Yannis Hadzigeorgiou
Biographic Data
| ID | 455620 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yannis Hadzigeorgiou |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yannis |
| FAMILY NAME | Hadzigeorgiou |
| SIGNATURE | HADZIGEORGIOU Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Aegean |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8601-8858 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Biographical Profiling of Nikola Tesla for the Creation of an Engaging Story
This paper focuses on the potential of storytelling as a means of influencing students to become engaged with science and to choose a career in a STEM field. Given the role that leaders can play in motivating and influencing people and considering Nikola Tesla a leader in the fields of electrical engineering and science, the paper identifies Tesla’s leadership traits, as these emerge from his life story, that is, actual historical events regardin…
Rethinking the Curriculum in the Context of Education for Sustainability: Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic
In considering the current COVID-19 pandemic as a moment of reflection on a wide variety of issues, this paper discusses the need to rethink the curriculum, in regard to its priorities and in the context of education for sustainability. It does so by revisiting some ideas that have received, or have begun to receive, attention in the field of education. More specifically, the paper focuses on the development of global awareness as an educational …
Implications of R.S. Peters’ notion of ‘cognitive perspective’ for science education
This paper discusses R.S. Peters’ notion of ‘cognitive perspective’, which, through careful reading, can be interpreted as a wider perspective resulting from an awareness of the relationships of one’s knowledge and understanding to one’s own life. This interpretation makes cognitive perspective a holistic notion akin to that of worldview, and also points to the possibility for students to experience a change of outlook on the world, as a result o…
Imaginative Science Education: The Central Role of Imagination in Science Education
Thinking about Creativity in Science Education
In this paper we discuss the notion of creativity in the contexts of science and science education. In doing so, we consider and reflect on some taken-for-granted ideas associated with school science creativity, such as inquiry science, and integrating art and science, while we search for a notion of scientific creativity that is compatible with both the nature of science and the general notion of creativity, and also realistic in the context of …
Teaching about the importance of trees: A study with young children
This paper reports on a study undertaken with the primary aim of investigating the effect of the storytelling teaching approach on kindergarten children's retention of ideas about the importance of trees. The study also assessed the effect of storytelling on children's intention to participate in a tree planting activity that they had to select from a list of activities. The story that was created included such elements as binary opposites, menta…
Imaginative Science Education: The Central Role of Imagination in Science Education
Thinking about Creativity in Science Education
In this paper we discuss the notion of creativity in the contexts of science and science education. In doing so, we consider and reflect on some taken-for-granted ideas associated with school science creativity, such as inquiry science, and integrating art and science, while we search for a notion of scientific creativity that is compatible with both the nature of science and the general notion of creativity, and also realistic in the context of …
Teaching about the importance of trees: A study with young children
This paper reports on a study undertaken with the primary aim of investigating the effect of the storytelling teaching approach on kindergarten children's retention of ideas about the importance of trees. The study also assessed the effect of storytelling on children's intention to participate in a tree planting activity that they had to select from a list of activities. The story that was created included such elements as binary opposites, menta…
Thinking about Creativity in Science Education
In this paper we discuss the notion of creativity in the contexts of science and science education. In doing so, we consider and reflect on some taken-for-granted ideas associated with school science creativity, such as inquiry science, and integrating art and science, while we search for a notion of scientific creativity that is compatible with both the nature of science and the general notion of creativity, and also realistic in the context of …
Imaginative Science Education: The Central Role of Imagination in Science Education
Implications of R.S. Peters’ notion of ‘cognitive perspective’ for science education
This paper discusses R.S. Peters’ notion of ‘cognitive perspective’, which, through careful reading, can be interpreted as a wider perspective resulting from an awareness of the relationships of one’s knowledge and understanding to one’s own life. This interpretation makes cognitive perspective a holistic notion akin to that of worldview, and also points to the possibility for students to experience a change of outlook on the world, as a result o…
Biographical Profiling of Nikola Tesla for the Creation of an Engaging Story
This paper focuses on the potential of storytelling as a means of influencing students to become engaged with science and to choose a career in a STEM field. Given the role that leaders can play in motivating and influencing people and considering Nikola Tesla a leader in the fields of electrical engineering and science, the paper identifies Tesla’s leadership traits, as these emerge from his life story, that is, actual historical events regardin…
Rethinking the Curriculum in the Context of Education for Sustainability: Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic
In considering the current COVID-19 pandemic as a moment of reflection on a wide variety of issues, this paper discusses the need to rethink the curriculum, in regard to its priorities and in the context of education for sustainability. It does so by revisiting some ideas that have received, or have begun to receive, attention in the field of education. More specifically, the paper focuses on the development of global awareness as an educational …
Pedagogy (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Education and Critical Thinking Development (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Science Education and Pedagogy (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Attention Economy in Education and Business (2 works)