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Clare Rawdin; Sunny Dhillon – Studies in Higher Education, 2025
This is a conceptual paper that examines the emergence of the 'therapeutic university' and considers its potential implications for policy and practice in Higher Education (HE). Concern over the well-being and mental health of university students both in the United Kingdom (UK) and internationally has recently intensified in media, academic and…
Descriptors: Well Being, Mental Health, Educational Policy, Educational Practices
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Alexandra A. M. Zuiker; Marise Ph. Born; Jan W. Van Strien – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2025
Stimulating outperformance has been increasingly emphasized in educational policies. Although personally satisfying, outperformance can also lead to interpersonal strain, which is often overlooked in the educational excellence discourse. Exline and Lobel (1999, "Psychological Bulletin, 125"(3), 307-337) coined Sensitivity about being the…
Descriptors: Preadolescents, Fear of Success, Interpersonal Relationship, Emotional Response
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Raquel M. Rall; Demetri L. Morgan; Felecia Commodore; Daniel A. Collier; Dan Fitzpatrick – Educational Policy, 2025
In an era where many states' postsecondary education governance dynamics are evolving, we set out to understand whether state-level governing boards with centralized governance functions affected institutions' decisions to engage in in-person instruction during the fall of 2020, the first fall of the COVID-19 pandemic. We examined sociopolitical…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Educational Policy, COVID-19, Pandemics
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María Ivana Soler; Sebastián Correa-Otto – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2025
We study the role of the State in education through the most significant government periods in Argentina in the last 50 years. We use a sociocultural approach, contemplating the historical development of educational policies in the country, exploring conceptual frameworks applicable in the investigation of the State, privatization and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Government Role, Global Approach, Privatization
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Rita Z. Nazeer-Ikeda; Sarah R. Asada – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2025
This paper investigates the case of Singapore where there are teachers' unions but industrial actions are rare. It questions why and how has educator organising, steered by Singapore Teachers' Union, transformed? Our findings show that historical, political, and socio-economic dynamics have influenced the transformation of STU. For more than…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Unions, Teacher Associations, Educational History
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Hamza R'boul – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2025
This paper argues that The National Coordination of Forcibly Contracted Teachers (NCFCT) [Arabic characters omitted] is a social justice movement that goes beyond the demands for better employment benefits and educational justice through schools that communities deserve to resisting philosophies that make use of their 'relegated' status as an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Unions, Social Justice, Activism