Accepted Submissions

One of the greatest strengths of IAFOR’s international conferences is their international and intercultural diversity. As of June 1, 2026, BCE2026 has received over 335 submissions from 80 countries and territories - including: Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, the UAE, the UK, and the United States.

The following submissions have been accepted for presentation at BCE2026.

Interdisciplinary, Multidisciplinary & Transdisciplinary Education

- Inquiry-Based Learning in a STEM Camp: Shifting Attitudes but Not Career Pathways
- Education, Health, and Social Justice: A Pilot Questionnaire on Interdisciplinary Collaborative Work
- Bioglitter Production in Schools: An Interdisciplinary Educational Practice for Teaching Sustainability
- Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Integration: Interdisciplinary, Multidisciplinary, and Transdisciplinary Perspectives in Education

Foreign Languages Education & Applied Linguistics (including ESL/TESL/TEFL)

- Pragmatic Self-Repair Attitudes and Self-Efficacy Among Turkish First-Year Undergraduates in an English Class
- Listening Coping Self-Efficacy as a Mediator of L2 Listening Performance: the Roles of Listening Anxiety and Metacognitive Strategies
- Human-Centered AI in Language Education: Sustaining Empathy and Dialogic Engagement Through a GPT-Based Instructional Persona
- Exploring the Effects of Ovation VR on Japanese EFL Learners’ Foreign Language Anxiety, Motivation, and Speaking Proficiency: A Small-Scale Pre/Post Study
- Enhancing Willingness to Communicate Through Speaking Activities in the EFL Classroom
- Cognitive Linguistics and Reasoning: A Study of Metaphor and Analogy in Language Teaching
- When Personalization Breaks Level Control: Trade-offs in AI-Generated Language Learning Narratives

Professional Training, Development & Concerns in Education

- Bridging the Gap Between Policy and Practice: Perceptions of CPD Effectiveness in Omani Basic and Post-basic Secondary Schools
- The Catalyst for Change: Preservice Educators’ Transformative Learning Through a Short-Term Singapore Exchange: Insights from the UAE Context
- Transformative Pressure that Accounting Education Faces from Artificial Intelligence (AI): Lecturers’ Perspective
- Digital Transformation in Architectural Education: Assessing Technology Integration and Optimization in Nigerian Universities
- ESOL Teacher Educators’ Learning Initiatives and Perceived Needs: Insights from Chile
- Dancing Futures: Reconfiguring Educational Structures for Community Wellbeingin Western Australia
- Reflective Training with Videofeedback and PICCOLO in Early Childhood Education
- Investigating the Perceptions of Mainstream Primary School Teachers Towards Transitioning into a Special Class for Autism in Ireland
- Self-Efficacy Beliefs of a Physics Teacher

Design, Implementation & Assessment of Innovative Technologies in Education

- Generative AI in Teacher Education: Theory and Practice
- Developing a Digital Leadership Governance Framework for Private School Administrators to Support Sustainable Digital School Transformation
- Game-Based Learning Management to Promote Innovativeness Through Artificial Intelligence Technology in Small-Sized Schools in Phitsanulok Province, Thailand
- Incorporating Arabic Picture Book Design in Graphic Design Education
- Digital Transformation in Ghanaian Higher Education: Lessons from the Shift to Online Teaching and Learning
- The Role of Artificial Intelligence in English Language Learning in Public Junior High School
- AI Usage, AI Dependency, and Self-Regulated Learning Among Undergraduate Students in Cambodia: A Cognitive Offloading Perspective

Educational Research, Development & Publishing

- Assistive Technologies in Education: Progress, Challenges and Opportunities for Educational Inclusion

Language Development & Literacy

- Why Do Different Subgroups of Immigrant Children in Germany Speak Different Kinds of German?
- Speech and Language Support Measures for Children with Insufficient German Language Skills in Germany

Learning Experiences, Student Learning & Learner Diversity

- A Person Centered Analysis of Student Well Being and Academic Achievement Using PISA 2022 Data from Kazakhstan
- Who Am I in the English Classroom?
- Engendering Preschool Classrooms in Zanzibar: Questions of Gender Identity and Classroom Management Practices
- Critical Multicultural Ecology: Dis-embedding Inequality in South Korea’s Multicultural Education
- Training Prospective Physics Teachers to Link Between STEM Projects Engineering and Physics Theory
- Innovative Pedagogies for Inclusive Learning: Gamification and African Knowledge Systems in Rural Schools: A Case of TsošaMoya Kids Project
- Developing Professional Competencies Through Project-Based Learning Among Student Teachers in Thailand: A Qualitative Study
- Whose Classics? Decolonizing the University Curriculum and Reimagining the Relevance of Antiquity in Higher Education
- A Comparative Study of Pre-service Teachers’ Perspectives on Digital Technology Use in Foundation Phase Programmes in Lesotho and South Africa
- INCLUITE INCLUI: Co-Creating Accessible Learning Through Student Agency, Technology, and Community Engagement
- The Effect of Direct Written Corrective Feedback on Grammar and Spelling Accuracy in High- and Basic-Level Students
- Cultural Intelligence and Its Impact on Pre-Service Teachers’ Ethnocentric Attitudes: A Quasi-Experimental Research
- From Showing Up to Belonging: Learning Communities as an Outcome of Everyday Teaching Practices

