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Maratou, Vicky; Chatzidaki, Eleni; Xenos, Michalis – Interactive Learning Environments, 2016
This article presents a role-play game for software project management (SPM) in a three-dimensional online multiuser virtual world. The Opensimulator platform is used for the creation of an immersive virtual environment that facilitates students' collaboration and realistic interaction, in order to manage unexpected events occurring during the…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Computer Simulation, Program Development, Teaching Methods
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Zembylas, Michalinos – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2011
In this paper, the author shows that the issue of whether toleration promotes coexistence is controversial and therefore needs careful consideration in light of the complexities that are involved in understanding and teaching toleration in the schools of conflict and post-conflict societies. In particular, this paper offers a critique to the…
Descriptors: Conflict, Ethnography, Ethics, Teaching Methods
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Zembylas, Michalinos; Ferreira, Ana – Journal of Peace Education, 2009
In this article, we present vignettes from two projects--one in Cyprus and the other in South Africa--to show how some classrooms enact "heterotopic" affective spaces that oppose normal/ized identities, that is, identities grounded in polarized trauma narratives. The notion of heterotopia is a spatial concept developed by Foucault to…
Descriptors: Conflict, Foreign Countries, Identification (Psychology), Vignettes
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Bekerman, Zvi; Zembylas, Michalinos; McGlynn, Claire – Comparative Education Review, 2009
During the past decade, the authors have conducted research in their own countries, all of which are considered conflict or postconflict societies: Israel, Cyprus, and Northern Ireland. They have focused on a variety of topics related to peace education, reconciliation, and coexistence. Giving special emphasis to the formation of identity in…
Descriptors: Conflict, Peace, Foreign Countries, Comparative Education