Precursor Models for Teaching and Learning Science During Early Childhood / Contemporary Trends and Issues in Science Education Bd.55 (PDF)

and a PhD in Physics from Queen's University of Belfast in the United Kingdom. She has been a primary school teacher in pre-schools and elementary schools and worked at the French Academy of Science as a project manager to promote hands on approach in science classes in primary and early secondary schools with the program La main à la pâte (now a foundation). She conducts research at the laboratory ADEF and is interested in understanding how learning of science takes place, in particular in specific contexts such as preschool and primary school, and how to design learning environments to support the work of teachers and the development of students. Her current research focuses on how student make meaning in various topics of science, in interdisciplinary contexts, using cognitive tools such as precursor models and cultural tools such as drawings, narrative stories or games. She has been visiting professor at the National Institute of Education, Singapore for twoacademic years (2018-2020), the University of Patras (Greece), the University of Hanoi (Vietnam), the Instituto Nacional de Formacion y Capacitation del Magisterio de Republica Dominicana. A. Delserieys is the author of about 60 publications in scientific journals, collective editions and conference proceedings. She has been the supervisor of 2 PhD thesis. In 2016, she was awarded the price Georges Charpak by the French Academy of Science for her involvement in science education research. She is a member of the scientific committee of the Foundation La Main à la pâte. She is a member of the National Council of Universities in Physics since 2016 and she is principal investigator for the project of European Teacher Academy UNI-T (2022-2025).



Konstantinos Ravanis is Professor in Physics Education at the University of Patras in Greece. He did two types of undergraduate studies, in Physics and in Educational Sciences at the University of Patras in Greece, completed his postgraduate studies in Science Education in the Université Paris VII-Denis Diderot and received his PhD degree in Physics Education from the Department of Educational Sciences and Early Childhood Education of the University of Patras. In 1988 K. Ravanis was appointed "Special Scientist", and then he was elected through at all levels of the academic hierarchy to reach the degree of Professor (2004) in the Department of Educational Sciences and Early Childhood Education of the University of Patras, specializing in "Didactics of Physics". He was an invited Professor in Université de Provence, Aix-Marseille Université, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, University of Nicosia and he had a research fellowship from the Jean Piaget Archives at the University of Geneva. K. Ravanis is the author of about 230 publications in scientific journals, collective editions and conference proceedings and he has been the supervisor of 14 Ph.D thesis. He is the author of three (4) books and he was the editor of two (2) collective scientific editions. K. Ravanis was director of the Division of Theoretical and Applied Pedagogies (2003-2008) and has been Chairman in the Department of Educational Sciences and Early Childhood Education (1999-2001, 2005-2006), Vice-Rector (2006-2010) and member of the Council Foundation (2014) of the University of Patras.