Alexandra Vasilopoulou

• 2005    PhD in Sociology, Title of thesis: Socialisation through talk: a study of Greek nursery classroom interaction,  Department  of Sociology, University of Essex, UK

• 2000    MA Sociology, Department  of Sociology, University of Essex, UK

• 1997   ΒΑ Department of Early Childhood Education, University of Athens

• The sociological study of educational processes, pedagogic practices and social inequalities in education.
• The study of classroom as an institutional setting of talk-in-interaction, the construction of knowledge in educational settings.
• Qualitative methods and methodologies of social research, combination of ethnography and conversation analysis, membership categorisation analysis.

Introduction to sociology (301)

Introduction to sociology of education (306)

Methodology of research in social sciences I & II (401 & 407)

The social parameters of the educational process (303)

Classroom discourse analysis (94Ε)

Graduate

Joint MA Programme “Education and Human Rights” Department of Early Childhood Education (University of Athens) and Institute of Education (University of London): “The construction of social inequalities: contemporary theoretical issues” (co-taught) and Interdisciplinary Seminar “Education, Human Rights and Social Inequalities”

(2005a) Socialisation through talk: a study of Greek nursery classroom interaction, Diatrives series, Athens: Nissos publications. (395 pages)  ISBN: 960-8392-18-7

(2005b) “Grammar and interaction in the nursery classroom: a conversation analytic study of turn projection through pronouns” [in Greek], Meletes gia tin Elliniki Glossa, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 607-618.

(2006a) “Turn-taking as a communication skill in the kindergarten ” [in Greek], Meletes gia tin Elliniki Glossa, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 69-80.

(2006b) “Pupils’ Methods in the Nursery Classroom: a Basis for Socialisation and Learning?”, International Journal of Learning, 12(12): 113-122.

(2010a) “Feminist conversation analysis and membership categorization analysis: two approaches for the study of gender” [in Greek] in Y. Papageorgiou (ed.) Gender Research in Greece, Athens: Gutenberg, 145-165.

(2010b) “Key concepts and Methods in Conversation Analysis: the case of the school classroom» [in Greek] in Μ. Pourkos and Μ. Dafermos (eds.) Piotiki Erevna stin Psychologia ke tin Ekpaideusi, Athens: Topos publications.

(2010c) (in collaboration with C. Hadjidemetriou & M. Terkourafi) “Introducing Greek Conversation Analysis” Journal of Greek Linguistics, 10(2): 155-183.

(in preparation) “Providing an opinion without being asked in the kindergarten” in F. Chevalier & J. Moore (eds.) Restricted interactional practices in institutional settings, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

(in preparation) “The understanding of social action through conversation analysis” [in Greek] in Μ. Georgalidou, Μ. Sifianou and V. Tsakona (eds.) Analysi Logou.

Awards

• Greek Institution of State Scholarships (IKY) honorary scholarship, Department of Early Childhood Education, University of Athens.
• Distinction for MA dissertation, MA Sociology – University of Essex.

• Member of the British Sociological Association (BSA)

• Member of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)

• Co-ordination of the “Greek Conversation Analysis” group