• Dimitris Chassapis

    xasapisBasic 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 64th 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 64th 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.