3036 papers
This qualitative study of 18 special education teachers in Shandong Province, China, reveals a critical gap in standardized gender identity and body awareness curricula for young children with autism, highlighting the need for structured guidelines and training to overcome cultural taboos and parental reluctance.
This paper updates a 2019 critical review of argument-based validation in language testing by examining developments through 2026, highlighting the field's expansion into diverse contexts and adjacent disciplines while addressing emerging challenges posed by justice-oriented critiques and AI-mediated scoring, ultimately arguing for the integration of fairness and algorithmic transparency as core warrants within validity arguments.
This critical policy analysis reveals that safeguarding for children and young people in UK research is fragmented and inadequately supported compared to statutory sectors, highlighting a significant gap where researchers face inconsistent expectations and lack the necessary training, vetting, and integration with established safeguarding systems.
This article argues that Israel's declining diplomatic effectiveness during the Gaza war stems from the failure of its realist, hard-power-focused approach to align with evolving global humanitarian norms and constructivist expectations of justice, thereby revealing the necessity of integrating normative credibility with material power for successful statecraft.
This qualitative multiple case study demonstrates that integrating constructivist and posthumanist approaches in South African Further Education and Training colleges enhances sustainable accounting competencies and ethical sensitivity through context-dependent project-based and community initiatives, while highlighting the need for systemic support to overcome resource disparities between urban and rural institutions.
This paper argues that Aleksandar Zograf's use of satire and absurdism in his graphic narrative *Bulletins from Serbia* constitutes a legitimate, culturally specific trauma-coping strategy during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, challenging Western trauma theory's privileging of solemnity and contributing to the decolonization of trauma studies through a formal analysis of humour as a structural element in conflict narratives.
This mixed-methods study of secondary social science teachers in coastal Odisha reveals that while moderate challenges exist across both CBSE and BSE boards, large class sizes are the most significant structural barrier to effective teaching, underscoring the urgent need for targeted, context-specific professional development and enforceable class-size norms to bridge the gap between NEP 2020's vision and classroom realities.
This study utilized latent profile analysis across two adolescent samples to identify three distinct patterns of planned smartphone use—social-focused planners, non-planners, and comprehensive planners—revealing that broader planning scopes are associated with significantly lower addiction risks and usage times, thereby supporting the need for tailored, profile-specific prevention strategies.
This mixed-method study of clinical-year medical students in Nepal found that the majority overwhelmingly preferred video-based flipped classroom teaching over traditional methods due to its flexibility and engagement features, with no significant link observed between these preferences and the students' personality traits.
This quasi-experimental mixed-methods study demonstrates that implementing Whole Brain Teaching in Grade 7 chemistry classes at private schools in Addis Ababa significantly improves student achievement and engagement compared to conventional lecture-based instruction.