• 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
    • Designing learning environments in pre-school and early school age
    • Applied cognitive psychology
    • Epistemic cognition and learning
    • Metacognition
    Courses and Seminars
    Undergraduate

    • Child Development II (in collaboration with K.Papadopoulou): Special topics in Cognitive and Social Development
    • Theories of Cognitive Development
    • Learning and Cognitive Development from the Conceptual Change point of view
    • Educational Plans and Pedagogical Practices in kindergarten- Supervision
    • Planning, organization, and management of learning environments for early childhood- Supervision
    Selected Publications

    • Kyriakopoulou, Ν (under publication). 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.
    • 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 (Volos, Greece).
    • Kyriakopoulou, N. & Vosniadou, S. (2011). Probing the relation between Theory of Mind and Elementary School Students’ Epistemic Beliefs. Psychology, 18(2), 137-158.
    • 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.
    Additional Information

    • Member of  European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI)
    • Member of European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction-Special Interest Group 3/Conceptual Change
    • Member of the Hellenic Cognitive Science Society