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        <pubDate>2026-08-12T10:10:00.28+00:00</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Measuring the impact of a sports-based STEM workshop using a developed questionnaire]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-08-12T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Sumaiya Muneer</author><author>Moustafa Gomaa Rabie Abdelaziz</author><author>Ruba Ali</author><author>Jolly Bhadra</author>
        <description><![CDATA[IntroductionThe Science in Sports workshop was implemented to examine the impact of integrating sports-based activities with STEM concepts on high school students' engagement and learning. To evaluate these learning outcomes, this study presents a newly developed questionnaire designed for sports-integrated STEM interventions.MethodsA total of 150 students from five schools participated in two workshop implementations (n = 98 in the first workshop set and n = 52 in the second workshop set). The questionnaire was developed and examined through a two-stage process. In the first phase, the instrument was refined through expert review using the Delphi method and examined using Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) based on data collected during the first workshop implementation. In the second phase, the refined instrument was applied during the second workshop implementation to collect pre- and post-workshop data. Internal consistency was assessed using Cronbach's alpha, while Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Tests and correlation analyses were conducted to evaluate learning outcomes and relationships among the measured constructs.ResultsThe EFA supported a clear and interpretable factor structure, while Cronbach's alpha coefficients demonstrated acceptable to excellent internal consistency across all dimensions. Results from the Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Test indicated statistically significant differences between pre- and post-workshop scores across the measured dimensions (p < .05). Correlation analysis revealed moderate to strong positive relationships among the measured constructs. In addition, exit ticket analysis indicated high levels of student satisfaction, with 66.3% of participants selecting “Strongly Agree” on key items.DiscussionThe findings provide initial evidence supporting the use of the instrument for evaluating sports-integrated STEM interventions and comparable real-world learning programs. This study contributes a context-sensitive questionnaire for assessing STEM learning outcomes within sports-integrated secondary education contexts.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Faculty perspectives on teacher leadership development in Chinese higher education: challenges and support needs]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-08-12T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Nuoyu Chen</author><author>Zuraidah Abdullah</author>
        <description><![CDATA[This study reports the needs-analysis phase of a broader project on teacher leadership development in Chinese higher education, with particular attention to the challenges and support needs associated with faculty leadership development in under-resourced institutional contexts. Using semi-structured interviews with six faculty members from diverse higher education institutions in Guizhou Province, China, the study explored how teacher leadership is understood and experienced in this setting. The interview data were analysed thematically with the support of Atlas.ti 9. The analysis yielded six major themes: (i) leadership as professional influence rather than positional authority, (ii) teaching innovation as a core expression of teacher leadership, (iii) professional growth through mentoring, collaboration, and academic exchange, (iv) participation in governance as an important dimension of teacher leadership, (v) structural barriers to teacher leadership development, and (vi) support needs for strengthening teacher leadership. The findings suggest that teacher leadership in Chinese higher education is understood less as an administratively defined role than as a form of professional influence grounded in competence, relationships, and contribution to institutional improvement. At the same time, the study highlights the constraining effects of misaligned evaluation systems, workload fragmentation, and limited institutional support. These findings provide contextually grounded empirical input for the subsequent development of a culturally tailored teacher leadership development model and have implications for policy, faculty development, and future research.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Digital reading didactics in primary education: insights into differentiated digital reading instruction]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-08-12T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Fabian Feyertag</author><author>Elisabeth Stabler</author><author>Lisa Paleczek</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Reading texts on a screen has become a routine part of everyday life. While teaching reading in primary school, this calls for practical didactic approaches combining differentiation, digitalization and cross-curricular content. This study examines how digital differentiated cross-curricular reading materials (EFADIL) are implemented in Grade 3 classrooms in Austria. A mixed- methods design integrates teacher interviews (N = 34), classroom observations (N = 33), and student questionnaires (N = 605). The findings reveal tensions between perceived advantages, disadvantages, and enacted classroom practices. The materials provided a motivating learning environment and enabled differentiation and independent work. Simultaneously, they might lead to superficial and rapid task processing, along with variations in the use of the interactive digital features (e.g., glossary word function). Tasks requiring language production were often perceived to be more cognitively demanding. The study reveals instructional guidance, the teachers' role, and dimensions of instructional quality to be key factors in ensuring that digital differentiated materials support effective and inclusive reading instruction.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The regulation paradox: agentic AI, bounded autonomy, and self-regulated learning in higher education]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-08-12T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Perspective</category>
