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Zoi Nikiforidou

Associate Professor (F)
Courses Taught

Title:

INTRODUCTION TO EDUCATION SCIENCES (EYLC1021)
TEACHING METHODOLOGY OF ACTIVITIES – PAEDAGOGICAL PLAY (Lab) (EYLC3022)
TRAINING OF EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATORS (EYLC7041)
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:

2012: PhD - Department of Early Childhood, University of Ioannina, Gr
‘The use of NT in researching the perception and implementation of applied mathematical notions concerning young children: the notion of risk’.
2005: MSc Cognitive Psychology, University of Sussex, UK.
2004: BSc Psychology, The Open University, UK.
2002: 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. & 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
Katsikonouri E, Saiti, S., Vassi, C, Nikiforidou Z. (2020). Insights from research: a small-scale exploratory study exploring Greek practitioners’ views on partnership with parents and families of young children. In Hryniewicz and Luff (eds). Partnership with Parents in Early Childhood Settings Insights from Five European Countries (ch.16). London: Routledge
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):

Thursday 12:00 - 13:00, Friday 12:00 - 13:00