Dimitris Koliopoulos

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• PhD
• Professor Emeritus at University of Patras

The ARCHELON Society carries out a significant and extremely important multi-year project for the rescue and care of sea turtles. This paper describes part of the evaluation of an educational program designed and implemented by the Sea Turtle Rescue Centre which is part of the infrastructure of this Society. This educational program was evaluated b...

In this paper we argue that the epistemological views of Francis Halbwachs, a close collaborator of Jean Piaget, and in particular his views on the various kinds of explanation in the field of Physics are of considerable relevance to research conducted in the context of Didactics of Science. This paper describes these views and comments, in their p...

In this research, we used a theoretical framework for physics teachers’ training as a starting point to develop a new research instrument (online questionnaire) for exploring teachers’ conceptions on the epistemology and pedagogy of physics, using thermodynamics as the field of reference. Our goal was to validate the theoretical framework and also...

Virtual environments offer innovative and promising solutions for natural science education, benefiting both students and teachers. Research indicates that pre-service teachers struggle to visualize and describe power generation processes, potentially passing on alternative conceptions to students. This study focuses on the design, development, and...

The COVID-19 health crisis highlighted the enduring problem of the influence of pseudoscience even within modern technoscientific societies. During the pandemic, mainstream and social media played key roles in disseminating information related to COVID-19 to the public and acting as the mediator between science and society. In this paper, we review...

This article aims to set the theoretical and methodological bases that are needed to study designers’ conceptions about the designing process of an interactive exhibition event. An interactive exhibition event constitutes the most representative and popular intervention taking place in a science festival and contains several activities with differe...

Teaching and learning introductory thermodynamics has drawn considerable research attention over the last two decades, especially in several disciplines of higher education. Under particular investigation is the First Law of Thermodynamics (FLT), which offers an expression of energy conservation in thermodynamic systems, as the evidence shows that...

It is rare to find, both in Greece and internationally, interpretive frameworks of archaeological museum collections or related educational activities that include elements of modern natural sciences. The field of archaeometry is perhaps the most appropriate interdisciplinary reference knowledge for such an interpretation of the archaeological muse...

Science festivals have their roots in the annual conference of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, which was founded in 1831 and later renamed the British Science Festival. The modern concept of a science festival, as we know it today, first emerged in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1989. The prevalence of science festivals has grown d...

Science festivals have their roots in the annual conference of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, which was founded in 1831 and later renamed the British Science Festival. The modern concept of a science festival, as we know it today, first emerged in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1989. The prevalence of science festivals has grown d...

This study refers to a training program addressing upper secondary school physics teachers for the development of Teaching and Learning Sequences (TLSs) for introductory thermodynamics courses. To accomplish that, we presented essential epistemological and pedagogical elements of thermodynamics and proposed an alternative approach to the relevant l...

The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of a constructivist teaching intervention on 6th grade students' cognitive progress on large-scale Energy Generation Systems (EGS), specifically on a Thermal Power Plant (TPP). This intervention was designed according to the constructivist approach for teaching and learning science, and it can be d...

In this study, we present the design principles and the respective development of a Teaching and Learning Sequence (TLS) in the field of introductory thermodynamics, with particular focus on the First Law of Thermodynamics (FLT), for upper secondary school students. The TLS design takes into account the poles of knowledge, learning and teaching tha...

This study presents a tool for description and potential analysis of the educational role of the Science and Technology museum. This tool has been constructed from the point of view of formal education and it is proposed as a framework for the approach of the science/technology museum from the teachers and education administrators. More specificall...

This article examines the potentiality of the dissemination of natural sciences not in the usual science museum environment, but in the archaeological museum. The aim is to highlight the existing interfaces between the fields of archaeology and the natural sciences in the setting of a Greek archaeological museum so that its exhibition space can ser...

Low enrolment in undergraduate level physics programmes has drawn the attention of the relevant disciplines, education policy-makers, and researchers worldwide. Many reports released during the previous decades attempt to identify the factors that attract young people to study science, but only few of them focus explicitly on physics. In Greece, in...

