Marios Vryonides

Marios Vryonides
European University Cyprus · Education

PhD

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October 2006 - February 2017
European University Cyprus
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Publications (37)
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Στην παρούσα εισήγηση, θα εστιάσουμε στις αναγνωστικές συνήθειες των εφήβων κατά τη διάρκεια των πα- ρατεταμένων εγκλεισμών (Μάρτιος 2020 - Μάιος 2021) στην Ελλάδα και την Κύπρο λόγω του COVID-19. Συ- γκεκριμένα, αυτή η εισήγηση βασίζεται στο ερευνητικό έργο SHINE, το οποίο προσπάθησε χρησιμοποιώντας ερωτηματολόγια, ομάδες εστίασης και ημι-δομημένε...
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This paper focuses on adolescents’ reading habits during the protracted lockdown (March 2020 - May 2021) due to COVID-19. Drawing on evidence from an online survey, several focus groups and semi-structured interviews with adolescents in Greece and Cyprus during the COVID-19 pandemic, this paper explores the extent to which reading books is still hi...
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The Erasmus+/KA3 project Augmented Assessment “Assessing newly arrived migrants' knowledge in Science and Math using augmented teaching material” aims to address the gap that exists in assessing newly arrived migrant students' prior knowledge in the fields of science and mathematics caused by the linguistic obstacle between them and the teachers. T...
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In this chapter we present a research project that uses comparative and intersectional approaches to explore the impact of the experience of the socio-economic crisis and of the current pandemic crisis of COVID-19 on students’ well-being in Cyprus and Greece, in order to understand patterns of inequality that affect happiness attainment in children...
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Acknowledging the educational potential of ICT but also the crucial role of instructors in any effort to bring about change and innovation, EUC participated in a cross-national study on faculty and student at-titudes and practices regarding the use of videos and other techno-logical tools in higher education, conducted within the scope of the EU pr...
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This chapter focuses on three contemporary social problems in education that have received considerable attention from sociologists and educational researchers: educational inequalities between social classes and between ethnic/ racial groups and the social impact of the accountability movement in education. These three themes are concerned with ho...
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Teachers’ job satisfaction and occupational burnout as independent research areas are interesting, yet challenging domains of research in the field of educational leadership. erefore, in recent years researchers’ focus tended to be on the possibility of joint examination of these two research areas, which emanates from the need to design an enrich...
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This chapter makes a historic overview of the paths that Cypriots have been taking for their higher education and discusses the macro-and micro-sociological factors relating to the structure of the available opportunities. It discusses the impact of the growing number of Cypriot graduates who study abroad and opt to remain and work overseas, someth...
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Prison education should be a top priority issue in most societies. Prison conditions must not infringe human rights and dignity and must offer meaningful treatment programmes in order to support inmates in their rehabilitation and reintegration in society. The use of ICTs within a penitentiary context plays a crucial role in that. The present Volum...
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Θέσεις και απόψεις μελών του ακαδημαϊκού προσωπικού της Σχολής Τεχνών και Επιστημών της Αγωγής του Ευρωπαϊκού Πανεπιστημίου Κύπρου για τις τρέχουσες συζητήσεις για την αξιολόγηση, διορισμό και επαγγελματική μάθηση των εκπαιδευτικών http://paideia-news.com/index.php?id=109&hid=16690
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The aim of the paper is to examine the effects of the current economic crisis in the way teenagers experience and report interethnic relations with emphasis on interethnic violence in the school environment in Cyprus. It will report findings from an EU funded project which was recently completed (2012) titled: “Children’s voices: Exploring intereth...
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The aim of this paper is to examine the way teenagers experience and report interethnic relations with emphasis on interethnic violence in the school environment in Cyprus. It will report findings from a qualitative investigation from an EU funded research project titled: “Children's Voices: Exploring Interethnic Violence and Children's Rights in t...
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The current economic crisis in many Southern European countries has inevitably affected the number of students (male and female) progressing to higher education. The way young individuals and their families make their choices for the future is connected to the new social realities that this crisis has created. New inequalities are expected to take...
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This chapter deals with research on inequalities in educational processes in Cyprus. In order to understand the social context within which educational processes take place in Cyprus one needs to take into account recent socioeconomic and historic developments in the country especially during the past four decades.
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The aim of the article is to examine the effects of age in the way adolescents experience and report interethnic relations with emphasis on interethnic violence in the school environment. The methodology followed a two-stage sequential mode combining qualitative and quantitative approaches. This mixed method mode started with a survey which was con...
