Research objectives (aims) and problem(s): In current studies on the educational triangle of school, family, and local community, the distinct character of the family is generally assumed rather than explicitly articulated or critically examined. This study aims to fill this gap as a contribution to dealing with the difficulties of cooperation within the educational triangle. Research methods: This study employs a critical cultural-philosophical analysis of contemporary tendencies in how families are approached in Western societies. This analysis clarifies the main trends in recent studies in pedagogy and educational sciences on educational partnerships between school and family. An investigation of personalist philosophical understandings of family is used to develop an alternative to current dominant views. Process of argumentation: First, the research problem is defined by analyzing how recent pedagogical studies on the educational triangle approach family. Second, the problem is placed in a broader perspective of current social tendencies in viewing the family: either with suspicion or appreciation. Third, the reasons for this dual evaluation are discussed and shown to lead to an impasse: the family is expected to be both opened up and protected and is often instrumentalized, while its specific character remains assumed rather than clarified. Fourth, an alternative approach is explored through the personalist philosophical perspectives on family offered by Gabriel Marcel and Jean Lacroix. They distinguish between approaching the family as “problem” and as “mystery.” The conclusion indicates the value of the mystery approach for addressing the risks inherent in the current impasse regarding how to deal with family, including as a partner of schools. Research findings and their impact on the development of educational sciences: The impact of the findings on educational sciences is presented in relation to four acute risks arising from the impasse, which are also relevant in school–family relations: The risk of overlooking the family’s distinct character. The risk of asking too much of the family. The risk of judging the family. The risk of overly negative, one-sided evaluations of the family’s strong influence. Conclusions and/or recommendations: The findings lead to the following recommendations: In schools’ interactions with families, the unnamable distinctiveness of the family must be respected. To prevent the erosion of the family through excessive external demands, families must be granted adequate non-instrumental space to develop and sustain their own specific identity This distinctiveness should be protected through restraint in judging whether a family is “good.” This also requires restraint in intervening in families from the outside.

While environmental psychology theories support the therapeutic potential of the outdoor environment in hospitals, studies are predominantly from Western cultures. Little is known about such associations in a socio-culturally and economically diverse setting. This study investigated the influence of patient characteristics and ward attributes on patients' perceptions of the therapeutic value of outdoor environments in four tertiary psychiatric hospitals in southeastern Nigeria. Using a quantitative cross-sectional design, data were collected from 123 inpatients with three validated tools and analyzed using quantile regression: the Inpatient Demographic and Admission Self-Report Questionnaire, the Socio-Spatial Ward Attribute Checklist, and the Perceived Influence of Ward Attributes on Outdoor Therapeutic Experience Scale. Quantile regression analysis revealed that specific ward attributes, including layout, dominant outdoor view, social density, outdoor access modality, and nursing station configuration, were significant and meaningful predictors of perceived therapeutic value. In contrast, patient characteristics such as age, length of stay, and history of admissions were non-significant predictors, while gender had a statistically significant but negligible practical influence. This reinforces the dominant role of spatial design in deriving therapeutic value from outdoor environments, but with nuanced interpretations. Findings contribute to an emerging discussion on privacy and restorativeness, highlighting social dynamics in shared psychiatric wards and a conditional preference for grey outdoor views. The study offers context-specific, evidence-based design guidance for low-resource mental health systems seeking to enhance autonomy, dignity, and recovery through socially and culturally relevant environmental interventions.

Psychological and relational processes, including empathy, are increasingly recognised as central to effective pain care. Fibromyalgia Syndrome (FMS), a complex chronic pain condition, poses significant challenges for both patients and healthcare professionals (HCPs) across medical settings. Patients with FMS often report lack of empathy from HCPs, negatively affecting healthcare experiences. Whilst empathic therapeutic relationships are linked to improved satisfaction and reduced pain in FMS, how empathy is conceptualised in practice remains underexplored. Using Q-methodology, 20 HCPs and 20 patients with FMS ranked 40 statements on clinical empathy based on agreement/disagreement. Four factors were identified, explaining 51% of the variance. Factor 1, 'Empathy is about truly connecting-the dominant healthcare professional view', included 75% of the HCPs and emphasised emotional aspects and partnership. The remaining factors captured heterogeneous patient perspectives: Factor 2, 'Empathy cannot be taught; it is something that you have', focussed on behavioural, outcome-oriented aspects; Factor 3, 'Empathy requires communication that goes both ways', prioritised behavioural and cognitive aspects; and Factor 4, 'Lack of empathy makes patients feel abandoned-the dominant patient view', reflected a strong importance of emotional validation and personalised care. These four factors were further mapped onto broader dimensions of affective engagement and reciprocity. HCPs and patients view empathy differently, highlighting the need for interventions grounded in shared understanding. Addressing these perspectives may facilitate better empathic interactions and improve psychologicallyinformed healthcare for FMS.

