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Scholarship with Purpose following the National Strategy for Higher Education to 2030: HEI Executive Perspectives on Ernest Boyer’s Framework on Engagement.

This paper examines Irish Higher Education Institution executives' perspectives on implementing engagement under the National Strategy for Higher Education to 2030 through Ernest Boyer's framework, revealing that while engagement is strategically prioritized, challenges remain in its definition, measurement, and the need for more inclusive, coordinated approaches.

Timothy R. N. Murphy, Colin McLean2026-07-15
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Anticipatory Skill Ecosystems and Workforce Resilience under Technological Uncertainty: A Qualitative-Dominant Mixed-Methods Study from Sidama, Ethiopia

This study from Sidama, Ethiopia, demonstrates that Anticipatory Skill Ecosystems—collaborative institutional networks that proactively align skill development with technological change—are significantly more effective at building workforce resilience than reactive training, particularly for workers with primary education, by leveraging mechanisms like multi-stakeholder foresight and flexible micro-credentials to bridge the gap between rapid technology adoption and slow curriculum updates.

Ashenaf Argata Yona2026-07-15
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Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)-Based Lesson Exemplar in Grade 8 Science: A Developmental Research

This developmental research study addresses the challenges of integrating Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) into Grade 8 science by creating and validating a contextualized lesson exemplar on typhoons, guided by specific Sustainable Development Goals and informed by teacher feedback to provide a relevant, learner-centered instructional resource.

Jarry Aparra, Geraldine E. Francia2026-07-15
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Linguistic Resistance to AI Writing Tools: A Review and Conceptual Framework

This paper synthesizes 41 studies to define linguistic resistance as a deliberate strategy to evade AI detection, proposing a three-tier behavioral typology, the "Efficiency Inversion Paradox" regarding effort redistribution, and preliminary measurement tools to address the disproportionate impact of detection errors on specific writer populations within engineering and polytechnic education.

Sharip Isaev2026-07-15
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Models and Practices for Empowering Classroom Instruction with Generative Artificial Intelligence: A Grounded Theory Study from China

Using a grounded theory analysis of 65 Chinese higher education cases, this study constructs a three-dimensional model and a cyclical practical pathway to demonstrate how Generative AI transforms classroom instruction by shifting from a traditional teacher-student binary to a "teacher-machine-student" ternary interactive ecology.

xiaoqing zhang, Shipian Xv, Sheng Li, Yuhui Jing2026-07-15
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“It feels like an activity, not a test”: Developing and pilot-testing a sticker-based Likert scale for adolescent museum visitors at the Huangmei Opera Museum

This paper reports on the design and pilot testing of an engaging, sticker-based Likert scale instrument that successfully assesses five key experience dimensions among adolescent visitors at China's Huangmei Opera Museum, demonstrating its viability as a practical quantitative evaluation tool for this demographic.

Li Yang, Liliana Soares, Rute Gomes2026-07-15
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Multilingual Representation of Literary Discourse: The Experience of a Six-Language Parallel Corpus

This article introduces and analyzes a pioneering six-language parallel corpus of M. Auezov's *The Path of Abai* in Kazakh, English, Turkish, Uzbek, Uyghur, and Azerbaijani, demonstrating its value for studying cross-linguistic equivalence and its potential applications in translation studies, comparative linguistics, and AI development.

Anar Fazylzhan¹, Aikerim Mursal¹, Kuralay Kuderinova¹, A. S. Barmenkulova¹, Sara Amirtayeva¹2026-07-15
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A Critical Interpretive Synthesis of how Social Narratives Sustain Second-hand Goods Dumping in West Africa

This critical interpretive synthesis reveals how dominant social narratives—ranging from charity and circularity to affordability and weak governance—legitimize the export of second-hand goods to West Africa, thereby masking waste displacement, perpetuating environmental injustice, and necessitating a justice-oriented reconfiguration of global waste management policies.

Prince Nii Koi Kotei, Kwadwo Adusei-Asante, Shajimon Peter2026-07-15
📄 social science

Advocating for my Relationships: Youths’ Understanding of Healthy Dating Balance, Staying Safe, and Bystander Behaviors

This study evaluates the "Advocating for My Relationships" (ADMYRE) school-based program, finding that while students initially demonstrated high identification of teen dating violence but lower understanding of relationship balance and bystander strategies, participation significantly increased knowledge across all areas, with baseline differences linked to school-level socioeconomic and academic factors.

Mikaela Scozzafava, Bethany McCurdy, Kate Goudy, Rhonda Evans, Janet Melby, Daeyong Lee, Carl Weems2026-07-15