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Epistemic Responsibility in Arabic L2: Coordinating Source, Evidence, and Stance

This article proposes "epistemic responsibility" as a critical, higher-order discourse-pragmatic dimension of advanced Arabic L2 competence that involves coordinating source, evidence, and stance, and validates this construct through a mixed-methods learner-corpus study of 65 learners that establishes a theoretical development model, a coordination index, and specific recruitment guidelines for future research.

Bunder Alshammari, Khaled Alfraidi, Wafaa Alrashidy, Tahani Hamoud Alharbi, Nuwayyir Abdulaziz Altamimi2026-09-26

📄 social science

Betting from the margins: gambling, respectability and the invisible incorporation of women into sports betting in Gweru, Zimbabwe

Drawing on interviews in Gweru, Zimbabwe, this paper argues that women's entry into the sports betting sector represents an "invisible incorporation" where economic necessity drives participation through tactics that conceal their presence, thereby reinforcing rather than transforming the industry's masculine and moral character.

Tafadzwa Blessing Choto, Manase Kudzai Chiweshe2026-09-26

📄 social science

Measuring the Female Leaky Pipeline in Academic Careers: Evidence from 21 EU Countries (2013–2022)

This paper introduces the Female Leaky Pipeline Index (FLPI), a multidimensional tool analyzing 21 EU countries from 2013 to 2022, which reveals that female attrition in academia stems from diverse structural barriers across all career stages—not just senior promotion—and identifies seven distinct national models of gender exclusion while highlighting the recent stagnation of equality gains.

Rosario Gómez-Álvarez Díaz, Jesús Artero López, David Patiño2026-09-25

📄 social science

Fifth-grade students’ fairness judgments through probabilistic ideas: Maintaining and refining reasoning across two game contexts

This study reveals that fifth-grade students utilize informal probabilistic reasoning alongside non-probabilistic factors to judge game fairness, with gameplay experiences primarily serving to refine rather than overturn their initial judgments.

Gamze Kurt2026-09-25

📄 social science

The friction paradox: generative AI and the educational value of difficulty in education abroad

This paper argues that while generative AI can broaden access to education abroad, it risks undermining the core intercultural learning outcomes by mediating the very difficulties that foster independence and perspective-taking, necessitating a shift in focus from banning AI to managing the degree of interpretive agency students retain.

Karan Gupta2026-09-25

📄 social science

Elaborating a Framework for Contextualized Problem-Based Instruction

This paper analyzes three US middle school problem-based curricula to develop a robust, six-category analytical framework for characterizing contextualized problem-based instruction, offering insights for curriculum designers and researchers on how different task sequences foster mathematical understanding.

Luke T. Reinke, Xin Liu2026-09-25

📄 social science

Beyond Display: From Dynamic Representation to Generative Representational Activity with Large Language Models

This paper argues that large language models introduce a distinct form of "generative representational activity" in mathematics education—where discourse specifies and instantiates mathematical objects recursively—rather than constituting a new stage of dynamic representation, thereby challenging the assumption that a correct-looking AI-generated output guarantees conceptual understanding or fidelity to the learner's intent.

Kwaku Adu-Gyamfi2026-09-25

📄 social science

Digital Resale Platforms and Circular Fashion Consumption in Hanoi, Vietnam

This study analyzes 253 digital resale users in Hanoi, Vietnam, to demonstrate that circular fashion consumption is significantly driven by platform convenience, trust, economic value, and environmental concern, while being hindered by perceived product risk, ultimately explaining over half the variance in consumption intention.

Thanh Binh Nguyen2026-09-25

📄 social science

The Mediating Role of Motivational Learning Strategies in the Relationship Between Teacher Support and Mathematics Learning Engagement

This study demonstrates that teacher support significantly enhances upper secondary students' mathematics learning engagement, both directly and indirectly by strengthening their motivational learning strategies, which serve as a key mediating factor.

Fatemeh khodapanah, Mohammadali Mohammadyfar2026-09-25

📄 social science

A Systematic Review and Thematic Synthesis of How Multimodal AI Reshapes Creative Agency and Perceived Authenticity in Human-AI Collaboration

This systematic review and thematic synthesis of 32 studies and 30 educator interviews proposes a pedagogical framework with ten design principles to guide the integration of multimodal AI in creative education, emphasizing that while AI expands creative capabilities, its successful implementation requires restructuring pedagogies to preserve human agency, cultural authenticity, and ethical oversight through new competencies in prompt engineering and critical evaluation.

Nashwa Ali2026-09-25

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