Browsing Department of Education Sciences by Issue Date
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Education, ideology, and the national self: The social practice of identity construction in the classroom
(2000-01-01)This article is concerned with the intersection between national identity, education, and childhood. Its major focus is identity construction as it takes place in public elementary school classrooms. Using ethnographic ... -
Technological tools in the introductory statistics classroom: Effects on student understanding of inferential statistics
(2003-12-01)While technology has become an integral part of introductory statistics courses, the programs typically employed are professional packages designed primarily for data analysis rather than for learning. Findings from several ... -
Epistemological Resources: Applying a New Epistemological Framework to Science Instruction
(2004-12-01)Most research on personal epistemologies has conceived them as made up of relatively large, coherent, and stable cognitive structures, either developmental stages or beliefs (perhaps organized into theories). Recent work ... -
Ideological tensions in the educational choice practices of modern Greek Cypriot parents: The role of social capital
(2005-07-01)The rapid modernisation process of Greek Cypriot society has created a cultural environment with an amalgam of traditionalist and modernist ethical attitudes, and antagonisms between them concerning, among other things, ... -
Translating constructivism into instructional design: Potential and limitations
(2005-07-11)Instructional designers are expected to be familiar with the epistemological underpinnings of several theories and their consequences on the process of instruction. Constructivism is the dominant theory of the last decade ... -
Teacher professional development in cyprus: Reflections on current trends and challenges in policy and practices
(2006-01-01)This article focuses on in-service teacher training in Cyprus and points to the necessity for reorganisation of existing practices and reformulation of national policies within the framework of continuous professional ... -
Parental and marital roles, career aspirations and attitudes towards marriage among young women in Greece
(2006-12-01)The Greek society is a society that arrived relatively late to modernity by western European standards. Even though many would argue that today Greece exhibits many characteristics found in modern European societies there ... -
Struggling between tradition and modernity: Gender and educational choice-making in contemporary Cyprus
(2007-01-01)This article investigates the role of gender in educational choice-making for post secondary school destinations in contemporary Cyprus. More specifically, it examines the cultural and ideological mechanisms that produce ... -
Introductory statistics, college student attitudes and knowledge - A qualitative analysis of the impact of technology-based instruction
(2007-01-15)This paper presents findings from a qualitative study that compared the learning experiences of a group of students from a technology-based college-level introductory statistics course with the learning experiences of a ... -
Teachers' in-service training needs in Cyprus
(2007-05-01)Needs-identification studies should be systematically conducted to bring clarity to the decisions about the expectations from particular in-service training schemes. This article aims to present the results of a research ... -
Cultural capital and family involvement in children's education: Tales from two primary schools in Cyprus
(2007-07-01)In this paper, I present the findings of a study which explored teacher-family collaboration in state primary schools in Cyprus. The research strategy was one of multiple case study, with a sample of seven teachers, their ... -
The use of Transana as a video analysis tool in researching computer-based collaborative learning in inclusive classrooms in Cyprus
(2007-07-01)This paper focuses primarily on the methodological considerations of a study investigating the interactions of pairs of disabled and non-disabled children working together on computer-based tasks, in mainstream primary ... -
Social and cultural capital in educational research: Issues of operationalisation and measurement
(2007-12-01)This article aims to contribute to the debate of how theoretical concepts can be operationalised when researching educational issues. Specifically, it examines the application of the concepts of social and cultural capital ... -
Inclusive education policies and the feasibility of educational change: The case of Cyprus
(2007-12-01)Given the ecumenical pleas and legislative imperatives for more inclusive educational policy and practice, Cyprus has been steadfastly heading towards the realignment of its educational legislation towards a more inclusive ... -
The use of computer-based programming environments as computer modelling tools in early science education: The cases of textual and graphical program languages
(2008-02-26)This is an interpretive case study seeking to develop detailed and comparative descriptions of how two groups of fifth-grade students used two different Computer-based Programming Environments (CPEs) (namely Microworlds ... -
Widening participation in postgraduate studies in Greece: Mature working women attending an e-learning programme
(2008-05-01)This article examines issues relating to widening participation in postgraduate study programmes in Greece. It focuses on a group of mature women and examines their experiences from attending a novel postgraduate e-learning ... -
Through the eyes of the teachers: Revisiting in-service training practices in Cyprus
(2008-08-01)This article reports on a needs assessment study which investigated Greek Cypriot teachers' in-service training needs in the context of local demands for educational reform and the drive to reformulate teachers' professional ... -
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 ... -
Critical discourse analysis and inclusive educational policies: The power to exclude
(2008-09-01)The legislative shift towards an inclusive education policy in Cyprus has allegedly been fragmented and contradictory. The textual hybridity of the ostensibly more inclusive policy documents prevents the realization of an ... -
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 ...