Education, Development and Intervention by Stamatios Papadakis

Education, Development and Intervention by Stamatios Papadakis

This book explores integrated education and learning, with a focus on new approaches such as artificial intelligence and ChatGPT. It provides insight into educational techniques that promote critical thinking and enhance learning skills.

It covers various mechanisms that influence this link, including meta-cognitive capacity, memory, cognitive style, conceptual approaches, digitization, teaching approaches, echoing, and questioning. This discussion spans all levels, from early childhood to higher education. Additionally, it provides pedagogical tips on creating a learning environment that encourages pupils' creativity and critical thinking, both online and in the classroom. It demonstrates how an integrated approach to education can create high-quality minds and promote modern values to meet current and future challenges.

Undergraduate and postgraduate students, early childhood teachers and educators, as well as academic faculty can benefit from its contents as it presents valuable perspectives, both practical and theoretical, that enrich the current STEM, robotics, and mobile apps education agenda.

Stamatios Papadakis is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Preschool Education at the University of Crete in Greece. His scientific and research interests include the study of mobile learning, especially the use of smart mobile devices and their accompanying mobile applications (apps) in the use of Preschool and Primary Education and students’ understanding of numbers. 

Michail Kalogiannakis is an Associate Professor of the Department of Special Education, University of Thessaly in Greece and an Associate Tutor at School of Humanities at the Hellenic Open University. He received his Ph.D. degree at the University Paris 5-René Descartes. His research interests include science education, Integrated solutions in early childhood education, STEM education, and the use of ICT and mobile learning in science education.