Accepted Presentations
One of the greatest strengths of IAFOR’s international conferences is their international and intercultural diversity. As of October 26, 2026, the conference has received over 370 submissions from 53 countries and territories - including: the United States, Canada, Japan, Indonesia, South Korea, Australia, Thailand, Philippines, and Taiwan.
Accepted Presentations
Interdisciplinary, Multidisciplinary & Transdisciplinary Education
- Learning Under Pressure: Student Agency and Inequity in Digitally Intensive Programs
- Local Traditions, Global Conversations: Community-Based Learning and the Glocalization of Knowledge in Indonesia
- Course Design for Interdisciplinary Global Talent Development in Graduate Education
- Embodied Futures: Against a Retreat into Pure Spectacle
Innovation & Technology
- Therapeutic Potential of Pien Tsz Huang on Breast Cancer Cell Lines: An Innovative in Vitro Simulation Model for Biomedical Science
- Iterative Prototyping for Mobile Edutainment in L3 Language Learning
- Designing Effective E-Learning with AI: Balancing Automation and Pedagogical Intent
- Beyond Technical Competence: an AI-Supported Cultural Learning Infrastructure for Future Business Leaders
- Hybrid Instructional Design and Flipped Classroom in Educational Guidance: Identifying At-Risk Behaviors in High School
- Design and Evaluation of an Immersive Virtual Reality Learning Environment for Heritage Education
- Developing GenAI Ecologies and AI Governance for Innovation: A Comparative Policy Analysis
- Comparing Student Cognitive Engagement, Behavioural Intention to Use and Sense of Presence in Headset-based vs. Desktop-based Mixed Reality Learning
- How Can AI Reach the Classroom? Evidence from Korea and TALIS 2024
- A Preliminary Study on the Effects of Employing an AI Agent as a Virtual Opinion Leader in a Synchronous Online
- From Data to Timely Support: A Digital and AI-enabled Postgraduate Progress Monitoring Framework for Research Capacity Building
- Topology-aware Visual Analysis for Engineering Education: Educational Possibilities and a Breadboard Wiring Case Study
- The Role of Generative AI in L2 English Vocabulary Learning: Learner Outcomes, Strategies, and Perceptions
Implementation & Assessment of Innovative Technologies in Education
- Comparing AI-Generated Presentations for an Introductory Electronics Course: A Comparative Analysis of Claude, NotebookLM, and Gamma
- Architecting the EPIC Learning Environment: Leveraging the Multiplier Effect for High-Impact Human Communication
- Designing a Custom GPT to Foster Well-Being Reflection, Psychological Safety, and English Use Among Japanese University Students
- A Preliminary Study of a Time-Pressured Situated Virtual Reality Game for Enhancing Emergency Triage Competency
- Exploring the Complementary Affordances of Zoom and a 2D Metaverse: Synchronous Interaction in Beginner Japanese Language Learning
- Design, Development, and Evaluation of a Metallic Foldable Rotating Chalkboard as a Multi-Purpose Teaching Aid
- Beyond Digital Access: How Teacher Agency Shapes Technology Integration in Rural Primary Science Classrooms
- Evaluating Podcasting as an Authentic Assessment for Science Communication in Biological Science Education
- Effects of AI Technology-Enhanced Board Game Learning on Learning Outcomes
- Development and Preliminary Evaluation of an SVVR-Based Situated Learning Authoring Tool and Educational Game for Enhancing Social-Issue Psychological Phenomena Identification
- Building Responsible AI Readiness Across Diverse Higher Education Institutions
- Experiential Decision Simulation: Using Generative AI to Teach Decisions Under Uncertainty
- Digital Storybooks of National Figures for Character Education Among the Children of Migrant Workers in Sabah, Malaysia
- Design and Evaluation of a Location-based Puzzle Game with Role Differentiation for Historical Site Interpretation
Foreign Languages Education & Applied Linguistics (including ESL/TESL/TEFL)
- English Writing Anxiety Among Japanese University Students: What Specific Writing Tasks Trigger the Highest Anxiety?
