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Environmental Governance in Collapse: Indigenous Lands on Fire
Full text linkThis article examines the weaknesses of Brazilian environmental policy amid escalating arson attacks on Indigenous lands in the state of Pará. It evaluates the Judiciary’s scope as an alternative response to persistent omissions by Executive and Legislative branches. Employing a qualitative, exploratory-descriptive approach, the study analyzes Official Letter No. 186/2024, issued by the Federal Prosecutors Office of Pará to the Attorney General. Findings reveal that these fires represent the materialization of an exclusionary political-economic project driven by economic and political actors who deliberately weaken environmental governance, enabling institutional capture and zones of impunity where illegal practices are normalized and unpunished. The paper underscores the urgent need for structural judicial intervention framed within environmental justice to counteract systemic neglect and protect Indigenous populations.
Amélie Nothomb’s Writing of Japanese Female Images
Full text linkBelgian writer Amélie Nothomb lived in Japan for five years, an experience that led her to regard herself as Japanese. After receiving higher education in Belgium, she found herself unable to integrate into Belgian society. Following graduation, she returned to Japan with longing and expectations, only to discover that she was equally alienated from Japanese society. In particular, Japan’s harsh disciplinary norms imposed on women left her disoriented. The collapse of her “Japanese dream” thus became the source of inspiration for her literary creation. Nothomb has written a series of autobiographical novels in which she portrays her complex emotions toward Japan and shapes a number of vivid Japanese female figures. These representations not only outline the living conditions and social status of Japanese women, but also reveal Nothomb’s feminist stance and, more profoundly, her quest for cultural identity within Japan as a “heterotopia.
“It Isn’t Corruption, It’s Just Stealing”: An Experiential Metafunctional Analysis of Newspaper Reportage of Corruption Cases Among Political Office Holders in Nigeria
Full text linkThis study identifies linguistic strategies deployed by Nigerian newspapers to frame corruption involving Nigerian political elites, drawing insights from Halliday’s experiential metafunction. It examines how transitivity choices, particularly the choices of processes, construct meanings that reflect underlying ideological leanings. The study aims to uncover how language in media discourse functions not only to convey information but also to shape public perception of corruption, power, and accountability. The study employs both primary and secondary sources of data. The primary data comprises fifteen purposively selected news reports, five each from Punch, The Sun, and Leadership newspapers, published between May 2022 and June 2024. The three newspaper organizations are chosen because they are among the top broadsheets in terms of readership in Nigeria. The time-frame is chosen because there were a lot of corruption cases reported among political office holders by the Nigerian news organizations within that period. The study reveals that transitivity choices in the newspaper reports are ideologically motivated. The political elites were portrayed as not being culpable of financial misconduct. The study also shows that the newspaper consistently made choices of institutions and anonymous persons as the accusers of political elites on financial misappropriation. This way, the newspapers try to appear neutral in reporting sensitive cases. Furthermore, process choices were used to obscure culpable political leaders and depersonalize corruption, ultimately reflecting a broader strategy to protect the image of these individuals. The study concludes that newspapers do not act as neutral observers in the discourse on corruption, rather, they deliberately choose grammatical structures that ideologically help to shape the representation of corruption
Leveraging WhatsApp to Improve English Language Skills in Nigerian Secondary Education
Full text linkThis study investigated the effectiveness of WhatsApp as a digital platform for improving English language skills among secondary school students in Nigeria. It was undertaken to address the research gap on how mobile messaging applications influence language learning in resource-constrained contexts. The specific objectives of the study were to assess the impact of WhatsApp on students’ reading comprehension, writing, and speaking skills; to evaluate the level of engagement fostered by the platform; and to determine its influence on academic performance. Guided by the constructivist learning theory, a quasi-experimental design was employed involving 600 students from diverse socio-economic backgrounds. Participants were divided into an experimental group using WhatsApp for English learning and a control group without access to the platform. Data were collected through pre- and post-tests, surveys, and academic records, and analysed using t-tests and ANOVA. The study found that students who engaged with WhatsApp recorded significant improvement in language proficiency, demonstrated higher levels of participation and motivation, and achieved better grades compared to those in the control group. The study concluded that WhatsApp is not only a communication tool but also a valuable educational resource capable of enhancing English language learning. The study contributed to existing knowledge by providing empirical evidence of the pedagogical value of mobile messaging platforms in secondary education and recommended their structured integration into classroom instruction
Current Status, Causative Factors, and Optimization Strategies of Teacher-Child Interaction in Kindergarten Physical Activities From the Perspective of the Assessment Guide
Full text linkUnder the guidance of the Kindergarten Care and Education Quality Assessment Guide, the quality of teacher-child interaction in kindergarten physical activities has garnered significant attention. Current interactions suffer from issues such as monotonous patterns, conservative content, and superficial quality, primarily stemming from insufficient understanding of educational concepts, the inertia of traditional teaching methods, a lack of professional knowledge, and an imperfect training system. To address these challenges, efforts should be focused on creating a game-based physical activity environment, enhancing teachers’ professional competence, improving kindergarten physical education infrastructure, deepening training practices, and optimizing assessment methods, thereby fostering comprehensive improvement in the quality of teacher-child interaction
Observing Playfulness in Physical Games: Implications for AI-Enhanced Teaching and Child Development
