In the globalized higher education landscape, international students are integral to the academic community. International students often face unique challenges, including language and cultural barriers, adjusting to American classroom expectations, and feelings of isolation. This qualitative study explores impostor feelings among nontraditional…

This international comparative qualitative study builds on prior research into the lived experiences of teacher educators in the United States and India. This study focuses on the ways in which faculty in both contexts engage in Feed My Soul activities. Ten participants from each country were interviewed to better understand what kinds of…

The authors explore the role of social-emotional learning in developing positive behaviors in students and the related challenges faced by teachers in the United States and India.

Extant literature indicates that Chinese graduate students experience academic writing anxiety when writing with English as their second language (Cheng, 2014b; Ho, 2016; Huang, 2014; Liang & Turner, 2021). Writing anxiety exerts negative impacts on students' engagement with writing (Daly & Miller, 1975), has negative association with…

Social and emotional learning (SEL) has become an avant-garde term in the last few years. It is how people acquire and apply knowledge, attitudes and skills to understand and control emotions. Incorporating the SEL perspective, teachers can not only help students set and achieve positive goals, but also help students understand how empathizing…

This qualitative study describes the outcomes of teachers from three different countries (Ghana, Spain, and USA) enrolled in a graduate educational psychology class taught by the authors. A theory-into-practice teaching approach was used to encourage in-service teachers to conduct a research process guided by the instructors. Participants engaged…