Despite longstanding scholarly interest in international institutions, remarkably little research has been conducted in variation in performance across organizations. In this essay, I review Ranjit Lall's book which aims to fill that gap. Lall argues that the chief impediment to high-functioning international organizations (IOs) are member-states with particularistic interests that attempt to…
There have been many accounts of Donald Trump's assault on America's constitutional norms and institutions. Journalists have detailed how a real estate mogul and reality television star with no experience in public captured the Republican Party and disrupted the regular protocols of the executive branch. Legal scholars have lamented Trump's politicization of the Justice Department breaking th…
Using the transsactional theory (Rosenblatt, 1995, 2001) and translanguaging pedagogy (Garcia, 2009) as guiding lenses, this study explores how 1st-grade Korean_English bilingual students engage in storytelling and meaning construction using two languages when they encounter one of the chosen wordless picturebooks. The findings indicate that although visualizing is the main strategy to create…
To date, no measure of perceptions reflecting the view of childhood as a social construction exists within the fields of developmental psychology or education. The aim of this small-scale study was to develop items to asses beliefs about children along a spectrum - at one end of the spectrum conceptualizing children as human beings and at the other end of the spectrum conceptualizing children …
Disagreements exists about how to best spark young children's motivation to learn natural science. Both curiosity and wonder are considered important motivational factors for learning during early childhood (0-8 years). This systematic literature review e3xplores research about scientific curiosity and wonder in early childhood education and care published from 2010-2020. The review outlines…