Browsing by Author "Korfiatis, Konstantinos J."
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Adolescents' Beliefs about the Wolf: Investigating the Potential of Human-Wolf Coexistence in the European South
Hovardas, Tasos; Korfiatis, Konstantinos J. (2012)Previous research revealed a rural–urban divide in the acceptance of the wolf. We investigated adolescents’ beliefs about the wolf in rural and urban areas of Greece and Italy. By using a multiple-choice questionnaire, we ...
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Book Chapter
Applying social representations theory in educational evaluation: a methodological framework
Hovardas, Tasos; Korfiatis, Konstantinos J. (Nova Science Publishers, Inc, 2008)
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A 'bottom-up' approach to food web construction
Demetriou, Dorita; Korfiatis, Konstantinos J.; Constantinou, Constantinos P. (2009)The ability to comprehend trophic (nutritional) relationships and food web dynamics is an essential part of environmental literacy. However, students face severe difficulties in grasping the variety of causal patterns in ...
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Comprehending trophic relations through food web construction
Demetriou, Dorita; Korfiatis, Konstantinos J.; Constantinou, Constantinos P. (2009)
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Conservation Reasoning and Proposed Actions for the Protection of Threatened Plant Species: Insights From a Sample of Rural and Urban Children of Cyprus
Paraskeva-Hadjichambi, D.; Korfiatis, Konstantinos J.; Hadjichambis, A. C.; Arianoutsou, M. (2012)Investigating children's beliefs and values toward threatened biodiversity can contribute to their understanding about nature and to the prevention of sociopolitical issues that may emerge when nature policy is being ...
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Book Chapter
Current Τrends in Environmental Education Practice: From Awareness to Action (in Greek).
Korfiatis, Konstantinos J. (Diadrasi, 2012)
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Determinants of environmental behavior in societies in transition: Evidence from five European countries
Korfiatis, Konstantinos J.; Hovardas, Tasos; Pantis, J. D. (2004)Countries of Central and East Europe are in a process of economic, social and political transition. This process provides a unique opportunity for cross-national studies in a context of social transformation and radical ...
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Development of decision-making skills and environmental concern through computer-based, scaffolded learning activities
Nicolaou, Christiana Th; Korfiatis, Konstantinos J.; Evagorou, Maria; Constantinou, Constantinos P. (2009)This article focuses on the development of decision-making skills and environmental concern by 11- and 12-year-old students through computer-based, scaffolded learning activities. The enacted activities provided necessary ...
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The effect of a digital learning environment on childrens conceptions about the protection of endemic plants
Petrou, S.; Korfiatis, Konstantinos J. (2013)This study presents the results of a pilot learning intervention for improving children’s ideas about plant protection. The research was executed in two phases. The first phase aimed at exploring children’s ideas about ...
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Effects of an Environmental Education Course on Consensus Estimates for Proenvironmental Intentions
Hovardas, Tasos; Korfiatis, Konstantinos J. (2012)An environmental education intervention in a university conservation-related course was designed to decrease students’ errors in consensus estimates for proenvironmental intentions, that is, their errors in guessing their ...
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Emergence of new fields in ecology: the case of life history studies.
Korfiatis, Konstantinos J.; Stamou, George P. (1994)We examine the emergence of the field of life-history strategies during the 1950s. (We consider a 'field' an area of scientific activity consisting of a theoretical core, a subject of research, a vocabulary and research ...
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Environmental education and the science of ecology: exploration of an uneasy relationship
Korfiatis, Konstantinos J. (Routledge, 2005)While modern science is receiving harsh criticism within the framework of environmental education, at the same time ecology is presented as an alternative science, characterized as ‘holistic’ and ‘non-exploitative’. However, ...
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Environmental representations of local communities' spokespersons in protected areas
Hovardas, Tasos; Korfiatis, Konstantinos J.; Pantis, J. D. (2009)Despite the popularization of the environmental discourse, rural environmental belief-systems should not be viewed as homogenous. Focusing on the largest protected area in Greece, we examined heterogeneity in local ...
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Framing environmental policy by the local press: Case study from the Dadia Forest Reserve, Greece
Hovardas, Tasos; Korfiatis, Konstantinos J. (2008)This paper critically examines the way environmental policy is framed by the press. Focusing on the Dadia Forest Reserve (Greece), we investigated the article content of a local newspaper across three subsequent periods ...
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Habitat Templets and the Changing Worldview of Ecology
Korfiatis, Konstantinos J.; Stamou, George P. (1999)Habitat templets are graphical-qualitative models which describe the development of life-history strategies in specific environmental conditions. In the context of the previous models of life-history strategies, life-history ...
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How Students’ values are intertwined with decisions in a socio-scientific issue
Paraskeva-Hadjichambi, D.; Hadjichambis, A. C.; Korfiatis, Konstantinos J. (2015)The present study incorporated a scaffolding decision making procedure on an authentic environmental socio-scientific issue and investigated how students' decisions are intertwined with their values. Computer-based activities ...
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Images of Nature in Greek Primary School Textbooks
Korfiatis, Konstantinos J.; Stamou, Anastasia G.; Paraskevopoulos, S. (2004)In this article, the environmental content of the textbooks used for the teaching of natural sciences in Greek primary schools was examined. Specifically, by employing the method of content analysis, both representational ...
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Images of Nature in the Textbooks of Elementary Schools in Greece.
Korfiatis, Konstantinos J.; Stamou, Anastasia G.; Paraskevopoulos, S. (2004)In this article, the environmental content of the textbooks used for the teaching of natural sciences in Greek primary schools was examined. Specifically, by employing the method of content analysis, both representational ...
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Impact of a university course on pre-service teachers’ conceptions about environmental issues and environmental education
Korfiatis, Konstantinos J.; Hovardas, Tasos (2008)The paper presents the results of the evaluation of a university environmental course on pre-service teachers’ conceptions of environmental issues and environmental education. The evaluation method leaned on the theory of ...
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Introduction: The 5th Hellenic Conference on the History, Philosophy and Science Teaching "The Great Scientific Theories in the Teaching of Naural Sciences"
Korfiatis, Konstantinos J.; Raftopoulos, Athanassios; Portides, D. (2011)