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Title: Developing social-emotional, new media literacy and computational thinking skills through unplugged approach and imagination-based pedagogies in primary education students
Author: Tsortanidou, Xanthippi  
Director: Daradoumis, Thanasis  
Barbera, Elena  
Abstract: The current thesis aims to design and validate a holistic K-6 curricular framework applicable to any academic subject, in any primary school age group. The relationship between unplugged activities and imaginative pedagogies was investigated through the interpretative lens of the exploratory mixed methods research design in order to develop computational, new media literacy and social-emotional skills among primary school students. A series of publications reveals the aims of investigating the gaps (literature review); designing and examining a preliminary framework involving mixed methods grounded theory (MM-GT) methodology (a pilot study); refining and enriching this framework and validating it in three case studies by means of a mixed methods multiple case study research design (the main study); and a proposal for holistic K-6 curriculum guidelines for integrating crucial 21st century skills. The results show that partnership among these ideas can benefit students in a holistic manner at various levels, namely cognitive/intellectual, imaginative/creative, material, social, and emotional, with no need for digital tools or coding/programming, in unplugged, low-technology and information-rich learning environments.
Keywords: imagination
unplugged
new media literacy
social-emotional
computational thinking
pedagogical framework
case study
primary education
Document type: info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis
Version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Issue Date: 22-Mar-2022
Publication license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/  
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