- Evaluating Bias and Credibility: A Media Literacy Study in Two Japanese Universities
- An Auditory Grammaticality Judgment Test for Measuring Procedural Grammatical Knowledge in Second Language Learners
- Critical AI Literacy and L2 Engagement in Chinese Medium Instruction: Mediation of Amotivation, Controlled Motivation and Autonomous Motivation
- An AI-enhanced ESL Writing System that Helps Learners Avoid Errors They Tend Make While Preventing Plagiarism and Reducing Teacher Workload
- Teaching and Learning Among Peers in Second Language Discussion Tasks
- Extending Learner-material Fit as a Context-sensitive Framework for Foreign Language Education
- Assessing Language Learning Strategy Use of First-Year Students and Validating the SILL-JP/STEM at a Foreign Studies University in Japan
- Introducing Malaysian Culture Through Video: Promoting Intercultural Communication Using Japanese Language in the Context of Preparatory Education in Malaysia
- What Do Learners Prioritize in Spoken Communication? Insights from a Multimodal Manga-Based EFL Project
- Designing and Teaching English-only CLIL Lessons in Japanese Elementary Schools
- Perceptual Misalignment in EFL Motivation: A Self-determination Theory Study of Students and Teachers in Chinese Private Higher Education
- From Classroom Presentation to Authentic Communication: Speaking, Motivation, and Cultural Identity Through Situated EFL Guided Tours
- Instructor and ChatGPT Essay Scoring: Exploring the Effects of Calibration
- Collaborative Writing in Secondary School ESL Classrooms: Student and Teacher Perceptions
- Differences in AI Usage Among CEFR A1-A2 and CEFR B1-B2 First Year Japanese University Students in EFL Classrooms
- Evaluating Fine-tuned Large Language Models for Automated Essay Scoring in L2 Writing Classrooms
Professional Training, Development & Concerns in Education
- Unveiling the Underlying Attrition in Secondary Education: A Qualitative Exploration Among Drop-out Students
- Effects of Instruction for Japanese Pre-Service Elementary Teachers on Their Learning as Global Education Practitioners
- Leading Sustained Teacher Development in the Age of AI
- Between Status and Training: Haredi Teacher Preparation, Communal Standing and State Qualification
- Narratives on ICT Integration: A Phenomenological Study of Indigenous Peoples’ Community Teachers’ Experiences in the Teaching With Technology Program
- From Personal Narratives to Professional Growth: Narrative Pedagogy in Teacher Professional Development
- Human-centred AI Transformation: Rethinking Education, Lifelong Learning, and Workforce Competencies in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
- Evaluation of Challenges in Medical Laboratory Science Education in Hong Kong: A DREEM-based Assessment of GenAI Integration Among Undergraduates
Educational Research, Development & Publishing
- Implementation of the Deep Learning Curriculum in English Language Teaching: A Case Study at SMK Negeri 1 Bengkayang
- Breaking the Classroom Walls: Student Voice and Learner Experience in an Open Learning Environment
- Teaching Strategies and Practices in Reading: The Lived Experiences of Grade 2 Teachers of Top Performing Elementary Schools
- Developing Student Leadership Through CliftonStrengths: A Two-Year Mixed-Methods Case Study of Strengths-Based Education in a High-Performing Boys’s High School in Singapore
- Emerging Artificial Intelligence in K-12 Robotics Education: A Systematic Review of Roles and Pedagogical Integration
- Beyond TPACK: Structurally Mediated TPACK Enactment Among Secondary School Teachers in Bangladesh
- Characteristics of the Spousal Relationship Among Homeschooling Parents
- Sleep Differences Between Homeschooled and School-educated Children: Preliminary Findings and Directions for Future Research
- Building the Academic Pipeline: An Integrated Capacity Development Model for Postgraduate Students, Early Career Academics and Postdoctoral Fellows
- Cultural Factors Influencing Popular Sports Contested in the Baguio-Benguet Educational Athletic League (BBEAL)