Full text linkThis study, grounded in the Child Playfulness Scale (CPS), examined age- and gender-related differences in playfulness among young children during physical games. Using a revised CPS (assessing physical/social/cognitive spontaneity, manifest joy, sense of humor), we analyzed 30 children (10 each from junior/middle/senior kindergarten classes, 1:1 gender ratio) from two Hangzhou kindergartens. Results showed children scored highly in physical spontaneity and manifest joy but lower in sense of humor. Boys exhibited greater physical spontaneity, while girls outperformed in social and cognitive spontaneity. Senior class children had significantly higher humor scores than younger peers, though total playfulness did not increase linearly with age. Potential influencing factors included uneven game time, kindergarten environment variations, and scale limitations. This research provides empirical support for physical game design and playfulness assessment, and offers insights into enhancing teachers’ activity design/adaptive instruction competencies via AI tools, aligning with AI-empowered education trends
A Study on the Implementation Paths of Music Activities in Kindergarten From the Perspective of Evidence-Based Teaching Research
Full text linkIn the practice of kindergarten music education, teachers’ instructional decisions often rely on personal experience. There is a disconnect between activity goals and children’s actual experiences, and evaluation lacks objective evidence. This frequently results in music learning remaining at the level of superficial imitation, making it difficult to foster children’s core musical literacy and deep learning. To address these challenges, this study, based on the concept of evidence-based practice, attempts to construct and validate an “evidence-reflection-improvement”implementation pathway suitable for kindergarten music activities. This pathway, grounded in creating a supportive teaching and research environment, facilitates the continuous generation and collection of evidence by providing structured tools and fostering immersive music exploration scenarios. It further promotes evidence-oriented deep reflection among teachers, establishing a multi-dimensional evidence collection system and implementing collaborative discussions around specific evidence segments. This encourages a shift in instructional decision-making from“what to teach”to“how children learn.”Simultaneously, it advocates for the effective use of life and cross-domain resources to expand the boundaries of music learning. It also aims for the natural integration of musical elements within gamified and project-based activity designs, achieving organic fusion of multi-domain experiences. The research indicates that leading music activity implementation through evidence-based teaching and research can effectively bridge educational philosophy, child behavior, and teacher practice. It promotes a shift in music education from experience-driven to evidence-driven approaches, and from isolated instruction to collaborative reflection. Ultimately, within a cycle of continuous improvement, it enhances activity quality and teacher professional competence, providing a practical reference for the professional and scientific development of kindergarten music education
Ideological Education and Innovative Talent Fostering From Perspective of Moral Education
Full text linkMoral education emphasize educate people and talent by using Marxist moral theory, general moral theory, and general ethnic moral requirement, and enhance people and talent’s moral sphere by means of using moral practice and other relevant activities. From perspective of moral education, people can conduct ideological education,Talent fostering, talent develop,Talent construct, and push ideological education,Talent fostering, talent develop, and Talent construct
The Legalist School Thought of Ethical Management of Science and Technology
Full text linkAs an important school of political and ethical thought in ancient China, legalism, with its core concepts of “legal code”, “statecraft”and “authority”, not only had a profound impact on the governance of ancient society, but also provided a unique perspective and theoretical resources for the ethical governance of modern science and technology.The ethical thought of the Legalist school is based on the human nature of “profit and avoid loss”, and it has constructed a unique ethical system. The main viewpoints of the Legalist thought hold that legal code is the guarantee of social order and also the embodiment of ethics and morality. It emphasizes “Separation of public and private affairs” and advocates “uphold the public interest and eliminate self-interest”, taking the interests of the monarch as the greatest “public”, while the interests of the people are regarded as “private”. This thought can be transformed into giving priority to public interests in modern technological governance, that is, technological development should serve the overall interests of society rather than the private interests of a few.Legalists emphasized the universality and stability of legal code, believing that legal code should be transparent and made known to the public so that they could abide by them. In modern technological governance, this inspires us to formulate clear and public technological ethics regulations to ensure that technological activities are conducted within the legal framework. Han Feizi proposed the governance concept of combining “legal code, statecraft, and authority”, where “legal code” is the foundation, “statecraft” is the means, and “authority” is the guarantee. In technological governance, we can draw on this model and achieve effective supervision of technological activities through a combination of legal norms (legal code), technical means (statecraft), and policy support (authority)
An Examination of the Inherent Tensions in Contemporary Chinese Social Life
Full text linkChinese modernization represents a dialectical movement characterized by the holistic generation, differentiation, and reconstitution of social life. Following the founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), it successfully terminated the fragmented and turbulent state that had gradually emerged since the Opium Wars. During the early stages of nation-building, socialist transformation, and subsequent socialist construction achieved comprehensive consolidation of political governance and unification of social life. Post-reform and opening-up policies enabled distinct social domains to operate according to their intrinsic principles and rhythms, initiating comprehensive structural and historical differentiation and reorganization. This systemic transformation resulted in inherent tensions within social life. By addressing these inherent tensions as opportunities and driving forces to overcome challenges, Chinese modernization has thus entered a new era and ascended to a higher historical plane. The Chinese nation is now positioned to achieve great rejuvenation through its elevation to the status of a world-historical civilization and its embodiment of a global community with a shared future for mankind, grounded in humanistic principles at their most profound level