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Teacher emotional resilience is regarded as a professional capacity and process in which teachers utilise resources to cope with emotion-related tensions in their work to achieve better development. This study aims to investigate the development of beginning teachers’ emotional resilience and its factors in a Chinese rural school. Using a social-ecological perspective, this research adopted an ethnographic case study to explore ten beginning teachers’ experiences and feelings by conducting interviews, artefacts, and field notes. The findings showed that beginning teachers usually encounter relation-related, teaching-related, and role-related emotional tensions. To address these tensions, general personal resources, professional support from others, and supportive policies jointly shape the development paths of emotional resilience amongst beginning teachers. Accordingly, emotional resilience development follows three discernible paths: Enthusiast, Doubter, and Survivor. The interactions amongst various emotional dilemmas and social-ecological factors yield a cumulative impact on teacher emotional resilience development.

The significance of teacher collaboration in driving school changes has been widely acknowledged. However, previous studies have rarely delved into the relative contributions of different forms of teacher collaboration. In this study, we aimed to address this gap by identifying two forms of collaboration and examining their effects on school innovativeness and innovative teaching practice using structural equation modeling. Our sample comprised 3,835 teachers of lower secondary schools in Taiwan, drawn from the TALIS 2018 dataset. The findings of our study suggested the differential effects of the two forms of collaboration. "Professional collaboration," characterized by deeper-level engagement, was found to have a more substantial association with both school innovativeness and innovative teaching compared to "exchange and coordination for teaching." Furthermore, our analysis revealed mediation effects in the pathways examined. Specifically, school innovativeness partially mediated the effect of "professional collaboration" and fully mediated the effect of "exchange and coordination for teaching" on innovative teaching.

This study fills an important gap in our understanding of how teachers’ beliefs and characteristics influence their willingness to engage in classroom practices that promote ethnic inclusivity and prevent ethnicity-based exclusion and conflicts among students. A sample of 454 in-service Russian teachers completed an online survey that included questions asking about teachers’ own ethnic background, the ethnic diversity of their school, their beliefs about multiculturalism, empathic anger experienced in response to witnessing ethnicity-based mistreatment, and job satisfaction. The results revealed that positive multicultural beliefs, empathic anger, and job satisfaction were positively predictive of teachers’ willingness to promote ethnic inclusivity in the classroom.

University provision of student support services sits at the interface between universities and the broader community. The success of Australian inclusive education funding imperatives requires a revised model of support to improve access and retention. Using a Foucaultian discourse analysis and the notion of ‘contingency’, data from interviews with ‘student support services’ staff in four Australian universities was interrogated to determine the most accessible and effective services for equity students. This paper introduces the Supporting a Diverse Student Body matrix which sets out principles, strategies and characteristics for supporting the needs of equity students and service access and delivery preferences of diverse student bodies. The matrix provides a useful basis for universities to consider their own student support practices and signpost a pathway for change.

This study examines the multidimensional construct of student agency across four countries, Ireland, Italy, Norway, and the United States. Elementary students across contexts (n = 1,229) completed the Student Agency Profile (StAP) to assess their agency in the classroom with respect to literacy. Confirmatory factor analyses largely aligned with the hypothesized dimensions of agency across sites. Findings from a multigroup confirmatory factor analysis revealed invariance across the four countries suggesting that scores generated by the StAP are able to assess student agency. Discussion highlights the importance of cross-cultural explorations of agency to shed light on how students have a voice in their decision-making when it comes to literacy.

This study uses a questionnaire survey (n = 2.098) to examine how the use of everyday language and slower-paced teaching in math instruction regulates the practice of rules of recognition and realization. The results of a Structural Equational Modelling (SEM) analysis revealed that while the recognition-realization-rules formula was confirmed, the better way to improve students’ performance in math tests was not to slow the pace of teaching but to use everyday language because the latter meaningfully linked to their context-based experiences. This means an innovative presentation of pedagogical information through either unpacking or enhanced pedagogy greatly improves their results in math tests.

Across the former Soviet space, governments have grappled with fundamental questions around how to build or re-form sovereign nations, how to deal with the legacies of the preceding Soviet era, and how to navigate intense globalization processes that were further stimulated with the collapse of the communist bloc in 1991. Structural reforms have extended to all aspects of society, particularly to social institutions such as higher education that had historically been very closely linked to the state. One response to change has been the massive expansion of higher education systems. The dramatic growth of the ex-Soviet higher education systems and the impact of the path-altering events of 1991 lead to the research questions this paper explores, which are, 1) To what extent did HEIs created between 1991 and 1996 represent a break from the Soviet past? and 2) How do patterns in the emergence of new HEIs compare across the former Soviet space? Using the cases of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan, drawing theoretically from sociological institutionalism and methodologically from a comparative case study including in-depth interviews with 36 faculty members, this paper sets out a novel typology of four distinct patterns in the new HEIs that emerged in the first five years following the Soviet breakdown. These are classified as ‘external’, ‘hybrid’, ‘bi-national’ and ‘neo-Soviet’, each being distinguishable in terms of their organization, founding actors, and funding model. Through this comparative investigation, the paper elaborates on the dynamics of structural reforms in higher education.