Language Development & Literacy
- From Duty to Pleasure? University Students’ Motivation for Extensive Reading
- Enhancing Students’ Writing Performance Through Structured Modular Instruction: Evidence from a Pre-AI Baseline Study
- Benny’s Adventure Overcoming Anxiety: A Playful Approach for Children to Overcome Anxiety
Learning Experiences, Student Learning & Learner Diversity
- A Further Enhancement of the Tagalog Stemming Algorithm for Improved Tagalog Dictionary
- Department Efficiency and Profiling Using Data Envelopment Analysis and CHAID Algorithm
- Hidden Emotional Experiences and Sense of Self in Indonesian Creative Learning
- Uneven Outcomes of Semester Study Abroad: Japanese University Students’ Perceived Gains in Language Learning and Global Competence
- When Showing Up Stops Mattering: How Problem-based Lectures Loosen the Attendance-achievement Link in Engineering Mathematics
- Community Service: Fostering Authentic Learning and Strengthening Vocational Competencies
- From Task to Judgement: Qualitative Insights on How Part-time MBA Students Experience Learning
- Digitizing Kindergarten Curriculum in Sudan: A 15-Year Case Study
Curriculum Design & Development
- Culturally Responsive Instructional Design in Indonesia’s Merdeka Curriculum: A Systems Approach to Revitalizing Local Wisdom
- Curricular Shifts in Philosophy Instruction in Senior High School: A Critical Theory-Based Comparison of the Original and Strengthened Curriculum Guides
- From Digital Service to Social Co-Creation: Building a Cross-Curricular, Multi-Stakeholder Platform for Collaborative Exploration
- Navigating Curriculum Discrepancies: Implications for Mathematics Education in South African Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Colleges
- Reconfiguring Teacher Competency Frameworks: Policy Priorities and Evolving Governance in the European Context
- Beyond the Deliverable: A Curriculum Response to AI-Mediated Cognitive Proxying in Vocational Education
- Empowerment or Penalty? Generative AI, Learning Compensation Risk, and University Students’ English Writing Development Under Taiwan’s Bilingual Education Policy
- Responsiveness of Secondary Agricultural Sciences Education to Socio-economic and Environmental Challenges: A Systematic Review of Curriculum, Pedagogy, and Outcomes
- Investment Preferences and Perception of Filipino Business Course Students on the Economic and Political Climate in the Philippines
- Mapping Artificial Intelligence Integration in Undergraduate Animation and Visual Effects Education in India: Evidence From Karnataka and Telangana
Teaching Experiences, Pedagogy, Practice & Praxis
- From Memory to Meaning: Cultivating Human Intelligence Through Museum-Based History Education in Bhutanese Schools
- STEM Fairy Tales: Integrating Science, Literacy, and ESOL Support in K–4 Classrooms
- Embodied Meaning-Making in Teacher Education: Arts-Based Approaches to Reflective Practice
- “AI Can Be Wrong, So I Double-Check”: Student Strategies for Verifying AI-Generated Information Among JHS Students
- From Grades to Growth: Effects of Revision-Based Feedback on Senior High School Students’ Science Laboratory Report Writing
- Dressed for the Future: Impact of Career Portrayal on Career Aspirations and TLE Home Economics Relevance Grade School Learners
- Apply Teaching Games for Understanding Approach (TGFU) Model in Modify Cela Coconut Game to Stimulate Students’ Social Skills Development
- Beyond the AI Script: Human-centered English Speaking Through Identity-based Tasks
- Implementing ‘Fail Fast’ Lightweight Prototyping Praxis: A Transformative Multidisciplinary Experience in Low-Fidelity Physical Validation for Engineering
- Coding Through Indigenous Knowledge Systems: A Teacher-Generated Framework for Grade 3 Coding and Robotics in Township Classrooms
- Investigating Teacher Needs and Evolving Role of Mental Health Professionals: A Single-Case Study
- Teaching Social Justice in an EFL Context: A Pedagogy of Equity, Art, and Voice
