INQUIRY BASED LEARNING ON TEACHING CONTROVERSIAL HISTORICAL ISSUES – AN ACTION RESEARCH WITH PRE‐SERVICE TEACHERS

Controversial Historical Issues are considered as an historical education topic which usually makes teachers feel uncomfortable to deal with pedagogically. A collaborative investigation is expected to be a suitable approach for teaching this kind of issue. This current research concerns the effects of an educational program for pre‐service teachers in their willingness to teach Controversial Issues through modern collaborative teaching practices. A six‐month program based on the basic principles of Inquiry Based Learning, related to Occupation‐Resistance‐Civil War thematic, has been implemented with fourteen pre‐service teachers. Data qualitative analysis showed that participants get familiarized with strategies and learning tools that help children draw valid conclusions, utilize source practices, and conduct their own enriched narrations about the controversial past. The major benefits and potential difficulties have also been revealed. After all, this training experience strengthens their perceived self‐efficacy since they acknowledge that a collaborative investigation is an effective approach to acquiring historical knowledge based on personal and group‐investigation processes.  Article visualizations

Εκπαιδευτικό πρόγραμμα «Η Σάκα του Παρελθόντος Ταξιδεύει»

Το θέμα της διπλωματικής εργασίας «Η Σάκα του Παρελθόντος Ταξιδεύει» αφορά τη δημιουργία ενός εκπαιδευτικού προγράμματος-μουσειοσκευής για το Μουσείο Παιδείας, με αντικείμενό του το παλιό σχολείο, τον τρόπο διδασκαλίας τότε και τα παραδοσιακά παιχνίδια που έπαιζαν οι μαθητές στην αυλή του σχολείου. Η μουσειοσκευή αυτή θα μπορεί να δανείζεται σε σχολεία που δεν έχουν τη δυνατότητα να επισκεφτούν το Μουσείο. Αρχικά, θα γίνει μια σύντομη γενική αναφορά στο τι είναι μουσείο, εστιάζοντας κατόπιν στο Μουσείο Παιδείας του ΕΚΠΑ, καθώς και στον τρόπο που μπορεί να συνδεθεί το μουσείο με το σχολείο σήμερα. Επιπροσθέτως, θα παρατεθεί ο σκοπός και οι στόχοι του εκπαιδευτικού προγράμματος και θα επισημανθούν αναλυτικά τα στάδια και η εφαρμογή του σε τάξεις σχολείων που το υποδέχτηκαν. Τέλος, θα ακολουθήσει αξιολόγηση του προγράμματος βασισμένη στις απόψεις εκπαιδευτικών και μαθητών στους οποίους εφαρμόστηκε το εκπαιδευτικό πρόγραμμα, ενώ σε παράρτημα θα μπορεί κανείς να δει σε τελική μορφή τμήματα της μουσειοσκευής. Συμπερασματικά, η εργασία επικεντρώνεται στην ανάδειξη της δημιουργίας και εξέλιξης ενός εκπαιδευτικού προγράμματος, τονίζοντας τη σημαντικότητα σχέσεων μεταξύ σχολείου-μουσείου με απώτερο σκοπό να επωφεληθούν οι μαθητές.The theme of the diploma thesis "The Schoolbag of the Past Travels" is about the creation of a museum educational program-museum kit for the Museum of Education, focusing on the old school, the way of teaching and the traditional games that the students used to play. This museum kit can be lent to schools that are unable to visit the Museum. Initially, a brief general reference will be made to what is a museum, focusing later on the Museum of Education, as well as on how the museum can connect with school today. In addition, the aim and objectives of the educational program will be mentioned on the basis of museum education and its stages and implementation in the classrooms of the schools that welcomed it, will be analytically explained. Finally, an evaluation of the program will be made, based on the answers of teachers and pupils in which the educational program has been implemented, and in appendix pieces of the museum kit in their final form are displayed. In conclusion, this thesis focuses on the creation and development of an educational program, that emphases on the importance of relationships between school and museum in order to benefit the common denominator, which are the students

Valosin-containing protein-related myopathy and Meige syndrome : Just a coincidence or not?

