About Fanny Seroglou

Present position:

Assistant Professor in Science Education at the School of Primary Education, Faculty of Education, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki,  Greece.

Years within the institution:

21 years of research and teaching at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH)

Education:

Scholarships, Fellowships and Awards:

Invited fellow researcher and/or invited professor

at the following universities:

Courses:

The following undergraduate and postgraduate courses have been designed and taught by Fanny Seroglou at the School of Primary Education, Faculty of Education AUTH:

Research interests:

a) The contribution of history and philosophy of science in science education (awarded the Volta Medal from the IHPST group in 1999)

b) Scientific literacy (scholarship from the Greek Scholarships Foundation in 2002 for postdoctoral research),

c) Science for citizenship (designed and developed a teacher-training course and also published a book titled "Science for Citizenship" in greek in 2006),

d) Science and culture in education (designed and developed a teacher-training course and an educational wiki supporting the course, held as Conference Chair the "Science and Culture" IHPST2011 conference and edited the "Science and Culture" Book of Proceedings in 2011)

e) Website, web-based learning environment and instructional e-material design (the most recent ones are: http://atlaswiki.wetpaint.gr, http://hipstwiki.eled.auth.gr)

f) Science education research models (design and evaluation of research models such as the SHINE research model for the interaction between history of science and science education, the three-dimensional cognitive, meta-cognitive and emotional research model for recording the proposal for the use of history of science in science education, the GNOSIS research model for an nature-of-science approach to scientific literacy, the 3D-5I model for the combination of skills, attitudes and intelligences in science teaching and the ATLAS_WBLE model for the meeting of scientific literacy and digital literacy

Head of the ATLAS Research Group:

Fanny Seroglou created the ATLAS Research Group in 2003 and since then about 30 researchers from Greece and abroad have joined. The group has developed instructional e-material and activities for the classroom in the context of a series of research projects. Many eduactional websites and wikis have been developed till now trying to make the research results transformed in teaching scenarios to reach teachers in greek schools and help them inform their teaching. Among the many multimedia research-informed instructional material the following stand out:

a) the educational atlaswiki (in greek, english and spanish version) designed by Vassilis Koulountzos and Fanny Seroglou.

b) A series of videos for teaching electromagnetism designed by Vassilis Koulountzos, Giorgos Primerakis and Fanny Seroglou and uploaded at the http://ppp.unpv.it/stet

c) An animation movie titles "From the geocentric to the heliocentric system" developed and designed by the pupils of the 6th grade of the 101 Primary School of Athens and with the guidance of Spyros Siakas, Panagiotis Piliouras and Fanny Seroglou.

d) An educational film titled "Greenhouse" about climate change that is designed and developed by Zoe Tsarsiotou, Odysseas Knavas and Fanny Seroglou and realises the GNOSIS model in the development of multimedia instructional material.

ATLAS Research Group developed research topics:

1) The aims of teaching science in the context of science literacy.

2) The definition(s) of the scientific literate citizen.

3) Science for citizenship.

4) A three-dimensional cognitive, meta-cognitive and emotional approach of teaching and learning science.

5) The contribution of history of science in science education.

6) Design, development and evaluation of instructional material

7) A series of traditional and innovatory teaching strategies in science literacy such as group work, lab work, theatre in the classroom, debate, role-play, poster design (using the collage technique), poster session, study and analysis of texts coming from works of philosophy, poetry and literature, discussion based on newspaper articles, website design etc.

8) Concept maps as an alternative evaluation device.

9) Design, development and evaluation of instructional e-material, website and web-based learning environments.

10) Gender and science education.

11) Teaching science to the visually impaired

12) Pre- and in-service teacher training in science education

The results of the research work, carried out by the ATLAS group, are communicated to pre- and in-service teachers attending undergraduate and postgraduate courses and seminars (8 seminars all over Greece).

ATLAS Research Group developed websites

and web-based learning environements:

http://atlas.eled.auth.gr (2003-2007, greek)

http://atlas.eled.auth.gr/pendulum (2004-2007, english)

http://atlas.eled.auth.gr/freefall (2006-2007, english)

http://atlaswikigr.wetpaint.com (2008-today, greek)

http://atlaswiki.wetpaint.com  (2008-today, english)

http://atlaswikiar.wetpaint.com  (2010-today, spanish under development)

http://atlaswikiwork.wetpaint.com (2008-today, private working space)

http://hipst.eled.auth.gr (2009-today, english)

http://hipstwiki.eled.auth.gr (2009-today, english)

Scientific responsible in European Research Projects:

Member of professional bodies:

Council positions of professional bodies:

Reviewer and Guest Editor in Scientific Journals:

a) Science & Education

b) Research and Practice in Science Education”(the journal of the greek science education research association-EDIFE)

c) THEMES in Education

Publications, conferences and thesis supervising in brief:

Fanny Seroglou has more than 130 papers published in journals or conference proceedings and presented in national and international conferences, has been supervising 6 phd theses and 3 postgraduate research projects, has also supervised about 30 undergraduate thesis in the School of Primary Education in the Faculty of Education of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. ). Fanny Seroglou's work has been pioneering and has inspired research projects and even Phd thesis in Greece and abroad. Fanny Seroglou has been an active member of the organizing committee of 8 national and international conferences and has organized as the head of the organizing committee other 4 conferences. In July 2011 organized successfully the 11th International History, Philosophy and Science Teaching Conference "Science and Culture" in Thessaloniki. Fanny Seroglou has given more than 10 invited lectures in Greek, European, Australian and American Universities and in international conference. She has also organized invited workshops in national and international conferences. Fanny Seroglou's publications are highly referenced by colleagues in Greece and abroad and papers of hers  may get even more than 40 citations (such as the paper: Seroglou, F. & Koumaras, P.: 2001. The Contribution of the History of Physics in Physics Education: A review, Science & Education 10(1-2), 153-172).

Languages:

1. Greek (mother tongue)

2. English (fluently)

3. French (pretty well)

4. Spanish (beginner)