Curriculum Design & Development

- A Study and Development of a Digital Creative Media Training Curriculum for Communicative English Teaching
- The Development of a Strategic Management Model to Promote Financial Literacy in the Primary Education Curriculum
- Local Curriculum Management Through Community Participation in Primary Schools
- Development of Curricula Based on the Appropriation of Conceptions of Artificial Intelligence and Their Emergence in Epistemic Communities

Teaching Experiences, Pedagogy, Practice & Praxis

- What Does Postdigital Inquiry Look Like when a Teacher Intentionally Incorporates AI as a Thinking Partner in Higher Education Classrooms?
- Transforming Educational Spaces Through Collaborative Pedagogy Inspired by Puerto Rican’s Battles Against ‘Juvenicides’
- Engaging Learners Through Productive Struggle in Undergraduate Mathematics
- Beyond the Curriculum: How Teacher–Student Relationships Lift Academic Performance: An Insightful Interpretation from the ELA Classroom
- Developing Teacher Spirit Through Experiential Learning: A Study of Preservice Physical Education Teachers
- Mobile Technology Use in Learning Science in Early Childhood: A Tale of Preservice Teachers in Lesotho and South Africa
- Strategies in the Creative Process: Using Collaboration, Analog Processes, and AI to Innovate
- Bridging Capital and Countryside: AMAE Educando Magazine and Teacher Training in Minas Gerais, Brazil
- Formative Analytics in University Pedagogical Practice: Commitment, Participation and Progression in Initial Teacher Education
- Teachers’ Perceptions and Practices on Digital Technology for Promoting Equity in Mathematics Classroom
- From Emotional Regulation to Executive Function: Integrating MindUP and STEAM in Early Childhood Education
- Performative Heritage Education: Drama-Based Pedagogy and Podcast-Mediated Meaning-Making
- The Impact of Small-Class Teaching in Hong Kong Primary Schools: An Exploration of Teaching Strategies to Effect a Paradigm Shift
- Experimental Insights into Digital Literature Pedagogy Among Selected English Language Education Students in Southwestern Nigeria
- A Simulation-Based Case Learning Approach to Strengthen Pediatric Training at Bogomolets National Medical University
- Challenges Perceived by Teacher Candidates in Engaging with Scientific Literature During Initial Teacher Education
- From Authoritative Guidance to Equal Co-learning: Positioning Reconstruction and Professional Capital Flow Among Three Types of Teachers in the Third
- Online Teaching in Times of Crisis: Experiences and Challenges of Elderly Professors
- Self-regulation as an Academic Resource in the Development of Critical Thinking in University Students
- The Effect of Layered Collaborative Instructional Approach on Conceptual Understanding in General Chemistry Among Engineering Students

Education, Sustainability & Society: Social Justice, Development & Political Movements

- From Classrooms to Communities: Building Resistance and Sustaining Progress Against FGM Through Education and Global Advocacy
- The Social Construction of Black Schools and Michigan’s School Turnaround Policy
- Global Citizenship Education as a Framework for Peace and Democratic Citizenship in Transitional Societies
- Supporting Social Justice Through Alternative Ways of Being and Knowing
- Beyond the Screen: How Structure, Agency, and Culture Created Educational Inequality During COVID-19 in Thailand
- Leading Sustainability Education: SAIT’s Sustainability Compendium Advancing Education for Sustainable Development Through Canada-Ireland Collaboration
- Teacher Awareness of Appropriate Active Learning Methods for the Learning and Teaching Process in the Subject of Science for Technology
- From Characterization to Case Selection: Methodological Decisions and Preliminary Findings on Technology Integration in Rural Multigrade Education

Mind, Brain & Psychology: Human Emotional & Cognitive Development & Outcomes within Educational Contexts

- The Relationship Between Empathetic Leadership of School Administrators and Teacher Well-being Under Sukhothai Primary Educational Service Area Office 2
- Early Life Adversity and Emotional Brain Development: Implications for Learning in Primary Education

Primary & Secondary Education

- Rethinking Educational Continuity: A 3-18 Integrated Model Based on Complex Thinking
- When Improvement Masks Decline: Implications for Critical Thinking, Global Citizenship, and Education for Peace

