Nikolaos Fotou is a senior lecturer in the School of Education, responsible for the MA in education programme. Prior to joining the University of Lincoln, he was a science education lecturer at Maynooth University, Ireland. He studied Physics at the University of Crete in Greece and obtained his MA degree in science education at the University of Leeds, UK and received his PhD, in the area of students’ ideas, reasoning and self-generation of analogies from the same institution. He is particularly keen to foster a more evidence-based, as opposed to opinion-based, approach to educational initiatives and his research interests are in science, physics and mathematics education with a focus on analogical reasoning, self-generation of analogies, nature of students’ knowledge, teaching and learning in the context of interactive pedagogies, by the use of ICT and design and evaluation of educational interventions.
Publications
From the known to the unknown: the role of spontaneous and self-generated analogies in students’ predictions about novel situations
Early years and key stage 1 teachers’ attitudes towards outdoor and online play
