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'My colleagues wear blinkers..If they were trained, they would understand better'. Reflections on teacher education on inclusion in Cyprus
Symeonidou, Simoni; Phtiaka, Helen (2014)This paper discusses fundamental theoretical issues in relation to education on inclusion. These issues inform core decisions about initial teacher education courses and in-service teacher-training programmes on inclusion. ...
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New policies, old ideas: the question of disability assessment systems and social policy
Symeonidou, Simoni (2014)This paper reports on qualitative content analysis research and critically analyzes the state’s intention to use the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health as a tool to develop a national ...
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Parental involvement in education politics: the case of disabled children
Symeonidou, Simoni (Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Educational Research, 2007)This paper explores Greek-Cypriot parents' role in influencing developments regarding the education of disabled children in Cyprus. It mainly comments upon parents' conceptualisations of disabled children's rights which ...
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Problematising disabling discourses on the assessment and placement of learners with disabilities: can interdependence inform an alternative narrative for inclusion?
Symeonidou, Simoni; Mavrou, Katerina (2020)In this paper, we seek to explore how the concepts of dependence, independence and interdependence are reflected in discourses on documents prepared by two Commissioners in Cyprus (the Commissioner for the Rights of the ...
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Purpose, process and future direction of disability research
Beauchamp-Pryor, Karen; Symeonidou, Simoni (Sense Publishers, 2013)
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Researching Disability Politics
Symeonidou, Simoni (2013)s I begin to write this chapter, I recall a book edited by Clough and Corbett (2000), in which key academics of inclusive education reflected on their background experience, explaining their journey of researching and ...
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Resistance, transformation and the politics of hope: Imagining a way forward for the disabled people's movement
Peters, S.; Gabel, S.; Symeonidou, Simoni (2009)The social model of disability has been a useful tool to shift the focus of disability as individual deficit to disability as a social construction in an oppressive society. However, a theory of political action is needed ...
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Review of Confronting obstacles to inclusion: International responses to developing inclusive education
Symeonidou, Simoni (Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2011)Reviews the book, 'Confronting obstacles to inclusion: International responses to developing inclusive education' edited by Richard Rose (2010). The chapters is organized under six sections, aiming to provide a balanced ...
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Rights of People with Intellectual Disability in Cyprus: Policies and Practices Related to Greater Social and Educational Inclusion
Symeonidou, Simoni (2015)The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) is the framework for national policies and practices that respect the rights of people with disabilities. UN and European human rights ...
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Trapped in our past: The price we have to pay for our cultural disability inheritance
Symeonidou, Simoni (2009)The importance of culture in understanding cross-cultural phenomena is now widely acknowledged. This paper seeks to explore the impact of the Greek-Cypriot culture on constructing notions of disability which dominate popular ...
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Using teachers' prior knowledge, attitudes and beliefs to develop in-service teacher education courses for inclusion
Symeonidou, Simoni; Phtiaka, Helen (2009)This paper examines one important dimension of inclusive education: the development of in-service teacher education courses. Using an example from Cyprus, it discusses the issue of contextualizing teacher training courses ...
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The wonderful world of children's books? Negotiating diversity through children's literature
Monoyiou, E.; Symeonidou, Simoni (2016)The present paper reports the findings of a study that sought to identify how diversity (in the form of disability, appearance, and race) is presented in children's books written in or translated into the Greek language. ...
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'Ψηφίδες Γνώσης': μια έρευνα-εργαλείο για την επαγγελματική ανάπτυξη των εκπαιδευτικών. ['Tesserae of Knowledge': using research as a tool for teachers' professional development]
Symeonidou, Simoni (2014)