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Beyond the Bunsen burner: science teacher portrayals in visual media as cultural artifacts shaping public understanding of science education

Drawing on Wartofsky's artifact theory and an integrated theoretical framework, this paper analyzes science teacher portrayals in visual media from 1990 to 2023 to reveal how the "heroic exception" trope and evolving boundary figures create a significant representation-reality gap that shapes public understanding, expectations, and support for science education.

Serhiy O. Semerikov, Pavlo P. Nechypurenko, Tetiana A. Vakaliuk, Iryna S. Mintii2026-09-08

📄 social science

Cultural Sovereignty in the Age of AI: A Postcolonial Critique of Intellectual Property Frameworks for Indonesian Traditional Arts

This article employs a postcolonial critique to argue that Indonesia's current intellectual property frameworks, rooted in colonial-era individualism, fail to protect traditional cultural expressions from AI exploitation, and proposes a culturally sovereign regulatory model based on community licensing, benefit-sharing, and Free, Prior and Informed Consent to achieve epistemic justice.

Muhammad Ilman Abidin2026-09-08

📄 social science

Academic Procrastination, Digital Addiction, and General Achievement Expectancy in University Students: Profile Delineating via Hierarchical Cluster Analysis

Through hierarchical cluster analysis of 508 university students, this study identifies two distinct profiles—the "Procrastinating-Digital Addicted" group with low achievement expectancy and the "Digital Balanced-Success Oriented" group with high achievement expectancy—revealing significant variations by department and age to advocate for targeted, profile-specific educational interventions.

Ali Kirksekiz, Onur Isbulan, Emre Cam, Mubin Kiyici2026-09-08

📄 social science

Mirror of romanticism, or Novalian self-reflexivity in Dostoevskij’s Dvojnik

This article argues that Dostoevskij's *Dvojnik* utilizes Novalian concepts of self-reflexivity and the *ordo inversus* to illustrate how the protagonist Goljadkin's failure to reconcile his subjective and objective selves through moral activity results in a fatal, isolating opposition to his double rather than a unifying reconciliation.

Annabel Hou2026-09-08

📄 social science

Childhood Predictors of Educational Attainment Across 22 Countries: A Cross-National Analysis of the Global Flourishing Study

This cross-national analysis of over 200,000 individuals across 22 countries identifies childhood family financial status as the most consistent predictor of high educational attainment, while revealing that other factors like religious attendance and health show moderate associations, and gender or immigration status exhibit highly context-dependent effects.

Roza Nalbandyan, R. Noah Padgett, Christina Hinton, Merve Cerit, Byron R. Johnson, Tyler J. VanderWeele2026-09-08

📄 social science

The Holy See’s Position in Pan-Asian AI Discussions

This article examines how a four-year collaborative initiative between diverse Asian scholars and a Holy See dicastery has advanced Pope Leo XIV's vision of interreligious dialogue on AI, achieving both concrete results and intangible cultural connections that embody the call of the encyclical *Magnifica Humanitas*.

Levi Checketts2026-09-07

📄 social science

Existential Finitude and Ethical Relationality: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Tagore and Sartre

Through a comparative analysis of Rabindranath Tagore and Jean-Paul Sartre, this paper argues that while Sartre's model of absolute finitude fails to inherently ground ethical obligation, Tagore's framework of relational continuity successfully integrates mortality with ethical interconnectedness, demonstrating that a robust ontology of relationality is necessary for death to serve as a foundation for ethical life.

Pintu Das2026-09-07

📄 social science

Strengthening Public Service Delivery through E Government Development in Somalia

This paper argues that while e-government holds significant potential to enhance public service delivery, transparency, and accountability in Somalia, realizing these benefits requires overcoming critical challenges such as fragmented institutions and weak infrastructure by prioritizing interoperable systems, capacity building, inclusive access, and robust legal frameworks.

Mahad Abdi Muhumed, Abdinasir Abdullahi Mohamed, Burhan Hassan Warsame, Abdirasak Dahir Sulub, Zakaria Mohamud Yusuf2026-09-07

📄 social science

The Role of the Metaverse in Shaping the Future of E-Tourism Marketing in Zimbabwe

This qualitative study reveals that while the metaverse holds significant potential to transform e-tourism marketing in Zimbabwe through virtual experiences and blockchain transactions, its adoption is currently hindered by critical infrastructural deficits, skills gaps, and policy limitations, necessitating a phased framework involving infrastructure investment, capacity building, and regulatory support to ensure sustainable digital transformation.

Yvonne Madongonda, Mercy Dube, Hope Hogo, Delight Rufaro Hungwe2026-09-07

📄 social science

Scourge or Source of Opportunity?The Double-Edged Effect of AI Disruption Awareness on Employees’ Thriving at Work

Drawing on conservation of resources theory and a three-wave survey of 600 employees, this study reveals that AI disruption awareness acts as a double-edged sword for thriving at work by simultaneously triggering resource-gain and resource-loss pathways through knowledge acquisition and hiding, respectively, with job crafting styles further moderating these opposing effects.

Shu Yu, Ling Xiao2026-09-07

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