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IQST
Improving Quality of Science Teacher Training in European Cooperation
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- Palacký University in Olomouc, Faculty of Science, Department of Experimental Physics
- University of Cyprus, Department of Education
- Siauliai University, Faculty of Education, Department of Education
- University of Plovdiv "Paisii Hilendarski", Faculty of Education
- Ataturk University, Bayburt Education Faculty, Science Teachers Education Department
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University of Cyprus, Department of Education
| Contact person | Gender | Male | |
| Family name | Valanides | First name | Nicos |
| Department/Unit | Department of Education | ||
| Official function within the institution | Associate professor | ||
| Telephone (including country and area code | (+)35722753760 | Fax (including country and area code) | (+)35722377950 |
| nichri@ucy.ac.cy | |||
Expertise and role
The CY higher institution is the teacher training institutions providing initial and in-service training. Department of Education, Faculty of humanities and Social Sciences has long years experience with an initial training of teacher. Expertise: Dr. Valanides is a specialist in the fields of teacher training, methodology of teaching and science education and the development of scientific attitudes and appropriate education and interventions. He is author of the most widely used textbooks. He is a specialists in the field of the application of constructivism to the chemistry education. He has experience in co-operation: scientist exchange programmes with several European and non-European universities in all fields, SOCRATES/ERASMUS in the project subjects with several universities, project co-ordination in several international projects in chemistry education.
Specific tasks
This institution will be responsible for organization of the 1 meeting of the project team in CY, web site of the project in co-operation with CZ, design of 1 module ´Teaching Science for Understanding - a human constructivist view´; design of training materials, design of e-learning course with shorter version newly developed modules and training materials.