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Family involvement in the education of potential drop-out children: A comparative study between Spain and Cyprus
(2008-08-01)This paper focuses on family involvement in the education of teenagers at risk of dropping out from compulsory secondary school. A questionnaire was completed by 131 Spanish and Cypriot families with children at six schools ... -
Family support and early childhood education and care in Cyprus: existing policies and challenges
(2018-05-04)Although wide family support policies are available to Cypriot families, Cyprus is among the countries with the least developed ECEC systems and the processes taken to address ECEC deficits is slow. Although female employment ... -
Fascism, separatism and the ultràs: Discrimination in Italian football
(2011-09-01)The game of football is known as much for its mass appeal as for its nation-building properties. In the case of Italy, just as dictator Benito Mussolini employed the game to promote a distinct sense of national identity, ... -
Female exotic dancers: Intrapersonal and interpersonal perspectives
(2006-01-01)The purpose of this research is to explore and understand the various intrapersonal and interpersonal dynamics associated with the lives of female exotic dancers from an essentialist, social constructionist, and critical ... -
Formative research to develop the IDEFICS physical activity intervention component: Findings from focus groups with children and parents
(2010-01-01)Background: The current study aimed at describing influencing factors for physical activity among young children to determine the best approaches for developing the IDEFICS community based intervention. Methods: In 8 ... -
Four-day-old human neonates look longer at non-biological motions of a single point-of-light
(2007-01-31)Background. Biological motions, that is, the movements of humans and other vertebrates, are characterized by dynamic regularities that reflect the structure and the control schemes of the musculo-skeletal system. Early ... -
Franco, the popular game and ethnocentric conduct in modern Spanish football
(2012-07-01)Football is better known for its vast popularity across the world, while its unique nation-building qualities were widely recognized from the very inception of the game. In the case of Spain, the expansion of football was ... -
From Commitment to Independence: Greek Foreign Policy and the Western Alliance
(2008-01-01)his paper examines the troubled relationship between Greece and the western alliance following the collapse of the military regime in Athens and the invasion of Cyprus. U.S. Congressional reports and the Greek parliamentary ... -
From school-family links to social capital: Urban and rural distinctions in teacher and parent networks in Cyprus
(2008-11-01)This article reports on a multiple case study that explored teachers' and families' collaboration in two urban and four rural state elementary schools in Cyprus. The analysis of the data shows that teachers' approaches to ... -
Gender matters in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders: Results from a healthcare users epidemiological study in Malaga, Spain
(2017-01-01)Purpose Women suffering from schizophrenia-spectrum disorders may differ from men in clinical course and outcome. Still, those differences can only be portrayed accurately by means of studies that derive information from ... -
Globalization and education: Introduction
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Graphic symbols for all: Using symbols in developing the ability of questioning in young children
(2013-03-01)Purpose: This study aims to investigate the effects of the use of symbols in the development of young children's ability to form questions in mainstream early-childhood education. Hypotheses examined whether the use of ... -
Greek early childhood educators’ conceptualization of education, care and educare concepts
(2017-08-09)Drawing on kindergarten teachers’ and University departments’ reactions to the Greek government’s initiative to adopt an integrated Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) system, the present study aimed to explore how ... -
Greek male senior high school students' attitudes and perceptions towards early childhood education and care
(2013-05-08)While the attitudes of young people to gender roles are changing, this seems not to be the reality as far as career choice is concerned. This is especially true for the professional field of early childhood education and ... -
Greek parents' perceptions of male early childhood educators
(2011-07-01)The study reported here examined Greek parents' perceptions of barriers to men entering the early childhood education and care profession and their recommendations for recruiting more males into the field. Parents were ... -
Greek pre-service kindergarten teachers' beliefs about and practices of developmentally appropriate practices in early childhood education
(2011-09-01)The continuum of beliefs reported by Greek pre-service kindergarten teachers and how those beliefs relate to classroom practices are explored in this article. Considering the potentially important influence of teachers' ... -
Greek pre-service kindergarten teachers' beliefs and intensions about the importance of teacher-child interactions
(2012-01-01)The experiences children have and the attachments they form early in life have a decisive, long-lasting impact on their later development and learning. The present study aims at exploring the continuum of the beliefs ... -
Greek preschool children's playful behaviour: Assessment and correlation with personal and family characteristics
(2013-11-01)All children and young people need to play. The impulse to play is innate. Yet, the pure essence of play is playfulness a notion not new, yet limitedly researched. Playfulness refers to the individual style each child has ... -
Greek-Cypriot Locality: (Re) Defining our Understanding of European Modernity
(2016-12-15)This chapter begins by making reference to the image of Cypriot identity, constructed by colonial discourse and various travelers, photographers, geographers, and pseudo-anthropologists in the late nineteenth and early ... -
Growing up in divided societies: Confronting continuity and change
(2011-09-06)The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the six main articles which represent the special issue on “Growing up in divided societies” and to locate the articles within a framework of children's experiences ...