A Shanghai randomized trial shows that a collaborative, classroom-based teacher development model (KIRM-TCI) significantly improves the quality of emotional and instructional support, offering a scalable approach to enhancing early childhood teaching quality.

A qualitative study based on student interviews highlights how international service-learning programs contribute to students' interpersonal, personal, civic, and academic development. The research also identifies factors that lead to these outcomes, such as community interaction, teamwork, reflection, and meaningful service, offering practical insights for improving program design in higher education.

Movement is good for us, as we all know. But many people do not engage in enough physical activity in their daily lives. Because knowledge of the positive effects of movement is clearly not sufficient to induce changes in behavior, science is increasingly focusing on mood and emotional factors. Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, Paris Lodron University of Salzburg (PLUS), Austria, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany, and the Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim (ZI), Germany, have analyzed data sets from over 8,000 individuals to determine how physical activity is linked to good moods and positive emotions. They found that most people feel better when they move throughout the day. At the same time, people are more physically active when they are in a better mood. The results are published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour from May 6, 2026.