Review of Education, Administration and Law (REAL) (E-Journal)
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Digital Storytelling: A Pedagogical Approach to Enhance Young Learners Social-Emotional Skills
Full text linkThis qualitative research examines the pedagogical potential of digital storytelling in promoting the social-emotional competence of young students. With an emphasis on technology integration in education, the study investigates how digital storytelling can promote social skills and emotional intelligence, empathy, self-awareness, and interpersonal skills among elementary school students. The study was qualitative in nature. Before the intervention, we conducted an in-depth needs assessment to determine the student's specific social-emotional issues. The research involved intensive interviews with parents and teachers to gain insight into where assistance was needed. Based on the interview findings, we focused on enhancing students' social skills, self-management, relationship skills, problem-solving abilities, self-awareness, and time-management skills. Research was conducted in the Government Primary School in District Shangla, KPK, Pakistan. The study duration was six weeks (April- May 2024). The sample size was grade 5th students. There were 57 grade 5th students, of whom 33 were boys and 24 were girls. In the participants' group, the mean age was 10-11 years, and they had varied academic and family backgrounds. This specific age group is important for social-emotional development. The findings demonstrate how digital storytelling can create emotionally charged, relatable, and immersive learning experiences that help young learners improve their social-emotional skills. According to the study's findings, students who engaged in digital storytelling showed significant increases in empathy and comprehension because they could relate to the characters' sentiments and circumstances. Students' communication and self-expression skills increased significantly, and they demonstrated greater confidence in expressing their ideas and feelings. Collaborative digital storytelling projects that honed interpersonal and cooperation skills facilitated effective student collaboration. The study discovered that their self-awareness increased when participants engaged in reflective activities and shared stories about their feelings and experiences. Based on the study's findings, digital storytelling is an effective pedagogy to apply in promoting young learners' social-emotional skills. By applying technology and storytelling, instructors can design learning experiences that are relevant, engaging, and empathetic. This strategy assists students in holistically developing their social-emotional talents while also providing them with the tools they need to deal with the problems of social interactions in the digital age. Future research could examine the long-term impacts of digital storytelling on students' social-emotional development and its use in a variety of educational settings
Energy, Growth, and CO2 Emissions: BRICS Evidence
Full text linkIn current years, an important enhancement in environment degradation has been realized worldwide. This transformation in the environment not only interrupts the existence of the people but also effects the economic situations of the nations. This study emphasis on the BRICS nations in particular to inspect foreign direct investment, renewable energy, nonrenewable energy consumption, and economic growth, and environmental impacts. This study investigates the long-run impact of renewable energy consumption (REC), non-renewable energy consumption (NREC), foreign direct investment (FDI), and economic growth (GDP) on CO? emissions, in a panel of BRICS countries from 2000 to 2024. Panel yearly data is taken from WDI data source. Using the Panel ARDL methodology, the study explores dynamic relationships among these variables. The findings reveal that FDI and GDP have a statistically significant and positive impact on CO? emissions, suggesting that higher levels of economic activity and foreign investment are associated with increased environmental pressure. Conversely, renewable and non-renewable energy consumption show a negative but mixed influence, with renewable energy having an insignificant effect and non-renewable energy displaying a significant negative relationship
Decentralized Retail and Last-Mile Delivery: Scaling Public Access through Institutional Innovation
Full text linkThis paper examines how decentralized retail and last-mile delivery can transform public service delivery in developing economies, using the Punjab Sahulat Bazaars Authority (PSBA) as a case study. As a statutory institution in Pakistan, PSBA demonstrates how legislative empowerment, strategic leadership, and operational innovation enable scalable, subsidy-free access to essential goods. Employing a qualitative documentary and data-driven approach, the study evaluates PSBA’s legal framework, revenue model, logistics infrastructure, and market impact. Key initiatives include 105 tehsil-level bazaars, over 85,000 home deliveries, mobile bazaars, GPS-enabled digital logistics, solar-powered markets, and women-inclusive vendor policies. These interventions support 21,000 direct jobs and 126,000 dependents while delivering price relief of up to 35% below market rates. The findings position PSBA as a replicable, citizen-focused, and technologically integrated governance model with broad relevance for public sector innovation in emerging economies
How do Pakistan’s current honour Killing Laws reflect both Colonial Legal Legacies and Islamic Legal Principles, and what does this reveal about the Possibilities for Epistemic Disobedience in Legal Reform?
