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Physical education teachers' theories of action and theories-in-use
(2003)This research was conducted to describe the relationship between physical education teachers' educational theories of action and theories-in-use. The question addressed was, What are the educational theories and practices ...
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Conference Object Open Access
Physical meets virtual: blending physical and virtual manipulatives to improve understanding in the domain of light and shadows
(University of Cyprus, 2010)The purpose of this study was to compare the effect of experimenting with Physical Manipulatives (PM), Virtual Manipulatives (VM), and a blended combination of PM and VM, on undergraduate students’ understanding of scientific ...
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Physical versus virtual manipulative experimentation in physics learning
(2011)The aim of this study was to investigate whether physical or virtual manipulative experimentation can differentiate physics learning. There were four experimental conditions, namely Physical Manipulative Experimentation ...
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Conference Object Open Access
The Physics Assessment and Study Site – An online means to assessing and maintaining course prerequisites
(Pedagogical Faculty of University of Ostrava, 2001)A common and obvious goal of education is student success in a selected course. From an instructional standpoint, two important factors in determining this success. Firstly, whether the student possesses the appropriate ...
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Conference Object Open Access
Physics web for everybody
(Pedagogical Faculty of University of Ostrava, 2001)It is the purpose of this contribution to provide basic information about the creation and first period of running of a web for the support of physics education and about some problems we have met during this work. Our web ...
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Book
Pirls-2001: αποτελέσματα των μαθητών δημοτικού σχολείου στον αλφαβητσμό
(Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου, 2008)
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Conference Object Open Access
Planning, designing and evaluating CBL hypermedia applications
(Pedagogical Faculty of University of Ostrava, 2001)This paper presents some criteria about how to plan, design, evaluate and use a CBL hypermedia application. In our university, four years ago, we started a new program called "Multimedia Integrated Model for Active Learning" ...
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Policy, curriculum and the struggle for change in Cyprus: The case of the European dimension in education
(2007)This article explores the possibilities of shifting ethnocentric bias in curricula and pupils' constructions of national and European identities using the concept of 'Europe' as a tool. The European dimension was conceptualized ...
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Political Education in Times of Political Apathy and Extreme Political Pathos as Global Ways of Life
(2019)Locating political education in a global time of pathos and apathy, this article explores some complexities that derive from various notions of human distance and affect potentialities of democracy as a way of life. It ...
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Political ideals after the 'Modernism versus Postmodernism' Divide: Local attachment and global obligation
(Romanian Academy Publishing House / Editura Academiei Romane, 2013)Political thought has consistently dealt with particularist and universalist allegiance and ideality. Several -- isms, chief among them, patriotism, communitarianism, cosmopolitanism, internationalism have been produced ...
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Book Chapter
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Book Chapter
Postcolonial Theory: Its impact on philosophy of Education
(Oxford, 2018)
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Conference Object Open Access
Postcourse - www-based course on Databases
(Pedagogical Faculty of University of Ostrava, 2001)The objective of this paper is to report the experience with further development and use of Postcourse a webbased course on databases.
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Postmodernism and the Revival of Socialism as Critique
(2006)Socialism as a political philosophy confronts many theoretical and empirical challenges in our contemporary world. Some thinkers consider it obsolete and others aspire to reformulate it by couching it in a more pragmatist ...
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Potential Contribution of Digital Video to the Analysis of the Learning Process in Physics: A Case Study in the Context of Electric Circuits
(2004)We seek to demonstrate how digital video technology can contribute towards our understanding of the process of development of conceptual understanding in physics. We use digital video to analyze 4 brief Physics by Inquiry ...
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Conference Object Open Access
The potential of distance e-learning in the Spatial information sciences – an evaluation of a pilot programme at the dublin institute of Technology
(Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, 2003)The authors describe a pilot course in ‘Co-ordinate and reference systems for spatial information’, delivered via the Internet, to staff of the Irish national mapping agency, Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSi). The pilot ...
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Conference Object Open Access
Potential roles for electronic performance support systems in libraries
(University of Zilina, 2005)Electronic performance support systems provide a powerful mechanism for helping end-users comprehend complex systems. This paper describes and discusses some research we have undertaken in order to explore their potential ...
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The power of Interactive Groups: how diversity of adults volunteering in classroom groups can promote inclusion and success for children of vulnerable minority ethnic populations
(2013)Despite the limited success of grouping students by attainment in enhancing educational achievement for all, this practice is still widely followed in European schools. Aiming at identifying successful educational actions ...
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Conference Object Open Access
A practical computer-assisted learning framework for mixed ability classes
(Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, 2003)Teaching introductory courses in Computer Science and Management Information Systems to students is often hindered by a variety of factors. Computer-assisted learning methods may provide solutions to such problems. Feedback ...