ABSTRACT This paper explores how digital innovation in healthcare and welfare services addresses emerging challenges through the lens of responsible innovation (RI). Drawing on longitudinal case studies of six digital startups, we investigate how stakeholder and user inclusion shape innovation processes. Startups engage in both limited and substantive participation. While non-participation and symbolic participation are common in early ideation and launch phases primarily attract funding, legitimacy and visibility, they can also catalyse strategic reflection. This challenges the dominant view in RI literature that only deep engagement yields responsible outcomes. In contrast, engaged participation throughout enables iterative adaptation and alignment with user and stakeholder needs. These modes of participation serve complementary functions in fostering responsible innovation. However, startups with limited resources face barriers to deliberate inclusion. Intermediary organisations, such as living labs, incubators and accelerators, can help bridge these gaps. We conclude with policy recommendations to strengthen support for inclusive innovation in early-stage ventures.

What moral responsibility do actuaries bear for unintended harms when technically accurate, procedurally compliant, and seemingly neutral large dataset models, including advanced algorithms, produce socially unfair outcomes? The dominant view in professional ethics defines responsibility narrowly by limiting it to adherence to laws, standards, codes of conduct, and an individual’s judgement to act with honesty and integrity. The South African Actuarial Society, through its Code of Conduct, follows this definition of responsibility: that the actuary has fulfilled their duty if the model they produce is technically sound, complies with the professional standards and the law, does not directly and unfairly discriminate, and there is no intention to unfairly discriminate directly or indirectly. This proceduralist view of responsibility sidesteps the historical injustices and structural inequities that shape the very datasets on which actuarial models rely. Our position takes seriously the view that algorithmic models are always value-laden and hence not neutral. From this, we conclude that actuaries who work with large datasets and advanced algorithms have a responsibility to understand and disrupt the systemic and structural biases embedded in the data they work with. This disruption would entail orienting one’s model towards substantive ethical ends of equity, justice, and redress for the benefit of historically disadvantaged groups.

While project termination is often seen as a rational business decision based on objective performance metrics, this conceptual paper argues that project death results from complex socio-technical dynamics that go beyond traditional cost-benefit analyses. Using systems thinking, organizational politics theory, and socio-technical systems (STS) theory, we develop a comprehensive framework that shows how social, political, and technical factors intertwine to influence project termination decisions. Our analysis suggests that project death is not just an organizational event, but a socio-technical phenomenon shaped by power dynamics, competing stakeholder narratives, emotional investments, and the politics of failure. We identify three interconnected subsystems—the political subsystem (which includes power structures and agendas), the social subsystem (emotional ties and team dynamics), and the technical subsystem (performance metrics and capabilities)—that collectively influence project paths. This framework challenges the dominant rational-economic view of project termination and offers a more detailed understanding of why some failing projects continue while viable ones are cut short. The paper contributes to project management theory by reimagining project termination as an emerging property of socio-technical system dynamics rather than a straightforward managerial decision. This has important implications for how organizations handle project governance and termination protocols.

Medical humanities scholarship has long emphasised the role of narrative in clinical practice, where it is valued for humanising medicine and revealing the subjective dimensions of illness. This focus has shaped the dominant view of the role of narrative in public health, where it is typically positioned as a means to render abstract data more ethically resonant, amplify marginalised voices, and support moral or political engagement. While this framing has enabled important forms of interdisciplinary collaboration, it also narrows how narrative is understood, construing it as a tool for communication rather than as a mode of explanation. This paper argues that such a view overlooks the role narrative reasoning already plays within population health science itself. Drawing on work in philosophy of science and population health, it shows that key explanatory practices-especially those concerned with temporally extended, socially embedded and structurally conditioned outcomes-require narrative forms of reasoning. Recognising narrative's role in population health explanation repositions medical humanities from a communicative adjunct to an epistemic collaborator, capable of analysing the forms of reasoning on which population health science depends. In doing so, it expands the field's methodological contributions and opens new possibilities for interdisciplinary research on structural inequality and health.