Full text linkThe discussions that follow will identify the extent to which the laws pertaining to honour killings in Pakistan reflect a colonial legacy intertwined with Islamic law, as well as suggesting ways for radical reform. Although honour killings are legally treated as murder, the act is murder in the guise of ‘restoring the family honour’. Despite the enactments of 2004 and 2016, loopholes pertaining to forgiveness, compromise, and judicial discretion continue to persist, and hence, the perpetrators continue to escape punishment. This will draw on qualitative methods to analyse the legal texts and critiques of feminists and authors like Walter Mignolo, Mahmood Mamdani, and Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui in the context of decolonial theory. My findings suggest that colonial laws such as Qisas and Diya, along with the law of provocation, continue to thrive, and the Islamic law of fasad fil arz is invoked selectively and in a patriarchal manner. The judges of informal justice structures like jirgas exacerbate honour killings by legitimising them. As such, real reform will necessitate more than a mere increase in law enforcement or penalties. Your recommendations serve the purpose of what Mignolo terms as epistemic disobedience the reconsideration of the conceptualisation of law, religion and justice. Paradigm shifts as proposed by the decolonial school justifies epistemic disobedience as one of the ways to engage critically with our understanding of law, religion, and society. I would use honour killings to show that the law cannot be reformed through technicist approaches but, rather, requires a reconsideration of the epistemic fundamentals of justice. It remains a useful strategy because it shifts the discourse on punishment to the consideration of legal systems that genuinely uphold dignity and the sanctity of life
Defining the Value of Education: The Role of AI in Delivering and Promoting STEM Learning in Underserved Regions
Full text linkIt is not limited to the content mastery of education but its value in the 21st century is empowerment, employability, adaptability, and social contribution. This value is at the heart of STEM learning but had not served the underserved areas due to a lack of infrastructure, shortage of teachers and gender disparities. This study explores the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to improve access, quality, and engagement in STEM education and reform the belief in the value of education in Pakistani underserved schools. Wearing a mixed-methods, convergent parallel design approach, and a large multi-site sample consisting of eight schools, we integrated curriculum-based pre/post testing and AI learning analytics with teacher interviews and classroom observations in an entire school term. The results show that AI-based teaching has a significant positive effect on STEM knowledge and long-term engagement in contrast to the conventional approach. Students have noted increased motivation, enhanced conceptual understanding and satisfaction; teachers have reported a move away of lecturing to facilitation assisted by real time dash boards and less administrative overhead. The benefits of equity gains can be achieved due to offline/low-bandwidth functionality and more assured engagement of girls, reducing opportunity gaps. Thematic analysis brings together four results: improved student learning, facilitation and adaptation of teachers, and equity and accessibility and a re-conception of the meaning of education as rote performance to empowerment and relevance to real-world problems. We find that AI can serve as a pedagogical accelerator and social equalizer in combination with teacher professional development, ethical data handling, local content and trustworthy infrastructure. The research provides an implementation channel when it comes to making inclusive, future-oriented STEM education in resource-limited settings effective
Navigating Environmental Sustainability in Pakistan: The Roles of Energy Poverty, Economic Growth, and Foreign Investment
Full text linkThe purpose of this study is to check the impact of energy poverty and economic growth on the ecological footprint in Pakistan, with specifically consideration to the role of institutional quality and foreign direct investment. For the analysis of this study utilizes annual time series data spanning from 2001 to 2023, collected from the World Development Indicators (WDI) and the Global Footprint Network. The ecological footprint is the dependent variable, while energy poverty, economic growth, institutional quality, and FDI assist as independent variables. To measure the stationarity of the data, the Augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF) and Phillips-Perron (PP) tests are employed, revealing a mixed order of integration. Consequently, the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) technique is applied to calculate both short and long-run relationships among the variables. The short-run outcomes indicates that energy poverty and institutional quality negatively affect the EF, whereas economic growth and FDI exert a positive influence. Notably, although FDI shows a positive short-run effect, it is negatively correlated with the ecological footprint. In the long run, energy poverty and institutional quality continue to have a negative impact, while economic growth and FDI contribute positively to the ecological footprint. These findings highlight the complex interplay between development factors and environmental sustainability in Pakistan
Investigating Stress, Burnout, and Organizational Factors Contributing to Psychological Well-being at Work
