Ethical and political dimensions of action research and lesson study: reflections from a research project on a controversial issue in Cyprus     

Polyxeni Stylianou  Michalinos Zembylas 《Educational Action Research》2019,27(4):581-594

ABSTRACT

As educational interventions that integrate death issues in the school curriculum are rarely designed, implemented and evaluated, our action research (AR) project aimed at investigating the complexities of integrating the concepts of loss and grief in the primary school curriculum of Cyprus. The purpose of this paper is to identify and analyze convergences and divergences between AR and lesson study (LS), as they emerged in our project. We particularly focus on the ways that AR served to legitimate ethically and politically those aspects of the project that constituted the experimentation of lesson plans on loss and grief. The AR and LS elements of our project functioned differently and served different purposes, and we speculate that this is not irrelevant to the controversial aspects of the lesson plans’ topic, namely loss and grief. The paper argues that it may be strategically important, for ethical and political reasons, to both demarcate and associate AR and LS, navigating between them, particularly if a controversial issue is involved.  相似文献   

Step characteristic interaction and asymmetry during the approach phase in long jump     

Apostolos S. Theodorou  Vassilios Panoutsakopoulos  Timothy A. Exell  Polyxeni Argeitaki  Giorgos P. Paradisis  Athanasia Smirniotou 《Journal of sports sciences》2017,35(4):346-354

The aim of this study was to investigate the relative influence of step length (SL) and step frequency (SF) on step velocity (SV) during the approach run of high-level long jumpers and to quantify the asymmetry of these step characteristics. Spatiotemporal data of the approach run were collected during national competition from 10 long jumpers (age 26.2 ± 4.1 years, height 1.84 ± 0.06 m, mass 72.77 ± 3.23 kg, personal best performance 7.96 ± 0.30 m). Analyses were conducted for total approach, early approach and late approach. For the total approach 4/10 athletes were SF reliant and 6/10 athletes favoured neither characteristic. At the early approach, 3/10 athletes were SF reliant and 7/10 athletes favoured neither. During late approach 2/10 athletes demonstrated SL reliance, 7/10 athletes were SF reliant and 1/10 athletes favoured neither. Four athletes displayed significant asymmetry for SL and three for SF. However, no athletes demonstrated significant asymmetry for SV indicating that the asymmetrical demands of take-off do not have a marked influence on step characteristic asymmetry, probably due to the constraints of the event. Consideration should be given to the potentially conflicting demands between limbs for individual athletes.  相似文献   

Pre-service teachers’ views about the use of digital educational games for collaborative learning     

Kaimara  Polyxeni  Fokides  Emmanuel  Oikonomou  Andreas  Deliyannis  Ioannis 《Education and Information Technologies》2022,27(4):5397-5416

Education and Information Technologies - Digital educational games (DEGs) constitute an effective teaching approach, particularly when they are used in combination with collaborative learning...  相似文献