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Anastasia Kyriakopoulou

Basic Information: 

Title: Laboratory and Teaching Personnel (EDIP)
Area of Specialization: Cognitive Psychology and Education

Contact details:

Phone No:

Fax:+30-210-3688057

E-mail:  ankyriak@ecd.uoa.gr

Office hours: Announced in the beginning of each semester
Contact address: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of Early Childhood Education, 13A, Navarinou, Athens, 10680

Academic information

Education
  • (2014): Ph.D. in Basic and Applied Cognitive Science.
  • (2000): Master degree in the “Interdisciplinary Program of Graduate Studies in Basic and Applied Cognitive Science” (Department of Philosophy and History of Science, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, Department of Philosophy, Pedagogy and Psychology of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Business)
  • (1997): Degree of Educational studies, Department of Primary Education, University of Patras

 
Research interests
  • Cognitive Development in pre-school and early school age
  • Conceptual Change and Learning
  • Designing learning environments in pre-school and early school age
  • Epistemic cognition and learning
  • Metacognition

 
Courses and Seminars
Undergraduate

  • Theories of Cognitive Development
  • Learning and Cognitive Development from the Conceptual Change point of view
  • Methodological approaches in teaching practice: from observation to design.
  • From design to practice; pedagogical interventions and reflective practices
  • Workshop Child Development II: “Topics in cognitive and social development”

 
Selected Publications

  • Weisman, K., Ghossainy, M. E., Williams, A. J., Payir, A., Lesage, K. A., Reyes-Jaquez, B., … & Developing Belief Network, D. B. N. (2023). The development and diversity of religious cognition and behavior: Protocol for Wave 1 data collection with children and parents by the Developing Belief Network. PLoS One. https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/27372746
  • Kyriakopoulou, N., & Vosniadou, S. (2022). The development of representational ability in physical sciences in relation to the ability to reason in the social domain. Psychology: The Journal of the Hellenic Psychological Society, 27(1), 10–31. https://doi.org/10.12681/psyhps.30690
  • Kyriakopoulou, N., & Vosniadou, S. (2020). Theory of Mind, Personal Epistemology, and Science Learning: Exploring Common Conceptual Components. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 1140. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01140
  • Kyriakopoulou, Ν. (2019). Conceptual change, Theory of Mind and Personal Epistemology: Exploring common cognitive structures. In N. Kyriakopoulou & E. Skopeliti (Eds.). The problem of Conceptual Changes: Learning and Cognition from the framework theory point of view, Gutenberg.
  • Kyriakopoulou, N. & Vosniadou, S. (2017). Recognizing different perspectives in the Social and Physical world: an educational program for elementary school children. In D. Stavrou, A. Mixailidi, & A. Kokolaki (Eds.) Proceedings of the 10th Pan-Hellenic Conference on Science Education & ICT Education, pp. 666-673, http://synedrio2017.enephet.gr
  • Kyriakopoulou, N., & Vosniadou, S. (2014). Using theory of mind to promote conceptual change in science. Science & Education, 23(7), 1447-1462. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11191-013-9663-9
  • Kyriakopoulou, N. & Vosniadou, S. (2013). Conceptual Change in Physical Sciences and its relation to children’s beliefs about the mental world and the nature of science. In D.Vavougios & S. Paraskevopoulos (Eds.) Proceedings of the 8th Pan-Hellenic Conference on Science Education & ICT Education, pp.736-743 (Volos, Greece). https://www.enephet.gr/index.php?page=proceedings-conference&proceeding_conference_id=9
  • Kyriakopoulou, N. & Vosniadou, S. (2011). Probing the relation between Theory of Mind and Elementary School Students’ Epistemic Beliefs. Psychology, 18(2), 137-158. https://doi.org/10.12681/psy_hps.23714
  • Kyriakopoulou, N. & Vosniadou, S. (2008). The Development of Metaconceptual Awareness in Theory Change. Noisis, 4, 123-142.
  • Vosniadou, S, & Kyriakopoulou, N. (2006). The Problem of Metaconceptual Awareness in Theory Revision. In R. Sun & N. Miyake (Eds.) Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 2329-2334.
  • Kyriakopoulou, N. & Vosniadou, S. (2004). Ontological and Epistemological problems in the distinction between the phenomenological and the scientific explanations of the physical world: a developmental study concerning observational astronomy. Psychology, 11(3), 356-372. https://doi.org/10.12681/psy_hps.24013

 
Additional Information

  • Coordinator of the Special Interest Group 3: Conceptual Change of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI)
  • Coordinator of the Cognitive Psychology Division of the Hellenic Psychological Society
  • Member of the Hellenic Cognitive Science Society
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