Insights in Social Science

Practice and Exploration of AI-Empowered English Literature Selected Readings Teaching Under the OBE Concept: A Case Study of the Instructional Paradigm for Gulliver’ Travels

2025-12-08T10:19:25+08:00

In the era where artificial intelligence (AI) technology is reshaping the educational landscape, traditional English literature selected readings teaching is in urgent need of innovation. Guided by the Outcome-Based Education (OBE) framework, this study explores a new AI-empowered teaching model for English literature. Using Gulliver’s Travels as the core teaching case, the paper designs and implements a comprehensive instructional pathway that integrates intelligent guided reading, multi-theoretical critical analysis, and creative writing. By incorporating mainstream domestic AI dialogue platforms and intelligent writing assistance tools, this model aims to systematically cultivate students’ critical thinking and creative writing abilities. Practice has shown that this paradigm can effectively guide students to deconstruct texts in depth, establish connections between classic literature and contemporary issues, thereby significantly enhancing their literary criticism literacy and innovative expression skills. This research provides an actionable model for reference in the reform of English literature teaching in the digital age.

Parental Controlling Parenting Style and Its Effects on Young Adults’ Psychological Autonomy in Co-residing Households

2025-06-24T05:53:36+08:00

As prolonged co-residence between parents and young adults becomes increasingly common in urban societies, questions arise regarding how this living arrangement influences the psychological development of emerging adults. This study examines the effects of controlling parenting styles—particularly psychological control—on young adults' psychological autonomy within co-residing households. Drawing on developmental theory and cultural perspectives, the paper explores three core components of autonomy: self-directed decision making, emotional separation from parental authority, and the initiation of personal goals. Through a thematic analysis of common tension points, including daily routines, financial planning, and social relationships, the study reveals how young adults experience, negotiate, and adapt to control in intergenerational domestic settings. It further outlines a range of adaptive strategies employed by young adults to assert autonomy, from selective compliance to future-oriented withdrawal. The findings underscore the long-term developmental and relational consequences of sustained parental control during early adulthood and call for a recalibration of familial roles to support autonomy within shared living arrangements.

The Macroeconomic Implications on Healthcare Expenditures: Challenges Facing South Asian Countries

2025-12-31T16:00:25+08:00

Rising healthcare costs have become a concern for individuals and governments around the world. Governments try to estimate the balance between the allocation of healthcare costs to improve human health and economic efficiency. The study examined the relationship between public healthcare costs and macroeconomic indicators within South Asian countries. The study used data mainly from the World Bank World Development Indicators for eight South Asian countries from 2000 to 2020. The weighted least squares method and the pool regression were employed in the analysis of the study. The main findings of the study demonstrate that GDP per capita and foreign direct investments (FDI) increase public healthcare spending. The inflation and budget deficit showed to be significant determinants regarding healthcare spending, specifically for some of the countries in the pool. Based on the findings, the study recommends that governments jump on policies that improve economic growth and tax revenues, as well as stabilize inflation. These economic policies could increase public healthcare costs because they have a strong relationship with macroeconomic indicators.

Tensions Between Cosmopolitan Curricula and Local Social Expectations in Southeast Asian Private Education

2025-06-24T05:45:55+08:00

The script addresses the historical dispute between global curricula and local sociocultural requirements in private schooling in Southeast Asia. With private and international schools adapting more and more to globally inclined curriculums, such as the International Baccalaureate program and the Cambridge International program, the linguistic character, pedagogical practices, and civic engagement criteria introduced by these curricula often differ from the foundations of the local culture, religion, and language. To understand how these conflicts are manifested in language policies, civic consciousness, and educational equity, this research conducts a thematic analysis using the following frameworks: globalism (Hansen, 2008), postcolonial criticism (Joseph & Matthews, 2014), and Confucian globalism (Choo, 2020). By considering four Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand case studies, it has been argued that private schools cannot be considered a classroom group in joining these global curricula; instead, they are the loci of curriculum negotiation. Private schools thus cannot be assumed to follow global proven norms but take alternative routes. To this end, possible reactions include curriculum integration, stakeholder engagement, and cultural reciprocity. This work belongs to global education research since it is region-based and considers the subject of curriculum globalization via a monistic theoretical background.

Wellness, Discipline, and the Making of the Neoliberal Self

2025-12-22T17:52:48+08:00

This paper examines how the neoliberal body is shaped by ideas of self-discipline and wellness. It shows how neoliberal ideology enters bodily practices, wellness talk, and digital tools. Using critical theories of biopower, surveillance, and capitalist subjectivity, the study shows how the body is treated as something that must always improve, guided by market rules and health duties. Wellness was once seen as shared and whole. Now it is turned into a product and treated as a personal matter. This change hides social inequality behind ideas of personal duty. The essay looks at how discipline is taken in through digital self-tracking tools and wellness buying. It also looks at the effects on personal choice, identity, and ways of care. The paper also examines new forms of resistance, such as body neutrality, disability justice, and shared healing. These practices question neoliberal rules and suggest other ways of living with the body.