Andreas Demetriou
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Andreas Demetriou | |
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Born | Andreas Panteli Demetriou 15 August 1950 Famagusta, Cyprus |
Alma mater | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece |
Known for | Neo-Piagetian theories of cognitive development He proposed a comprehensive theory of cognitive development |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Psychology Cognitive psychology Developmental psychology |
Institutions | University of Cyprus Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Cyprus University of Technology |
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Andreas Demetriou (
Life
Demetriou was born in Strongylo, Famagusta, Cyprus, on 15 August 1950. He is married to Julia Tsakalea and he has two sons, Pantelis and Demetris. After graduating from Pancyprian Gymnasium, the oldest secondary school in Cyprus, he went to Thessaloniki, Greece, where he studied psychology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He received a PhD in psychology in 1983. He was a professor of developmental psychology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki until 1996. He then moved to the University of Cyprus, where he was a professor of psychology until he became the Minister of Education and Culture. Currently he is professor of psychology and president of the University of Nicosia Research Foundation. He is also president of the Pancyprian Association of Psychologists.
Research
His research focuses on
Present
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List of achievements
Appointments
- 1975–1996 – He taught psychology from all ranks at the Department of Psychology and Education and then the School of Psychology, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki.
- 1992–1994 – Chairman of the School of Psychology, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki.
- 1996–2008 – Professor of Psychology, University of Cyprus.
- 1996–1998 – Chairman of the Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus.
- 1999–2002 – Vice-Rector and Acting Rector of the University of Cyprus.
- 2003–2004 – Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Cyprus.
- 2004–2006 – Dean of the School of Social Sciences and Sciences of Education, University of Cyprus.
- 2004–2008 – Founding President of the Interim Governing Board of the Cyprus University of Technology.
- 2006–2008 – President of the Conference of Rectors of Cyprus Universities.
- 2008–2011 – Minister of Education and Culture of the Republic of Cyprus.
- 2011–2016 – President, University of Nicosia Research Foundation.
- 2012–2017 – President of the Pancyprian Association of Psychologists.
- 2018– – Editorial board of Intelligence.[12]
Honors
- 2001 – Distinguished Visiting Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
- 2004 – Fellow of the International Academy of Education http://www.iaoed.org/.
- 2009 – Honorary Visiting Professor of the Northeastern Normal University, Jilin Province, China.
- 2010 – Doctor of the University Honoris Causa, Middlesex University, London, United Kingdom.[13]
- 2011 – Honorary President of the Pancyprian Psychological Association.[14]
- 2011 – Initiative Founder Award, Awarded at the Eduvision 2020 Conference, 16 September 2011, Bucharest, Romania.
- 2012 – Fellow of Academia Europaea.
- 2017 – Fellow of Association for Psychological Science.
- 2019 – Founding Fellow of Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters, and Arts.
- 2020 – President of Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters, and Arts.
List of major works
- Demetriou, A. (Ed.), (1988). The neo-Piagetian theories of cognitive development: Toward an integration. Amsterdam: North-Holland.
- Demetriou, A., (2000). Organization and development of self-understanding and self-regulation: Toward a general theory. In M. Boekaerts, P. R. Pintrich, & M. Zeidner (Eds.), Handbook of self-regulation (pp. 209–251). Academic Press.
- Demetriou, A., & Bakracevic, K. (2009). Cognitive development from adolescence to middle age: From environment-oriented reasoning to social understanding and self-awareness. Learning and Individual Differences, 19, 181–194.
- Demetriou, A., Christou, C., Spanoudis, G., & Platsidou, M. (2002). The development of mental processing: Efficiency, working memory, and thinking. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 67, Serial Number 268.
- Demetriou, A., Efklides, A., & Platsidou, M. (1993). The architecture and dynamics of developing mind: Experiential structuralism as a frame for unifying cognitive developmental theories. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 58 (5, Serial No. 234).
- Demetriou, A., & Kazi, S. (2001). Unity and modularity in the mind and the self: Studies on the relationships between self-awareness, personality, and intellectual development from childhood to adolescence. London: Routledge.
- Demetriou, A., & Kazi, S. (2006). Self-awareness in g (with processing efficiency and reasoning). Intelligence, 34, 297–317.
- Demetriou, A., Kazi, S., & Georgiou, S. (1999). The emerging self: The convergence of mind, self, and thinking styles. Developmental Science, 2:4, 387–409 (With commentaries by F. Marton, R. S. Sternberg, C. F. M. van Lieshout, E. C. Hair & W. G. Graziano, and J. Asendorpf).