        <author>Mohammed Salah</author><author>Rudaina Al-Busaidi</author><author>Amna Al-Ghawi</author><author>Walid Shawky</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Agentic AI is moving educational technology beyond reactive assistance toward systems that can plan, remember, adapt, and initiate actions across time. In higher education, this development raises a basic pedagogical question: does greater AI autonomy help students become more capable self-regulated learners, or does it perform the regulatory work that students need to practice themselves? This Perspective uses self-regulated learning (SRL) to examine this question. It argues that agentic AI becomes educationally meaningful when its autonomy supports learning processes rather than only producing academic outputs. It also separates four risks within the regulation paradox: regulatory displacement, metacognitive laziness, reduced productive struggle, and epistemic over-trust. To address these risks, the paper proposes bounded autonomy as a pedagogical governance principle that limits the scope, timing, transparency, contestability, and duration of AI intervention. Bounded autonomy extends scaffolding and hybrid human-AI regulation by making decision authority explicit and by requiring regulatory responsibility to be returned gradually to learners. The paper further argues that responsible implementation depends on learner capability, teacher agency, institutional readiness, and evidence that regulatory skills transfer to tasks completed without AI. Agentic AI earns its educational value not by becoming more autonomous from learners, but by helping learners become more capable of learning without it.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Voices from the field: exploring academics’ perceptions of scholarly publishing at a University of Technology]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-08-12T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Anthony Kiryagana Isabirye</author><author>Christine Janse van Rensburg</author><author>Christel Marais</author>
        <description><![CDATA[IntroductionThis qualitative study examined academics’ perceptions of scholarly publishing at a South African University of Technology (UoT). Guided by Bourdieu's theory of practice, the research explored how individual dispositions, collaborative networks and institutional structures shape publishing engagement.MethodUsing a purposive sample, data was gathered through semi-structured interviews and were analysed thematically.ResultsFindings revealed a layered scholarly writing ecosystem comprising three interdependent ecologies: an individual ecology (motivation, identity, and writing self-efficacy), a collaborative ecology (co-authorship, mentorship, and interdisciplinary ties), and a structural ecology (workload, key performance indicators (KPIs), funding, and technical support). Across these ecologies, participants described a tidal system of writing characterised by alternating periods of productivity and stagnation. Enablers included mentorship, distributed co-authoring, protected writing time, and accessible support. Constraints centred on heavy teaching and administrative loads, opaque resource allocation, negative peer-review experiences, and unequal network access. Interpreted through Bourdieu, the results underscore how uneven distributions of cultural, social and economic capital produce differential publishing trajectories.RecommendationsThe study recommends multi-level, equity-focused interventions, transparent funding, workload adjustments, structured mentoring and cohort writing practices, aimed at aligning UoT missions with realistic research support.ConclusionThe findings have implications for UoTs and the broader higher-education sector, which seek to foster sustainable and just scholarly publishing.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Health science teachers’ perceptions of the use of qualitative research: a phenomenological study]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-08-12T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Annie Bell Zenteno Guerra</author><author>Danitza Elfi Montalvo Apolín</author>
        <description><![CDATA[IntroductionIn Latin America, Peruvian university faculty are strengthening their scientific output, and qualitative research is gaining relevance due to its capacity to illuminate the human dimension of health processes and the socio-emotional determinants that cannot be captured through quantitative measurements. The innovative contribution of this study lies in incorporating this approach into ethical and contextualized training aimed at developing interpretive and reflective sensitivity across disciplines, particularly in the health sciences. The objective was to analyze the perceptions of university faculty in the health sciences regarding the use of qualitative research in the health field, considering their experiences, the factors that hinder or facilitate its application, the contributions they recognize, and the gaps they encounter.MethodologyA descriptive, crosssectional, and interpretive phenomenological approach was employed, using semi-structured interviews and content analysis. Twelve faculty members from public and private Peruvian universities participated, selected through convenience sampling.ResultsThe results revealed positive perceptions regarding the relevance and practicality of qualitative methods in the health field and identified gaps related to motivation, limited experience, scarcity of methodological-technological tools, and the shortage of qualified faculty to guide these processes.ConclusionThe study concludes that it is necessary to expand available resources, strengthen training in qualitative studies, and promote their use, as well as foster interdisciplinary approaches that integrate pedagogical and health perspectives to consolidate qualitative methodology in university education.