This study presents the results of a research regarding the design, the application and the evaluation of a teaching sequence on the concept of energy, which is addressed to 10-11 years old students. More specifically, we present the design, the application and the content of a teaching sequence and we examine whether it could lead the students of...

The present study refers to the design principles of an educational simulation for the introductory physics level and their application on a recently developed simulation (IGasES: Ideal Gas Educational Simulation) for classical thermodynamics and specifically for the First Law of Thermodynamics. These principles rely on three modeling aspects (phys...

This study refers to the distinction between the macroscopic and microscopic frameworks of thermodynamics and its impact on the teaching and learning of essential principles of the field, such as the conservation of energy through the first law of thermodynamics. We engage in an epistemological analysis and a cognitive approach in order to investig...

This study explored the teacher knowledge manifestation of Integrated Science (IS) teachers who have specialised in Chemistry, Biology or Physics during their pre-service teacher education. 60 experienced Integrated Science teachers responded to an ‘Integrated Science Teacher Knowledge’ questionnaire which embraced different dimensions of teacher k...

The observed and reported pervasive inadequacy with both pre-service and in-service teachers in classroom teaching still abounds despite the various efforts made in many countries to improve teacher education and teacher preparation programs. This study has been conducted in Lesotho, a small mountainous landlocked country in the Republic of South A...

This article proposes an innovative museographic solution, the " Educative Islet " , which aims to insert Natural Sciences and Technology (NST) elements into an archaeological museum environment. More specifically, it attempts to present the theoretical framework and methodological tools for its design giving an example based on a specific exhibit...

The present study refers to second year (16-17 years old) upper secondary school students' conceptions on elementary thermodynamics and especially the First Law of Thermodynamics (FLT). This paper focuses on students' explanations of a real situation representing an adiabatic compression and their forms of reasoning in providing explanations. We us...

This work is part of a wider research on the design and the evaluation of a teaching intervention that is aimed at children of preschool age with the cooperation of school and museum of zoology. This paper refers to the general principles of the proposed teaching intervention. These principles are referring to (a) the structure and content of schoo...

1 Περίληψη: Στην παρούσα εργασία παρουσιάζεται ένα εργαλείο μακροσκοπικής περιγραφής και εν δυνάμει ανάλυσης του εκπαιδευτικού ρόλου του μουσείου φυσικών επιστημών / τεχνολογίας. Το εργαλείο αυτό έχει κατασκευαστεί υπό το πρίσμα των επιδιώξεων της σχολικής τυπικής εκπαίδευσης και προτείνεται ως πλαίσιο προσέγγισης του μουσείου φυσικών επιστημών / τ...

La recherche qualitative présentée dans cet article a comme objectif d'étudier les prises de notes chez des enfants de 5 à 12 ans en tant que moyen de communication avec autrui. La situation expérimentale, comprenait une activité relative aux notions de “flottaison/immersion” des objets. Les enfants devaient, après l'avoir travaillé eux-mêmes, pren...

This article presents a case study that examines the level of integration of mathematical knowledge in physics problem solving among first grade students of upper secondary school. We explore the ways in which two specific students utilize their knowledge and we attempt to identify the epistemological framings they refer to while solving a physics...

The book ‘Wonder-full Education. The Centrality of Wonder in Teaching and Learning Across the Curriculum’, edited by K. Egan, A. Cant and G. Judson, is a series of documents about the concept of wonder and its relation to the curriculum. The main reference in almost every one of these documents is the innovational work of Kieran Egan (1997, 2005),...

This work refers to the organising principles and content of a didactical intervention (addresses to children aged 11-12) related to the concept of energy on large-scale electricity generation systems (thermoelectric power plants, hydroelectric power plants, wind farms, photovoltaic farms). These organising principles refer to: (a) the structure an...

