Kyriakoula Rothou currently works at the School of Early Childhood Education, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Kyriakoula does research in Special Education, reading development and reading disorders, in relationship between morphological and syntactic awareness and reading
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.
Funded Research from General Secretariat for Research and Technology (GSRT)
ERASMUS+ PROGRAMME1, KEY ACTION 2 -Cooperation for Innovation and the Exchange Of Good Practices, Ka201 – Strategic Partnerships For School Education «Learning Diversity: A Case Study of Refugee Students In a Primary School» (PROJECT NUMBER: 2019-1-TR01-KA201-074505) (2019-2021)
“Teacher support Confronting Social Inequalities” (TOCSIN PROJECT 3708, FUNDING MECHANISM EEA 2009-2014) (http://tocsin.uth.gr/), The basic concept of the “Teacher suppOrt Confronting Social Inequalities” (TOCSIN) is to study the consequences of the escalating economic crisis upon vulnerable population in early childhood education schools. TOCSIN aims to record and analyze existing issues and difficulties that children face during their early childhood schooling experience in the context of social and income inequalities in Greece, and their teachers' practices to confront them.
Unfunded research
Teachers' Professional development via Peer Group Mentrorring
Capitalizing on children's Funds of Knowledge through Differentiated Instruction for facilitating learning skills in kindergarten
The differentiated classroom in preschool education
Modern alternative assessment techniques from portfolio to e-portfolio
The role of mentoring /e-mentoring in practical training
Concept-based teaching, family involvement in children's learning, funds of knowledge and children's interests, dialogic teaching and learning, assessment for learning in early childhood education, teachers as curriculum mediators, children's participation in their learning
Participatory methods in research with children and educational praxis, children's drawing, Funds of knowledge and school-family relationship, early Science and Mathematics learning through play
