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Salta, Katerina; Paschalidou, Katerina; Tsetseri, Maria; Koulougliotis, Dionysios – Science & Education, 2022
The paper reports a study aimed at investigating tertiary education students' engagement and interactions in the traditional face-to-face learning environment and the sequentially applied distance online learning environment imposed by the sudden upsurge of a worldwide health emergency, the COVID-19 pandemic in Spring 2020. The study took place in…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, College Students, Online Courses
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Christidou, Vasilia; Bonoti, Fotini; Kontopoulou, Argiro – Science & Education, 2016
This study explores American and Greek primary pupils' visual images of scientists by means of two nonverbal data collection tasks to identify possible convergences and divergences. Specifically, it aims to investigate whether their images of scientists vary according to the data collection instrument used and to gender. To this end, 91…
Descriptors: Scientists, Stereotypes, Elementary School Students, Grade 3
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Ergazaki, Marida; Alexaki, Aspa; Papadopoulou, Chrysa; Kalpakiori, Marieleni – Science & Education, 2014
This paper aims at exploring (a) whether preschoolers recognize that offspring share physical traits with their parents due to birth and behavioural ones due to nurture, and (b) whether they seem ready to explain shared physical traits with a "pre-biological" causal model that includes the contribution of both parents and a rudimentary…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Heredity, Genetics, Parents
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Panagiotou, Evangelos N. – Science & Education, 2014
Many papers have emphasized the need for and importance of particular examples and the underlying rationale for introducing a historical dimension in mathematics education. This article presents the development and implementation of a project, based on original sources, in a situation where the existing curriculum does not include history. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction, Cultural Awareness, History
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Tsaparlis, Georgios; Hartzavalos, Sotiris; Nakiboglu, Canan – Science & Education, 2013
Nuclear science has uses and applications that are relevant and crucial for world peace and sustainable development, so knowledge of its basic concepts and topics should constitute an integral part of civic scientific literacy. We have used two newspaper articles that deal with uses of nuclear science that are directly relevant to life, society,…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Physics, Newspapers
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Rizaki, Aikaterini; Kokkotas, Panagiotis – Science & Education, 2013
The present study should be thought as a socioconstructivist teaching approach (a teaching model) for the concept of energy in primary education. It contains important and crucial aspects of the History and Philosophy of Natural Sciences, introduces the concept of energy using the macroscopic framework of thermodynamics, takes into consideration…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Natural Sciences, Thermodynamics, Teaching Models