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This paper focuses on parents and the way they perceive and formulate expectations and aspirations about their children's educational and occupational outcomes. Drawing on evidence from a survey among more than 700 parents of primary school pupils this paper demonstrates that interesting patterns in parental aspirations can be observed. These patte...
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This paper follows the work presented in an edited volume (Kassimeris and Vryonides, Routledge 2011) whereby aspects of multiculturalism have been addressed in a number of countries in Europe and North America. It will report on the preliminary findings of an empirical investigation of 600 students attending primary and secondary schools (12 and 17...
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This paper discusses strategies for social reproduction in systems of mass participation in higher education. It makes the argument that in systems where participation is almost universal middle class families employ more refined strategies to secure advantages for their offspring. It focuses in the case of Cyprus, a country that in the past decade...
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate factors that affect progression to university education across Europe. Design/methodology/approach The data used are obtained from the fourth round of the European Social Survey (2008). Findings Findings point to interesting age by gender and age by parental education interactions affecting the...
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Abstract in Greek Η εισαγωγή προγραμμάτων εξ αποστάσεως και ηλεκτρονικής μάθησης στην Ελληνική και Κυπριακή ανώτατη εκπαίδευση τα τελευταία χρόνια συνοδεύτηκε από παράλληλες ρητορικές οι οποίες επικεντρώνονται στην αναγκαιότητα προσφοράς ευέλικτων ευκαιριών μάθησης σε ομάδες ενήλικων φοιτητών που πολλές φορές βρίσκονται στα όρια κοινωνικής περιθωρι...
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During the past few decades, governments worldwide have been actively promoting the use of information and communication technologies in schools because of their potential to enhance teaching and learning. Despite several policies undertaken towards this end, the adoption of new technologies by teachers remains controversial. Teachers’ attitudes in...
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This chapter examines the application of the concepts of social and cultural capital in empirical research seeking to provide explanations for educational processes relating to post-secondary school choice making in contemporary Cyprus and parents' aspirations in relation to their children's educational and occupational prospects in Greece. It argu...
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The main purpose of this study was to investigate the dimensionality of a Greek-language version of the Sex Role Egalitarianism Scale—Form B (SRES-B) via confirmatory factor analysis. Using two different samples (undergraduates and community sample from Greece) data from 667 individuals were collected. Three models were specified: the five-factor m...
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This article examines issues relating to widening participation in postgraduate study programmes in Greece. It focuses on a group of mature women and examines their experiences from attending a novel postgraduate e‐learning programme at the University of the Aegean. It presents findings from a study, which looked into mature women’s decision to ret...
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This paper presents the findings from a small scale sociological investigation which studied the way mature students manage their time while attending to postgraduate studies by e-learning. Thirty postgraduate students from the University of the Aegean, Greece, were asked to record their daily activities using a semi-structured time-use diary over...
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This article aims to contribute to the debate of how theoretical concepts can be operationalised when researching educational issues. Specifically, it examines the application of the concepts of social and cultural capital in empirical research seeking to provide explanations for educational processes relating to post‐secondary school choice making...
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This article investigates the role of gender in educational choice‐making for post secondary school destinations in contemporary Cyprus. More specifically, it examines the cultural and ideological mechanisms that produce gender differentiation in the way educational choices are made by secondary school students and their families. Drawing on eviden...
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The Greek society is a society that arrived relatively late to modernity by western European standards. Even though many would argue that today Greece exhibits many characteristics found in modern European societies there are still several influences from traditional ideologies and perspectives concerning issues of gender and specifically gender ro...
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Incl. abstract and bib. The rapid modernisation process of Greek Cypriot society has created a cultural environment with an amalgam of traditionalist and modernist ethical attitudes, and antagonisms between them concerning, among other things, social advancement. These have implications for the way individuals and families develop various strategie...
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This study investigates the choices that students coming from different social backgrounds and from the full range of secondary schools in Cyprus make regarding their post school destinations. It is based on a theory, which regards the family as a central agency in the reproduction of inequalities. This study argues that apart from making the most...

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