- Investigating Implementation of Communicative Language Teaching Approach in Myanmar’s High School English Textbook Through Sociocultural Lens
- Tracking the Development of Grade 8 Students’ Grammar Skills Through the Station Rotation Model (SRM)
- Performing Resistance: Praxis Makes Perfect
- From Ladder to Landscape: Operationalizing Life Design Thinking in Philippine Higher Education
- Making Reasoning Visible: Student and Faculty Perceptions of Interdisciplinary Team Teaching
- Student Preferences for L1/L2 Usage in an EFL Classroom
- Foundation Phase Teachers’ Experiences of Using Contextualised Manipulatives in the Teaching of Mathematics Concepts
- Freedom Dreaming Teacher Education: Designing for Revolutionary Love, Community, and Educational Possibility
- AUDICA Model: Integration of Case-based Learning, Role-playing, Oral and Written Examinations, and Individual Contribution Cards in Internal Auditing Instruction
- CLIL Teacher Education Program: Am I a CLIL Educator?
- Pedagogical Translation Through Student Produced Video Podcasts in Indonesian Language Teacher Education
- Reimagining Indian ECCE Through Indian Knowledge Systems: Connecting Traditional Wisdom With Contemporary Early Childhood Education
Education, Sustainability & Society: Social Justice, Development & Political Movements
- Beyond Access: Lived Experiences of Disadvantaged Vietnamese Youth in International Higher Education in Vietnam
- Teaching Sustainable Development Critically in the Neoliberal University: Exploring the Possibilities and Limits of Freirean Pedagogy
- Invisible Intersections: Structural Violence and the Human Rights Crisis of Dalits with Disabilities in Nepal
- Becoming Peace Culture: Membership, Identity, and Transformative Learning in a Hiroshima Peace Education Organisation
- Opportunities and Challenges of Global Partnerships for Developing and Assessing Pedagogical Interventions: A Case Study of Psychological First Aid
- Teaching Science with a Conscience: A Mixed-methods Action Research on Metal Extraction and Socioscientific Issues
- A Critical Discourse Analysis of News Frames on Philippine Politics in Digital Media: Implications for Media Literacy Education
- “There Is Already a President, Why Bother Going to School?”: Participatory Action Research on School Dropout in West Sulawesi, Indonesia
- Between School Exclusion and Community Knowledge: Rethinking Inclusive Education Through a Quilombola Community in Brazil
- Embedding Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in Outdoor Poetry Teaching: an Experiential Approach in TESL Teacher Education
- Learning to Sense Wetness: Sensory Ethnography, Spatial Memory, and Policy Pedagogy in Southeast Asian Secondary River Cities
Mind, Brain & Psychology: Human Emotional & Cognitive Development & Outcomes within Educational Contexts
- Vocabulary Teaching Reconsidered: What Working Memory Tells Us
- Adversity Quotient Among Vietnamese High School Students: Level, Structure, and the Limits of Gender and Cultural Capital as Explanatory Factors
- Burnout and Well-Being Among Trauma-Exposed Teachers
- The Impact of Childhood Trauma on Learning and Emotional Development Among Children Living in Conflict-Affected Areas
- Structural Quality, Process Quality, and Child Development: Evidence from South Korea’s Universal ECEC System
Primary & Secondary Education
- Science Literacy, Institutional Disparities, and High-Stakes Assessment Outcomes: A PISA-Aligned Analysis of Grade 10 Students in a Philippine State University
- Operationalizing OECD Education 2030 Competencies Through the HCFREE Mastery Layer: A Preventive Secondary Education Model
- Enhancing Grade 9 Learners’ Science Achievement and Metacognition Through Structured Digital Learning Episodes
- Story-based Learning for Bullying Prevention in Primary Schools in Indonesia
- Does Space Matter for AI-integrated Science Learning? Teachers’ Perceptions of Spatial Flexibility, Zoning, and Digital Support in Indonesian Secondary Schools
Educational Policy, Leadership, Management & Administration
