📄 social science

On Value Judgments and Consequence-Based Arguments in Judicial Adjudication

This paper argues that while consequence-based arguments in judicial adjudication offer some rational gains by distinguishing between prediction and evaluation, they cannot fully objectify value judgments or serve as a standalone method due to inherent limitations in predictive reliability, the complexity of evaluation standards, and their unavoidable dependence on presupposed value judgments.

Lei LEI, Lindi BAI2026-09-23
📄 social science

Short-Term International Teacher Exchange as Perceived Professional Learning: An Exploratory Sequential Mixed-Methods Study of a Belt and Road Programme

This exploratory sequential mixed-methods study of the 2025 New Education Belt and Road Teacher Development Programme reveals that while short-term international exchanges foster perceived professional learning through dialogue and reflection, their effectiveness is significantly constrained by implementation friction, with quantitative data failing to support distinct multidimensional constructs and instead indicating a single dominant factor of perceived exchange outcomes.

Yixin Xu, Xiulin Gu2026-09-23
📄 social science

From critical game analysis to pedagogical redesign: A qualitative multiple-case study in undergraduate plant science education

This qualitative multiple-case study demonstrates that having undergraduate biology students critically analyze existing plant science games and subsequently redesign them serves as an effective pedagogical task for making the complex trade-offs between disciplinary accuracy, gameplay mechanics, and educational feasibility visible, even though the resulting artifacts do not directly measure individual learning gains.

Guilherme Araújo Lacerda2026-09-23
📄 social science

Extending Community Event Value through Digital Marketing: Sustainable Consumption in the Satu Nagari Satu Event Programme

This study evaluates the Indonesian "Satu Nagari Satu Event" programme to demonstrate that while digital marketing effectively boosts community cohesion and cultural visibility, it fails to sustain economic benefits without a structured "Digitally Extended Community-Event Model" that integrates digital tools with local resources to convert short-term attention into long-term sustainable consumption.

Siska Mandalia, Taufik Hidayat, Nessa Fadila2026-09-23
📄 social science

Healthcare AI Ethics in Real-World Implementation: Implementation Findings as Ethical Evidence and Cross-Dimensional Alignment

This study demonstrates that real-world healthcare AI implementation findings constitute critical ethical evidence, revealing that responsible governance requires "cross-dimensional alignment" where ethical framing, accountability, and responses practically address the socio-technical conditions producing risks and burdens.

Kitty Balazadeh, Jens Nygren, Fábio Gama, Manoella Antonieta Ramos, Thomas Ploug, Petra Svedberg2026-09-23
📄 social science

Systems Analysis of Actor Perceptions on Collaborations Within a Philippine Regional Innovation System

This study employs a systems-thinking framework to analyze the Western Visayas Regional Innovation System in the Philippines, revealing a government-academe-dominated network with weak industry and community integration that reflects an early-stage Quadruple Helix ecosystem hindered by structural silos and cultural dependencies rather than isolated performance failures.

Olive Joy Abing, Primo G. Garcia, Magdaleno R. Vasquez, Kevin Christopher L. Go, Leo Mendel D. Rosario2026-09-23
📄 social science

Beyond Debits and Credits: Rethink Pedagogical Models in Accounting Literacy for Non-Financial Students - A Systematic Review

This draft systematic review suggests that alternative, active pedagogical models can enhance accounting literacy for non-financial students by connecting concepts to practical tasks, but it concludes that current evidence remains incomplete and methodologically heterogeneous, preventing definitive claims about the superiority of any specific approach.

Nisi Thusi2026-09-23
📄 social science

Story and essential meaning dynamicsin Bangladesh’s July 2024 Student-People’s Uprising

By analyzing over 500,000 YouTube comments from July to August 2024, this study reveals how public sentiment during Bangladesh's Student-People's Uprising evolved from a landscape dominated by negative emotions and violence to one of hope and justice, characterized by a significant negative correlation between protest fatalities and comment happiness and a final discursive shift from protest to justice.

Tabia Tanzin Prama, Christopher M. Danforth, Peter Sheridan Dodds2026-09-23
📄 social science

Exploring identity conflict for widening access students during early experiences at medical school: an interpretative phenomenological analysis

Using interpretative phenomenological analysis, this study explores how widening access medical students navigate identity conflicts between their diverse backgrounds and perceived medical student stereotypes, revealing that while some strategies like forming social subgroups help manage these tensions, others like hiding one's identity can significantly harm wellbeing.

Anna Harvey Bluemel, Bryan Burford2026-09-23