• Ourania Kouvou

    kouvouBasic Information:

    Title: Teaching Staff
    Area of Specialization: Art education

    Contact details:

    Phone No: 210-3688084
    Φαξ: 210-3688510

    E-mail: okovo@otenet.gr


    Contact address: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Department of Early Childhood Education

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    Academic information

    Education
    • 1987-90    Doctorate in Art Education, University of Oxford, Philosophy Department and Department of Educational Studies.
    • 1985-87    MA in Art Education, Birmingham Polytechnic.
    • 1975-78    Diploma in Fine Art, Florence Academy of Fine Arts.
    Research interest
    • Art and cognition
    • Art education models
    • Theoretical approaches to children’s drawings
    • Adult/child collaborative drawing methods

     
    Courses and Seminars
    Undergraduate

    • Art education
    • Art history
    • Children’s drawing: recent approaches
    • Teaching drawing to preschool children
    • Elements and techniques of visual arts

    Graduate

    Children’s drawing: methodology
    Selected Publications

    • 2015  «Drawing with Children: an experiment in assisted creativity», accepted for publication at International Journal of Art & Design Education, National Society for Education in Art and Design /Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
    • 2012 “Child or School Art: children’s drawings and visual culture”, proceedings  of the 7th Greek OMEP (Organisation Mondial pour l’ education Prescolare) in conjunction with the Department of Preschool Education of Athens University, Conference on “Childhood and Mass Media”, Athens.  
    • 2011  “Art Education: Department of Early Childhood Education, Athens University”, Contemporary Approaches in Art Education. Sala T. (ed), editions Nissos, Athens.
    • 2010  “Graphic Dialogue between Adults and Children: teaching children to draw based on the Vygotskian notion of proximal development”, proceedings of the International Conference of Education Research and Innovation, held by the International Association of Technology, Education and Development, Madrid, Spain (ISBN: 978-84-614-2439-9, CD form).  
    • 2010 “But it is taught: eight art education models”, in Art in Education/Education in Art: investigations of the creative role of art in education,  Kanellopoulos P.A. and Tsaftaridis N. (Eds), Nissos Publications, Athens.
    • 2007   “Art as a Cognitive Means”, proceedings of the 6th Greek Conference of ΟΜΕΡ (Organisation Mondiale pour l’ Education Prescolaire) in collaboration with the Department of Educational Science in Preschool Age, University of Patras.
    • 2006  “Writing or Drawing the Circle: an investigation into art’s cognitive   potential”, International Journal of Education through Art, 2 /3, p.183-193.
    • 2006  “The Historical Identity of the Child Art Theory”, Proceedings of    the 1rst Conference of the Museum of Greek Child Art on “Child Art, Modern Art”, Athens.
    • 2005   “Child Art: an investigation of the historical identity of an influential art educational practice”, Education-line database,  http://www.leeds.ac.uk/educol/documents/143833.htm
    • 2003  “Art Education in Contemporary Greece: redefining tradition”,Proceedings of the 31rst Congress of the International Association for Education through Art, CD-ROM, New York.
    • 1997-98  Co-author of the Greek Lyceum art textbook and teacher’s guidebook, Pedagogical Institute, Greek Ministry of Education.
    • 1992  “The Cultivation of the Student’s Aesthetic Vocabulary”, Pedagogical Review, Thessalonica, 16/92, p.5-21.
    • 1992   “Two Models of Art Education and the First Contact with School”, Pedagogical Review. Thessalonica, 17/92, p.233-249.

     

    Reviews – Evaluations

    • 2015  Reviewer for the Greek Journal of O.M.E.P. (World Organization for Early Childhood Education), “Exploring the world of children”.
    • 2013  Reviewer for The International Art in Early Childhood Research Journal, an international, peer reviewed, Internet journal, ISSN 1837-0020.