Stella Vosniadou


Stella Vosniadou
Strategic Professor 

Bio and Research Interest

Stella Vosniadou is Professor Emerita at Flinders University of South Australia and the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.  She is a fellow of the Academy of Europe (Academia Europaea), of the International Academy of Education, and a corresponding member of the Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts. She is also a fellow of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and of the Cognitive Science Society.

Research Interests

Stella Vosniadou’s research is in the areas of developmental and educational psychology.  She is interested in the formation, development, and change of concepts during childhood and adolescence. She also investigates the difficulties students have in learning difficult concepts in science and mathematics and the misconceptions they form. Her research in developmental psychology has led her to become interested in understanding the teaching practices that are more likely to lead to effective learning. Her most recent interests are in teacher cognition and teacher change, particularly as it is related to the development and promotion of self-regulated learning.

Selected Academic Honors

For her contributions to research in cognitive development, Stella Vosniadou was awarded the International Distinguished Child Development Award from the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD). For outstanding achievement in scholarship and research, she received the Oeuvre Award of the European Association for Research in Learning and Instruction (EARLI), the Lambros Xousiadas distinguished career award from the Hellenic Association for Research in Psychology, and the Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander Humboldt Research Foundation.

She has served as President of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction, as Chair of the Cognitive Science Society.

Selected Publications 

Vosniadou, S. & Ortony, A. (Eds.), (1989), Similarity and Analogical Reasoning. New York: NY: Cambridge University Press. 

Vosniadou, S. & Brewer, W.F. (1992). Mental models of the Earth: A study of conceptual change in childhood. Cognitive Psychology, 24, 535-585. 

Vosniadou, S. (1994). Capturing and modeling the process of conceptual change. Learning and Instruction, 4, 45-69.

Vosniadou, S., De Corte, E., Glaser, R., & Mandl, H. (Eds.), (1996). International Perspectives on the Psychological Foundations of Technology-Based Learning Environments, Mahwah: New Jersey, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 

Vosniadou, S. (Ed.). (2013). International Handbook of Research on Conceptual Change. New York: Routledge 2nd Edition.

Vosniadou, S., Lawson, M., Stephenson, H., & Bodner, E (2021) Teaching how to Learn: Setting the Stage for Lifelong Learning. Educational Practices Series, Vol, 33, International Bureau of Education, UNESCO.

 

Contact Information

Department of Philosophy and History or Science
National and Capodistrian University of Athens
37 John Kennedy Street
Athens 16121
Greece
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