The epigraphic material of Cyprus presents a great variety of writing systems: it consists of the so-called ‘Cypro-minoan’ and ‘Eteocypriot’ documents, the Greek cypro-syllabic and alphabetic inscriptions, as well as the Phoenicians and the Latin texts. These writing systems express different languages, save the Greek one which is written both with the syllabic signs and the alphabet letters from the end of the fifth century and during the fourth century BC. Beyond a linguistic approach, the Epigraphy of Cyprus helps to reconstruct the history of the island from the Recent Bronze Age to the Late Antiquity (sixteenth century BC-sixth century AD) and it lends itself to statistical analysis, which could support political, social and cultural studies during a longue durée period.
Σκοπός της εργασίας είναι να διερευνηθεί ο τρόπος με τον οποίο μελλοντικές/οί νηπιαγωγοί προσεγγίζουν την ανάπτυξη διδακτικών σεναρίων με θέμα το Πάσχα στο πλαίσιο της πρακτικής άσκησης. Υλοποιήθηκε κατευθυνόμενη ανάλυση περιεχομένου σε 312 δραστηριότητες που σχεδιάστηκαν και αναπτύχθηκαν από 184 φοιτήτριες/τές. Από τα αποτελέσματα προέκυψε έντονη εστίαση των διδακτικών σεναρίων στην κοινωνική και συναισθηματική ανάπτυξη και επικοινωνία («Παιδί και επικοινωνία»), με τη γλώσσα (ιδιαίτερα την προφορική επικοινωνία) και τις εικαστικές τέχνες να επικρατούν. Επίσης, από τα αποτελέσματα φαίνεται ότι οι θετικές επιστήμες (π.χ. φυσικές επιστήμες) ή η φυσική αγωγή υπο-εκπροσωπούνται ή απουσιάζουν από τα σενάρια, υποδηλώνοντας περιορισμένη εξοικείωση των φοιτητριών/τών με αυτές τις θεματικές. Τέλος, παρατηρήθηκε σημαντική χρήση ψηφιακών εργαλείων ή οπτικοακουστικού υλικού. Συμπερασματικά, η μελέτη συμβάλλει στην κατανόηση παιδαγωγικών προσεγγίσεων των μελλοντικών νηπιαγωγών όσον αφορά στη σχεδίαση, ανάπτυξη και εφαρμογή διδακτικών σεναρίων για το Πάσχα, προσφέροντας δεδομένα που αφορούν στον εμπλουτισμό των προγραμμάτων αρχικής εκπαίδευσης εκπαιδευτικών.
The article explores the Greek novel The Bracelet of Fire (To Vrahioli tis Fotias, 2009) by Beatrice Saias-Magrizou as an example of contemporary filiation narrative. Based on the author’s family history during the Holocaust, the novel reconstructs the experiences of a Jewish family from Thessaloniki and their deportation to the concentration camps. Once home to one of Europe’s largest Sephardic communities, Thessaloniki witnessed the near-total annihilation of its Jewish population. Although fictional, the novel is rooted in historical reality, tracing a lineage of trauma passed down through generations. We read the novel as a filiation narrative in the sense Viart describes: “the account of the other as a detour to reach oneself.” Narration serves as a means of self-definition, where identity is examined through the lens of inherited memory. Merging autofiction, testimony, and postmemory, the novel creates a space where personal and collective histories intersect (Viart, 2019, p. 27). Thus, narratives of filiation can serve as both individual and collective engagement with the past (Kenny, 1999, p. 420) by conveying traumatic memories through storytelling. The novel’s popularity in Greece, and its 2023 adaptation into a television series, indicate an increasing cultural willingness to confronting the silenced past.
Introduction: Sequential cochlear implantation is a rehabilitative strategy for patients with bilateral profound sensorineural hearing loss who receive the second implant years after the first. When sequential cochlear implantation is performed after a long interval, there are many uncertainties about the outcomes achieved with the second device. Case Report: This study presents the case of a 24-year-old patient, implanted on the right ear in 2007 and on the left ear in 2023. The objective was to assess the speech therapy outcomes obtained with the second implant and compare them with those of the first. After the left implant was activated, the patient underwent a speech therapy program designed to achieve balanced bilateral auditory input. Postoperative evaluations revealed rapid adaptation to the new auditory stimulus, with steady progress in sound discrimination and verbal comprehension. After 12 months, performance with the second implant was comparable to that of the first, both in word recognition tests and in speech perception in complex acoustic contexts. Conclusion: These results suggest that despite the long interval between the two implants, the brain retains significant auditory plasticity. This plasticity may involve cortical reorganization or strengthened commissural pathways, allowing effective acquisition with the first implant to have facilitated the integration of the second one, thereby optimizing the rehabilitative process. This case confirms the effectiveness of sequential cochlear implantation even when the second implant is performed in adulthood, supporting the hypothesis that binaural stimulation promotes better speech perception and higher quality of life.
