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A phenomenological inquiry into occupational stress experiences among basic school teachers in Ho Municipality Ghana Running head: Stress in basic school teachers

This phenomenological study explores the lived experiences of occupational stress among basic school teachers in Ho, Ghana, revealing that resource constraints and institutional challenges cause significant physical and psychological distress that undermines teaching effectiveness, while highlighting the limited efficacy of informal coping strategies.

Anita Fafa Dartey, Francis Mawougnon Sagbo, Christian Ayisah, Emmanuel Dodzi Anyidoho2026-09-07
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What Counts as Value-Imposition, and When Is It Justified? Lessons from Perimortem Sperm Retrieval

This paper argues that clinical ethics consultants should distinguish between the constitutive act of value-imposition—defined as displacing a party's ends with one's own—and the justificatory question of whether such imposition is permissible, demonstrating through a perimortem sperm retrieval case that directive counsel can be ethically justified if its grounds are robust across reasonable doctrines and proportionate to the interest served.

Jay Carlson, Collin Olen-Thomas, Angie Trejo2026-09-07
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From Symbol to Sacrament: Losev, Bulgakov, and the Ontology of Eucharistic Ecclesiology

This paper explores how Aleksei Losev's ontology of the symbol provides the philosophical foundation for Sergei Bulgakov's sacramental theology, thereby clarifying the ontological basis of an eucharistic ecclesiology in which the Church manifests a divine-human reality through material participation without collapsing the distinction between the created and the divine.

Daniel Kisliakov2026-09-07
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Fidelity, beauty, and accessibility: a triadic analysis of three English translations of the Qur’an

This article employs a triadic framework of semantic fidelity, aesthetic beauty, and comprehensibility to demonstrate that three canonical English translations of the Qur'an—by Pickthall, Arberry, and Khattab—each prioritize one dimension at the expense of the others, revealing translation of sacred texts as an act of interpretive prioritization rather than a purely linguistic operation.

Baharuddin Baharuddin, Kamaludin Yusra, Santi Farmasari, Siti Najwa Nizami, Nabila Mutia Cahyani2026-09-07
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Overcoming Blind Spots in Humanitarian Needs Assessments: Interview Insights regarding Constraints and Solutions for Qualitative Methods

Based on interviews with 23 experts from 17 humanitarian organizations, this study identifies the operational constraints favoring quantitative methods in humanitarian needs assessments and recommends adopting a hybrid multi-method approach enhanced by artificial intelligence to better integrate and analyze crucial qualitative data.

Tino Kreutzer, James Orbinski, Lora Appel, Aijun An, Jerome Marston, Salomé Garnier, Patrick Vinck2026-09-07
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Toxic Climate and Staff Exodus: A Case Study of High Turnover in a Predominantly African-American College Preparatory School

This case study reveals that despite demographic alignment between leadership, staff, and students at a predominantly Black college preparatory school, toxic interpersonal dynamics and leadership practices created a psychologically unsafe environment that drove significant staff turnover, challenging the assumption that shared racial identity alone ensures a healthy organizational climate.

Sheldon Sucre2026-09-07
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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
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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