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Catalysts for change: Museum gardens in a planetary emergency

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 8, Issue 2, Page 401-410, March 2026.
Natural history museums are often seen as places with indoor galleries full of dry‐dusty specimens, usually of animals. But if they have gardens associated with them, museums can use living plants to create narratives that link outside spaces to inside galleries, bringing to life the challenges facing biodiversity.
Ed Baker, Paul Kenrick, Sandra Knapp, Tom McCarter, John Tweddle   +4 more
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Childhood Hearing Health: Educating for Prevention of Hearing Loss

International Archives of Otorhinolaryngology, 2015
Introduction The presence of noise in our society has attracted the attention of health professionals, including speech-language pathologists, who have been charged along with educators with developing hearing conservation programs in schools.
Adriana Bender Moreira Lacerda, Claudia Giglio de Oliveira Gonçalves, Giselle Lacerda, Diolén Conceição Barros Lobato, Luciana Santos, Aline Carlezzo Moreira, Angela Ribas   +6 more
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Psychological Resilience to Climate Change: The Role of Self‐Efficacy, Mindfulness, Perceived Nature Restorativeness, and Subjective Well‐Being

Sustainable Development, Volume 34, Issue S2, Page 1435-1457, March 2026.
ABSTRACT The current study presents a causal model of climate‐induced psychological resilience by assessing the impact of dispositional mindfulness, self‐efficacy beliefs, and perceived restorativeness of nature. It further examines the associations among climate change coping strategies, subjective well‐being components, eco‐emotions, and resilience ...
Anastasia Gkargkavouzi, George E. Halkos
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Can Infants Perceive and Learn New Information from Extended Reality?

Developmental Science, Volume 29, Issue 2, March 2026.
ABSTRACT As global societies increasingly embrace digital technologies, their integration into early childhood education becomes crucial for achieving United Nations sustainable developmental goals. The present study investigates whether extended reality (XR) environments effectively support infants' perception and learning capabilities. A total of 144
Liquan Liu, Brayden Condie, Jasmine Sutton, Sharmin Saba, Ashleigh Blackwell, Faiza Humaira, Rakhshinda Shoaib, David Arness, Tomas Trescak   +8 more
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AI Voice Features and Emotional Self‐Dominance: Shaping Student Engagement in Instructional Video Learning

European Journal of Education, Volume 61, Issue 1, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Guided by the Valence‐Arousal‐Dominance (VAD) framework, this study examined how AI‐generated voice features in instructional videos influence secondary school students' engagement intentions, mediated by emotional self‐dominance (a learner's perceived control over their emotional states).
Ziqi Chen, Wei Wei, Xueyan Cao, Yuhan Huang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Addressing Bias in Spoken Language Systems Used in the Development and Implementation of Automated Child Language‐Based Assessment

Journal of Educational Measurement, Volume 63, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
Abstract This article addresses bias in Spoken Language Systems (SLS) that involve both Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) and reports experiments to improve the performance of SLS for automated language and literacy‐related assessments with students who are under served in the U.S. educational system.
Alison L. Bailey, Alexander Johnson, Natarajan Balaji Shankar, Hariram Veeramani, Julie A. Washington, Abeer Alwan   +5 more
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Use of Automation Technologies and Data Mining in Speech Recognition for Autism

Brain and Behavior, Volume 16, Issue 2, February 2026.
Pipeline analyzes clinical and naturalistic speech using LENA, wav2vec 2.0, and foundation‐model ASR (Whisper) to enable scalable ASD detection and severity estimation. Future work integrates benchmarking, privacy‐preserving collaboration (federated learning), and explainable, edge‐ready AI for clinically credible assessment and longitudinal monitoring.
Rongjie Mao, Yuncheng Zhu
wiley   +1 more source

Classroom acoustics and hearing ability as determinants for perceived social climate and intentions to stay at work

Noise and Health, 2013
Background noise and room acoustics may impede social interactions by interfering with oral communication and other cognitive processes. Accordingly, recent research in school environments has showed that social relationships with peers and teachers are ...
Roger Persson, Jesper Kristiansen, Søren P Lund, Hitomi Shibuya, Per Møberg Nielsen   +4 more
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Repeated reading and Chinese oral‐reading fluency: Is prosodic sensitivity an indispensable link?

Journal of Research in Reading, Volume 49, Issue 1, February 2026.
Abstract Background This quasi‐experimental study tested whether prosodic sensitivity serves as a mediator through which an 8‐week repeated reading intervention improves Chinese oral reading fluency. Methods Seventy‐nine typically developing Chinese Grades 4–6 students, including 39 in the experimental group and 40 in the control group, were recruited ...
Li‐Chih Wang, Shu‐Hsuan Kung, Ji‐Kang Chen, Hsu‐Chan Kuo   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

SMART Teaching in New and Old Classrooms

IAFOR Journal of Education, 2017
The University of Westminster is undertaking a major classroom refurbishment program that is linked to a new approach to staff development in mobile learning. Feedback obtained from academic staff and students previously highlighted how classrooms should
Gunter Saunders, Federica Oradini, Mark Clements   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source