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Integrating Islamic values into global education strategies: challenges and sustainable practices]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-08-12T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Systematic Review</category>
        <author>Yusuf Abdulrasaq</author><author>Yusuph Dauda Gambari</author>
        <description><![CDATA[IntroductionExisting scholarship extensively discusses the normative compatibility between Islamic ethical principles and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, limited attention has been given to the structural, pedagogical, and policy-related challenges involved in operationalizing these values within contemporary global education systems. This study addresses this gap by systematically examining how Islamic values are integrated into global education strategies, with a particular emphasis on curriculum reform, multicultural pedagogy, teacher preparedness, and institutional sustainability.MethodsUtilizing a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) approach adhering strictly to the PRISMA guidelines, this study expanded its bibliographic search scope across premier indexed databases including Scopus, Web of Science, ERIC, and Google Scholar. Applying explicit inclusion and exclusion criteria, an initial pool of 1,420 records was systematically filtered down to a final analytical sample of 28 high-quality, peer-reviewed sources. The selected literature was analyzed using a formalized six-phase thematic analysis framework to identify recurring patterns, implementation barriers, and sustainable educational practices.ResultsThe findings reveal that while Islamic educational ethics strongly resonate with global educational goals like social justice, inclusivity, moral responsibility, and environmental stewardship, implementation remains constrained by five major factors: tensions between secular and faith-based educational frameworks, inadequate teacher training in multicultural pedagogy, fragmented curriculum structures, institutional resource limitations, and societal resistance to pluralistic educational models. Successful integration is most effective when Islamic ethical principles are embedded across disciplines through interdisciplinary curricula, value-based pedagogy, continuous professional development, and collaborative cross-sector partnerships.DiscussionThe study contributes to current scholarship by shifting the discourse from abstract compatibility between Islam and the SDGs toward a more implementation-oriented analysis of educational transformation, culminating in the proposed Holistic Sustainable Islamic Education Integration (HSIEI) model. It concludes that sustainable integration requires adaptive curricula, inclusive policy frameworks, and pedagogical models capable of balancing religious identity with global citizenship in multicultural societies. Future research should prioritize longitudinal empirical research to quantitatively measure the impact of integrated value-based curricula on civic behavior and intercultural tolerance.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Student perceptions of flexible learning in Philippine higher education during COVID-19 and implications for crisis-responsive monitoring]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-08-12T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Adrian P. Ybañez</author><author>Joselito F. Villaruz</author><author>Aline G. Magalong</author><author>Marilyn D. Cardoso</author><author>Edgar A. Orden</author><author>Ryan Michael F. Oducado</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Flexible learning system (FLS) became a centerpiece continuity strategy among Philippine higher education institutions during COVID−19. However, its structure and variations across groups of students were unknown. Data were collected from a sample of 12,525 students across higher education institutions in Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao to study psychometric properties of an FLS questionnaire and relationship of retained domain scores to student profile and teaching-learning technology variables. Sample largely consisted of female respondents (67.5%), individuals who utilized a learning management system during the pandemic (57.9%), and individuals with slow internet connectivity (57.8%) while only 11.8% had fast internet connectivity. Results from our exploratory study provided support for the four-domain structure (Support, Resources and Digital Proficiency, Readiness for Self-Regulated Learning, Barriers and Challenges) which showed good factorability [KMO = 0.944; Bartlett's χ²(325) = 178,200, p < 0.001]. Confirmatory factor analysis indicated model fit was better than a one-factor model, however fit indices were not ideal (CFI = 0.850, TLI = 0.834, RMSEA = 0.098, SRMR = 0.071). Internal consistency was strong for Support (α = 0.862), Resources and Digital Proficiency (α = 0.824), and Readiness (α = 0.832), but weaker for Barriers (α = 0.658). In FDR-adjusted HC3-robust multivariable models, poor vs. fast internet was associated with lower Resources (B = −0.542, p < 0.001) and lower Readiness (B = −0.172, p < 0.001). In contrast, higher digital literacy and prior LMS experience were associated with more favorable scores across several domains (all p < 0.05, FDR-adjusted). Qualitative themes identified connectivity as the dominant challenge (69.6%), while better understanding or learning effectiveness (32.0%) and accessibility or convenience (14.6%) shaped preferred modes of instruction. Overall, FLS during the COVID-19 period was workable but uneven, with support and learner persistence rated more favorably than resource sufficiency and barrier relief. The instrument may serve as a low-stakes institutional monitoring tool during COVID-analogous disruptions, although the Barriers domain still requires refinement and revalidation.