N. Lathrop

i.e.: inquiry in education

Teaching Writing in the Age of AI: Strategies for Teachers of Secondary Students (Hicks & Turner, 2025) is written for an audience of secondary teachers and teacher educators, but any instructor who teaches or assigns writing will benefit from its insights. While the book's overall stance toward generative AI might be overly optimistic, it effectively addresses key concerns many instructors have about writing with AI, encouraging a critical stance and presenting some out-of-the-box ideas for writing instructive who want to be proactive about AI use in their courses.

Food, Crisis And Hope: Three Conflicts, Three Approaches, Johanna Mendelson Forman, Michael Shaikh, Joan Nathan, Yeheniia Yemshenetska, Andrea Borghini

Dublin Gastronomy Symposium

Plenary Session: Food, Crisis and Hope: Three Conflicts, Three Approaches

Panel hosted by Johanna Mendelson Forman

Michael Shaikh - "Saving Cuisine Is the Same As Saving a People"

Joan Nathan - "The Edible DNA: Jewish Food as a Bond through Crisis and War"

Johanna Mendelson Forman and Yevheniia Yemshenetska - "Hope and Crisis in War: Ukraine’s Deployment of Food as Soft Power during Conflict"

Andrea Borghini - "Food in Times of Crisis: A Leadership Perspective"

Does Good Originalism Need Good History?, Gary Lawson

Florida Law Review

One might think that originalism by definition is largely about history. After all, what does it mean to be “originalist” if not to be concerned primarily, if not exclusively, about the past? And if history is relevant, surely good history is better than bad history?

That seemingly obvious conclusion is not actually obvious. The role of good history, as with the role of any discipline—be it linguistics, epistemology, economics, classical studies, or political theory—depends on what questions one asks. And at least some forms of originalism ask questions for which the role of good history, as historians might define good …

Complete Issue-Volume 14, Issue 1, Edwin A. Miles

Journal of Mississippi History

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Historical News And Notices, Unknown Author, Dawson A. Phelps, Hannis S. Smith, Mable Jacobs Morgan, Bell Irvin Wiley, Charles G. Cleaver, Charlotte Capers

Journal of Mississippi History

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Book Reviews, Bell Irvin Wiley, Charles G. Cleaver, Charlotte Capers

Journal of Mississippi History

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Census Of Washington County, Mississippi Territory, 1810, Mable Jacobs Morgan

Journal of Mississippi History

No abstract provided.

The Choctaw Mission: An Experiment In Civilization, Dawson A. Phelps

Journal of Mississippi History

No abstract provided.

The Futile Star Of The West, Hannis S. Smith

Journal of Mississippi History

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Franklin E. Plummer: Piney Woods Spokesman Of The Jackson Era, Edwin A. Miles

Journal of Mississippi History

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Rethinking Pre-Service Teachers’ Agency In Ai-Supported Lesson Design Through A Posthuman Synthesis Of Three Empirical Studies In Teacher Education, Wen Wen, Huijing Wen

Excelsior: Leadership in Teaching and Learning

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is increasingly used in lesson planning in teacher education. There has been a growing interest in exploring the different practices of teachers using GenAI to support lesson planning. This conceptual paper, using posthumanism as a framework, synthesizes three empirical studies to conceptualize pre-service teachers’ agency in AI-supported lesson design on literacy instruction. Pre-service teachers’ agency emerges from the interaction with GenAI, as well as with other human and non-human resources. Although their agency is shared and distributed during the design process, it remains essential for pre-service teachers to actively exercise their agency and make informed judgments …

Examining Lyman’S Ideas: Pre-Service Teachers' Perceptions On The Integration Of Pedagogical Strategies That Transform Literacy Instruction, Elizabeth Falzone, Charles Gonzalez, Paul J. Vermette

Excelsior: Leadership in Teaching and Learning

This project, grounded in Lyman's (2022) culmination of experiential and scholarly endeavors, seeks to prepare excellent educators in a post-COVID environment that is marked with heightened anxiety. With this in mind, we sought to investigate the efficacy and value of implementing specific strategies outlined in 100 Teaching Ideas that Transfer and Transform Learning (Lyman, 2022) within an introductory literacy course. Our goal was to explore how these strategies could empower pre-service teachers to construct their own perceptions of effective teaching of literacy in primary through secondary classrooms, thereby fostering self-driven, confident, and innovative educators capable of creating student-centered learning environments. …

Early Childhood Educators’ Perceptions Of Changes In Student Executive Function Skills And Challenging Behaviors Post-Covid-19, Sofia Cicero, Raquel Plotka

Excelsior: Leadership in Teaching and Learning

The COVID-19 pandemic greatly impacted children’s lives in a multitude of ways, including their educational and social lives. Many children had to switch to online learning platforms or follow social distancing rules. There is a lack of research exploring the lasting impact that the isolation period has left on young children, specifically those in early childhood (3-7 years old). The purpose of this study was to explore whether teachers witnessed changes in student executive function skills and challenging behaviors after the pandemic. In addition, play-based learning has been shown to improve executive function and behavioral outcomes. This study also attempted …