- The Gendered Impact of Secularism Laws on Muslim Women in France
- Community Participation and School Development: The Emerging Role of School Management Committees in India
- Micro-credentials for VPET Development in Hong Kong: Global Practices and Local Implications
- Millennial Managers and Unteachable Moments in the Workplace
- Administrative Procrastination and Its Impact on Operational Plan Implementation Quality According to Kaizen Methodology in Kuwaiti Inclusive Schools
- The Triangle of Innovations: Language Courses, Learner Focus, Staff Training; How to Steer the Overlap Nurturing Growth and Autonomy
- Strengthening Holistic Integrative Early Childhood Development in the Indonesia–Malaysia Border Region: Challenges and Opportunities in Sambas Regency, West Kalimantan, Indonesia
- Small Primary Schools in Thailand and Grade 6 O-NET Test Results
- Quality in Action Strengthening NQMS Readiness Through Differentiated Technical Assistance
- Rethinking Scale: A Practice-Based Framework for Educational Leadership and System Change
- Teachers’ Perspectives on the Institutionalization of School-based Olympic Education in China: A Qualitative Study Through the Institutional Logics Perspective
- From Practice to a Pyramid Model: Social-Emotional Leadership Among Preservice Teachers in Taiwan
- Technology-enabled Holistic Participatory Management for Primary School Energy and Environmental Governance: Framework Development and Feasibility Evaluation
- From Educational Model to Evidence: Inclusion and Territorial Distribution in Online Higher Education in the Ecuadorian Amazon
- From Moral Purpose to Schoolwide Practice: How Distributed Leadership Supports Character Education in Elementary Schools
- From Professional Support to Knowledge Mobilization: Relational Middle Leadership Across School Networks
- Organizational Climate and Perceived Institutional Performance in Philippine Higher Education: Evidence From a State University
- Mapping Elementary School Teachers’ Self-efficacy in Deep Learning Implementation: the Urgency of Strengthening Transformational School Leadership Interventions
- Sustainable Governance of the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence in School Education: The State-of-the-art
- What Counts as Faculty Entrepreneurial Behaviour? Aligning Definitions and Measures for Academic Leadership in Higher Education
- Gendered Based Perception of Leadership and Organizational Citizenship Behavior Through Mediating Role of Organizational Politics in Higher Education Institutes (HEIs)
- Leading Beyond the Substitution Plateau: A Conceptual Framework for Deans’ Professional-development Leadership in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Higher Education
- Mission: AI (Im)Possible – Reimagining Mathematics Learning Through Digital Escape Rooms
- The Role of Error Pattern Analysis in Facilitating and Monitoring Assessment and Learning with AI, in Open Distance Learning
- From Awareness to Action: Developing an Action Threshold Framework for Everyday Community Engagement in English Language Education
- Building Supportive Universities for International Faculty: Evidence from Japanese Higher Education
- Life Sciences Pre-service Teachers’ Perceptions of Integrating Indigenous Knowledge for Sustainable Development in Teaching and Learning
- Bridging Horizons: A Framework for Integrating AI Literacy in Graduate Education for a Workforce-Ready Asia-Pacific
- Effects of Autonomy Support on Academic and Social Motivation Among Japanese Undergraduate with Mild Difficulties in Learning
- Compliance of Bachelor of Physical Education Programs with National Standards in Baguio City and Benguet
- Learning Through Cultural Co-creation: A USR Approach to University – New Immigrant Collaboration
- “Who Shapes Whom?”: The Co-construction of Teacher and Student Identities in an AI-Mediated Higher Education Ecosystem
- Beyond the Glass Blackboard: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of Gendered Leadership in Philippine Higher Education