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Conversation skills as a predictor of communication competence among university students]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-08-12T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Daniel Andronache</author><author>Delia Muste</author><author>Ion Albulescu</author><author>Dana Jucan</author>
        <description><![CDATA[IntroductionConversational and communicative competence is increasingly recognized as a core transferable skill in higher education, yet the mechanisms linking academic variables to communicative outcomes remain underexplored. This study examined the relationships between year of study, academic performance, conversation skills, and communication competence among university students, and tested whether conversation skills statistically account for the link between academic performance and communication competence.MethodsA cross-sectional survey was conducted with 720 students from Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania, enrolled in the exact sciences, social sciences and humanities, and arts. Conversation skills were measured with the Conversational Skills Rating Scale (CSRS; α = .945) and communication competence with the Communicative Competence Scale (CCS; α = .936). Data were analyzed using comparative tests, multiple regression, exploratory profiling analyses (K-means clustering and principal component analysis), and path analysis with bootstrapped indirect effectsResultsConversation skills showed a strong concurrent association with communication competence (β = .52, p < .001), and academic performance had a small positive association with conversation skills (β = .13, p < .001), which was statistically mediated to communication competence through conversation skills [indirect effect β = .066, 95% bootstrap CI (.029, .104)]; given the small effect (R² = .018), this association should be interpreted cautiously. Male students reported slightly higher conversation skills (d = 0.21, p = .034), with no gender difference in communication competence, and no significant differences or interactions emerged across academic fields. The model showed an excellent fit, χ²(2) = 0.84, p = .656; CFI = 1.00; RMSEA = .000; SRMR = .010.DiscussionFindings position conversational ability as a proximal correlate of communication competence and support embedding structured conversational practice in university curricula.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[From evaluation to empowerment: non-directive coaching supervision as a catalyst for school leadership development]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-08-12T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Conceptual Analysis</category>
        <author>Sanaa Alreiahy</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Supervision in educational leadership has long been framed as an evaluative process. Its purpose, on this familiar view, is to monitor performance, enforce standards, and account upwards. The trouble is that this framing tends to produce compliance rather than growth, and the work of contemporary school leadership demands far more than compliance. Principals today operate in conditions of genuine complexity, with ambiguous problems, competing stakeholder claims, and limited time for the kind of reflective work that complex decisions actually require. This conceptual article presents non-directive coaching supervision in an extended one-on-one setting as an alternative practice of educational leadership supervision. Non-directive coaching supervision is the art and practice of supervision through inquiry, rather than instruction, drawing on theories of coaching, adult learning, reflective practice, and transformative learning. This paper proposes that non-directive coaching supervision is a developmental and dialogic practice in the development of educational leaders’ thinking, professional action, and adaptive expertise. Drawing on the writings of international researchers in educational supervision and leadership coaching, this article proposes the practice of coaching supervision, its effectiveness in the development of educational leaders, and how it is differentiated from related developmental practices such as mentoring and instructional coaching. A conceptual framework for the practice of coaching supervision is proposed with four major components: the foundational conditions for coaching supervision; the supervisory processes; the educational leader's thinking, action, and learning or leadership capacities fostered through coaching supervision; and the outcomes of the educational leader's leadership. The article also discusses the potential compatibility of coaching supervision with accountability, cultural and equity issues relevant to supervision, and research priorities. The central contention is straightforward. If supervision is to contribute meaningfully to leadership development—and not merely to leadership surveillance—then its dominant evaluative framing must yield ground to practices that treat school leaders as the central thinkers in their own professional growth.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Facebook as a learning node: a theoretical proposal of a private connectivist group for the collective construction of knowledge in higher education]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-08-12T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Hypothesis and Theory</category>
