Anthanasia Chatzifotiou
BA, PhD
Senior Lecturer in Childhood Studies
Location:
Priestman Building, City Campus
Phone: 0191 515 3029 / 3192 / 2395
Email:
athanasia.chatzifotiou@sunderland.ac.uk
Biography
My first degree is in Pedagogy from the Aristotle University in Thessaloniki (Greece). My doctoral thesis was about primary school teachers, knowledge of environmental education in Greece and England from Durham university (UK). I have taught with the Open University two classical Greek modules (level 1 and 2) and since 2007, I have been a full-time member of staff working at the University of Sunderland within the department of social sciences, teaching early childhood studies.
Teaching Areas
Research methods, Nature of childhood, families in contemporary society.
Research Interests
Environmental education, education for sustainability, National curriculum and non statutory elements.
Selected Publications
'Primary school teachers' awareness of and motivation to teach environmental education in two European countries (in Greek) chapter in a book [entitled: Environmental Research in Greece] edited by Flogaiti, E. and Georgopoulos, A. (2007).
'Environment and sustainable development: investigating the content and social dimension of two central environmental education concepts among university students', Proceedings of the 5th Global Conference of Environmental Justice and Global Citizenship, with G. Liarakou, and M. Daskolia, (2007).
'Conceptions of the environment and of environmental problems as social issues among Greek students of early childhood education'. Proceedings of the 3rd World Congress on Environmental Education, Turin (October 2005) with E. Flogaiti, M. Daskolia and G. Liarakou. (January, 2007).
'Environmental education, national curriculum and primary school teachers. Findings of a research study in England and possible implications on education for sustainable development'. Curriculum Journal, vol.17, n.4, December 2006, p.367-381.
`National Policy, Local Awareness: Implementing Environmental Education in the Primary Schools of Northern Greece'. Environmental Education Research, Volume11, n.5, 2005, 503-523.
'An Imperfect Match? The Structure of the National Curriculum and Education for Sustainable Development'. Curriculum Journal, Volume 13, 2002, 289-303.
'Similarities and differences between Greek and English teachers perceptions of environmental education', in Proceedings, Environmental education in the context of education for the 21st century prospects and possibilities, Larisa (Greece), 6-8 October 2000, V. Papadimitriou, ed. (Larisa: University of Thessaly, 2000), 253-258.
'Primary school teachers attitudes, knowledge and perceptions of environmental education in Northern England and Greece', in First Pan-Hellenic Conference for Environmental Education: Evaluation of Environmental Education Practices and Futures Strategies towards the 21st century, 8-10 October 1999, D. Kalaitzidis, ed. (Athens: Pan-Hellenic Teachers, Union for Environmental Education, 1999), (Poster No. 3) 118-119.