Οι μεγάλες αλλαγές που παρατηρούνται μετά τη δεκαετία του ‘80 στην μουσειολογική και μουσειογραφική αντίληψη για το μουσείο επιστημών, οι σύγχρονες ερευνητικές τάσεις στον τομέα της ιστορίας των φυσικών επιστημών (ΙΦΕ) καθώς και το αυξανόμενο ενδιαφέρον των ιστορικών της επιστήμης για τις επιστημονικές συλλογές των μουσείων οδηγεί σε σημαντικές αλλ...

Although a growing number of research articles in recent years have treated the role of informal settings in science learning, the subject of the history of science in museums and its relationship to informal and non-formal education remains less well explored. The aim of this review is to assemble the studies of history of science in science museu...

Dans cet article, nous présentons les résultats d’une étude empirique visant l’identification des rapports personnels au savoir scientifique « pendule » d’étudiants grecs et français, futurs professeurs du primaire, avant d’envisager la construction d’un dispositif de formation commune. Préalablement à l’organisation d’une telle formation, il convi...

The child has representations about physical concepts and phenomena and these representations play role in the learning experience. For the physicist, the shadow is an entity dependent on the prevention of light by opaque objects. Data of relevant researches show that 5 -15 years old children have incompatible representations with the scientific on...

In this article, we present the results of an empirical study to identify personal relationships to scientific knowledge "pendulum" of Greek and French students, future teachers in primary education, before considering the construction of a common training program. Prior to the organization of such a training program, however it is necessary to ide...

Le travail présenté se réfère à une étude empirique relative à la manière dont des étudiants – futurs professeurs des écoles en France et en Grèce-conçoivent les propriétés fondamentales du savoir scientifique concernant le phénomène du mouvement du pendule (choisi comme représentant pertinent de l'objet de savoir scientifique « temps ») représenta...

Teaching and learning about energy at the various levels of school science has been a topic of interest in science education research for nearly five decades. This interest has been motivated by the need to help students appreciate energy-related, socio-scientific issues and formulate appropriate and informed stances and attitudes. The emphasis pla...

En este trabajo, se propone el análisis del contenido conceptual de currículos y programas de ciencias como una posible herramienta de mediación entre la didáctica de las ciencias como disciplina académica y la enseñanza de las ciencias como práctica profesional. A partir del análisis, se presenta una clasificación de diversos programas recientes y...

INvESTIGACIÓN DIDÁCTICA 315 enseñanza de las ciencias, 2011, 29(3), 315–324 Resumen. En este trabajo se propone el análisis del contenido conceptual de currículos y programas de ciencias como una posible herramienta de mediación entre la didáctica de las ciencias como disciplina académica y la enseñanza de las ciencias como práctica profesional. A...

The need for a convergence of the visual arts and the natural sciences within the framework of both formal (schools, universities) and non -formal education (museum) at the level of dissemination and popularization of this knowledge is something that has preoccupied the communities of artists, scientists and educators. In the present work we aim to...

The research presented in this paper is a preliminary empirical study of primary school children’s ability to construct a qualitative explanatory model for the ‘energy’ concept. The research results are particularly encouraging since it seems that 6-7 year old children are able, following a relevant teaching intervention, to utilize a linear causal...

This article presents the results of a research project that investigated the extent to which the use of the historical episode of the Millikan-Ehrenhaft dispute over the existence of the elementary electric charge can improve students’ conceptions of specific aspects of the Nature of Science (NOS). A teaching programme containing seven hourly teac...

The research presented in this paper explores the degree to which preschool children have the ability to use mental representations which constitute precursor energy models. Twenty-five children (10 boys and 15 girls) participated in the study. They were presented with two different phenomenological situations considered as important for the establ...

The aim of this study was to explore the extent to which the characteristics of two teaching interventions can bring about cognitive progress in preschoolers with regard to the factors rolling friction depends on, when it is applied to an object that is freely rolling on a horizontal surface. The study was conducted in three phases: pre-test, teach...

The questions this paper attempts to answer are related to the attitudes of student teachers of the Department of Early Childhood Education at the University of Patras (Greece) towards mathematics, as well as their views on the instruction of mathematics in Early Childhood Education. The research sample included 52 students in the fourth semester o...