        <author>Cristián Londoño-Proaño</author><author>Jeanneth Caroline Galarza-G</author><author>Eulalia Beatriz Becerra García</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Social networks have transformed the way young people relate to knowledge. The intended pedagogical use in higher education is still barely theorized. Our article proposes a theoretical design of a private Facebook group as a connectivist learning space for university students in the first levels of the Education career. The objective is to theoretically argue how a private Facebook group, structured under connectivist principles, can constitute an intentional learning node that favors the collective construction of knowledge about the role of the teacher in the digital age. Methodologically, we adopt a non-empirical approach, inscribed in the conceptual and theoretical tradition, which articulates the principles of connectivism of Siemens and Downes with the pedagogical possibilities of existing social networks. We include conceptual instructional design without reaching its empirical implementation. Our paper posits a closed, moderated space on a well-known social platform where students can reduce technological friction, activate authentic cognitive and relational connections. We conclude that the instructional design of the group is the determining condition for the emergence of connectivist learning and not the platform itself.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Who attends PhD supervision training? A multi-year snapshot of gendered participation in a Nordic graduate school]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-08-12T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Perspective</category>
        <author>Marius Ole Johansen</author><author>Rune Johan Krumsvik</author>
        <description><![CDATA[PhD supervision training has become an increasingly important component of academic development in higher education, yet little attention has been paid to who actually participates in such initiatives. Because participation is typically voluntary, attendance may reflect patterns of self-selection rather than the composition of the broader academic workforce. In this Perspectives paper, we provide a descriptive snapshot of participation in PhD supervision seminars offered through a large Nordic graduate school in educational research, involving participants from approximately 15 universities and university colleges. The analysis draws on attendance records from six annual seminars conducted between 2019 and 2024. After excluding a small number of administrative staff and researchers, the final sample comprised 145 associate professors and professors. Women constituted a majority of attendees, and logistic regression analyses indicated that the estimated probability of an attendee being male was approximately 22% (OR=0.28). This gender imbalance did not vary meaningfully by academic rank and remained stable across the six-year observation period. A non-parametric bootstrap analysis with 1,000 resamples confirmed the robustness of the overall pattern. Results suggest that participation in voluntary academic development activities may diverge from the demographic composition of the underlying academic workforce, even in contexts where women already constitute a slight majority of academic staff. Although the present study does not address the causes of this pattern, it highlights participation itself as an underexamined aspect of academic development and raises questions about how such initiatives are communicated and structured within higher education.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[A tri-theoretical framework for enhancing disaster preparedness in elementary schools: exploring collaboration, vulnerability, and constructivist education]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-08-12T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Milky O. Estrella</author><author>Gennes Jem R. Martinez</author><author>Maricris Jane D. Perante</author><author>Mary Claire R. Dedal</author><author>Ma. Karina T. Corros</author>
        <description><![CDATA[This research examined the key factors influencing disaster preparedness outcomes among elementary school teachers in the Department of Education (DepEd) Region VIII, anchored in an integrated framework combining Community of Practice Theory, Vulnerability Theory, and Constructivist Learning Theory. Rather than treating these theories as separate construct labels, the study positions them as complementary explanatory perspectives shaping collaboration, contextual risk conditions, and learning processes that collectively influence preparedness outcomes. A confirmatory quantitative design was employed using Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) via WarpPLS 8.0, with data collected from 141 validated responses of teachers, principals, and school heads across disaster-prone areas in Region VIII. The measurement model demonstrated satisfactory reliability and validity. Results indicate that vulnerability and constructivist education significantly influence disaster preparedness outcomes, while collaboration exerts an indirect effect through constructivist education based on the product-of-paths estimation approach. The findings further suggest that vulnerability may operate as a contextual condition that interacts with collaborative and learning mechanisms to shape preparedness. The study contributes to theory and practice by advancing a tri-theoretical model that explains how educational, social, and structural factors jointly influence disaster education outcomes, underscoring the role of education in strengthening sustainable disaster readiness.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[From avoidance to adoption: strategies for integrating AI in higher education contexts]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-08-12T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Juliana Gerard</author><author>Muhammad Usman Hadi</author><author>Bayan Robin Ribhi Natsheh</author><author>Muskaan Singh</author><author>Aisling Reid</author>
