Vasilia Christidou

Biographic Data

ID6735896
NAMEVasilia Christidou
GIVEN NAMESVasilia
FAMILY NAMEChristidou
SIGNATURECHRISTIDOU V
AFFILIATIONSAristotle University of Thessaloniki
ORCID0000-0001-9706-0584
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2004
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • Back to basics

    Open AccessVasilia Christidou, Maria Birbili et al.ARTICLEEducation Inquiry2025References: 5

    Learners’ pre-existing ideas are central to the construction of new knowledge in science education. Teachers’ questions serve as a prevalent means of eliciting these ideas. However, posing appropriate questions to promote students’ clarification of meanings, juxtaposition of viewpoints and higher-order thinking presents significant challenges for both pre-service and in-service teachers. This study investigates the types of questions pre-service …

  • Children’s Views of Sars-CoV-2 and Covid-19 Preventive Practices

    Open AccessVasilia Christidou, Fotini Bonoti et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Education2022

    Despite the growing body of research on the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on children’s wellbeing, few studies so far have explored children’s points of view, while the majority were based on data collected during the first year of the pandemic. The present study attempted to capture children’s views 1 year after the beginning of the pandemic, and to this end, data were collected during Spring 2021 in Greece. Specifically, by combining ve…

  • Children’s conceptions of coronavirus

    Open AccessFotini Bonoti, Vasilia Christidou et al.ARTICLEPublic Understanding of Science2022

    The present study aimed to examine children’s conceptions of coronavirus as denoted in their verbal descriptions and drawings and whether these vary as a function of children’s age and the mode of expression. Data were collected in Greece during spring 2020 and 344 children aged 4 to 10 years were first asked to verbally describe coronavirus and then to produce a drawing of it. Content analysis of data revealed the following main themes: (a) Coro…

  • Exploring children’s participation in the framework of early childhood environmental education

    Irida Tsevreni, Anna Tigka et al.ARTICLEChildren s Geographies2022References: 21

    The paper explores the participation experiences that a nursery school gained through its involvement in an environmental education program that focused on the transformation of the school ground. The research took place in a nursery school in Greece, in which 15 preschool children aged 4 years old and their teacher were engaged in participatory action research. The research emphasizes the rights and abilities of young children as equal participa…

  • Interpersonal Meaning

    Open AccessMaria Koutsikou, Vasilia Christidou et al.ARTICLEEducation Sciences2021

    Verbal text and images constitute the principal semiotic modes interacting to produce interpersonal meanings in multimodal science texts for young children. These meanings relate to pedagogical perceptions about children’s learning. This study examined verbal text–image relations regarding the interpersonal meaning dimensions of address (the way the reader is addressed), social distance (the kind of the relationship between the reader and represe…

  • Visual self-images of scientists and science in Greece

    Open AccessVasilia Christidou, Apostolos KouvatasARTICLEPublic Understanding of Science2013

    A popular and well-established image of scientists and science dominates in the public field, signifying a contradictory and multifaceted combination of stereotypes. This paper investigates crucial aspects of the visual self-image of Greek scientists and science as exposed in photographic material retrieved from relevant institutions’ websites. In total 971 photos were analysed along dimensions corresponding to the image of scientists and science…

  • The image of scientific researchers and their activity in Greek adolescents’ drawings

    Open AccessVasilia Christidou, Vassilia Hatzinikita et al.ARTICLEPublic Understanding of Science2012

    The image prevailing among the public of scientific research and researchers constitutes a contradictory and complex combination of traditional stereotypes. We explore central facets of the image of scientific research and researchers as reflected in Greek adolescent students’ drawings. Drawings were produced by 171 students participating in a drawing competition launched in the context of the “Researchers’ Night 2007” implemented by three resear…

  • Constructing social representations of science and technology

    Open AccessVasilia Christidou, Kostas Dimopoulos et al.ARTICLEPublic Understanding of Science2004

    This paper aims to reveal the social representations about the nature and the evolution of Space-Science & Astronomy, Genetics & Biotechnology, Natural Sciences and Engineering & Informatics, through analyzing active (i.e., original and creative) metaphors found in 2303 technoscientific articles published in four Greek daily newspapers and two popular scientific magazines. The analysis showed that all metaphors concerning the nature of the four d…