Full text linkThis research investigates the inter-relationships between work stress, organizational variables, and employee well-being through a quantitative approach. A sample of 350 employees from diverse industries, corporate, healthcare, education, and services, was chosen via snowball sampling. Self-administered questionnaires with closed-ended Likert scale items were used to collect the data, measuring workplace stress, burnout, leadership style, workplace culture, and psychological well-being. Pearson's correlation, multiple regression, and post-hoc analysis (ANOVA/MANOVA) were used in this study to identify relationships among the variables. Significant negative correlations between employee well-being and work stress (r = -0.65, p = 0.001) were observed, whereas organizational variables, including leadership style and workplace culture, predicted employee stress and burnout. The results give an overview of organizational factors and mental health approaches that can help mitigate employee resilience
From the Brick-and-Mortar Campuses to the Screen: Teachers’ Readiness for Online Teaching in Higher Education Institutions
Full text linkThe current descriptive research aimed to assess the readiness of instructors for online instruction. The population of investigation covered (301) teachers from five different public universities in South Punjab, Pakistan. The study sample represented two hundred and seventeen teachers (80) males and (137) females selected through a convenient sampling technique. A questionnaire FRTO scale (Faculty Readiness to Teach Online) was used to measure teachers' perceived readiness for online learning at higher education institutions. For data analysis, descriptive statistics mean scores and standard deviations, using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). In addition, inferential statistics were applied. The research results indicated that most instructors felt well-equipped to implement online teaching methods. Furthermore, the research revealed disparities in instructors' readiness for online platforms on their demographic characteristics. The study recommended that HEIs invest in their technological structure and ensure all their key stakeholders have equal access to digital learning
The Role of Public Policy in Promoting Transparent Governance and Accountability in Developing Countries
Full text linkClear governance and accountability are the essentials of a well-performing public administration particularly in the developing states where corruption and bureaucratic inefficiencies are common causes of poor performance by institutions. This quantitative investigation explored how the government can use public policy to encourage transparency, accountability, and citizens in Pakistan in their investigative journalism (n = 110). The objectives of the research were narrowly focused on evaluating the connection between the implementation of the public policy and the open governance, determining the effect of the policy programs on the accountability systems, and reporting on the effects of the digital governance policy on the openness in the public and its democratic levels. The self-administered questionnaire contained five-point Likert scale data and was used to obtain the data, which were further analyzed using regression, multiple regression, and ANOVA statistical methods. The findings showed that the successful implementation of policies at the public level leads to a great extent of transparency, whereas the properly organized policies, as well as monitoring and evaluation systems, are the most powerful predictors of the increase in accountability within entities of the government. Moreover, the digital governance policies were identified to have a positive effect on citizen participation and access to information, indicating the revolutionary nature of technology in the promotion of good governance. The findings demonstrate the importance of integrating the policy creation, implementation and awareness campaigns among the citizens with the aim of achieving sustainable outcomes in governance. The study has some practical implications to the policy makers, the civil society organizations and the international development agencies that would like to improve institutional legitimacy, civil trust and participatory governance in the developing world
Exploring the Development of Human Rights Law, Focusing on Issues such as Digital Rights, Refugee Protections, and International Humanitarian Law
Full text linkThe This study examines the evolution and challenges of international human rights law in addressing emerging global issues, focusing on digital rights, refugee protection, and international humanitarian law (IHL). Human rights law, while expansive across civil, political, economic, social, and cultural domains, is increasingly tested by technological developments, forced migration, and modern armed conflicts. The rise of digital technologies has introduced urgent questions around privacy, surveillance, data control, and censorship, warranting recognition of digital rights as fundamental human rights. Similarly, traditional refugee law, framed by the 1951 Convention, proves inadequate in addressing contemporary displacement caused by conflict, persecution, and especially climate change. This gap calls for a broader, inclusive legal definition of refugees and expanded protection frameworks. Moreover, IHL, rooted in the Geneva Conventions, struggles with enforcement amid new warfare tactics like cyberattacks and drone strikes, often failing to protect civilians and uphold accountability. Through a qualitative analysis of literature, legal texts, and case studies, this research highlights the need for reform, stronger legal coordination, and international cooperation to ensure justice, dignity, and human security in an evolving global landscape