Browsing by Subject "Education"
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Graphic symbols for all: Using symbols in developing the ability of questioning in young children
(2013)Purpose: This study aims to investigate the effects of the use of symbols in the development of young children's ability to form questions in mainstream early-childhood education. Hypotheses examined whether the use of ...
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Hesiod the cosmopolitan: utopian and dystopian discourse and ethico-political education
(Routledge, 2008)The modern tendency to treat all Greek Golden Age textuality as apolitical and escapist has contributed to the ongoing neglect of the first Western educational text, Hesiod's Works and days. Most commentators have missed ...
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How Students Conceive Function: a Triarchic Conceptual-Semiotic Model of the Understanding of a Complex Concept
(Information Age Publishing, 2006)This study explores conceptions for function amongst 164-second year students of the Department of Education at the University of Cyprus and their relationship with students' abilities in dealing with tasks involving ...
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Implementing affect parameters in personalized web-based design
(2009)Researchers used to believe that emotional processes are beyond the scope of a scientific study. Recent advances in cognitive science and artificial intelligence, however, suggest that there is nothing mystical about ...
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Interethnic marriage: A choice between ethnic and educational similarities
(2011)This paper explores the role of assortative matching on education in explaining the relationship between schooling and ethnic endogamy. Using 2000 US Census data, we find that matching on education rather than ethnicity ...
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Intergenerational income mobility in Cyprus
(University of Cyprus, 2009)
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Literature's Place in Philosophy: Challenging Disciplinarity
(Philosophy of Education Society, 2000)The article discusses the question of the place of literature in philosophy. Moralistic teaching, formalism and phenomenology, and moral debates are mentioned. The article also mentions the book "Possession: A Romance," ...
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Working Paper
Longevity and education externalities: a macroeconomic perspective
(2008-12)We argue that education exerts positive external effects on health, beyond the standard internal effects documented in the literature. We put forward a model that clarifies the links between education and longevity in ...
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The Masterclass of the European School of Oncology: The 'key educational event' of the school
(2010)The European School of Oncology (ESO) Clinical Masterclass is a one-week, full-immersion course, where students and teachers intensively interact with each other. This educational event is designed for medical or clinical ...
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The Meaning and Rationale of Greece-Cyprus Unified Education: A Teachers' and Parents' Beliefs Study
(2004)The purpose of the present study was to investigate Cypriot teachers' and parents' attitudes towards, and understanding of, the educational policy of Greece-Cyprus Unified Education. The data of the study were collected ...
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Conference Object Open Access
Metabook. Evaluating the possibilities of e-books in schools
(Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, 2003)The objective of METABOOK project is to investigate the possibilities of e-books in the classroom and in the education field in general, as a possible replacement of traditional “paper books”, in order to minimize the cost ...
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Multimedia technology in pediatic surgical education, i.e. CD-ROM 'routine operations in pediatric surgery'
(2000)The existence and future of every scientific area is directly dependent on advanced education and the quality of work performed. The aim was to develop a program in order to improve education in pediatric surgery and to ...
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Multiple perspectives on effective learning environments.11th european conference for research on learning and instruction: biennial meeting, Nicosia, Cyprus, August 22- 27, 2005
(University of Cyprus, 2005)
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New fundamental profiling characteristics for designing adaptive web-based educational systems
(2005)There is a growing body of empirical evidence to suggest that users tend to make poor decisions in traditional educational systems as the navigational freedom given to the user leads to comprehension and orientation ...
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Olympism in tertiary education - New challenges & opportunities
(2012)Olympism, though a timeless ideal, was given shape in the late 19th century, by Baron Pierre de Coubertin and retains its sense of relevance in the 21st century, not least in the form of educational syllabi. This paper ...
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On the Borders of Europe. Citizenship Education and Identity in Cyprus
(Bielefeld University, 2007)This paper is about the concept of "Europe" and how it could be used as an educational framework to alleviate existing tensions regarding citizenship education and Euro-pean/national/state identity in the context of Cyprus. ...
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Conference Object Open Access
On the usage and potential applications of The finite element method magnetics (femm) Package in the teaching of electromagnetics In higher education
(University of Cyprus, 2007)Finite Element Method Magnetics (FEMM) is an open source finite element analysis software package for solving 2D planar and 3D axisymmetric low frequency electromagnetic problems including both electrostatics and magnetostatics. ...
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Oncology for medical students:. A European School of Oncology contribution to undergraduate cancer education
(2007)Worldwide undergraduate cancer medicine is taught in a non-unanimous manner. There are frequent overlaps, omissions and discrepancies in the curricula of different medical schools concerning oncology teaching. Various ...
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Participatory teacher development at schools
(2008)This article describes an action research study on reflective development at school and discusses methodological and pedagogical issues arising from teacher beliefs and expectations. Teachers and researchers participated ...