
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
- Professional learning communities in education
- Critical and creative thinking
- Educational action research
Selected publications
- Avgitidou, S., Kampeza, M., Karadimitriou, K., & Sidiropoulou, C. (2024). Pre- Service Teachers’ Beliefs about Children’s Participation and Possibilities for Their Transformation during Initial Teacher Education. Education Sciences, 14(3), 236. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci14030236
- Avgitidou, S., Karadimitriou, K., Ampartzaki, M., Sidiropoulou, C., & Kampeza, M. (2024). University Teaching as a Site for Professional Learning of Teacher Educators: the Role of Collaborative Inquiry and Reflection within a Professional Learning Community. Education Sciences, 14(2),
207. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci14020207
3. Avgitidou, S., Likomitrou, S., Alexiou, V., Birbili, M., Ampartzaki, M., Kampeza, M., Velkou, K. & Theodosiou, S. (2024). Enhancing participatory practices in early childhood education: transforming research knowledge into educational material. Research in Education, 13(1), 111-124. https://doi.org/10.12681/hjre.37584
4. Avgitidou, S., Theodosiou, S., Likomitrou, S., Sidiropoulou, C., &? Karadimitriou, K. (2023). Voice – A digital open educational platform for supporting teachers’ professional learning: Design and evaluation. In EDULEARN23Proceedings (pp. 6646-6651). IATED. https://doi.org/10.21125/edulearn.2023.1754
5. Avgitidou, S. (2022). Supporting Early Childhood Teachers’ Play Pedagogy: Methods, processes and outcomes. In Loizou, E. & Trawick-Smith, J. (eds). Teacher Education and Play Pedagogy: International Perspectives (pp. 82-94) New York: Routledge.
6. Avgitidou, S. (2021) Supporting Teachers in Refugee Children’s Education. in.
Papadopoulos. & S. Papadopoulou (eds). Applied linguistics research and good practices for Multicultural and Multilingual Classrooms (p.p. 77-93) New York: Nova Science Publishers.
7. Avgitidou, S. (2021). Supporting children’s learning with participatory and interactive processes: teachers’ views and practices. In D. Goudiras (introduction – editor). Honorary volume for Professor Christos P. Frangos (pp. 186-202). Athens: Gutenberg.
8. Avgitidou, S. (2021). Transforming the teaching of the course “Civic Education” into a dialogical and participatory process. Research in Education, 10(1), 161-180.
doi:https://doi.org/10.12681/hjre.26715
9. Karnezou, M., Pnevmatikos, D., Avgitidou, S. & Kariotoglou, P. (2021). The structure of teachers’ beliefs when they plan to visit a museum with their class. Journal of Teaching and Teacher Education, 99(3):103254
10. Betsas, Ι., Avgitidou, S. & Tsiompanou, A. (2020) Representations of childhood in Greek language school textbooks: from rural to urban childhood Paedagogica Historica, DOI: 10.1080/00309230.2020.1762678
11. Avgitidou, S. (2020). Orientations of educational research in Greece. In A. Androusou &. V. Tsafos (Eds.). A Dynamic Interdisciplinary Field (pp. 648- 662). Athens.
12. Avgitidou, S. (2020). Supporting teachers’ professional learning: epistemological and methodological issues. Methods. In K. Bonidis & G. Zarifis (eds.) Pedagogy. Epistemological and Methodological Issues. (pp. 236-256). Thessaloniki.
13. Avgitidou, S., & Sidiropoulou, Ch. (2020). Deconstructing and reconstructing teacher candidates’ beliefs: An intervention program in the context of practical training. Research in Education, 9(1),77-91. doi:https://doi.org/10.12681/hjre.23311
14. Avgitidou, S. (2020). 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
15. 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