Abstract Climate change is warming the oceans and altering the way species interact and respond to habitat modification. Explaining species responses to ocean warming based on niche theory has produced contradictory results because strong spatio-temporal structuring of communities reduces the effect of habitat change. So, this review proposes a theoretical framework that distinguishes ocean warming effects on marine communities between neutral processes prevailing at local and metacommunity scales and niche processes prevailing at macroecological scales. The framework disputes the dominant view of exclusive niche-driven effects of ocean warming, building upon two complementary components. First, it shows that marine communities respond to ocean warming according to a spatio-temporal hierarchy. The dominance of spatio-temporal structures in the abundance and diversity of organisms points to the prevalence of neutral processes over the influence of niche. Second, it demonstrates that the stable coexistence of species can be assessed through equalising (neutral) and stabilising (niche) processes. These components can be combined into multivariate hierarchical models, offering a means of applying the proposed framework. New tools are also available that help handle uncertainties inherent to natural systems and process diverse sets of data. This integrative view of niche-neutral processes is intended as a general guideline to help improve the predictability of ocean warming effects on biodiversity.

Abstract This article explores Tony Hillerman’s detective novel Listening Woman (1978) through the critical lens of postcolonial ecocriticism. It aims to challenge both anthropocentrism and scholarly dismissals of popular genre fiction. Drawing on some key concepts such as ecocentrism, symbiosis, and deep ecology, this article demonstrates that Listening Woman subverts the dominant anthropocentric view of nature as a resource to be exploited. Instead, Hillerman’s novel presents an ecocentric environmental ethic that underscores the sentient aspect of the natural environment of the American Southwest, its dynamism, and its intimate connection with human life. Therefore, it can be said that Hillerman’s Listening Woman disrupts the mythic image of the American West as a frontier of conquest and resource extraction, and illuminates the Navajo worldview based on interdependence and the importance of venerating the natural environment. By foregrounding these themes within the framework of detective writing, Hillerman not only widens the genre’s thematic scope but also urges readers to rethink their relationship with the environment. Thus, this article testifies to the fact that popular genre fiction is far from being a means of entertainment only, since it can serve as a powerful cultural medium to raise ecological awareness.

The evolution of consciousness is a neglected topic that plays a surprisingly insignificant role in all major theories of consciousness. Furthermore, substantial disagreements can be observed in the dominant views on the neural correlates of consciousness (NCCs), which focus too much on cortical brain regions. In order to dissolve some of the contradictions among these views and to constrain the rival theories, we propose to distinguish three core phenomena of phenomenal consciousness: basic arousal, general alertness and reflexive (self-)consciousness. The central aim is to show that we can fruitfully distinguish specific functions for each of the three phenomena. Basic arousal has the function to alarm the body and secure survival by intervening in the slow updating of homeostatic processes. General alertness fosters advanced learning and decision-making processes, enabling various new behavioural strategies to deal with challenges, and reflexive (self-)consciousness enables future-directed long-term planning, accounting for the mindset of oneself and other agents. Constraining our contemporary theories of consciousness with this evolutionary and functional approach will enable the science of consciousness to make progress by accounting for three specific functions of consciousness, thereby informing the search for distinct an NCC.This article is part of the theme issue ‘Evolutionary functions of consciousness’.

Museums are not only places to display historical objects, but also powerful spaces that shape how people understand the past through stories, language, and images. This study explores how ideological messages are built through written texts and visual elements in the dioramas of the National Museum of Indonesian History. Using a qualitative approach, the research combines narrative analysis based on Tzvetan Todorov’s five narrative stages and Stuart Hall’s theory of representation. Data were collected through observation and photo documentation of 51 dioramas across four main historical periods. The findings show that the museum presents Indonesian history in a clear but state-centered way, emphasizing national pride, anti-colonial struggle, and male heroism. The texts often use nationalistic and elite-centered language, promoting a single dominant view of history. This excludes other voices, such as those of women, local communities, and ordinary people. The study shows that museums do more than inform. They help shape public understanding of history. Therefore, it is important to examine museum language critically to promote a more inclusive national narrative.

