Melpomeni Tsitouridou is professor of ICT in Education and dean of the Faculty of Education of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Her research examines learning technologies; digital literacies; machine mediated interaction; the integration of ICT in educational process; uses and practices of ICT; young people and communication technologies; digital technology in children’s everyday life; social media in higher education.
Science, science education, environment and environmental education, teaching materials about science and environmental education, teachers’ and students’ conceptions of scientific and environmental concepts and phenomena, investigating landscape as a critical tool in education for the environment and sustainability, environmental education as a vehicle for promoting the inclusion of children with special needs, environmental quality and societal injustices, ecological footprint as a tool in environemntal education.
- Children's conceptions in science
- Development of childrden's knowledge about the natural world
- Design, implementation and evaluation of science teaching material and activities
- Public Understanding of Science
- Development of scientific thinking competencies
- Public images of science and scientists
- STEM concept formation in the early years
- science learning and development in dialectical interrelation with the child’s social and cultural reality
- science teaching and learning as part of the everyday educational reality in preschool settings
- play, imagination, and creativity as means for teaching and learning science/STEM in preschool settings
- children’s drawings as a means for teaching and learning science in preschool settings
- scientific literacy in the early years
- Cultural-historical theory and methodology
