Polyxeni Stylianou

• PhD in Educational Theory and Curriculum Development
• Teachers' trainer at Cyprus Pedagogical Institute

This article explores the application of photovoice as both an educational and research tool, examining its use to facilitate discussions on loss and grief with fifth- and sixth-grade students, as well as teachers undergoing in-service training in grief education within the Greek-Cypriot school system. Photovoice enabled participants to visually ex...

As empirical research in the field of death education is still rather limited, this paper aims to explore some of the complexities of implementing a unit plan on loss and grief in a Year 3 classroom in Cyprus. This research is based on an Action Research study that includes the design, implementation and evaluation of a unit plan which serves death...

Το να συζητά κανείς την απώλεια και το πένθος, τόσο ως έννοιες όσο και ως εμπειρία, εξακολουθεί να αποτελεί ταμπού στις δυτικές κοινωνίες. Η εμπλοκή των παιδιών σε έναν τέτοιο διάλογο δημιουργεί μια πρόσθετη δυσκολία κυρίως για τους ενήλικες, οι οποίοι, θέλοντας να προστατέψουν τα παιδιά από τον πόνο, συχνά τα κρατούν μακριά από σχετικές συζητ...

This article attempts to discuss the way Year 3 students from Cyprus perceive the impact of Covid-19 pandemic on their education during the school year 2020-2021. The data presented comes mostly from the field notes of a teacher i.e. the author, after a discussion she conducted with her class on how the coronavirus crisis affected their education a...

The purpose of this article is to analyze elementary school teachers' perceptions and affective experiences of an in-service training on death education taught by the first author over three years at the Cyprus Pedagogical Institute. The teacher training focused on how to teach about issues of death, loss, and grief at the elementary school. The ar...

Το βίωμα μιας σημαντικής απώλειας στην παιδική ηλικία, πιθανόν, να έχει βραχυπρόθεσμες και μακροπρόθεσμες επιπτώσεις στην ψυχική υγεία των παιδιών. Το παρόν κεφάλαιο στοχεύει σε μια σύνοψη των γνώσεων που χρειάζεται να κατέχουν οι ενήλικες για το πένθος των παιδιών, μιας και, συχνά, αγωνιώντας να τα προστατέψουν από τον πόνο, δεν αναγνωρίζουν την α...

ΕΒΔΟΜΑΔΑ ΕΥΑΙΣΘΗΤΟΠΟΙΗΣΗΣ «ΠΑΙΔΙ ΚΑΙ ΒΙΟΗΘΙΚΗ» ΕΠΙΣΤΗΜΟΝΙΚΕΣ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΙΑΣΕΙΣ

As educational interventions that integrate death issues in the school curriculum are rarely designed, implemented and evaluated, our action research (AR) project aimed at investigating the complexities of integrating the concepts of loss and grief in the primary school curriculum of Cyprus. The purpose of this paper is to identify and analyze conv...

This article investigates children’s views on providing peer support to bereaved children. The data (pre-and post-interviews and written documents) comes from an action research study of a teacher-researcher and her 16 children aged 10-11 years old. Analysis of the data shows children’s ideas on supporting a bereaved child and how this support shou...

This article presents an action research study that explores how a fifth-grade classroom of 10- to 11-year-old children in Cyprus perceive the concepts of grief and grieving, after an educational intervention provided space for discussing such issues. It also explores the impact that the intervention program had on children’s emotions while explori...

This study examined the hypotheses that (a) the relationship between listening and reading comprehension becomes stronger after decoding mastery; (b) the difference between listening and reading decreases with increasing grade level; and (c) similar patterns of relationship and difference are obtained with narrative and expository texts. The sample...