Select Journal Publications

Leighton, J.P., Guo, Q. & Tang, W. (2021). Measuring preservice teachers’ attitudes towards mistakes in learning environments. Learning Environment Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10984-021-09362-1

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Liu, Y. & Leighton, J.P. (2021). Parental self-efficacy in helping children succeed in school favors math achievement. Frontiers in Education (Educational Psychology). doi: 10.3389/feduc.2021.657722

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Leighton, J.P. (2020). On barriers to accessing children’s voices in school-based research. Canadian Journal of Children’s Rights, 7(1), 164-193.

- Rita Levi-Montalcini - (Neurobiologist, Winner of the Nobel Laureate 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)

"In life, we should never give up, surrendering to mediocrity, but rather we must get out of the 'gray zone' where everything is habit and passive resignation. We must cultivate the courage to rebel."

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