        <description><![CDATA[IntroductionThis paper aims to identify effective strategies for integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) in higher education (HE), specifically addressing the challenges related to AI literacy, ethical concerns, and institutional variations. It provides a framework for incorporating an “embracing” approach to AI adoption, characterised by strategic incorporation of AI tools and underpinned by AI literacy and constructive AI skepticism.MethodsThe paper employs three main approaches. First, we explore current challenges faced by instructors in taking an embracing approach, particularly in relation to AI literacy. Second, we introduce instructor AI skepticism from a multi-layered perspective. Third, we present a series of case studies from universities in Northern Ireland reflecting on challenges of the embracing approach across STEM, Humanities, and Social Sciences, and how these challenges have been addressed.ResultsAn exploration of AI adoption across different subject areas in four case studies demonstrates substantial variability in AI literacy, AI skepticism and acceptance across disciplines. Nonetheless, broader common themes emerge across the case studies. These themes generally involve critical thinking and application of subject area-specific theories to new contexts. Crucially, structured instructional approaches significantly reduce misconceptions and enhance ethical AI usage.DiscussionThis study uniquely integrates discipline-specific case studies and institutional context analyses. It contributes to understanding AI literacy as a multidimensional skillset. It further positions AI literacy as a critical means of addressing the underrepresented instructors' multilayered AI skepticism, with an emphasis on ethical considerations and critical student engagement. Our recommendations highlight the necessity for targeted faculty training, clear institutional policies, and structured curriculum integration strategies to foster AI literacy, address instructor skepticism, and enhance ethical awareness effectively.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Developing the professional competence of future teacher-psychologists through Neuro-Linguistic Programming]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-08-12T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Arailym Kuanyshbayeva</author><author>Fatima Zhumabekova</author><author>Özlem Baş</author><author>Kalipa Atemova</author><author>Akbidash Abdirkenova</author><author>Askarbek Yergaliyev</author>
        <description><![CDATA[This study aimed to explore how future teacher-psychologists in Kazakhstan conceptualize professional competence and how they evaluate the usefulness, feasibility, and ethical boundaries of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) in educational settings. The study was designed within a qualitative phenomenological framework. The participants consisted of 56 undergraduate students enrolled in Pedagogy-Psychology programs at two universities in Kazakhstan. Data were collected during February-March 2026 through a semi-structured interview questionnaire including four main questions and four probe questions, and were analysed using thematic analysis. The findings were organized under four themes: understanding professional competence, communication and rapport, self-regulation and professional identity, and NLP use, feasibility, and ethics in educational settings. Participants defined professional competence as a multidimensional and practice-oriented construct involving the application of theoretical knowledge, child-centred support, collaboration, and ethical responsibility. Communication and rapport were viewed as foundational to effective school psychology practice, while self-regulation was associated with professionalism under stress. NLP was generally perceived as a potentially useful supplementary tool for rapport-building, motivation, and emotional support; however, participants emphasized that it should be used cautiously, ethically, and together with evidence-based methods. The study highlights the importance of integrating applied competence, relational communication, reflective self-regulation, and critical methodological awareness in the preparation of future teacher-psychologists.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Knowing intervention needs through the intersection of dropout factors and the CASEL framework: a case study of a tribal village in India]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-08-12T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
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        <author>Kemo Juwara</author>
        <description><![CDATA[IntroductionOne major obstacle to the realisation of a sustainable dropout reduction programme is the lack of an appropriate intervention design. This study employed a participatory research process to develop a sustainable dropout reduction design/solution by mapping community insights from a dropout factor study against the Collaborative, Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL) five SEL competencies framework as a guide.MethodologyThe study drew participants from seven stakeholder groups, namely, a village leadership group comprising key informants, panchayat officials, and Asha workers; a self-help group; a parent leadership group consisting of parents with a child in school; a youth leadership group involving young men and women; a student leadership group including current students, dropouts, and graduates; a school leadership group