Dimitris Chassapis

xasapis Basic Information:

Title: Professor
Area of Specialization: Mathematics Education

Contact details:

Phone No: 210-3688519 Fax: 210-3688510

E-mail: dchasapis@ecd.uoa.gr

Personal Website: users.uoa.gr/~dchasapis και http://matheduteapi.weebly.com

Office hours:
Contact address:	National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Faculty of Early Childhood Education, Navarinou 13A, 106 80 Athens, Greece

Academic information

Education Doctorate in Educational Sciences, The Patras University, Greee (1992). Postgraduate Certificate in Education, School of Pedagogical and Technical Education, Athens (1979). Master of Science in Mathematics,The City University, London (1978) Degree in Mathematics, The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (1972)

Research interests
The Mediation of historically developed and culturally established symbolic and technical artifacts in the formation of mathematics concepts. \|Public understanding of mathematics and ideological dimensions of learning and teaching mathematics. Numerical skills and practices

Courses and Seminars
Undergraduate Logico-mathematical relations and arithmetic concepts in early childhood Spatial relations and geometry concepts in early childhood Manipulatives and activities for introducing mathematics in early childhood Topics in history and philosophy of mathematics Fundamental concepts of mathematics
Selected Publications
Chassapis, D. (2012), Reflections on school mathematics experiences: Mathematics teaching as a practice of excluding students from mathematical culture. Proceedings of the 64^th CIEAEM International Conference “Mathematics Education and Democracy: learning and teaching practices”, Rhodes, Greece. Chassapis, D. & Giannakopoulou, E., (2012), Numbers in the front page: Mathematics in the news. Proceedings of the 64^th CIEAEM International Conference “Mathematics Education and Democracy: learning and teaching practices”, Rhodes, Greece. Chassapis D. (2010), Α framing of the world by mathematics: a study of word problems in greek primary school mathematics textbooks. Στο U. Gellert, E. Jablonka & C. Morgan (Eds.) Proceedings of the Sixth International Mathematics Education and Society Conference. Belrin: Freie Universität Berlin, 209-218. Chassapis D. (2008), Τhe influence of a cultural tool on approaching a problem from the history: solving a geometry problem on graph paper. Στο M. Kourkoulos &C. Tzanakis (eds), Proceedings of the 5th International Colloquium on the Didactics of Mathematics, vol. II, University of Crete, Department of Education, Rethymnon,183-191. Chassapis D. & Chatzivasileiou E. (2008), Socio-cultural influences on children’s conceptions of chance and probability. Στο J.F. Matos, P. Valero & K. Yasukawa (Eds.) Proceedings of the Fifth International Mathematics Education and Society Conference. Lisbon: Centro de Investigação em Educação, Universidade de Lisboa – Department of Education, Learning and Philosophy, Aalborg University, 197-206. Chassapis D. (2003), Greek primary schools teachers’ beliefs about mathematical knowledge. In A. Gagatsis & S. Papastavridis (Eds.), Proceedings of the 3nd Mediterranean Conference on Mathematics Education, Hellenic Mathematical Society & Cyprus Mathematical Society, Athens, 409-417. Chassapis, D. (1998/99), The mediation of tools in the development of formal mathematical concepts: The compass and the circle as an example, Educational Studies in Mathematics, 37 (3), 275 –293. Chassapis, D. (1997), The social ideologies of school mathematics applications: a case study of elementary school textbooks, For the Learning of Mathematics, 17, 3, 24-27.