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Locke’s Children? Rousseau and the Beans (Beings?) of the Colonial Learner
(2014)
Rousseau’s story about Emile having his first moral lesson in property rights by planting beans in a garden plot has educationally been discussed from various perspectives. What remains unexplored in such readings, however, ...
The Effects on Students' Conceptual Understanding of Electric Circuits of Introducing Virtual Manipulatives Within a Physical Manipulatives-Oriented Curriculum
(2014)
This study investigates whether Virtual Manipulatives (VM) within a Physical Manipulatives (PM)-oriented curriculum affect conceptual understanding of electric circuits and related experimentation processes. A pre–post ...
The 'europeanisation' of othering: Children using 'Europe' to construct 'others' in Cyprus
(2014)
The accession of the Republic of Cyprus to the European Union in 2004 was anticipated to be a ‘catalytic’ factor in developments towards a solution of the Cyprus problem at the political level. Within education, it was ...
Moving from the if to the how: Improving instructional quality by delineating stages of teacher effectiveness
(2014)
Models and modeling are considered integral parts of scientific literacy, reflecting educators' efforts to introduce and engage students in authentic scientific inquiry through Modeling-based Learning (MbL) approaches in ...
Ορθόδοξα μηνύματα: ερμηνεία ευαγγελικών περικοπών
(Αρμός, 2014)
Reading (through) bodies: students' embodied performances of poetry and testing
(2014)
This article highlights the complexity of becoming a reader in public school classrooms, by describing the ways students' reading bodies constituted the sites and discursive means for the performance of diverse reader ...
State of the art - teacher effectiveness and professional learningSchool Effectiveness and School Improvement
(2014)
One of the key findings from decades of educational effectiveness research is the importance of the classroom level as a predictor of pupil outcomes. In this review, we therefore look at synthesising our best evidence from ...
Using generic and content-specific teaching practices in teacher evaluation: An exploratory study of teachers' perceptions
(2014)
Generic and content-specific teaching practices have largely been employed in parallel in teacher evaluation and classroom observation systems. Giving voice to teachers, we examine whether both types of practices are ...
Using the dynamic model of educational effectiveness to design strategies and actions to face bullying
(2014)
This project investigates the impact of the dynamic approach to school improvement (DASI) aiming to help schools face and reduce bullying through integrating research on bullying with educational effectiveness research ...
Gesture in a kindergarten mathematics classroom
(2014)
Recent studies have advocated that mathematical meaning is mediated by gestures. This case study explores the gestures kindergarten children produce when learning spatial concepts in a mathematics classroom setting. Based ...