Educational Policy, Leadership, Management & Administration

- The Relationship Between Learning Ecosystems and Internal Supervision Effectiveness Under Kamphaeng Phet Primary Educational Service Area Office 2
- Building Sustainable Holocaust Education: Distributive Leadership and Citizenship Learning in Scottish Schools
- The Influence of Digital Leadership on Teachers’ AI Competency in Nakhon Sawan Primary Educational Service Area Office 2
- Leveraging Psychological Testing to Support Informed Field-of-Study Choices Among Nigerian Pre-Tertiary Institution
- Employer Expectations for Teacher Competencies in ECEC Recruitment
- Reimagining Educational Leadership Across Diverse Contexts: Developing the Sustainable Autonomous Adaptive Leadership (SAAL) Framework
- Neuroeducation as a Systemic Framework: Classroom-Based Executive Function Training through the N3UROB1C Program
- Professional Development Needs of Teachers in China’s International and Bilingual Schools
- Rethinking Student Voice: Adultcentrism and the Limits of Participation in Educational Policy
- Co-Creating Intercultural Games: Collaborative Leadership and Social Transformation Through Sport
- Artificial Intelligence and Educational Leadership in Adult Learning: Navigating Digital Transformation, Governance and Pedagogical Change
- Disrupting Orthodoxy: Arts-Based Approaches to Reimagining Educational Leadership Research
- Educational Governance, Financing and Inequality in Higher Education in Mexico: Challenges Within the Framework of SDG 4
- A Century of Trends and Impact in Educational Leadership Research
- Bridging Policy and Practice: Comprehensive Sexuality Education in the Framework of Mexico’s New Educational Reform

Higher Education

- Innovative Use of Educational Technology for Fostering Entrepreneurial Competencies in Tertiary Institutions in Ekiti State
- Prestige and Proximity: How Private Universities Shape Local Schooling Quality
- Embodied Andragogy for Sustainable and Inclusive Adult Learning
- Ethical Implications of AI in Education: Teacher-Student Relationships in Sri Lankan State Universities
- Beyond Cognitive Assessment: Developing an Integrated A.D.A.B and Affective Domain Framework for Moral Character Education in Higher Education
- Utilizing AI Towards an Effective National Framework for Student Health in Higher Education During Exam Times
- Self-regulation as an Academic Resource in the Development of Critical Thinking in University Students
- Co‑Constructing Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Reconciliation in Undergraduate Nursing Curriculum: Exploring Patient Partnership Opportunities

Challenging & Preserving: Culture, Inter/Multiculturalism & Language

- Cultural and Spiritual Values Through Sotho Children’s Proverbs: A Psycholinguistic Approach to Ethical and Moral Development
- The Rural Micro-Centre as a Mechanism for Epistemic Transformation in a Socioculturally Diverse Context

Education & Difference: Gifted Education, Special Education, Learning Difficulties & Disability

- Go Back to Move Forward
- Supporting Early Language Development Through Inclusive Preschool Practices
- Misconceptions of the Concept of Physical Properties Among Physical Sciences Students at the Higher Normal School of Kouba
- Supporting Autism Success in Regular Schools
- From Categorical Training to Inclusive Practice: Rethinking Teacher Preparation Through ISEM
- Beyond Policy Intentions: A UDL-Based Document Analysis of Disability Inclusion in Saudi University Regulations
- ‘Uncertain Futures’: A Capabilities Approach to Structured Inequalities in the Transitions of Students with Special Needs
- Rethinking Teacher Praise in Under-Resourced Classrooms: Insights from High-Performing Learners
- From Diagnostic Categories to Support Needs: Rethinking Multiple Disabilities
- A Qualitative Inquiry into the Efficacy and Challenges of Positive Discipline in Everyday Parenting for Parents of Children with Disabilities

International Education

- Erasmus+ Mobility and Its Impact on Academic Aspirations, Brain Circulation, and Europeanization: Evidence from Albanian Students

Counselling, Guidance & Adjustment in Education

- Understanding Parental Involvement in Remote Education: a Qualitative Study
- How Academic Pressure Becomes Psychological Burden: a Qualitative Study of Chinese International Students in Italy

Assessment Theories & Methodologies

- Rethinking Assessment in Design Innovation Education: Lessons from Singapore for a Global Pedagogical Shift
- Perspectives and Reflections on Assessment in Physical Education: A Self-study Narrative Inquiry of a Pre-service, In-service, and an Education Professor
- A Bibliometric Analysis of Global Research Trends in Teacher Evaluation, Accountability, and Effectiveness (2000-2024)
- When Improvement Masks Decline: Can Standardized Recovery Hide Declining Critical Thinking?