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Now, is this how we are going to say it? Comparing teachers' language practices in primary and secondary state education in Cyprus
(2010)This study compares teachers' language use and covert language attitudes in primary and secondary state education in Cyprus. The Ministry of Education and Culture encourages the systematic use of Standard Modern Greek in ...
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The Number Line as a Representation of Decimal Numbers: A Research with Sixth Grade Students
(International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2004)One of the aims of mathematics instruction is to achieve the understanding of mathematical concepts through the development of rich and well organized cognitive representations (Goldin, 1998; NCTM, 2000; DeWindt-King, & ...
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Number Teaching and Learning
(Springer, 2014)Demetra Pitta-Pantazi Email: dpitta@ucy.ac.cy Keywords Arithmetic, Irrational numbers, Natural numbers, Negative numbers, Rational numbers Characteristics “Numbers” is one of the most important strands in the mathematics ...
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Number teaching and learning
(Springer, 2019)
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Objects, Actions, and Images: A Perspective on Early Number Development
(2000)It is the purpose of this article to present a review of research evidence that indicates the existence of qualitatively different thinking in elementary number development. In doing so, the article summarizes empirical ...
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Objects, entities, behaviors, and interactions: A typology of student-constructed computer-based models of physical phenomena
(2011)The purpose of this study was to develop a framework for analyzing and evaluating student-constructed models of physical phenomena and monitoring the progress of these models. Moreover, we aimed to examine whether this ...
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Observing the seen and unseen: computer and social mediation of a Complex biological system
(University of Cyprus, 2010)Working from a theoretical framework in which knowledge is socially constructed, this case study traces how computer and human interventions mediate one group of middle school students’ observations of an aquatic ecosystem. ...
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Observing the Use of Gestures in Young Children’s Geometric Thinking
(Springer International Publishing, 2018)This chapter addresses children’s geometry thinking and learning in early childhood with a focus on the use of gestures. The chapter begins with the theoretical frameworks which underlie this work and some background ...
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Of(f) Course: Michel Foucault, the Mobile Philosopher and his Dreamworlds
(2019)Foucault extolled the Iranian revolution and, anticipating the havoc that his public intervention in favour of the revolution would create, he wrote: “I can already hear the French laughing, but I know that they are wrong”. ...
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Off duty – man versus the volcano
(2012-07)
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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 continuity and change in national identity construction: An initial note on Greek-Cypriot education, 1960-2010
(2010)In this paper, and in the context of this special issue on fifty years since the establishment of the Republic of Cyprus, we present an initial historicisation of Greek-Cypriot education since 1960 using, as a narrative ...
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On Language, Meaning, and Validity: Philosophy of Education and the Universal Pragmatics of Habermas
(Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2004)A theory of language may prove conducive to many important and complex issues in philosophy of education. After grouping these issues into four main categories, I explore the possibility and need to back up the categories ...
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On Nietzsche’s Concept of ‘European Nihilism’
(2012-07)
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On Oblivion as a Symptom
(2012-07)
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