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Impact of one-to-one instruction on activity participation, playfulness, and enjoyment in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder in Rwanda: A quasi-experimental study

South African Journal of Occupational Therapy
Background: Children with autism spectrum disorder often have limited engagement in daily activities, particularly in low‑resource settings.
Potien Uwihoreye, Arron Ndyowaawe Bram, Kate Barlow +2 more
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Schools That Educate Students Who Transform Businesses and Change the World: The Transformative Role of Education for the Circular Economy

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The linear economic model continues to intensify environmental degradation and resource depletion, yet education for the circular economy (ECE) remains underdeveloped, particularly within basic education and in the Global South. This study evaluates the feasibility and effectiveness of an ECE Programme grounded in active learning methodologies,
Maiara Lais Marcon, Simone Sehnem
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Formation of Distance‐Based Orientation: Political Identity through Relational Positioning in Israel

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Distance‐based orientation describes how pejorative labels may serve as anchor points for political identity. Existing research on political labeling has largely emphasized stigmatization, overlooking how labels may acquire durability and orienting capacity without losing pejorative force. Drawing on publicly circulating discourse, we trace positioning
Tammar Friedman, Asaf Saadon
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Verification of a VR Play Program’s Effects on Young Children’s Playfulness

Applied Sciences
This study verified the effects of a Virtual Reality (VR) play program on young children’s playfulness using a Solomon four-group experimental design. Targeting 120 children aged four and five in South Korea, a 10-week, child-friendly non-immersive VR ...
Hoikyoung Bae, Gwangyong Gim
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Alf Prøysens Teskedsgumma i tantforskningsperspektiv

Barnboken: Tidskrift för Barnlitteraturforskning, 2014
Alf Prøysen’s Mrs Pepperpot has been adopted by Swedish children’s literature. Still, there is little research done on the stories about her. In this article, I explore the impact of Prøysen’s popular miniature character using topical research on the ...
Maria Lassén-Seger
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An Outline of a Theory of Play

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Play is often dismissed as trivial, yet it is a fundamental and adaptive aspect of human and mammalian life. This paper develops a sociological theory of play, treating it as a total social fact that spans biological, psychological, and social dimensions.
Seth Abrutyn
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Navigating complexity: A relational perspective on generative AI adoption in government

Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract This research note presents preliminary findings from exploratory research examining how Australian public servants understand and use generative AI (GenAI) in government work. Drawing on 37 interviews across 22 agencies, we highlight the importance of a relational view of GenAI adoption, that is, the co‐creation of meanings that emerges from ...
Shibaab Rahman +4 more
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Childlike Parents in Guus Kuijer’s Polleke Series and Jacqueline Wilson’s The Illustrated Mum

Age, Culture, Humanities, 2015
In this article, theories from age studies and children’s literature studies are combined to shed light on the construction of adulthood in books for young readers.
Vanessa Joosen
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Challenging Business Schools Through Subversive Performativity: The Potential of Art‐based Pedagogies

British Journal of Management, EarlyView.
Abstract Business schools are often criticized for reproducing growth‐oriented norms, but alternative pedagogies remain difficult to normalize. Drawing on Butler's theory of subversive performativity, this study examines how art‐based pedagogy enables academics to challenge growth logics in business schools by transforming their identities over time ...
Sylvain Bureau +3 more
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From Cutting Edges to the Cutting Edge: Knowing and Theorizing Through Collage Inquiry

British Journal of Management, EarlyView.
Abstract Prompted by ongoing debates about the need for more novel and pluralistic management research, this paper explores the different ways of researching, knowing and theorizing emerging from the arts‐based method of collage inquiry. We used a problematizing approach to examine how collage inquiry has been used in management research and ...
Georgia Stavraki +2 more
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