This study examined how school diversity perspectives (multiculturalism, critical consciousness, color-evasion) may enhance student outcomes (school belonging, well-being, intercultural contact) and whether a strong diversity climate among classmates (openness and appreciation of diversity) may moderate …

This paper emphasizes the importance of rethinking the concept of expressiveness and how we approach itin higher music education (HME). It highlights that current teaching practices often focus on acoustic elements of performance, while overlooking the visual ones, despite evidence that ancillary gestures, …

Depression is a common mental health disorder which frequently co-occurs with increased body mass index or increased waist circumference (hereafter ‘overweight’), causing heightened cardiovascular risk. Unhealthy lifestyle behaviours underlie both conditions. The Multimodal Lifestyle Intervention (MLI) …

Technical mastery is often prioritized in Higher Music Education, leading students to focus predominantly on instrumental accuracy to play correctly (Hultberg, 2007). This emphasis can come at the expense of expressive development, hindering self-confidence and negatively affecting performance experiences …

PURPOSE: To evaluate the feasibility of the Occupational Therapy at Home E-Rehabilitation (OTHER) intervention for persons post-stroke (age > 55) transitioning to home. METHODS: A mixed-methods feasibility study was conducted. Qualitative data included semi-structured interviews with persons post-stroke …

This study addresses the growing need for ethical guidelines for artificial intelligence (AI) in education research by testing and refining procedures for responsible experimentation with AI in educational settings. The researchers engaged 21 Dutch Institutional Review Board (IRB) members across two …

As applied design researchers we are sensemakers: we are digesting society’s complexity and set out to improve it in meaningful ways. With our practices, we aspire to be catalysts for societal transformation. We apply our imaginative abilities to come up with alternatives for the status quo and we materialise …

This study investigated the role of professional youth workers in tackling financial scarcity by identifying what preventive support services they deploy on this topic. Through an online survey, data were collected from the directors and managers of 15 professional youth work organizations operating …

This research illustrates how cities use different forms of governance to increase circularity in construction and demolition sector. Using circular economy and city governance frameworks, we present multiple case studies of four European cities namely Riga, Tartu, Barcelona, and Kavala, based on qualitative …

Examining Polish-English bilingual speakers, we investigate the degree of phonetic synchronicity between C1 and C2 in stop-sonorant and /s/-initial clusters. In the first experiment, articulatory data – gathered with electromagnetic articulography (EMA) – reveal longer target-to-target lags in Polish …