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Response styles and value internalisation in entrepreneurship education evaluation: a survey of 16,075 Chinese students

This study of 16,075 Chinese students reveals that self-reported entrepreneurship education evaluations are significantly compromised by response biases and that while elite institutions foster better climates, substantive course provision is a more robust and verifiable pathway to genuine value internalisation than climate-building alone.

Liping Jiang2026-09-04
📄 social_science

From Compliance to Conviction: Culturally Sustaining Professional Development and Science Teacher Transformation in the South Texas Borderlands

This qualitative multiple-case study demonstrates how a culturally and linguistically sustaining professional development initiative in South Texas transformed nine high school STEM teachers' practices from institutional compliance to community-embedded conviction by reframing students' bilingualism, border ecology, and familial knowledge as vital resources for science learning.

Uma Ganesan, Angela Chapman, Lydia Ratel2026-09-04
📄 social_science

Digital Games and Climate-Crisis Education: An Analytical Study of DOMINO: “The Little One” through Serious Games, Persuasive Games, and Ecological Literacy

This analytical study evaluates the digital game *DOMINO: The Little One* as a pedagogical tool for climate education, finding that while its design effectively fosters systems thinking through procedural rhetoric and ecological literacy, it ultimately frames climate action primarily as individual responsibility while overlooking structural drivers, with conclusions limited to design features due to the absence of player-participant data.

Yavuz Çetin, Yüksel Bozan, Müjdat Ertürk2026-09-04
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At the Crossroads of Cinema and Aviation Safety: A Psychoanalytic Reading of Human–Machine Tension Through US Airways Flight 1549 and the Film Sully

This paper employs a psychoanalytic lens to synthesize Clint Eastwood's film *Sully* and the US Airways Flight 1549 incident, arguing that the narrative dramatizes the tension between human judgment and machine data through the lens of Freudian conflict and neoliberal ideology, ultimately offering interdisciplinary insights for enhancing aviation safety and leadership training.

Yavuz Çetin, Selçuk Kahraman, Aysel Merve Kuş, Pınar Öztarkan Özyurt, Aybike Zorlu2026-09-04
📄 social_science

What works to change social norms that sustain intimate partner violence in low- and middle-income countries? A systematic review with meta-analyses and meta-regressions

This systematic review and meta-analysis of 36 randomized controlled trials in low- and middle-income countries demonstrates that integrated norm interventions, particularly those combining parent training, couples support, and community mobilization, significantly reduce intimate partner violence and the social acceptability of such violence.

K Snow2026-09-04
📄 social_science

Negotiating Identity and Belonging: The Representation of the Nigerian Diaspora in Contemporary Nigerian Fiction

This study employs a qualitative comparative analysis of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's *Americanah* and Lizzie Damilola Blackburn's *Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband?* to argue that Nigerian diasporic identity and belonging are not solely determined by geography but are dynamically constructed through relationships, cultural practices, social recognition, and self-definition.

Deborah Gyang, Gyang Deborah2026-09-04
📄 social_science

From Digital Footprints to Cognitive Compromise: A Behavioural Architecture of Social Engineering and Psychological Manipulation in Sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review

This scoping review synthesizes existing knowledge on social engineering in Sub-Saharan Africa, revealing how cybercriminals exploit digital footprints and collectivistic cultural values through psychological manipulation, and proposes localized education, AI-driven intercepts, and improved UI/UX design to enhance user resilience.

Rose Nabi Deborah Karimi Muthuri2026-09-04
📄 social_science

Constructivist Pedagogy, Experiential Learning, and Creativity in Early Childhood Education: A Systematic Review with Implications for the Qatari Context

This systematic review synthesizes research on constructivist pedagogy and experiential learning in early childhood education to demonstrate that while these approaches effectively foster creativity and cognitive development, their successful implementation in the Qatari context—and globally—depends on bridging the gap between policy and practice through enhanced teacher capacity and contextual alignment.

Verka Brdarova2026-09-04