Συνέδρια - Conferences: Recent submissions
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Effects of physical and virtual Experimentation on students conceptual Understanding in heat and temperature
(University of Cyprus, 2008)The purpose of this study was to compare the effect of Physical Manipulatives (PM), Virtual Manipulatives (VM), and two sequential combinations of PM and VM, on pre-service students’ understanding of scientific concepts ... -
Information technology for understanding Science (it for us)
(University of Cyprus, 2008)The principal aim of the IT for US Project is to present teachers with a vision for the use of ICT in science teaching which exploits the qualities of software tools for developing conceptual understanding of scientific ... -
Striking results with bouncing balls
(University of Cyprus, 2008)In a laboratory activity students study the behaviour of a bouncing ball. With the help of a high-speed camera they can study the motion in detail. Computer modelling enables them to relate the measurement results to the ... -
Comparative teaching strategies In special relativity
(University of Cyprus, 2008)The introduction of modern physics topics in secondary schools is one of the highest challenges in physics education. In this regard, a specific exercise has been carried out in the context of a dedicated Summer ... -
Biomedical physics and medical professionals: harmony or dissonance in study quality Improvement?
(University of Cyprus, 2008)Following independence, Lithuania introduced changes into the health care and higher education sectors, in order to improve the quality of medical studies in the European context. While new subjects were added to the ... -
Features and consequences of two School science curricula
(University of Cyprus, 2008)With the political change in 1994, South Africa entered a period of dramatic educational change. The former positivist school curriculum was replaced with an outcomes-based curriculum. In outcomes-based education (OBE) ... -
Enhancing cognitive development through Physics problem solving: example of a thinking-skills Curriculum
(University of Cyprus, 2008)Numerous research studies in the last thirty years have highlighted the inadequacy of the traditional introductory physics course. It has been shown that students who leave such courses tend to have incoherent physics knowledge ... -
Developing outdoor physics projects using the activity theory framework
(University of Cyprus, 2008)This paper presents the conceptualisation, implementation and evaluation of methodology of “outdoor physics” a project in science teacher education at Umeå University, Sweden (see http://outdoorphysics.educ.umu.se). Activity ... -
A hypothesis on the learning process as a basis for science curriculum development
(University of Cyprus, 2008)Misconceptions (also known as alternative conceptions) are a perennial problem in physics education. Research was focused worldwide on this, with limited successes achieved. The problem can be approached from different ... -
The ideas of 3rd years students of technical schools in Cyprus about light and its properties
(University of Cyprus, 2008)This paper aims to report and investigate the ideas of 18 year-old (3rd year) students of Vocational Education in Technical Schools in Cyprus, about light and its properties. In Technical High School Education physics is ... -
Computerized use of thinking journey mode of instruction as a means to enhance classroom argumentation and listen to students' egocentricity and change of students' conceptual understanding
(University of Cyprus, 2008)The combination of the computerized Digalo (Schwarz & de Groot, 2007) as a graphical tool for representing argumentative moves in on-going e-discussions and the Thinking Journey (TJ) mode of instruction (Schur and Galili, ... -
The role of critical thinking In physics learning
(University of Cyprus, 2008)Critical thinking is usually seen as crucial to Physics learning. This is clearly stated in the purposes of many Physics’ curricula. In fact, since Dewey, several authors argue that critical thinking is fundamental to ... -
Do all bodies fall equally? On the importance of stating the area of validity in physics education
(University of Cyprus, 2008)Galileo's law of free fall, a corner stone of modern science, is usually accepted without any limits except the condition of vacuum. The present study, following the paradigm of educational reconstruction (Duit et al. ... -
The dialogue between philosophy and literature
(2012-07)The talk about the relationship between literature, philosophy, history and science crops again and again and is found in the works by modern philosophers such as Richard Rorty, Arthur Danto and some others as well as by ... -
Aesthetics of historical experience
(2012-07)In my paper I analyse the possibility of the dialogue between aesthetics and history. I seek to substantiate the thesis which maintains that immediate experience of the past has aesthetic nature. The interrelation of ... -
The Ordering of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe Leibniz and the Encyclopédie
(2012-07)My paper discusses a certain worry that was apparent among European intellectuals in the 17th and 18th century, a worry that sounds all too familiar in the age of internet, namely, that with the progress of knowledge, there ... -
Public Space and Embodiment
(2012-07)