The "IDRA Newsletter" serves as a vehicle for communication with educators, school board members, decision-makers, parents, and the general public concerning the educational needs of all children across the United States. The focus of this issue is "Big Ideas for Educational Equity." Contents include: (1) Stand Up for Students…

As student veterans enter higher education after service, there is a need for more knowledge about their transitional experiences. The issues facing this group of students have an impact, not only on the student, but also faculty, administrators, and student peers. This study focused on articulating these transition experiences utilizing…

The purpose of this?qualitative study?was to identify how advisors describe the norms and culture of teams who qualified for competition in team-based?Leadership Development Events?(LDEs)?at the 2020 Idaho State?Virtual?LDEs.?We extrapolated differences in team norms?and culture?from the Agricultural Issues Forum, Parliamentary Procedure, and…

This paper draws on critical discourse analysis to examine how health and physical education (HPE) curricula from Sweden, Norway, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand may influence possibilities for the enactment of social justice in schools. The findings highlight the presence of social justice intentions across the five curricula as related…

Amid the globalized environment of higher education, international graduate students remain vital contributors to U.S. institutions as they contribute billions of dollars to the U.S. economy annually, drive innovation, and play a significant role in diversifying and globalizing U.S. institutions. Open Doors reported that international students…

This descriptive-interpretive qualitative study analyzed educational technology scholars' written discourse with the goal of promoting sustainable terminology usage in the educational technology field. The study analyzed 105 conceptual definitions extracted from 191 doctoral dissertations on various forms of technology-based learning, including…

The rapid expansion of neo-liberal regimes has effectively transformed how students -- their role and purpose -- are understood in society. Scholars, especially in the Anglophone North, have shown how dominant policy narratives tend to position students as consumers. More recent studies have begun to explore students' views of this construction.…

This auto ethnographic study examines the difficulty in defining student engagement. Definitions from the author and her students are compared for intersections and disconnect. Trickle down engagement, the teacher setting a contagious engaging tone, was considered. Though many intersections in definitions were noted, one disconnect related to the…

The concept of student partnership has attracted increased attention during the last decade, often due to an assumption that it can mitigate neo-liberal agendas and practices in teaching and learning. A review of definitions and understandings of student partnership models shows that most of the research conducted on this topic has been based on…

This article describes a collaborative learning activity between students and nurse managers to develop a student's professional role.

As key members of the Individualised Education Program (IEP) team and strong child advocates, parents play a critical role in special education. In this study, we sought to understand a crucial, yet underexamined, aspect of special education -- parent perceptions regarding student participation in IEP development. Specifically, we asked parents…

The practice of students as partners can be applied to numerous facets of the university, including curriculum design, governance, and co-curricular programs. However, while scholars have also conceptualised that student partnership can occur through co-research, adoption is far from mainstream. In this paper, we seek to go 'under the hood' of…

The study of classroom processes that shape students' motivational beliefs, although fruitful, has suffered from a lack of conceptual clarity in terminology, definitions, distinctions, and roles of these important processes. Synthesizing extant research and major theoretical perspectives on achievement motivation, I propose Motivational Climate…

The demand for intensive educational experiences is increasing, necessitating a focus on ensuring quality and providing adequate student support. Increasing opportunities for student collaboration, including teacher/student co-creation of learning materials, has strong potential to increase engagement and support. Given increased interest in…

Articulating the rules, roles, and values that are expected of undergraduate researchers is important as we strive to create a more accessible path into the scientific community. Rules refer to skills required of scientists, roles refer to behaviors consistent with the expectations of a scientist, and values refer to beliefs of the scientific…