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50 Years of ERIC
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Outdoors Environmental Education for the Service of Peace: Lessons from a 2-Year Youth Program for Reconciliation in Cyprus
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Kadis, Costas; Avraamidou, Lucy – Science Education Review, 2008
This paper examines the merits of the proposition that outdoors environmental education can be used as a means to promote reconciliation, and in essence peace, among communities in Cyprus. It does so through an examination of an outdoors youth program called CAFE (Camping, Fitness, and Education) that aimed to promote the awareness of members of…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Environmental Education, Foreign Countries, Peace
Travelling the Road beyond the Curriculum through a Science Fair
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Avraamidou, Lucy; Evagorou, Maria – Science Education Review, 2007
In this paper we describe a model for a science fair, within the context of an elementary science methods course. We first describe the theoretical perspectives from which the idea of science fairs derives and we provide definitions as we sketch the characteristics of commonly used science fairs. We then describe the context and processes of a…
Descriptors: Methods Courses, Elementary School Science, Program Descriptions, Learning Activities