Browsing by Author "Kontovourki, Stavroula"
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Assessment as a technology of power: shaping of literacy and literate identities in a public elementary classroom
Kontovourki, Stavroula (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2016)
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Backstage performances: A third grader's embodiments of pop culture and literacy in a public school classroom
Kontovourki, Stavroula (2014)This article examines the less visible ways in which popular culture enters the classroom and shapes children's embodied performances as students and literate subjects. Foregrounding snapshots from a case study of a ...
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Can autonomy be imposed? Examining teacher (re)positioning during the ongoing curriculum change in Cyprus
Philippou, Stavroula; Kontovourki, Stavroula; Theodorou, E. (2014)For the past few years, the Republic of Cyprus has been pursuing a major educational reform across all levels of mandatory education, focusing especially on curriculum change, for the implementation of which in-service ...
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Caught between worlds of expertise: Elementary teachers amidst official curriculum development processes in Cyprus
Theodorou, E.; Philippou, Stavroula; Kontovourki, Stavroula (2017)Against the background of a curriculum change in the Republic of Cyprus, this study focuses on teachers who volunteered to work along with academics and ministry officials in subject-area curriculum review committees to ...
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Child and youth embodiments of critical literacies
Johnson, E.; Enriquez, G.; Kontovourki, Stavroula (Routledge, 2019)
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Cooperative learning in the context of the communicative approach
Kontovourki, Stavroula; Koutselini, Mary (2004)
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Curriculum making as professionalism-in-context: the cases of two elementary school teachers amidst curriculum change in Cyprus
Kontovourki, Stavroula; Philippou, Stavroula; Theodorou, Eleni (2018)In this paper, two case studies of elementary school teachers in the Republic of Cyprus are constructed to discuss how curriculum making relates to teacher biographies and sense of professionalism, as those are shaped at ...
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Discipline and Play with/in a Mandated Literacy Curriculum
Kontovourki, Stavroula; Siegel, Marjorie (Language Arts, 2009)In this article, the authors explore a young child's lived experience of discipline and play with/in a mandated balanced literacy curriculum. Mandating balanced literacy presents an interesting case of disciplining literacy ...
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Governing teachers: Professional development and curriculum reform in the Republic of Cyprus
Kontovourki, Stavroula; Theodorou, E.; Philippou, Stavroula (Sense Publishers, 2015)
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Introduction: Assembling research on literacies and the body
Johnson, E.; Kontovourki, Stavroula (2016)
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Literacy in motion: A Case Study of a Shape-shifting Kindergartener
Siegel, Marjorie; Kontovourki, Stavroula; Schmier, S.; Enriquez, G. (United States, NCTE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH, 2008)This article presents a case study of a kindergarten girl from a Bangladeshi immigrant family who demonstrates her multiliteracies as she negotiates the multiple demands of the mandated literacy curriculum. The case is ...
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Meaningful practice: Test prep in a third-grade public school classroom
Kontovourki, Stavroula; Campis, C. (2010)Preparation for high-stakes testing, while unavoidable, may become meaningful, these authors argue. The article illustrates the case of a third-grade classroom in a metropolitan public school, where test preparation was ...
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Pedagogical approaches to digital literacy in early years education
Kontovourki, Stavroula; Tafa, Eufimia (Routledge, 2019)This chapter aims to synthesize research published from 2010 to 2017, mostly peer-reviewed journal articles, that were identified through the following
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Performative politics and the interview: Unraveling immigrant children’s narrations and identity performances
Kontovourki, Stavroula; Theodorou, E. (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018)
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Professional development for 'professional pedagogues': Contradictions and tensions in re-professionalizing teachers in Cyprus
Philippou, Stavroula; Kontovourki, Stavroula; Theodorou, E. (Information Age, 2016)
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Reading (through) bodies: students' embodied performances of poetry and testing
Kontovourki, Stavroula (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 ...
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Reading leveled books in assessment-saturated classrooms: A close examination of unmarked processes of assessment
Kontovourki, Stavroula (2012)This article examines the reading of leveled books and the assessment of students' reading levels in a public school classroom. The purpose of the research study was to examine how these processes of assessment, which often ...
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Η (επανα)τοποθέτηση των εκπαιδευτικών κατά την εισαγωγή των νέων αναλυτικών προγραμμάτων στην Κύπρο [Teachers’ (re)positioning during the introduction of the new curricula in Cyprus]
Kontovourki, Stavroula; Philippou, Stavroula; Theodorou, E. (Ministry of Education and Culture, Cyprus Pedagogical Institute, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Educational Association., 2013)
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Η σταδιακή εφαρμογή των «Νέων Αναλυτικών Προγραμμάτων» στην Κύπρο (2011-2012): Αναδεικνύοντας την πολυπλοκότητα μέσα από τον λόγο εκπαιδευτικών [The gradual implementation of the “New Curricula” in Cyprus (2011-2012): Foregrounding the complexity through teachers’ discourse]
Theodorou, E.; Kontovourki, Stavroula; Philippou, Stavroula (Ministry of Education and Culture, Cyprus Pedagogical Institute, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Educational Association, University of Nicosia., 2015)