This study proposes an empirical classification of the ways of introducing elements of the history of science in science teaching. At the same time, it describes a special way of introducing elements of the history of science into teaching which is characterized by the introduction of short extracts from historical texts. The aim is to motivate stu...

Resumo Nos últimos anos as pesquisas sobre as dificuldades de ensino e de aprenidzagem das ciências físicas têm condizido o desenvolvimento a Didáticas das Ciênicas Físicas como um campo cientítifo relativamente autônomo. O quadro de pesquisa e de aplicação proposto por esse campo tem influenciado um certo número de modificações em diversos sistema...

Resumo: Nos últimos anos as pesquisas sobre as dificuldades de ensino e de aprendizagem das ciências físicas têm conduzido o desenvolvimento a Didáticas das Ciências Físicas como um campo científico relativamente autônomo. O quadro de pesquisa e de aplicação proposto por esse campo tem influenciado um certo número de modificações em diversos sistem...

When we refer to scientific knowledge, we, implicitly or explicitly, refer to its three components, namely its conceptual framework, its methodological principles and its cultural aspects. The pendulum is a topic of science teaching and learning where all three of these aspects can be examined with the aim of gaining a holistic appreciation of the...

tude des notations à visée communicationnelle par des enfants d'une école primaire en Grèce dans le cadre d'une activité scientifique Résumé : La recherche présentée a comme objectif d'étudier les notations produites par des enfants d'âges différents (28 enfants de la maternelle, 31 enfants de la deuxième classe de l'école primaire et 32 de la sixi...

The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of a socio‐cognitive teaching strategy on young children. It tests their understanding of the factors that friction depends on when an object is projected across a horizontal surface. The study was conducted in three phases: pre‐test, teaching intervention, and post‐test. The sample consiste...

In this paper we present the results of a research on the study of preschool children representations connected with the phenomenon of flotation/immersion of solid bodies in the water. We initially approach this problem through the relevant bibliography and we discuss the terms under which children can form in their thought a scientifically compati...

In this article we study lower secondary ehcation students' mental representations about energy and we discuss the didactical implications on designing physics curriculums' content. Firstly, we present a review of the bibliography concerning students' mental representations when they describe and interpret mechanical, thermal and electrical phenome...

Abstract One of the main aims of the educational community nowadays is the dissemination of an “energetical” culture to a general public, including students. There are two mecha-nisms that could effectuate this dissemination: the mechanism of scientific populariza-tion, and the mechanism of formal teaching based on a scientific curriculum. The firs...

L'objet de ce travail est l'élaboration d'un curriculum sur l'énergie mécanique pour des élèves de 13-14 ans, qui s'inscrit dans une perspective de rénovation des programmes. Cette proposition concerne l'intégration de l'aspect constructiviste dans l'organisation et le contenu du curriculum lui-même. Sur la base de principes argumentés, en particul...

This work aims at constructing a curriculum concerning mechanical energy. The objective of this curriculum is to reconstruct a new one for students aged 13-14. Our project incorporates a constructivist aspect in the organisation and content of the curriculum itself. This work is based on a series of argumentative principles, especially on the attem...

A categorisation of curricula as a means to identify teachers’ views on the teaching of energy in secondary school The increasing need for linking research approaches and the teaching of science led us to investigate science teachers’ conceptions of teaching, in order to help researchers and science teachers being aware of these conceptions and ta...

L'enseignement de l'énergie fait l'objet de recherches et de propositions didactiques depuis une dizaine d'années, à la suite notamment de la crise pétrolière. Cette bibliographie recense les études conduites au niveau du collège et portant sur trois aspects principaux : l'analyse conceptuelle de la matière avec ses composantes historiques et épist...

This paper refers to interactions between teacher and students during science teaching. Within a frame oriented towards the construction of knowledge, the student's mental and cognitive development is achieved not only through the relation developed with the cognitive object but also through the situations of interaction and communication with the...