Browsing Τμήμα Επιστημών της Αγωγής / Department of Education by Title
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Empowerment Pedagogy
(2017)This study aims to unfold the framework of empowerment pedagogy by describing an approach of listening to the children, supporting their rights, and enhancing participation through the lens of a learning community. The ...
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Enacted Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Physical Education: A Case Study of a Prospective Classroom Teacher
(2002)Recently, attention has been focused on the development and the nature of pedagogical content knowledge in the general and physical education literature. The purpose of this study was to describe the enacted pedagogical ...
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Energy in Education
(2012)Teaching and learning about energy at the various levels of school science has been a topic of interest in science education research for nearly five decades. This interest has been motivated by the need to help students ...
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Conference Object Open Access
Enews: an odl platform to support environmental citizenship
(Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, 2003)This article describes the main activities and approaches of the eNews Minerva (Open and Distance Learning - ODL) Project. eNews is an initiative of the European Commission SOCRATES Minerva Program 2001 with the primary ...
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Engaging school teachers and school principals in an action research in-service development as a means of pedagogical self-awareness
(2015)The European Commission has determined the following priorities to increase the quality of teacher training programmes in the European Union: ensuring that all teachers have access to the knowledge, attitudes and pedagogic ...
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Conference Object Open Access
Engineering education using Discovery II
(Pedagogical Faculty of University of Ostrava, 2001)Engineering can be considered to be the application of scientific knowledge. It is a field where ‘hands-on’ knowledge of equipment is very often considered essential. Feedback Instruments designs, develops, and manufactures ...
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Conference Object Open Access
Enhancing fifth graders understanding of complex ecosystems through a model-based approach utilizing stagecast creator
(University of Zilina, 2005)We report a study in which we designed and implemented a curriculum within the context of ecosystems aimed at fostering scientific modelling skills and enhancing conceptual understanding among fifth graders through the use ...
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Enhancing Fourth Graders' Ability to Interpret Graphical Representations Through the Use of Microcomputer-Based Labs Implemented Within an Inquiry-Based Activity Sequence
(2007)This article reports on a research effort that investigated whether the use of Microcomputer-Based Labs (MBLs), implemented within an inquiry-based activity sequence on phase transformations (melting and freezing), contributes ...
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Conference Object Open Access
Enhancing fourth graders’ ability to interpret graphical representations through the use of sensors in the context of phase transformations (melting and freezing)
(Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, 2003)Sensors constitute a powerful tool in physical science as far as the rapid collection and analysis of data is concerned. In addition to the rapid collection of data, sensors are valued for their capability in the simultaneous ...
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Enhancing students’ interest in science and understandings of STEM careers: the role of career-based scenarios
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2021)Theoretically framed within Social Cognitive Career Theory emphasising on the construct of situational interest, this study explores the impact of career-based scenarios, as an instructional approach, on students’ interest ...
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Conference Object Open Access
Enhancing the learning experience? A Comparison of optical and virtual microscope laboratories in histology and pathology
(University of Cyprus, 2007)With pressure on universities to teach larger class sizes with fewer resources university teachers are increasingly looking to technology to enhance student learning. A trial comparing virtual and optical microscopes in ...
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Conference Object Open Access
Enquiry-based learning using pictures: the geograph project
(University of Cyprus, 2010)This paper discusses the rationale underlying enquiry-based learning in terms of problem-solving activity and the technical infrastructure needed to support it. Some of the issues underlying the implementation of this ...
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Enriching the subject of Greek Literature with the experience of the 'other': An approach that fosters citizenship education in Cyprus
(2013)This article reports on a research project that explored the potential to integrate autobiographical work emphasising personal experiences of exclusion and marginalisation into the Greek Literature curriculum followed in ...
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Ensuring the validity and reliability of teaching observation: Answering crucial questions in Physical Education
(Cyprus University Press, 2018)
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Entangled in stories: Inwardness, politics, conflict and their non-essentialist treatment
(2005)Ideals of reconciliation are treated by most contemporary philosophical discourses as bankrupt and chimeric or even as suspect of totalitarianism and terror. Largely associated with eschatological narratives of a supposedly ...
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Environmental education and the science of ecology: exploration of an uneasy relationship
(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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Conference Object Open Access
Environmental education at schools and in Teachers’ preparation in czech and slovak Republic – experience and research
(Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, 2003)Environmental education and its effective integration into the teaching process of comprehensive subjects in curriculum documents is one of the priority but common educational aims that are embodied in the National Programme ...
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Environmental representations of local communities' spokespersons in protected areas
(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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Epistemic beliefs and prior knowledge as predictors of the construction of different types of arguments on socioscientific issues
(2020)This study investigates whether university students’ epistemic beliefs and prior knowledge about controversial socioscientific issues (SSIs) can predict the different types of arguments that students construct. Two hundred ...