comprising teachers, administrators, and security officials; and a policy leadership group involving education officers, tribal affairs officers, and block development officers. In total, 36 unique participants participated in focus group discussions (FGDs; six per group, i.e., three males and three females); 24 of these participants (four per group, i.e., two males and two females) also underwent semi-structured interviews. This population was selected using purposive sampling. Using the interview and FGD codes, the study uncovered seven dropout factorial themes, namely, lack of interest, low parental awareness, insufficient income, unsuitable learning infrastructure, uncertainty of employment, negative beliefs about learning, and dislike for school boarding. The factors identified led to low performance, an increase in child labourers and child marriage, substance abuse, high absenteeism, low attendance, and an increase in withdrawal rate. The dropout factors identified from the interview and focus group discussions were coded into different themes using Atlas.ti, and themes from the FGDs and interviews were triangulated by matching common themes. These themes were then mapped to the five SEL dimensions of the CASEL framework using pattern matching.ResultsThe overall findings of this study suggest that the dropout factors identified clearly associate with the five dimensions of the CASEL framework, with self-awareness, emotional, and social awareness factors considered most influential.DiscussionIt also indicates that dropout rates can be reduced by developing students' valuing skills (SA); emotional control and goal-setting skills (SM); empathetic and diversity appreciation skills (SA); communication and collaboration skills (relationship building skills); and resistance to challenges and good choice-making skills (problem-solving and relationship). These uncovered associations generate hypotheses for SEL-focused dropout prevention, which necessitates experimental research to test whether building SEL-specific competences will reduce dropout-risk behaviour among students.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Designing challenge for discovery in skill learning: toward self-regulated and representative adaptation]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-08-12T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
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        <author>Truls Valland Roaas</author><author>Håvard Lorås</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Skill learning is often discussed in terms of closely related but insufficiently integrated concepts: challenge, instructional methods, discovery, self-regulation, specificity, retention, and transfer. As a result, practice design is frequently reduced to either adjusting task difficulty or prescribing movement solutions more explicitly. Compounding this, learning is routinely inferred from immediate performance quality, even though performance and learning unfold on different timescales and across qualitatively distinct contexts. This Perspective article advances a different view: skill learning is best understood as the progressive differentiation and calibration of affordance relations under functionally representative constraints. On this view, challenge is not a fixed property of tasks but a learner-relative, information-generating relation among the learner, the task, and the performance context. Discovery is the exploratory process through which learners search, differentiate, tune, and stabilize affordance relations. Self-regulation is the recursive process through which learners define tasks, monitor consequences, sustain motivation, and adapt their actions over time. Specificity is reframed through representative learning design, where the critical requirement is not superficial resemblance or high-fidelity mimicry but functional equivalence between practice and performance: the preservation of the affordances, timing demands, and constraints that regulate skilled activity. Improvement, in turn, is judged not by immediate performance gains alone but by retention, transfer, adaptability, and the development of self-regulatory capacity. Together, these claims reposition challenge, discovery, self-regulation, and representative learning design as interdependent elements of a single learning-design problem. The reframing carries direct implications for how improvement should be defined and evaluated, and for how practitioners across physical education, sport, coaching, and therapy might design conditions for durable, transferable, and adaptive skill.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Curricular governance and teacher professional learning in specialized arts education: a multiple-case study of classical guitar teaching in Portuguese public conservatories (with a comparative lens on Spain)]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-08-12T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
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        <author>Romeu Curto</author><author>Nuno Fraga</author>
