Vasileios Oikonomidis

University of Crete | UOC · Department of Preschool Education

This chapter examines the main factors of Greek kindergarten against primary school teachers' attitudes towards ICT in class. The participants of this research were drawn from teachers of public schools in the area of Athens and Crete (Greece). A 5-point Likert scale questionnaire with 30 questions designed to assess attitudes of teachers toward co...

The integration of immigrant children into the education systems of various countries is closely related to the education policies for immigrants and the general principles underlying the educational, social, economic and cultural context of each country. From this starting point, we explore the linguistic background of immigrant children entering...

This chapter examines the main factors of Greek kindergarten against primary school teachers' attitudes towards ICT in class. The participants of this research were drawn from teachers of public schools in the area of Athens and Crete (Greece). A 5-point Likert scale questionnaire with 30 questions designed to assess attitudes of teachers toward co...

In service education

This collective volume with texts about the education on democracy and human rights. This book: ● discuss key points of the political socialization of children, particularly through the education system. ● explores the possibilities of educating children to citizens with democratic behavior and sensitivity to the implementation of human rights....

The teacher, as a main factor in the educational process that takes place in schools is a key object of pedagogical research. Especially teacher education, training and professional development are dominant aspects of the studies. The texts of this collective volume is a contribution to the research and study of the basic education and in-service t...

These are the A' Volume of the Proceedings of the 7th conference P.E.E. on "Greek Pedagogy and Educational Research." The four editors are split evenly between them to the custody articles and B. Economides has taken those regarding the School Education and Preschool Education. It is worth mentioning that all the articles were present in the system...

Thhis is the B' volume of the the Proceedings of the 7th conference P.E.E. on "Greek Pedagogy and Educational Research." The four editors are split evenly between them to the custody articles and B. Economides has taken those regarding the School Education and Preschool Education. It is worth mentioning that all the articles were present in the sys...

This study searches the thematic variety of literary texts included in the "Anthology of Literary Texts for Kindergarten." Our objective is to identify the issues that are referred to these texts, and their messages to children. We applied content analysis in all texts of Anthology, using the topic as unit of analysis and measurement. We identifie...

This article reviews the current literature on the receptive vocabulary of children of preschool age and emphasizes on the methods of teaching new words in the family area and Kindergarten. The article highlights the importance of vocabulary as an object of research and the main purpose of the research in the context of pedagogy. Also notes some m...

In this paper we study the opinions of kindergarten teachers on the organization and functioning of the corner folklore in Kindergarten. The sample of our study were 74 preschool teachers, who filled out a questionnaire with 5 questions 10 marks for each question. Research findings show that the existence of an appropriate space (large classroom) i...

This paper examines the storytelling habits from parents to children and the influence of these narratives in receptive vocabulary of children. The problem of research led to the formulation of two general research hypotheses: a) The frequency of narratives and thematic content are influenced by the child's sex, geographic region of residence and l...

This paper summarizes the main points of the theory of symbolic interaction, as developed by G. Mead. Indicate the role of symbols, particularly language in shaping human action and especially the transformation of man from a biological assemblages being. According to this theory, the emergence of self is achieved through interpersonal relationship...

In this study, we search the presence of the Christian religion in the books "My Language' of the Greek Elementary School. Our aim was to find out if the students of elementary school, through the language course, come in contact with elements of the Christian religion. In research we apply the method of content analysis and study the 22 textbooks...

This study investigates the influence of the type of All-Day Kindergarten in receptive vocabulary of students and compensatory function in the lexical differences of students. We hypothesized that: a) The students of All Day Kindergartens as to outweigh the receptive vocabulary of students of Half Day Kindergarten. b) The differences in lexical pe...

The theoretical background of this work is the documented transmission of knowledge, performances, attitudes, values on the Christian religion of literary books and textbooks. Here we search the references to the Christian religion in the texts of the state "Anthology of Literary Texts for Kindergarten" (OEDB, 2001) to find out if your child's kind...

In this book chapter we design an interdisciplinary based teaching approach for one week teaching on "Water." Initially we present the design the steps of the interdisciplinary based teaching approach and then the hypothetical teaching plan about "Water", that tires beyond a week. In more details we present the indicative first day of teaching the...

In this paper we search the attitudes of kindergarten teachers on the possibilities of computer use in kindergarten and we try to find the factors that influence these attitudes. The sample of our study were 281 kindergarten teachers who answered a questionnaire, constructed in the form of five-point Likert scale, in order to express their views on...

The purpose of this article was to examine the factors affecting a Greek kindergarten teacher to support or oppose ICT in education. This research was carried out during the year 2012; 418 teachers participated and is an extension of a previous analysis (Zaranis et al. 2014). The participants were drawn from kindergarten teachers in the areas of At...

The aim of the current study was to provide a valid and reliable instrument for the evaluation of the teaching effectiveness in the Greek higher education system. Other objectives of the study were (a) the examination of the dimensionality and the higher-order structure of the Greek version of Students’ Evaluation of Educational Quality (SEEQ) ques...

HCICTE 2014 aimed to serve as a forum for academicians and researchers from around the world to present their current work. Main topics of interest include but are not limited to: ICT-based Learning, Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, Learning, eLearning and Pedagogy, Learning Technologies, ICT and Instructional Design, E-Content – Developm...

Proceedings of the 7th Pan-Hellenic Conference Didactics of Informatics and Information and Communications Technologies, University of Crete, Rethymno, 03/10/2014 - 05/10/2014 (in Greek).

The purpose of this article is to examine the main factors of Greek kindergarten teachers’ attitudes towards information and communication technology (ICT) in kindergarten. This two-phase survey was carried out in 2007 and 2012 and used 383 and 295 participants respectively. The participants in both groups were drawn from kindergarten teachers in t...

The purpose of this study was to examine kindergarten teachers’ attitudes towards computers in the classroom. The sample consisted of two groups allocated in two different researches. The first group had 383 participants from the first research (spring 2007) and the second 295 participants from the second research (fall 2012). The participants in b...

The texts of this collective volume derive from different subject areas, some of which refer to the interface between school and society (external reforming) and others on school’s internal function (internal reforming). However all texts are characterized by a common denominator: the reform of the school. These texts included in the scientific are...

This book tries to answer questions raised by the introduction of Informational and Communicational Technology (ICT) in Early Childhood Education focusing on the impact of ICT on the development and education of children of preschool age and addressing ICT from kindergarten. Thus, we attempt to approach our dual visual performing: a) a literature...