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Zoi Nikiforidou

Associate Professor (F)

Zoi Nikiforidou is an Associate Professor in Early Childhood Pedagogy. Her research interests focus on children’s cognition and well-being as well as on aspects of pedagogy, risk, technology and rights.

Courses Taught

Title:

INTRODUCTION TO EDUCATION SCIENCES (EYLC1021)
TEACHING METHODOLOGY OF ACTIVITIES – PAEDAGOGICAL PLAY (Lab) (EYLC3022)
COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATIONAL APPLICATIONS IN PRESCHOOL EDUCATION (EYLC 8011)
CONTEMPORARY TRENDS OF EARLY CHILDHOOD-METHODS & APPLICATIONS OF CONTEMPORARY TEACHING MODELS IN EARLY CHILDHOOD (EYLC 7021-7022)
EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION (EYLC 2021)
Contact

Address:

Office 103, 4th km. Ioannina-Athens National Highway PC 45110, Ioannina, Greece

Phone:

+302651050738

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Knowledge Area:

Pedagogy in Early Childhood

Education:

  • PhD - Department of Early Childhood, University of Ioannina, Gr
  • MSc Cognitive Psychology, University of Sussex, UK.
  • BSc Psychology, The Open University, UK.
  • BA Early Childhood Studies, Faculty of Early Childhood Education, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Gr.

Research Interests:

Early Childhood Education
Methodological, theoretical and practical issues in Pedagogy
Learning, Cognition and Development
Young children's wellbeing

Publications (Selection):

Nikiforidou, Z., Anderson, B., Robles-Melendez, W. (2024), (Ed) Resilience and Wellbeing in Young Children, Their Families and Communities Exploring Diverse Contexts, Circumstances and Populations, London: Routledge
Nikiforidou, Z. & Jones, J. (2023). Preschoolers’ intuitive probabilistic thinking during outdoor play. Statistics Education Research Journal, 22(2). https://doi.org/10.52041/serj.v22i2.444
Nikiforidou, Z. & Doni, E. (2022) ‘Go away from this galaxy coronavirus’: children’s meanings and feelings of the Covid-19 pandemic through narrated drawings, European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, DOI: 10.1080/1350293X.2022.2098993
Nikiforidou Z., and Demetriou, K. (2021). The origins of self-concept. In Handbook of Culture and Identity from Early Childhood to Early Adulthood (ch.2). London: Bloomsbury
Nikiforidou, Z. (2019). Risk and Safety in Western Society. In Swadener, Smith and Murray (Eds). The Routledge International Handbook of Young Children's Rights (ch.9). London: Routledge
Nikiforidou Z. (2019). Digital manipulatives and mathematics. In Gray and Palaiologou (Eds). Early Learning in the Digital Age (pp.210-223). London: SAGE
Stack, J. and Nikiforidou, Z. (2019). Preschoolers' possession-based disputes during indoor and outdoor play. Early Child Development and Care: 1-14. DOI: 10.1080/03004430.2019.1649667
Nikiforidou Z. (2018). Probabilistic thinking and young children: theory and pedagogy. In: Leavy A., Meletiou-Mavrotheris M., Paparistodemou E. (eds) Statistics in Early Childhood and Primary Education. Early Mathematics Learning and Development (pp 21-34). Singapore: Springer
Nikiforidou, Z. (2017). Risk literacy: concepts and pedagogical implications for Early Childhood Education, Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood 18 (3): 322-332 DOI 10.1177/1463949117731027
Nikiforidou, Z. (2017). ‘It is riskier’: preschoolers’ reasoning of risky situations, European Early Childhood Education Research Journal 25 (4): 612–623 DOI 10.1080/1350293X.2017.1331075

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Office hours (for students):

Mondays 10:00 - 11:00, Wednesdays 10:00 - 11:00