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Konstantina Rentzou 《Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development》2019,39(2):148-162
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 various ECEC professional groups working in the two main preschool programs operating in Greece define different aspects inherent to ECEC theory and practice. Results yielded both similarities and differences, with aspects of health and well-being characterized mostly as having both a ‘care’ and an ‘education’ aspect, whereas personal and professional development and communication, management and administrative factors were characterized as educational in nature. Discrepancies were revealed in terms of child development, education and play and social environment factors, with those working in childcare settings defining them as including both ‘care’ and ‘education’ whereas those working in kindergartens defined them as educational in nature. 相似文献
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Loizos Symeou Eleni Theodorou Iasonas Lamprianou Konstantina Rentzou Panayiota Andreou 《International Studies in Sociology of Education》2018,27(1):78-99
Families have been getting more and more involved in their children’s education. This paper presents findings of a study investigating family involvement in their members’ undergraduate studies attending a state (non-fee-paying) and a private (fee-paying) university in Cyprus. The data presented in the paper were collected via online logs completed by administrative personnel in the two universities documenting incidents of family involvement. The data analysis demonstrates how similarly the phenomenon manifests in both universities and suggests that where the two universities differ is more in the intensity of the various modes of family involvement. It also projects students’ desires and encouragement of their family’s involvement and their families’ intervention to protect or guide them. The findings of the study are discussed in view of cultural and societal norms and changes about parenthood and the relationship between families and their university age members in a marketized higher education context. 相似文献
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The present study explores Greek parents’ views on parental educational involvement and its impact on adolescent scholastic and social development. Specifically, aspects of parental involvement such as the achieved objectives of current parent–school communication, the psychological climate dominating teacher–parent interactions and parents’ suggestions for improvement of current policies and practices are examined. Four hundred and seventy‐five parents participated in the study. Findings showed that family–school communication is believed to be insufficient in Greece, despite the fact that parents tend to: (1) regard their cooperation with teachers as determinative of adolescent academic and psychosocial development; (2) consider teachers to be friendly and caring; and (3) believe that secondary school provides some opportunities for constructive parental involvement. These paradoxes are discussed and explained as a result of radical changes in current social and educational values, principles and objectives. 相似文献
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Marida Ergazaki Konstantina Saltapida Vassiliki Zogza 《Research in Science Education》2010,40(5):699-715
This paper is concerned with highlighting young children’s ideas about the nature, location and appearance of germs, as well
as their reasoning strands about germs’ ontological category and biological functions. Moreover, it is concerned with exploring
how all these could be taken into account for shaping a potentially fruitful learning environment. Conducting individual,
semi-structured interviews with 35 preschoolers (age 4.5–5.5) of public kindergartens in the broader area of Patras, we attempted
to trace their ideas about what germs are, where they may be found, whether they are good or bad and living or non-living
and how they might look like in a drawing. Moreover, children were required to attribute a series of biological functions
to dogs, chairs and germs, and finally to create a story with germs holding a key-role. The analysis of our qualitative data
within the “NVivo” software showed that the informants make a strong association of germs with health and hygiene issues,
locate germs mostly in our body and the external environment, are not familiar with the ‘good germs’-idea, and draw germs
as ‘human-like’, ‘animal-like’ or ‘abstract’ entities. Moreover, they have significant difficulties not only in employing
biological functions as criteria for classifying germs in the category of ‘living’, but also in just attributing such functions
to germs using a warrant. Finally, the shift from our findings to a 3-part learning environment aiming at supporting preschoolers
in refining their initial conceptualization of germs is thoroughly discussed in the paper. 相似文献
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Marina Papastergiou Elisana Pollatou Ioannis Theofylaktou Konstantina Karadimou 《Education and Information Technologies》2014,19(4):817-839
