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Direct linkChristiana Karousiou; Maria Vrikki; Maria Evagorou – Professional Development in Education, 2024
This paper examines the role of professionalism in teachers' change in practice related to dialogue and argumentation. Data were collected from 14 pre-primary and primary school teachers who participated in a professional development programme with an emphasis on promoting values such as tolerance, empathy, inclusion and social responsibility…
Descriptors: Cultural Literacy, Professionalism, Persuasive Discourse, Dialogs (Language)
Mamas, Christoforos – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2013
This paper provides a framework for understanding inclusion in Cyprus. The evidence base is the result of a six-month qualitative research study in five Cypriot mainstream primary schools. Despite the rhetoric in favour of inclusion, it seems that the Cypriot educational system is still highly segregating in its philosophy and does not fully…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inclusion, Disabilities, Regular and Special Education Relationship
Theodorou, Eleni; Symeou, Loizos – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2013
This paper examines the experiences of minority students from two different cultural groups, immigrant children of Pontian background and indigenous minority children of Roma descent, in the Greek-Cypriot educational system. Through a joint re-examination of results from two different qualitative studies, this paper delineates similarities and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Minority Group Children, Immigrants, Indigenous Populations
Theodorou, Eleni – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2011
Increasingly social scientists, including education theorists, find themselves having to fight an almost invisible racism that is masked by the racist undertones of the dominant discourse and practice of colorblindness. A continuous emphasis on colorblindness gives precedence to the role of race, diverting attention away from other forms of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Isolation, Educational Environment, Social Scientists
Theodorou, Eleni – Ethnography and Education, 2008
Parental involvement has been increasingly gaining support among education theorists and policymakers across many countries (Kelley-Laine 1998) as an effective way to improve student academic performance. However, the cultural assumptions underlying calls for parental involvement have received little attention (De Carvalho 2001; Lareau 1987).…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Ethnography, Ideology, Foreign Countries
Messiou, Kyriaki – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2008
This paper explores the factors that influence the way children construct meanings about other children, and especially those who seem to experience marginalisation, within school contexts. The research involved an ethnographic study in a primary school in Cyprus over a period of 5 months. Qualitative methods were used, particularly participant…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Social Justice, Ethnography, Foreign Countries
