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The Greek Minority Education in Albania
The establishment of the Albanian state brings a lot of turmoil in Greek-Albanian relations, as the northern part of Epirus is annexed after disputes in Albania. The Greeks living in northern Epirus are trapped in Albania and are forced to adap …
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Role of Language Status in Predicting Parent School Engagement and School Relationships
The present study explores how parents of English Language Learners (ELs) rate child’s school climate and engagement in school. Parents of 16,936 students, grades PreK-12, completed the Delaware School Survey- Home Edition, which included items assessi …
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Cultivating collaboration when designing a kindergarten playground with the children
Outdoor play promotes children’s fitness and health, reduces stress, develops motor skills, relaxes the mind and enhances friendship and good relationships among students. the purpose of this study is to prove that when stakeholders, teachers and stude …
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Study of the relation of Natural Sciences with the Archaeological Museum
The aim of the study is to promote cognitive developement to a group of 11-year-old children on the relation of Natural Sciences with the Archaeological Museum. For this purpose, an educational program consisted of seven activities, which used pottery …
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Theory of Consumer Behavior and Emotional Intelligence: An Overview and Their Effects on Consumer Decision Making
The driving force for this research is to describe the motivation, emotional and otherwise, which lead consumers to purchase products. Wanting to find the causes that lead to taking concrete decisions on the part of consumers, we dealt with the concept …
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Mistakes of preschool children when programming with the programming environment ScratchJr
This study is concerned with investigating errors made by preschool children when solving problems with the programming environment ScratchJr. Although it seems that children are capable of programming, they make a number of mistakes that prevent them …
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Examining a Blended Learning Environment through an Ethnographic Approach
ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) integration in tertiary education is been studied for the last two decades. LMSs, such as Moodle, is now widespread in academic courses, and eventually a variety of interesting research questions have be …
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Organized leisure activities in early childhood and social inequalities in cognitive and non-cognitive skills
This study investigates to which extent participation in organized leisure during preschool explains differences in cognitive and non-cognitive skills between children from varying social backgrounds. According to Lareau’s concept of concerted cultivat …
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RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOCIOECONOMIC BACKGROUND AND STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION OF TEACHER SUPPORT
This study examines the association between student socioeconomic background characteristics and their perception of teacher support (n=2243) and the interaction of prior achievement with this association. Building on the sociological work by Lareau (2 …
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Students’ perceptions about their relationship with teachers
The aim of this work is to explore the perceptions of children about their relationship with teachers. Relationships between teachers and students play a significant role in children’s cognitive, social and emotional development.
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Computational thinking in kindergarten: Developing programming concepts with the programming environment ScratchJr
The development of modern digital literacy , as a basic skill of the 21st century, does not simply encompass the acquaintance of students with technologies, but it mainly concerns the development of abilities combining uses of digital tools and algorit …
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Rebooting Greek: Collaborative Curriculum Design
The Centre for Hellenic Studies Stavros Niarchos, in association with Simon Fraser University, is conducting a Greek language learning project and consequently we were challenged, as a team, to design a curriculum for a second language acquisition (Gre …
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Family literacy practices and beliefs about literacy among parents of children of preschool age and investigate the factors, that are relevant and facilitating the transition to school literacy
The main purpose of the research is to explore family literacy practices and beliefs about literacy among parents of children of preschool age and investigate the factors, that are relevant and facilitating the transition to school literacy. In Greece, …
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Conceptualizing Solid In Liquid Dissolution In Early Childhood Education Settings: A Socio-Cultural Approach
This research attempts to exhibit the importance of the socio-cultural environment for the conceptualization of the dissolution of solids into liquids by 5 to 6 years old children. The study examines whether children are able to form reasoning on disso …
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Investigating University Students’ Internet Searches on Information Problems
In this study the information searching processes expressed by 40 university students in the context of three tasks are investigated. Students search processes during the completion of the three tasks were recorded and screen capture software. The exp …
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Teaching STEM with LEGO WeDo at primary school
Educational robotics is one of the most popular and engaging tool for teaching Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) at school. It is extremely motivational for students because they perceive them as toys rather than as educational to …
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The frequent use of Natural Sciences in Kindergarten: A sample of kindergarten in the county of Achaia
This research attempts to study the frequent use of Natural Sciences in Kindergarten, the factors that act as a booster or an inhibitor in the ability of nursery teachers to teach Natural Sciences but also the factors that could work as a booster so th …
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Dietary behavior of first-year university students of the department of early childhood education
Nutrition habits of the first-year university students have the tendency to change, after their entry to the academic reality. This is based on factors such as relocation, their prior living in urban areas or not, but also their level of information re …
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Narrating teachers’ intercultural capital in Greece
In a global interconnected world intercultural capital is an asset for teachers who deal with different cultural backgrounds. It paves the way for significant (inter)personal and social benefits as well as intercultural awareness. Intercultural capital …
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Assessment of motor performance of children with special educational needs for the design of interventional physical education programs
This poster presents briefly a survey about the motor performance of children with special educational needs (SEN) in order to design developmentally appropriate programs for intervention in physical education. The population of preschool students with …
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Programmable Toy Pro- bot in Early Childhood (logo language): examining the sense of pacing
This study attempts to investigate the concepts of preschool students concerning the keys of numerical symbols and their relationship with the directional and orientation instructions for the pacing of the programmable Probot toy, but also to study any …
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Refugee Students and Barriers to Higher Education
The purpose of this project was to explore research regarding the barriers to higher education faced by refugee students in the United States. After establishing historical context of refugee policies, a review of the literature was conducted using a …
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Computational Thinking Development in Middle School with the Thymio II Educational Robot
In the present research, the educational contribution of the Thymio II educational robotics environment to the development of computational thinking in middle school students was studied. This is a programmable robotic device through the Aseba studio e …
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Qualitative Early Childhood Education for Roma students: Research design
The purpose of this study is to access teachers’ beliefs about the education of Roma students and to combine the theory of Freire about the empowerment with practices in schools, whereas there are official texts that ensure the right of Roma students t …
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Teaching Dissolved Oxygen concept in University students, using the Real-time Microcomputer-Based Laboratory (MBL) kit by “Science Cube”.
The Real time Microcomputer-Based Laboratory (MBL) kit by Science Cube was used to apply a teaching scenario to volunteering fourth year students of the department of Geology, University of Patras. The main objectives of the scenario were the construct …
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A trans-departmental collaboration to detect elementary students’ ideas about energy
Energy is a fundamental and cross-cutting concept, therefore a major learning objective of school science. However, teaching and learning about energy is very challenging because it is an abstract, purely mathematical concept, and definitions vary acro …
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Teachers’ beliefs about teaching reading in preschool
The current study describes a research design about reading motivation in kindergarten. To be more specific, the study is trying to investigate teachers’ beliefs about reading in preschool and their motivation for teaching reading. The method is based …
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Beliefs of service and future teachers who have attended postgraduate studies in WeB 2.0. technologies.
Web 2.0. technologies are a form of applications as a development of Web 1.0. The user is more active, creates and interacts with the information. Recent research data suggests that the proper education and information can enhance teachers’ interest in …
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Collaborative school leadership as a promoter of children’s rights: a survey in Greek secondary schools
Through its educational policy, the Greek State attempts to introduce humanitarian pedagogy into our education system in order to promote the democratic / humanitarian values at the heart of which are human rights. This pedagogy presupposes the involve …
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