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Framing the Digital Turn: Rosetta Stone and the Contested Enactment of Language Policy in Moroccan Higher Education

This study analyzes the mandated introduction of Rosetta Stone in Moroccan universities under the PACTE ESRI 2030 reform, revealing that while students accepted the diagnosis of a linguistic deficit, they rejected the platform as an imposed remedy, ultimately causing the policy to fail at the point of enactment due to a disconnect between official discourse and student reception mediated by language.

Bouchra El Myloudy, Mohammed Guamguami2026-09-07

📄 social science

Asymmetric Curricular Securitisation: Language Policy and the Patriotic Turn in Hong Kong’s Primary Curriculum Reform

This paper employs corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis to demonstrate that Hong Kong's post-2019 ideological shift has produced an "asymmetric curricular securitisation" in primary education, wherein the Chinese curriculum constructs a monolithic national subject through substantive cultural heritage, while the English curriculum fosters a "global-national" subject through enabling modality and newly imported patriotic vocabulary, ultimately erasing Cantonese and revealing a differentiated, language-specific mechanism of policy enactment.

Catherine Shee-hei Wong2026-09-07

📄 social science

Quiet Backlash: Teachers’ Tinkering with Generative AI in Postdigital Classrooms

Drawing on longitudinal interviews with Estonian English teachers, this paper reframes resistance to generative AI as "quiet backlash," demonstrating how educators subtly negotiate and reshape dominant technological imaginaries through everyday pedagogical tinkering and mediation rather than through outright adoption or rejection.

Pirjo Mõttus, Emanuele Bardone2026-09-07

📄 social science

Behavioral and Ethical Dimensions of Generative Artificial Intelligence Use in Libyan Higher Education: A Descriptive Cross-Sectional Study

This descriptive cross-sectional study of 313 Libyan university students and faculty reveals that while GenAI use is prevalent and often viewed positively for learning, it is frequently associated with academic misconduct concerns and hindered by a lack of clear institutional guidance and detection capabilities.

mustafa almahdi algaet2026-09-07

📄 social science

Academic engagement as a mediator between growth mindset and deep learning among prospective teachers

This study of 412 prospective teachers demonstrates that academic engagement significantly mediates the relationship between growth mindset and deep learning, indicating that a growth mindset fosters deep learning both directly and by enhancing academic engagement.

Yamama Hamed Raslan, Ahmed ghanem, Nema Abuhelou, Khaled Younis Alderbashi, Maher Ibrahim Tawdrous, Mai Mostafa, Mohamed (…)2026-09-07

📄 social science

Child–Parent Relationship Therapy for Phubbing Symptoms in Primary School Children: A Quasi-Experimental Controlled Study

This quasi-experimental study found that a 10-week Child–Parent Relationship Therapy program significantly reduced phubbing symptoms and related issues in primary school children compared to a waitlist control group, though larger randomized trials are needed to confirm long-term causal effects.

Atiyeh Choobkar, Abolghasem Yaghoobi2026-09-07

📄 social science

Parental Monitoring as a Protective Factor Against Nicotine Vaping: Examining Mediating Pathways Through Dual Systems Cognitive Development

Using data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study, this research demonstrates that weaker parental monitoring increases adolescent nicotine vaping risk primarily by reducing impulse control, while sensation-seeking plays a less significant mediating role.

Thomas Wojciechowski2026-09-07

📄 social science

Spatial configurations in rehabilitated social housing: a relational analysis of design patterns in Brazil

This paper analyzes ten rehabilitated social housing buildings in Brazil using a relational framework based on Christopher Alexander's design patterns and network analysis to identify recurring spatial grammars and articulate how constructive, functional, and urban attributes combine to inform evidence-based design guidelines and public policies.

Eduardo Reuter Schneck, Andrea Parisi Kern, Vinicius M. Netto2026-09-07

📄 social science

From Familiarity to Transformation: Rethinking Griefbots in the Grieving Process

This paper argues that while current mimetic griefbots offer immediate comfort by simulating the deceased, they risk hindering the transformative process of grief by reinforcing backward-looking coping, and thus proposes a shift toward "transformative bots" that function as non-mimetic companions to help the bereaved reinterpret loss and reorient their lives forward.

Jack Jacobs, Alex Lau, Amani EL-Sheikh, Alexis Woods, Qiannan Li2026-09-07

📄 social science

Governing Informal Mobility in Luanda: Taxis, Urban Expansion and Everyday Access to the city

Drawing on qualitative fieldwork in Luanda, this article argues that informal transport is a durable and indispensable component of African urbanisation that ensures essential daily access but requires governance based on recognition and co-production rather than punitive regulation due to its precarious and contested nature.

Sónia Frias2026-09-06

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