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A special teacher for a special child? (Re)considering the role of the special education teacher within the context of an inclusive education reform agenda
(2013-11-01)Notwithstanding the recent signing and ratification by Cyprus of another International Convention on the rights of students designated as having special educational needs and/or disabilities to attend mainstream schools ... -
Accessing parental perspectives to inform the development of parent training in autism in south-eastern Europe
(2017-04-03)Parent training has been shown to be an important means of supporting families living with autism–but such services are not universally accessible. A multinational project funded by the European Commission has been developed ... -
Acute psychopathology as a predictor of global functioning in patients with ICD-10 non-affective psychosis: A prospective study in 11 European countries
(2011-09-01)This prospective analysis aimed to study the influence of psychopathological dimensions on the global functioning of persons suffering from psychotic disorders, taking into account the role of a broad range of potential ... -
Affect and trauma in museums: an interpretive framework for understanding the real thing and its political potential
(2019-01-01)This paper examines the exhibition of everyday war-related objects as ‘real things’ in museums. Specifically, it focuses on the bombed car that the artist Jeremy Deller used for his project It is What it Is: Conversations ... -
Aiming for the singing teacher: An applied study on preservice kindergarten teachers' singing skills development within a music methods course
(2015-01-01)This study examined the effects of a music methods course offered at a Cypriot university on the singing skills of 33 female preservice kindergarten teachers. To systematically measure and analyze student progress, the ... -
‘All we need is love (and money)’! What do higher education students want from their families?
(2018-03-22)Research has shown that consistent family support improves higher education (HE) students’ chances for adjustment and graduation but family over-involvement negatively affects students’ well-being. We theoretically bridge ... -
An exploratory investigation of the quality of life of adults with learning disabilities living in family homes or under residential care
(2009-12-01)Current and past research has used the term quality of life to encompass a very broad array of meanings, which vary from person to person, both intrapersonally and interpersonally, for individuals with or without disabilities. ... -
An Ontological Turn for Childhood Studies?
(2019-01-01)The so-called ‘ontological turn’ in the social sciences has brought with it yet another layer of theoretical concerns, except that this time the interest is in ontology rather than epistemology. New materialist thinking ... -
Approaches to displaying death in museums: An introduction
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Artists photographic reflections: Imag(in)ing the art museum through fictional narratives
(2014-01-01)This paper examines how artists employ photography to investigate and challenge the museum. It makes particular reference to the work of three women artists: Louise Lawler, Sophie Calle and Diane Neumaier. Their work is ... -
Aspiring, consuming, becoming: Youth identity in a culture of consumption
(2010-12-01)This article focuses on how consumerism, as a social ideology, and consumption, as an individual activity, are used by adolescents to mark and mask differences in the process of identity construction. Data are drawn from ... -
Assessing the dimensionality and other psychometric properties of a greek translation of the sex-role egalitarianism scale (Form B)
(2008-12-01)The main purpose of this study was to investigate the dimensionality of a Greek-language version of the Sex Role Egalitarianism Scale-Form B (SRES-B) via confirmatory factor analysis. Using two different samples (undergraduates ... -
Assessing the role of drama on children’s understanding of bullying
(2018-01-01)This study describes the development, implementation, and evaluation of a dramatized scenario as a tool for educating primary schoolchildren (n = 150) on bullying. One of this study’s main aims was to assess whether the ... -
Assistive technology and people: a position paper from the first global research, innovation and education on assistive technology (GREAT) summit
(2018-07-04)Assistive technology (AT) is a powerful enabler of participation. The World Health Organization’s Global Collaboration on Assistive Technology (GATE) programme is actively working towards access to assistive technology for ... -
Assistive technology as an emerging policy and practice: Processes, challenges and future directions
(2011-03-28)This paper aims to describe the policies and procedures of the use of assistive technology (AT) to support education and social inclusion of children with disabilities in Cyprus, through the investigation of four case ... -
Associations of quality of life with service satisfaction in psychotic patients: A meta- analysis
(2015-08-14)Background Quality of life (QoL) has gained increasing attention as a desired outcome of psychosocial treatments targeting psychotic patients. Yet, the relationship between the patients' satisfaction with services and QoL ... -
Author's response: School reform: Is it indeed impossible?
(2015-01-01)Building on the commentator's responses to the target article and bringing together all the valuable arguments, I pin down the challenges raised by reconsidering the concern Papert had at some point that school reform is ... -
Being fit and feeling pleased: The mediational role of physical self-efficacy in UAE women residents
(2018-07-04)High prevalence of mood disorders among women in the UAE might be derived from low levels of physical activity. The present study aimed to explore the underlying mechanism through which physical activity affects mood by ... -
Between intimacy and intolerance: Greek Cypriot children's encounters with Asian domestic workers
(2009-05-01)This article explores how Greek Cypriot elementary school children construct their identities in relation to Sri Lankan and Filipino women who come to Cyprus as domestic workers. The article focuses primarily on the views ...