        <description><![CDATA[This original research examines how curricular governance arrangements shape teacher professional learning in Specialized Artistic Education by analysing Classical Guitar teaching in seven Portuguese public conservatories through a qualitative multiple-case study. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with guitar teachers conducted in focus groups (P1–P12), interviews with pedagogical leaders (D1–D7) and policy stakeholders (S1–S3), student questionnaires (n = 19), and documentary analysis of curricular and regulatory instruments, the study compares within- and across-case patterns of curriculum design, assessment, and professional learning routines. The analysis is framed by Young's argument on the specialisation of knowledge and Apple's account of curriculum as official knowledge. Findings indicate that one-to-one instrumental pedagogy supports strong personalisation and a hybrid performer–teacher identity, yet curricular autonomy without instrument-specific national reference points contributes to uneven coherence, fragile assessment comparability, and constrained student mobility, especially in peripheral and insular contexts. Assessment architecture emerges as a central governance lever: where evidence is distributed across shared rubrics, intermediate performance moments, and low-burden process records, participants report clearer expectations and more robust moderation; where high-stakes public examinations dominate, teaching priorities narrow and opportunities for collaborative learning weaken. Technology is valued when it serves concrete artistic functions and is constrained when introduced as an administrative layer without pedagogical purpose or data-protection safeguards. A comparative lens on Spain is used for policy learning by contrast, suggesting that national descriptors and moderation mechanisms can coexist with regional and institutional autonomy. The article advances the concept of a “light curricular contract” — cycle-based learning outcomes, core assessment rubrics, peer moderation, and minimal organisational conditions — as a feasible leadership framework for aligning artistic rigour with curricular justice.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[ESD conceptualization and enactment in Austrian teacher education]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-08-12T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
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        <author>Jana-Marie Engl</author><author>Ann-Kathrin Dittrich</author><author>Sunet Grobler</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Education for sustainable development (ESD) has become a central framework for educational transformation in response to complex socio-ecological challenges. As higher education institutions are increasingly called upon to contribute to sustainability transitions, teacher education plays a pivotal role. Teacher educators act as key intermediaries between policy aims and pedagogical practice, shaping how future teachers implement ESD. Despite their central role, empirical research has paid little attention to how teacher educators conceptualize their professionalism in relation to sustainability and how institutional contexts shape their engagement with ESD. This study investigates how teacher educators in Austrian higher education understand and negotiate their professional role within the framework of ESD. Guided by a qualitative research design and informed by qualitative content analysis, seven semi-structured interviews were conducted with teacher educators across disciplines. Data were analyzed through open coding supported by MAXQDA. The findings indicate that the integration of ESD is shaped by institutional structures and professional identity. At the institutional level, fragmented responsibilities, weak structural anchoring and curriculum overload hinder systematic implementation. At the professional level, participants express strong normative commitment to sustainability but also reveal conceptual ambiguities, informally acquired knowledge and didactic uncertainty regarding ESD integration. These tensions indicate that ESD is often sustained through individual engagement rather than embedded in coherent institutional strategies. By analyzing the relationship between institutional conditions and professional identity and agency of teacher educators, the study deepens understanding of how sustainability can be meaningfully integrated—referred to here as ESD Star Enactment Model—into teacher education. It underscores the need to strengthen professional identity and agency development, supported by clear institutional structures.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Caregivers’ understandings of resilience among young children in conflict-affected Myanmar]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-08-12T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
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        <author>Chun Rong Sun</author><author>Ka Lee Carrie Ho</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Resilience in the early years lays the foundation for healthy emotional regulation, adaptability, and lifelong learning. It is especially vital for marginalized children, helping them overcome systemic barriers, build self-efficacy, and access equitable opportunities for learning and well-being. Caregivers’ involvement significantly contributes to the development of resilience in children. This study adopts qualitative interviews with eight caregivers (four teachers and four parents) in Myanmar to explore how they define resilience, the risk factors affecting children's well-being from their perspectives, and the coping strategies they used to foster children's resilience. Caregivers largely define resilience as the ability to stay strong, persevere, and maintain hope despite immense hardship, often linking it to continued engagement in education and the capacity to adapt. Key risk factors include fear of airstrikes and gunfire, food insecurity, limited access to healthcare, and disrupted education. In response, caregivers described a range of everyday practices, providing emotional reassurance, maintaining predictable routines, prioritizing education where possible, drawing on community and faith networks, and using storytelling and play-based activities to help children cope and continue to learn. The findings highlight how these interwoven practices collectively support children’s resilience in protracted crisis, and point to low-cost, caregiver-led strategies that can inform educational policy, humanitarian programming and future research in conflict-affected settings.]]></description>
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