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Editorial : Current and Future Developments in the Therapeutic Management of Neuromuscular Diseases

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THE EFFECT OF TEACHERS’ COLLABORATIVE NETWORKS ON INNOVATIVE SCHOOL CLIMATE AND THEIR INDIVIDUAL INNOVATIVENESS

The main purpose of the study is to investigate the possible effect of school teachers’ collaborative networks on their individual innovativeness and the innovative school climate. In addition, 174 Greek primary school teachers’ views were explored about their collaboration networks (three collaboration types), their perceived individual innovativeness, the possible existence of innovative school climate, and the support they received in order to promote and/or produce new ideas and practices. Results showed that most of the participant school teachers belong to two categories of the five in the individual innovativeness scale, the early adopters and the early majority, although 20% belongs to innovators. Teachers’ collaboration network types affect innovative school climate and their individual innovativeness, but there were not found correlation between innovative school climate and perceived teachers’ innovativeness. However, collaborative networks within school have a higher effect on teachers’ innovativeness, and innovative school climate can be predicted by the network within school and among schools, as well as by the support that school teachers receive. Article visualizations

Mild myopathic phenotype in a patient with homozygous c.416C > T mutation in TK2 gene

The mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome (MDDS) is characterized by extensive phenotypic variability and is due to nuclear gene mutations resulting in reduced mtDNA copy number. Thymidine kinase 2 (TK2) mutations are well known to be associated with MDDS. Few severely affected cases carrying the c.416C > T mutation in TK2 gene have been described so far. We describe the case of a 14months boy with the aforementioned TK2 gene pathogenic mutation at a homozygous state, presenting with a mild clinical phenotype. In addition to severe mitochondrial pathology on muscle biopsy, there was also histochemical evidence of adenylate deaminase deficiency. Overall, this report serves to further expand the clinical spectrum of TK2 mutations associated with MDDS

Adult-onset dominant muscular dystrophy in Greek families caused by Annexin A11

Objective: Mutations in the prion-like domain of RNA binding proteins cause dysfunctional stress responses and associated aggregate pathology in patients with neurogenic and myopathic phenotypes. Recently, mutations in ANXA11 have been reported in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and multisystem proteinopathy. Here we studied families with an autosomal dominant muscle disease caused by ANXA11:c.118G > T;p.D40Y. Methods: We performed deep phenotyping and exome sequencing of patients from four large Greek families, including seven affected individuals with progressive muscle disease but no family history of multi-organ involvement or ALS. Results: In our study, all patients presented with an autosomal dominant muscular dystrophy without any Paget disease of bone nor signs of frontotemporal dementia or Parkinson's disease. Histopathological analysis showed rimmed vacuoles with annexin All accumulations. Electron microscopy analysis showed myofibrillar abnormalities with disorganization of the sarcomeric structure and Z-disc dissolution, and subsarcolemmal autophagic material with myeloid formations. Molecular genetic analysis revealed ANXA11:c.118G > T;p.D4OY segregating with the phenotype. Interpretation: Although the pathogenic mechanisms associated with p.D4OY mutation in the prion-like domain of Annexin All need to be further clarified, our study provides robust and clear genetic evidence to support the expansion of the phenotypic spectrum of ANXA11.Peer reviewe

Gaussian Process Regression models for the properties of micro-tearing modes in spherical tokamak

Spherical tokamaks (STs) have many desirable features that make them an attractive choice for a future fusion power plant. Power plant viability is intrinsically related to plasma heat and particle confinement and this is often determined by the level of micro-instability driven turbulence. Accurate calculation of the properties of turbulent micro-instabilities is therefore critical for tokamak design, however, the evaluation of these properties is computationally expensive. The considerable number of geometric and thermodynamic parameters and the high resolutions required to accurately resolve these instabilities makes repeated use of direct numerical simulations in integrated modelling workflows extremely computationally challenging and creates the need for fast, accurate, reduced-order models. This paper outlines the development of a data-driven reduced-order model, often termed a {\it surrogate model} for the properties of micro-tearing modes (MTMs) across a spherical tokamak reactor-relevant parameter space utilising Gaussian Process Regression (GPR) and classification; techniques from machine learning. These two components are used in an active learning loop to maximise the efficiency of data acquisition thus minimising computational cost. The high-fidelity gyrokinetic code GS2 is used to calculate the linear properties of the MTMs: the mode growth rate, frequency and normalised electron heat flux; core components of a quasi-linear transport model. Five-fold cross-validation and direct validation on unseen data is used to ascertain the performance of the resulting surrogate models