- Demetriou, A., Kyriakides, L., & Avraamidou, C. (2003). The Missing link in the relations between intelligence and personality. Journal of Research in Personality, 37, 547–581.
- Demetriou, A., & Kyriakides, L., (2006). The functional and developmental organisation of cognitive developmental sequences. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 76, 209–242.
- Demetriou, A., Mouyi, A., & Spanoudis, G. (2008). Modeling the structure and development of g. Intelligence, 36, 437–454.
- Demetriou, A., Mouyi, A., & Spanoudis, G. (2010). The development of mental processing. Nesselroade, J. R. (2010). Methods in the study of life-span human development: Issues and answers. In W. F. Overton (Ed.), Biology, cognition and methods across the life-span. Volume 1 of the Handbook of life-span development (pp. 306–343), Editor-in-chief: R. M. Lerner. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley.
- Demetriou A., & Raftopoulos, A. (1999). Modeling the developing mind: From structure to change. Developmental Review, 19, 319–368 (published with peer commentary by Mark Bickhard).
- Demetriou, A.& Spanoudis, G. (2018). Growing minds: A developmental theory of intelligence, brain and education. London: Routledge.
- Demetriou, A., Spanoudis, G., & Mouyi, A. (2011). Educating the developing mind: Towards an overarching paradigm. Educational Psychology Review, DOI 10.1007/s10648-011-9178-3.
- Kargopoulos, P., & Demetriou, A. (1998). Logical and psychological partitioning of mind: Depicting the same picture? New Ideas in Psychology, 16, 61–88 (with commentaries by J. Pascual-Leone, M. Bickhard, P. Engel, and L. Smith).
References
- ^ Demetriou, A., Kyriakides, L., & Avraamidou, C. (2003). The Missing link in the relations between intelligence and personality. Journal of Research in Personality, 37, 547–581.
- ^ Demetriou, A., Mouyi, A., & Spanoudis, G. (2010). The development of mental processing. Nesselroade, J. R. (2010). Methods in the study of life-span human development: Issues and answers. In W. F. Overton (Ed.), Biology, cognition and methods across the life-span. Volume 1 of the Handbook of life-span development (pp. 36–55), Editor-in-chief: R. M. Lerner. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley
- ^ Adey, P., Csapo, B., Demetriou, A., Hautamaki, J., & Shayer, M. (2007). Can we be intelligent about intelligence? Why education needs the concept of plastic general ability. Educational Research Review, 2, 75–97.
- ^ Demetriou, A., Spanoudis, G., & Mouyi, A. (2011). Educating the developing mind: Towards an overarching paradigm. Educational Psychology Review, DOI 10.1007/s10648-011-9178-3.
- ^ Demetriou, A., Efklides, A., & Platsidou, M. (1993). The architecture and dynamics of developing mind: Experiential structuralism as a frame for unifying cognitive developmental theories. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 58 (5, Serial No. 234).
- ^ Demetriou, A., Christou, C., Spanoudis, G., & Platsidou, M. (2002). The development of mental processing: Efficiency, working memory, and thinking. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 67, Serial Number 268.
- ^ Demetriou, A., & Kazi, S. (2001). Unity and modularity in the mind and the self: Studies on the relationships between self-awareness, personality, and intellectual development from childhood to adolescence. London: Routledge.
- ^ Kargopoulos, P., & Demetriou, A. (1998). Logical and psychological partitioning of mind: Depicting the same picture? New Ideas in Psychology, 16, 61–88 (with commentaries by J. Pascual-Leone, M. Bickhard, P. Engel, and L. Smith).
- ^ a b Demetriou A., & Raftopoulos, A. (1999a). Modeling the developing mind: From structure to change. Developmental Review, 19, 319–368 (published with peer commentary by Mark Bickhard).
- ^ Demetriou, A., Spanoudis, G., & Mouyi, A. (2011). Educating the developing mind: Towards an overarching paradigm. Educational Psychology Review, 23, 4, 601–663
- ^ Demetriou, A., Spanoudis, G., Shayer, M., Mouyi, A., Kazi, S., & Platsidou, M. (2013). Cycles in speed-working memory-G relations: Towards a developmental-differential theory of mind. Intelligence, 41, 34–50
- ^ Intelligence Editorial Board.
- ^ Awarded at the Graduation Ceremony of Middesex University that took place in Nicosia, Cyprus, 29 October 2010.
- ^ Decision of the Third General Assemply, 21 March 2010, Nicosia, Cyprus.