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The Greek–Cypriot early childhood educational reform: introducing play as a participatory learning process and as children's right
Loizou, Eleni; Avgitidou, S. (2014)This paper provides a brief description of the Greek–Cypriot early childhood education system and focuses on the current education reform. We focus on one of the main changes of the reform, a new status for play within the ...
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Humor a different kind of play
Loizou, Eleni (2005)This study investigates young children's humourous activity as a form of play and considers the implications on their cognitive development and learning. The study was conducted in an infant room of a university based group ...
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Humor as a means of regulating one's social self: Two infants with unique humorous personas
Loizou, Eleni (2007)This study investigated the humorous activity of two infants, 18 and 21 months old, in their infant group childcare setting. This was a qualitative study that followed two infants for four months. Through participant and ...
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Humorous bodies and humorous minds: Humour within the social context of an infant child care setting
Loizou, Eleni (2004)This study looks at how the environment in an infant child care setting can have an impact on young children's humourous experiences and therefore their learning and development. With the use of multiple qualitative methods, ...
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Humour: A Different Kind of Play
Loizou, Eleni (2005)This study investigates young children's humorous activity as a form of play and considers the implications on their cognitive development and learning. The study was conducted in an infant room of a university based group ...
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In-service early childhood teachers reflect on their teacher training program: Reconceptualizing the case of Cyprus
Loizou, Eleni (2009)This is a study that investigates the views of in-service Early Childhood teachers concerning their teacher training program. Ninety in-service teachers were interviewed and asked to reflect on their teacher training. The ...
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Infancy pedagogy and praxis
Loizou, Eleni; Demetriou, Maria (2019)Through an examination of the reflective comments of 42 pre-service Early Childhood Education Teachers (PS-ECETs), this study describes how an infancy course within an Early Childhood Education program used four different ...
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Infant humor: the theory of the absurd and the empowerment theory
Loizou, Eleni (Routledge, 2005)This study looked at how six infants in a group child care setting produced and appreciated humor. With the use of multiple qualitative methods, participant and non-participant observations, journal writing, videotaping, ...
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Is physicality an important aspect of learning through science experimentation among kindergarten students?
Zacharia, Zacharias C.; Loizou, Eleni; Papaevripidou, Marios (2012)The purpose of this study was to investigate whether physicality (actual and active touch of concrete material), as such, is a necessity for science experimentation learning at the kindergarten level. We compared the effects ...
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A kindergarten class clown: Play and empowerment motives
Loizou, Eleni (2016)
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Making the organization of a celebration an empowering process: using the project approach. Early Childhood Practice
Loizou, Eleni (2010)
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Professional Development and Impact of the Early Change Project: Reflections from the Cypriot Example
Loizou, Eleni (Springer International Publishing, 2018)This chapter focuses on the reflections and feedback from the implementation of the Early Change project in Cyprus. More specifically, it discusses the particular way in which the project was implemented in Cyprus, presents ...
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Re/Conceptualization of an Early Childhood Research Laboratory Framework: Necessity, the mother of invention
Loizou, Eleni (2013)This article provides a subjective personal introspection of the attempt to develop and maintain an Early Childhood Research Laboratory (ECRL) at the University of Cyprus and a description of the first activities undertaken ...
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Talking about books with young children: Analyzing the discursive nature of one-to-one booktalks
Hadjioannou, X.; Loizou, Eleni (2011)Research Findings: Reading aloud to children is recognized as a pedagogically valuable practice. The literature suggests that the conversations that surround read-alouds are pivotal to their effectiveness. Yet teachers ...
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Visual and verbal humor productions after a series of creative structured activities: a case study of two pre-schoolers
Loizou, Eleni; Loizou, Evi K. (2019)The aim of the study was to explore the ways in which a Series of Creative Structured Activities (SCSA) involving humor elements, affected the type and quantity of visual and verbal productions of two preschoolers. Researchers ...
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Young children's appreciation and production of verbal and visual humor
Loizou, Eleni; Kyriakou, M. (2016)This study aimed to investigate young children's ability to appreciate and produce humor. Specifically the research questions were: 1. What aspects of a humorous visual stimulus do children of the ages 4-7 years appreciate ...
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Young children's explanation of pictorial humor
Loizou, Eleni (2006)This study aimed to investigate the explanations of 80 kindergarten children on pictorial humor. The children were asked to observe and describe a specific visual stimulus, and say whether they considered it as funny ...
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Young Children’s Humorous Stories: A Force for Positive Emotions
Loizou, Eleni; Michaelides, Anthia (Springer International Publishing, 2019)This chapter will explore the educational potential of children’s humorous stories (verbal and visual narratives) through the framework of the Theory of the Absurd and the Empowerment Theory. Previous studies exploring ...