ABSTRACT This paper explores how children’s active involvement in curating and interpreting exhibitions can transform museum practices, power dynamics, and institutional culture. Focusing on two Australian initiatives, Junior Curators: Mysterious Realms at Ipswich Art Gallery and the Young Gallery Guides program at HOTA, the paper demonstrates how child-led initiatives challenge dominant views of children as passive or disruptive. Drawing on Monica Patterson’s critical children’s museology and Carmen Mörsch’s five functions of cultural mediation, it shows how these programs fostered internal change, interdepartmental collaboration, and shifts in authorship and authority. Far from being tokenistic, the children were positioned as knowledge producers and decision-makers, influencing curatorial processes and public engagement. The paper argues that recognising children as co-curators is not merely about inclusion but about rethinking museums as dynamic, participatory institutions. By engaging children as collaborators, museums can promote epistemological renewal and redefine their role in cultural production.

Discussions about 'economic migrants' within mainstream media and politics in the UK tend to operate within a morally troubling framing. One dominant view is that a great many asylum seekers are really 'economic migrants' seeking illegitimate access to the UK's economic resources. Those who object to assertions of this kind generally do so by refutation, insisting that asylum seekers are legitimately fleeing persecution and are wronged by the widespread scepticism. In their focus on 'legitimacy', they exclude discussion of those who do migrate partly or wholly to meet their basic material needs. Taken together, these positions marginalise necessitous economic migrants and have serious consequences for health policy, adversely affecting migrants’ access to essential healthcare. In this paper I critically examine this prevailing discourse and urge scholars of health and migration to destabilise it by recognising poverty as a central determinant of both health and migration. I offer arguments for foregrounding necessitous economic migrants in our interventions regarding migration and health, and contend that doing so would make for a more just and ultimately more persuasive way of speaking about necessitous migration as a whole.

This article explores the complex relationship between education, democracy, and social justice, challenging the dominant view that education should serve as an instrument for achieving political goals, including equity and inclusion. Drawing on post-critical educational theories, particularly the works of Hannah Arendt and Jacques Rancière, the authors argue that education is an autonomous, intergenerational practice centered on introducing newcomers to the common world, fostering love and care for it, and enabling its renewal. The instrumentalization of education for social justice, they contend, undermines its essence by prioritizing critique over affirmation and imposing anti-educational practices like censorship and stultification. Similarly, the article criticizes the conflation of democracy with social justice, emphasizing that democracy is rooted in radical equality and collective deliberation around shared concerns, rather than the rectification of historical injustices. Ultimately, the authors advocate for a "thing-centered" approach to education and democracy, grounded in trust in the world and its shared durability.

Abstract The dominant view in proliferation research holds that security guarantees from nuclear patrons reduce client states’ incentives to pursue nuclear armament. Yet in South Korea, public support for indigenous nuclear capabilities remains high despite strong trust in US extended deterrence. Drawing on the “better-now-than-later” logic from preventive war theory, we argue that this support reflects public forward-looking pessimism about the security environment, shaped by perceptions of the relative decline of the US and North Korea’s advancing nuclear capabilities. Analysis of the 2023 EAI Public Opinion Poll shows that concerns about systemic power shifts and pessimism about future inter-Korean relations are significantly associated with support for nuclear armament. South Korean public assessments of US extended deterrence and North Korea’s military threat do not align with conventional alliance theory expectations that high trust in extended deterrence should reduce support for nuclear armament. These findings underscore the need for reassurance strategies that address enduring alliance credibility.

