Vellopoulou Angeliki

Angeliki Vellopoulou is a Laboratory Teaching Staff at the Department of Educational Sciences and Early Childhood Education, University of Patras, Greece. She graduated from the Pedagogical Department of Kindergarten Teachers of the University of Patras. She obtained a Master’s Degree (D.E.A.), in Educational Sciences from the University of Provence Aix-Marseille I and a PhD from the University of Patras. She has worked as a Kindergarten Teacher in private and public kindergartens, while at the same time she worked in adult continuing education structures. She has specialized in the design-development, implementation and evaluation of educational programs aimed at preschool and first school-age children. Her research interests focus on topics related to Curriculum and educational design, Didactic transformation, play and its relationship with learning and teaching in children's education, teaching and learning of science concepts for kindergarten children, initial and continuum education and training of Kindergarten teachers. She is a Member of the Board of OMEP Greece (Organisation Mondiale pour l’Education Prescolaire), a scientific, NGO.