Research on the utilization of the Web for complex fine motor skill learning that involves whole body movements is still scarce. The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of the introduction of a multimedia web-based learning environment, which was targeted at a rhythmic gymnastics routine consisting of eight fine motor skills, into an undergraduate course in a physical education department, as a complementary tool to campus-based instruction. The impact was evaluated in terms of: acquisition of knowledge regarding the routine skills by students, improvement of students’ ability to execute the routine, and students’ responses to the environment. The study followed a pretest/posttest experimental design and involved 76 students randomly split into two groups: The Multimedia Web-based Learning Group (MWLG) students (N?=?38), who attended campus-based instruction on the routine and also used the environment in their own space and time, and the Traditional On-site Instruction Group (TOIG) students (N?=?38), who only attended campus-based instruction. The research data were gathered through student questionnaires and ratings of students’ performances. It was found that the use of the environment as a supplement to campus-based instruction increased the effectiveness of this instruction as regards the cognitive component of motor skill learning (i.e. acquisition of knowledge regarding the routine skills) and was well-accepted by the students, although it did not have any significant contribution to the physical component of motor skill learning (i.e. performance of the routine skills). These findings partially support the future wider adoption of multimedia web-based learning environments within physical education and other academic disciplines that involve complex fine motor skill learning. Relevant implications are discussed. 相似文献
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Over the last five decades, modem directions in technological areas such as wireless networks and communications, complex robotic systems, satellites and space structures have been immensely benefited by the use of system and control＇s conceptual framework. Estimation, stability, controllability, robustness, optimality, adaptation, information and statistical engineering are only some of the fundamental ingredients of the so-called new and emerging technologies, which are within the collective preview of this paper. Furthermore, these two, contrarily to technological trends, well established fields of science have been continuously supported by formal modelling techniques, and advanced computational and simulation tools, which enable the analysis and design of new powerful and effective methodologies. Consequently, in this article the authors＇ aim follows two equal directions. At first, the authors would like to provide a profusion of many practical examples and real life problems arising in different application areas that may have in the past abstractly engaged the authors＇ attention and have offer a wealth of opportunities for creative system modelling and practical solutions development. That is the core of our paper. However, in order to be more explicit, and to further illustrate the authors＇ thoughts, the case of a tele-medicine-assisted home support system is used; a system of great interest in the emerging field of information technology and medical health care. Secondly, by developing the necessary conceptual framework and some more efficient methods, important and straightforwardly challenges are inevitably derived. Moreover, a strong effort to develop a formal approach requires the definition of a generic system framework. It is a central objective of this paper to clarify and unify the alternative notions of a ＂conceptual model＂ and thus, to create a basis for the systematic development of formal methods, control/information architectures and decision-making strategies. AMS （Classification）： 97U50, 97U70, 97U80, 97D99. 相似文献
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In line with its institution's commitment to keep new student orientation/welcome events "green," Columbia University's Health Sciences Library (HSL) applied for a National Network of Libraries of Medicine Middle Atlantic Region (NN/LM MAR) Small Projects Award(1) in Spring/Summer 2009 to explore paperless modes of outreach. This article describes the project that resulted from this funding, whose purpose was to determine whether customized 1 GB USB flash drives are a good vehicle for distributing library promotional materials to incoming medical and dental students. This project gave HSL librarians the opportunity to connect with students in a way that had not been done before and to consider how these new students use/view the information the library produces. 相似文献
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Although a host of research has explored the association between beliefs and practices, limited research has been conducted
exploring the association between beliefs and intensions. The present study aimed to explore Cypriot pre-service kindergarten
teachers’ self-reported beliefs and intensions about the importance of teacher/child interactions and the relationship between
them. Interaction has been chosen to be the focus of the present study due to the fact that research results indicate that
one of the most important indicators of the quality of early childhood education and care is sensitive and responsive caregiving.
Research results indicated that participating pre-service kindergarten teachers favor sensitive and appropriate caregiving.
Thus, beliefs have been found to predict the sample’s intensions. 相似文献