This study investigates how The Lion Guard visually constructs pride as a constructive virtue, challenging the dominant view of pride as a destructive vice. Drawing on Panofsky’s pre‑iconographic methodology, the study identifies and interprets visual markers that encode pride at the level of form before symbolic meaning emerges. A systematic analysis of selected episodes (Seasons 1–3) reveals three interrelated dimensions: (1) Self‑Image, wherein characters’ postures, coloration, and personal artifacts signal individual dignity and self‑respect; (2) Collective Existence, which depicts communal rituals and shared spaces that foster group cohesion, cultural continuity, and hierarchical stability; and (3) Existential Ecology, which links pride to the stewardship of the Pride Lands through recurring motifs such as Pride Rock, the Lion Guard’s lair, and the “Circle of Life” narrative. These visual strategies demonstrate that pride functions as a foundational moral force that sustains both personal agency and ecological balance. The findings contribute to media‑ecocritical scholarship by illustrating how animated texts can revalorize traditionally negative virtues, offering a nuanced model for future analyses of ethical representation in children’s animation.

This article describes a strategic mechanism, fuzzy boundaries, that groups use to accumulate advantage. In contrast to the dominant view that rigid, well-defined boundaries maximize group rewards, I argue that ambiguity in membership criteria can, under certain conditions, more effectively secure and promote group benefits. Fuzzy boundaries are defined by two features: an intentionally ambiguous criterion for inclusion and the selective, inconsistent application of that criterion to adjust the insider-outsider line as needed. I illustrate the operation of fuzzy boundaries through a historical analysis of occupational boundary drawing in the nineteenth-century United States. Ultimately, the study offers a generalizable framework for understanding how strategic ambiguity in group boundaries can serve actors seeking to preserve privilege across domains, such as education, hiring, and professional accreditation. Unlike well-defined qualifications, the malleability of fuzzy boundaries often insulates them from legal challenge, making them an effective mechanism for maintaining social and institutional advantage.

ABSTRACT This essay aims at qualifying the dominant view of Coleridge as virulently Francophobic, by suggesting that his hostility to French culture, though firmly rooted in the religious and geopolitical attitudes of eighteenth-century Britain, went along not only with a modicum of ambivalence toward French organization and centralization, but also with a subtler, more in-depth engagement with French culture than is usually recognized. Such an engagement, related in various ways to his underlying concern with the history and fate of Europe understood as a “Multëity-in-Unity,” is notably reflected by a number of exceptions he made (Madame Guyon, Pascal, and Rabelais in particular) to his general condemnation of French letters. These exceptions, in turn, suggest that something like a counter- or alternative history might be traced across Coleridge’s variegated musings, in which the political and spiritual “character” of France would have taken a different turn, fitting it for a member of the European concert rather than as its perennial subverter.

Marriage is a fundamental aspect of human life, governed by religion, custom, and state law. In Indonesia, where five religions are officially recognized, interfaith social interactions are common, including in marriage. Although most religions in Indonesia prohibit interfaith marriages, such unions still occur, particularly in urban communities. This study aims to examine the dynamics of interfaith marriage and the reasons behind couples choosing to marry despite religious and legal prohibitions. Using a case study method with normative and psychological approaches, data were collected through interviews with interfaith couples. The findings show that these couples often proceed with marriage based on emotional and spiritual compatibility. They consider interfaith marriage a khilafiyah issue—open to interpretation (ijtihad)—and believe such unions are morally and spiritually valid. This perspective contrasts with the dominant views of religious scholars and Indonesia’s legal framework, which generally do not recognize interfaith marriages.

This paper compares Quelling the Demons’ Revolt ( QDR ) with another novel, Romance of Late Tang and Five Dynasties ( RLTFD ) whose authorship by Luo Guanzhong is established and which shares a similar genre. Independent samples t -tests were conducted to compare the usage frequency of 90 most frequent characters (MFCs) and 16 lexical features between 20 chapters of QDR and 60 of RLTFD . Additionally, the study employed principal component analysis (PCA) to determine whether these two novels exhibited distinct stylistic variations regarding MFC usage and lexical features. The results of independent samples t -tests show that 64 out of 90 MFCs are used with significantly ( p < .05) different normalized frequencies and there are significant differences ( p < .05) in nine out of 16 lexical features between the two novels. The results of PCA also show that QDR and RLTFD present entirely distinct styles in terms of MFC and lexical features. Thus, from the perspective of stylometry, it could be concluded that the author of QDR is likely not Luo Guanzhong. The conclusion is validated by comparing chapters within RLTFD with the same methods. This conclusion not only poses a great challenge to the dominant view but shows that PCA can be treated as an effective way to solve the questions concerning controversial authorship.