Position: Professor
Office: 209β Old Building of the Faculty of Philosophy
Telephone: +302310997343
Email: savgitidou@edlit.auth.gr
CV: Avgitidou CV (.pdf)
Personal Website:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sofia-Avgitidou
https://auth.academia.edu/SofiaAvgitidou?from_navbar=true
Research interests
- Teacher (pre-service and in-service) education
- Participatory educational practices and democracy in schools
- Critical and creative thinking
- Educational action research
Selected publications
- Avgitidou, S. (2021). Supporting Teachers in Refugee Children’s Education. In I. Papadopoulos. & S. Papadopoulou (eds). Applied Lingistics Research and Good Practices for Multicultural and Multilingual Classrooms (p.p. 77-93) New York: Nova Science Publishers.
- Avgitidou, S. (2021). Supporting Children’s Learning with participatory and dialogic processes: teachers’ views and practices. In D.B. Goudiras (ed.). Current Psycopedagogic Issues. Honorary volume for Professor Christos P. Frangos (p.p. 186-202). Athens: Gutenberg (in Greek).
- Avgitidou, S. (2020). Orientations of Educational Research in Greece. In A. Androusou & V. Tsafos (eds.). Sciences of Education, A dynamic interdisciplinary field (p.p. 648-662). Athens: Gutenberg (in Greek).
- Avgitidou, S. (2020). Supporting Teachers’ Professional Learning: epistemological and methodological issues. In K. Bonidis & G. Zarifis (eds). Pedagogy. Science of Education. Sciences of Education. Epistemolological and Methodological issues (p.p. 236-256). Thessaloniki: Grafema (in Greek).
- Lorencová, H., Jarošová, E., Avgitidou, S. & Dimitriadou, C. (2019): Critical thinking practices in teacher education programmes: a systematic review. Studies in Higher Education, 45(4) DOI: 10.1080/03075079.2019.1586331
- Avgitidou, S. (2019). Facilitating teachers as action researchers and reflective practitioners: new issues and proposals, Educational Action Research, 28(2), 175-191. DOI: 10.1080/09650792.2019.1654900
- Avgitidou, S., Kominia, E., Likomitrou, S., Alexiou, V., Androusou, A. Kakana, D.-M., Tsafos, V. & , K. (2017). Principals’ views of the effects of socio-economic crisis on primary education. Menon Journal of Educational Research, 4, 126-142
- Avgitidou, S. (2014). Teachers as Researchers and Reflective Practitiones. Supporting Professional Learning for a co-operative and participatory education. Athens: Gutenberg (in Greek).
- Avgitidou, S., Pnevmatikos, D. & Likomitrou, S. (2013). Pre-service teachers’ beliefs about childhood: challenges for a participatory early childhood education. Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 34(4), 390-404.
- Avgitidou, S. (2009). Participation, Roles and Processes in a Collaborative Action Research Project: A reflexive account of the facilitator. EducationalAction Research, 17(4), 585-600.