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“Social control, power relationships and cultural appropriation in education” Gitsa Kontogiannopoulou – Polydorides Page 35-58 Abstract The present work investigates theoretical positions and empirical data in examining social control in Greek education and aims to bring to the fore new dimensions of the issues at hand. The empirical analysis (in the light of relevant theory) […]

“Policy in Education: The Formation of Educational Policy in independent Cyprus (1960-2005)” Menelaos Givalos Page 11-34 Abstract In the current paper we examine the meaning of Education as it is constructed in the contemporary frame of the post-modernistic conception. We analyze the new criteria that turn the traditional values of the enlighten pattern of Education […]

“Policy in Education: The Formation of Educational Policy in independent Cyprus (1960-2005)” Panagiotis Persianis Page 66-89 Abstract The article discusses the role of politics in the formulation of educational policy in independent Cyprus. It consists of five parts. The first part presents the parallel course of the legitimation of the Cyprus state and the formulation […]

“The Finnish Model as a proposal for the reform of Greek education. A heretical view” Andreas Kazamias Page 58-65 Abstract This article is based on two fundamental assumptions, namely: (a) that schooling/ education is a mechanism of governance, or in Althusser’s phraseology, “an ideological mechanism of the state”, and (b) that in understanding and critically […]

“The PISA project: Assessment and Challenges ” Vasilis Koulaidis Page 33-57 Abstract The aim of the paper is to present the results of the two rounds of the PISA programme (2000 and 2003) in a critical way, as well as to explore the challenges that these results pose for the educational systems. Initially, the paper […]

“Comparative Argument and Education Policy Making: The “Finnish Education Model” and public discourse in Greece” Dimitris Mattheou Page 24-32 Abstract The success of its pupils in PISA has brought the Finnish system of education to the attention of many in Greece, including politicians, academics and teachers. The press is hosting articles about it, conferences are […]

“How Far Can We Learn Anything Practical from the Study of Foreign Systems of Education? Finland and the Pisa Model” Reijo Raivola Page 11-23 Abstract Following Michael Sadler’s interpretation of education as a complex cultural institution, this paper attempts to offer some thoughts on the success of the Finnish educational system in PISA, but also […]

“Curriculum Evaluation” Giorgos Flouris Page 93-125 Abstract This article describes how curriculum evaluation is conducted and it delineates the variety of factors that ought to be taken into consideration during this process. In addition to the factors of curriculum evaluation the difficulties encountered before, during and after the evaluation process are identified and discussed. These […]

“School Textbooks: Critical approaches to the evaluation of their cognitive and teaching-learning functions” Elias Matsagouras Page 60-92 Abstract The last few decades school textbooks have been the subject of research analysis, which has used many different criteria and models for this purpose. In this paper we present an evaluation framework, appropriate for analyzing and evaluating […]

>“Teachers evaluation in European Union and Greece” Panayotis Xohellis Page 42-59 Abstract This paper consists of two parts: the first is an introduction to the general framework of educational evaluation and assessment, with the emphasis on its necessity and specific parameters on the problems arising in the process. The second and main part presents a […]