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Dimitris Chassapis

xasapisBasic Information:

Title: Professor
Area of Specialization: Mathematics Education

Contact details:

Phone No: 210-3688519 Fax: 210-3688510

E-mail: dchasapis@ecd.uoa.gr

Personal Website: users.uoa.gr/~dchasapis και http://matheduteapi.weebly.com

Office hours:
Contact address: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Faculty of Early Childhood Education, Navarinou 13A, 106 80 Athens, Greece

 

Academic information

Education

  • Doctorate in Educational Sciences, The Patras University, Greee (1992).
  • Postgraduate Certificate in Education, School of Pedagogical and Technical Education, Athens (1979).
  • Master of Science in Mathematics,The City University, London (1978)
  • Degree in Mathematics, The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (1972)
Research interests
  • The Mediation of historically developed and culturally established symbolic and technical artifacts in the formation of mathematics concepts.
  • |Public understanding of mathematics and ideological dimensions of learning and teaching mathematics.
  • Numerical skills and practices

 
Courses and Seminars
Undergraduate

  • Logico-mathematical relations and arithmetic concepts in early childhood
  • Spatial relations and geometry concepts in early childhood
  • Manipulatives and activities for introducing mathematics in early childhood
  • Topics in history and philosophy of mathematics
  • Fundamental concepts of mathematics

 
Selected Publications
  • Chassapis, D. (2012), Reflections on school mathematics experiences: Mathematics teaching as a practice of excluding students from mathematical culture. Proceedings of the 64th CIEAEM International Conference “Mathematics Education and Democracy: learning and teaching practices”, Rhodes, Greece.
  • Chassapis, D. & Giannakopoulou, E., (2012), Numbers in the front page: Mathematics in the news. Proceedings of the 64th CIEAEM International Conference “Mathematics Education and Democracy: learning and teaching practices”, Rhodes, Greece.
  • Chassapis D. (2010), Α framing of the world by mathematics: a study of word problems in greek primary school mathematics textbooks. Στο   U. Gellert, E. Jablonka & C. Morgan (Eds.) Proceedings of the Sixth International Mathematics Education and Society Conference. Belrin: Freie Universität Berlin, 209-218.
  • Chassapis D. (2008), Τhe influence of a cultural tool on approaching a problem from the history: solving a geometry problem on graph paper. Στο M. Kourkoulos &C. Tzanakis (eds), Proceedings of the 5th International Colloquium on the Didactics of Mathematics, vol. II, University of Crete, Department of Education, Rethymnon,183-191.
  • Chassapis D. & Chatzivasileiou E. (2008), Socio-cultural influences on children’s conceptions of chance and probability.  Στο J.F. Matos, P. Valero & K. Yasukawa (Eds.) Proceedings of the Fifth International Mathematics Education and Society Conference. Lisbon: Centro de Investigação em Educação, Universidade de Lisboa – Department of Education, Learning and Philosophy, Aalborg University, 197-206.
  • Chassapis D. (2003), Greek primary schools teachers’ beliefs about mathematical knowledge. In A. Gagatsis & S. Papastavridis (Eds.), Proceedings of the 3nd Mediterranean Conference on Mathematics Education, Hellenic Mathematical Society & Cyprus Mathematical Society, Athens, 409-417.
  • Chassapis, D. (1998/99), The mediation of tools in the development of formal
    mathematical concepts: The compass and the circle as an example,
    Educational Studies in Mathematics, 37 (3), 275 –293.
  • Chassapis, D. (1997), The social ideologies of school mathematics applications: a case study of elementary school textbooks, For the Learning of Mathematics, 17, 3, 24-27.

 
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