{"title":"Rethinking Methodologies: Implications for Research on International Students","authors":"D. Neupane","doi":"10.22329/jtl.v16i2.7002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22329/jtl.v16i2.7002","url":null,"abstract":"Research in international student success, satisfaction, and challenges seems still to be constructed around the colonial, imperial paradigm. Informed by deficit models of language, culture, and literacy teaching, such research portrays international students’ challenges in terms of deficiency; discounts other languages, cultures, and literacy education; and reinstitutes the progressive and paternalistic role of the West, reifying its linguistic and cultural superiority. This essay interrupts the still dominant narrative that recreates the old binaries in two ways: (a) It frontloads the need to adopt strength-based approaches to counter dominant methodological paradigms from which much of knowledge about culturally and linguistically different/disadvantaged (CLDI) students is derived, and (b) based on my own ethnographic study on a South Asian immigrant population in Canada, it demonstrates that what the old paradigm views as deficits can and should be the very measures from which to appraise student success and satisfaction. Accordingly, the article’s main objectives are twofold: (a) expose the weaknesses of the deficit models of language, culture, and competence and (b) stress the need to reshape international student studies in higher education as a field of inquiry by foregrounding appreciative models and methodologies.","PeriodicalId":41980,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Teaching and Learning","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2022-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43177795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Connecting the Promising Practices for Teaching Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students with Student Satisfaction","authors":"Clayton Smith, George Zhou","doi":"10.22329/jtl.v16i2.7483","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22329/jtl.v16i2.7483","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41980,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Teaching and Learning","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2022-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46129435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Making Virtual Global Learning Transformative and Inclusive: A Critical Reflective Study on High-Impact Practices in Higher Education","authors":"Linyuan Guo-Brennan","doi":"10.22329/jtl.v16i2.6947","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22329/jtl.v16i2.6947","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of global competence, agility, empathy, and innovation in managing opportunities, crises, and problems. Global learning and engagement in higher education is the pathway towards developing learners' intercultural competence, fostering an appreciation of diversity, inclusion, and equity, and empowering individual agency towards collective wellbeing and sustainability. Digital transformation and available tools have expanded the scope and depth of global learning in virtual environments. This article reports a critical reflective study on virtual global learning and shares high-impact, evidenced-based strategies to make virtual global learning more equitable, inclusive, meaningful, and relevant to all learners in higher education.","PeriodicalId":41980,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Teaching and Learning","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2022-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42464739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mental Health Experiences of Teachers: A Scoping Review","authors":"Kristen Ferguson, Melissa Corrente, I. Bourgeault","doi":"10.22329/jtl.v16i1.6856","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22329/jtl.v16i1.6856","url":null,"abstract":"Teacher mental health continues to be of concern in elementary and secondary schools; however, supporting teacher wellbeing is understudied (Parker et al., 2012; Roffey, 2012), particularly from a gender perspective (Bourgeault et al., 2021). Among professionals, teachers exhibit one of the highest levels of job stress and burnout on the job. (Hakanen et al., 2006; Stoeber & Rennert, 2008). This scoping review investigates and consolidates the existing research on teacher mental health, leaves of absences, and return-to-work. Work context and personal factors/family context contribute to teacher stress and attrition and by extension may impact temporary leaves of absence (Pressley, 2021). Several articles report on interventions with moderate success to reduce teacher stress, but no studies evaluated return-to-work interventions (Ebert, 2014; Kwak et al., 2019). The amount of stress teachers are experiencing and the pressure that is causing them to burn out is the most common narrative present in the literature. The review highlights gaps in the literature surrounding teacher mental health, leaves of absence, and return-to-work and a notable gap regarding the role of gender.","PeriodicalId":41980,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Teaching and Learning","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2022-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42961644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education","authors":"Lucas Johnson","doi":"10.22329/jtl.v16i1.7033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22329/jtl.v16i1.7033","url":null,"abstract":".","PeriodicalId":41980,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Teaching and Learning","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2022-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45542557","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Decolonizing Educational Leadership: Exploring Alternative Approaches to Leading Schools","authors":"Shezadi Khushal","doi":"10.22329/jtl.v16i1.6830","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22329/jtl.v16i1.6830","url":null,"abstract":": Exploring Alternative Approaches to Leading Schools highlights both the","PeriodicalId":41980,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Teaching and Learning","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2022-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48239573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Effectiveness of Educational Policy for Bias-Free Teacher Hiring: Critical Insights to Enhance Diversity in the Canadian Teacher Workforce","authors":"Ardavan Eizadirad","doi":"10.22329/jtl.v16i1.6994","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22329/jtl.v16i1.6994","url":null,"abstract":"The Effectiveness of Educational Policy for Bias-Free Teacher Hiring: Critical Insights to Enhance Diversity in the Canadian Teacher Workforce is written by Zuhra Abawi, who is of Afghan-Scottish descent and has experience working in the Ontario education system in Canada as an early childhood educator, elementary school teacher, and college and university professor. Abawi makes a strong argument that although policies affiliated with teacher hiring are often associated with words such as equity and inclusion, they have not materialized into equitable practices and outcomes. The author explores why there continues to be a lack of racial diversity in the teacher workforce, focusing particularly on the administration level, and considers what individual and systemic factors contribute to this trend. While not poorly considered, a majority of the data and statistics examined are Ontario-based with an emphasis on race. A more comprehensive examination involving data from other geographical areas and from international contexts would strengthen the depth of analysis and arguments presented throughout the book. However, overall this book does provide a framework for educational administrators to move beyond performative language and engage in intentional actions to facilitate actualization of diversity in the teacher workforce in K–12 schools. These are timely and relevant issues nationally and globally. The book is divided into eight chapters. Chapter 1 is titled “Introduction: Situating Myself in my Work,” where Abawi provides context for why the book was written. The main key term, “bias-free teacher hiring,” is defined as referring to “a colour-blind approach to diversifying the teacher population by treating all applicants equally and thus focusing on their skills, knowledge, experience, and merit” (p. Abawi further situates the two guiding questions informing the study:","PeriodicalId":41980,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Teaching and Learning","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2022-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44766578","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On (He)","authors":"Biljana Vujičić","doi":"10.22329/jtl.v16i1.6759","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22329/jtl.v16i1.6759","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41980,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Teaching and Learning","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2022-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41767801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Critical Moments in Education","authors":"Lana Parker","doi":"10.22329/jtl.v16i1.7293","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22329/jtl.v16i1.7293","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41980,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Teaching and Learning","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2022-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44930231","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Preservice Teachers Engage Parents in At-Home Learning: “We Are in This Together!”","authors":"L. McKee, Anne Murray-Orr, Evan Throop Robinson","doi":"10.22329/jtl.v16i1.6849","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22329/jtl.v16i1.6849","url":null,"abstract":"During pandemic school closures, preservice teachers designed activity plans to support the at-home learning of children in early elementary grades and recognized parents as vital to supporting their children’s learning. This article uses data from a multiple case study of preservice teachers’ planning during an alternate practicum. Drawing on models of family vibrancy and parent engagement that arise from funds of knowledge and parent knowledge theories, we highlight how preservice teachers included parents in reciprocal and democratic ways that honoured diverse family’s contexts and their knowledge of their children. Results illustrate the importance of asset-oriented, flexible pedagogies that include meaningful parent partnerships both during and beyond the pandemic.\u0000 ","PeriodicalId":41980,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Teaching and Learning","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2022-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48604176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}