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Public Contribution Without Prestige Proxies: Designership as a Mentored Inquiry Pathway in K–12 Education

Dr. Freedom Cheteni

ORCID 0009-0006-3507-0094 · Designership Press · The Research University

Volume 1 · 2026 · Research edition 1.0 · Prepared 2026-10-16 · 3,984 words · 19 min

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Title: Public Contribution Without Prestige Proxies: Designership as a Mentored Inquiry Pathway in K–12 Education
Human authorship: Dr. Freedom Cheteni
Source: Complete manuscript edition 1.0
Editorial record: Original analysis & prospective protocol. AI-assisted source and methods checks are separate from independent human peer review. No participant trial results are reported.

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Study status: Prospective protocol; no participants recruited or participant outcomes reported by this article. Proposed registration and ethics review remain future steps.
Original contribution & authorship: Prepared at the author’s direction for Dr. Freedom Cheteni’s research programme. AI-assisted research, drafting, source checks and methods critique were used. The named human author retains responsibility; software is not an author or peer reviewer.
Review record: Original analyses and prospective protocols. New independent human peer review is not recorded for this edition. Inspect editorial standards and the AI-assisted audit.
Conflicts, funding & data: The author is the programme founder and Editor in Chief. No external funding or original participant dataset is reported for this edition. Conceptual development and the author’s institutional interests are disclosed; no independent validation of programme effectiveness is claimed.
Identifiers & version: D03 · Edition 1.0 · Prepared 2026-10-16. No DOI or journal acceptance is assigned by this research edition. Article SHA-256: 88a0d7bfc8084082c1ed269cc341daa6b5d56dfc53610edd444ee871095dbaa0.