Journal of Higher Education and Academic Advancement

POLYPHONIC FEMINISM: INTERSECTIONALITY AND THE MULTIPLICITY OF WOMEN’S VOICES IN BERNARDINE EVARISTO’S GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER

Mohanad Abdulkadhim Hlail — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Objective: This article explores Bernardino Evaristo’s girl, woman, and other as a literary statement of intersectional feminism. It focuses on the polyphonic structure used by the novelist and how challenges monolithic exemplification of womanhood. Despite of receiving considerable critical acclaim for its variety, less interest has been given by scholars to the interplay between feminist politics and narrative form. Method: This article deals with that gap by analyzing how the multiplicity of voices through the novel presents complicated intersection of class, generational history, sexuality and race, especially within the framework of black British women’s competences and experiences. The research utilizes close textual analysis of the twelve correlated narratives to examine how the writer creates her feminist version; that is totally based on Kimberle Crenshaw’s theory of intersectionality as well as the concept of polyphony by Mikhail Bakhtin. Results: The outcomes suggest that stylistic choice functions as less than polyphony. It becomes a way to intensify marginalized perspectives stand against the patriarchal and cultural elimination. Novelty: This study helps to show how formal novelty in literature can draw political and cultural critique.

REALISM AND NATURALISM INTERTWINED: HARDY’S TESS AND DREISER’S CARRIE

Hamzayeva Zebo Murodjon qizi — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Objective: In this article written about the intersection of realism and naturalism in Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles and Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie. Both novels, though rooted in distinct literary traditions, reveal overlapping aesthetic and thematic concerns, particularly in their treatment of women’s struggles within oppressive social structures. Method: The study draws upon literary criticism, historical context, and narrative analysis to demonstrate how Hardy and Dreiser utilize their respective narrative strategies to reflect the deterministic forces of society while simultaneously allowing for moments of personal agency. Result: Hardy’s lyrical realism intertwines with the fatalistic tone of naturalism, whereas Dreiser’s journalistic detachment reflects a raw, unembellished portrayal of urban life. Novelty: Through comparative analysis, the article highlights how both authors capture the socio-economic pressures, gender roles, and moral constraints of their eras.

JUDGMENT IN MACHINES: THE ETHICAL PRECEDENCE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN IAN MCEWAN’S MACHINES LIKE ME

Mohanad Abdulkadhim Hlail, Osamah Abdullah Ahed — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Objective: This paper is based on ethics theory, focusing on Kantian deontological ethics and Utilitarianism, attempting to study the moral ambiguous problems in when machines like me by Ian McEwan. The book raises profound ethical issues about artificial intelligence, human responsibility, and truth. Method: Machines Like Me revolves around a love triangle between a man, a woman and a robot. Reflecting on criteria for differentiating between machines and humans one relatively obvious distinction, which Mills' Machines Like Me prompts, is that between a moral quality of artificial intelligence (AI) and one of human intelligence. Artificial intelligence systems might be queried about whether they might be willing to perform specific tasks. Results: In the analogue of such robots as might today be constructible to answer such questions, and steeped in an ethical world. The ethical analogue for such robots also involves the so-called critical mind process and theory chains behind AIs giving rise to behaviour prototyped and expressed by non-violent method. Novelty: On the practical implementation plane, the question is worked on of the arguments of ethical nature: Reading of a mode of possible state of machine minds have facilitated the cybernetic vision of human minds and then enabled cybernetic Turing mind theory to work forward.

PROJECT BASED LEARNING MODULE IN THE SCREEN PRINTING COURSE AT THE INDONESIAN INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS PADANG PANJANG

Mulyadi, Vanesha Miswar , Ade Putra, Miswar — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Objective: This research is motivated by efforts to achieve learning outcomes for students who face various learning challenges, such as the need to improve creativity in solving problems during the learning process. These challenges include a lack of references and inadequate learning resources, which impact students' ability to develop problem-solving thinking, and so far, students still rely on the material explained by the lecturer at the beginning of the course meeting, without any learning resources or teaching materials as a guide in implementing the practice. Method: This type of research is development research or known as Research and Development (R & D), and this research approach uses the ADDIE approach which consists of five research stages, namely: Analyze, Design, Develop, Implement and Evaluate, while validation was carried out by three expert validators, each on the aspects of material, design and language, and each validator was asked to fill out the assessment instrument using a Likert scale of 1–5 against a number of indicators that had been prepared. Result: The recapitulation results showed that the material validator gave a score of 41 out of a total maximum score of 45 with a percentage of (91.11%), the design validator gave a score of 44 out of a total maximum score of 50 with a percentage of (88%) and the language validator gave a score of 46 out of a total maximum score of 50 with a percentage of (92%), and the results of the practicality data analysis of the learning module were at a practicality level of 88.56% with an interpretation category that was very practical to use in the learning process. Novelty: These findings indicate that the developed module not only meets expert validation criteria but also achieves a very practical level for implementation, which highlights the novelty of providing effective and validated teaching materials that address the lack of references and inadequate resources in student learning.