- Evolving Perceptions of Employability Skills Through Work-integrated Learning Course as Evidence of Learning: A Longitudinal Qualitative Case Study in Hong Kong
- Gamified Assessment as a Scaffold for Scientific Terminology Acquisition and Self-directed Learning in Multilingual South African STEM Education
- Exploring Barriers to Study Abroad Preparation: From Task Completion to Active Engagement
- Using AI While Questioning It: Conversational Pláticas on Student Trust, Understanding, and Reliance on Generative AI
- Practical Exploration and Experience of Peace Education in Chinese Universities From the Global Security Initiative Perspective
- Paperwork and Purpose: Lived Experiences of Personnel in Quality Assurance and Ranking Practices at Saint Mary’s University
- Making Professional Learning Visible: Designing AI-Assisted Reflective Assessment Within UEL’s Practice Makes Professional Curriculum
- Building Academic and Professional Identity in the First Year of the Medical Degree at the University of Minho
- From Evidence to Practice: The PULPIT Project’s Contribution to Implementing Patient Involvement in Health Education
- Academic Management Based on Digital Processes: Innovation Applied to University Graduation
- Modeling the Adoption of GeoGebra for Teaching Geometry Among University Students Using an SEIR Model
Nurturing Creativity & Innovation: New, Innovative & Radical Education
- From Classroom Innovation to Real-World Solution: The Pedagogical Journey of Ximer in Mexican Higher Education
Challenging & Preserving: Culture, Inter/Multiculturalism & Language
- An Analysis of Language and Religious Neutrality in Ethics Curriculum of Sindh (Grade III Till VIII)
- Deconstructing the Reductionist of Pikukuh in Contemporary Media: Rereading the Baduy School Prohibition Through Land-Based Pedagogy
- Integrating Colloquial Quebec French in FSL: Learners’ Attitudes and Motivations in a University Context
- Negotiating Rapport and Academic Professionalism: A Mixed-Methods Study of Intercultural Dynamics in Middle Eastern Higher Education
- When English Empowers and Uzbek Becomes “Inadequate”: Multilingual Identity and Language Ideology in English-medium Education in Uzbekistan
- Acquiring Javanese Across Cultural Boundaries: Language, Interaction, and Learner Experience Among Non-Javanese University Students
- How a Collaborative Self-Study of Teacher Education Practice (S-STEP) Changed Two Educators Using Ethnomathematics in Chittagong, Bangladesh
Knowledge Creation, Preservation & Access: Curation, Librarianship, Information & Archival Science
- Rethinking Library Resources and Services for Nationalians: Toward a Strategic Marketing Framework
Education & Difference: Gifted Education, Special Education, Learning Difficulties & Disability
- Early Spoon-Based Self-Feeding and Writing Readiness: A Coordination-Oriented Perspective on Functional Motor Development
- Fathers’ Perceptions of School-based Sex Education for Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Filipino Sign Language of Abstract Mathematical Concepts: Connoisseurs’ Perspectives
- Building Inclusive Pathways for Neurodivergent English Language Learners
International Education
- Singapore as an Educational Gateway: Mission Schools and the Earliest Chinese Students in America
- Teaching Through Trauma: Israeli Teacher Education in Crisis
- From Virtual Exchange to Physical Mobility: How COIL Can Foster Japanese Students’ Willingness to Study Abroad
- Individual Language Policy in Japan: Constructing Adaptive Resilience Through Intercultural Service Learning
- Counting Teachers, Not Sustaining Them
Counselling, Guidance & Adjustment in Education
- Supporting the First-Year Transition in University Students: The Role of Peer Mentors in Student Well-Being
- Now You SEA Us: A Look at APIDA College Mentorship Programs in Shaping Sense of Belonging for Southeast Asian Students
Assessment Theories & Methodologies
- Making Thinking Visible: Question Architecture and the Assessment of Reasoning in Thai ESL Secondary Classrooms