Stavroula Kontovourki received her Ed.D. from Teachers College, Columbia University and is now an Associate Professor in Literacy and Language Arts Education in the Department of Education at the University of Cyprus. Her research focuses on language arts pedagogies, literacy and embodiment, multimodal meaning-making, literacy teachers’ professional identities, and literacy curricula, policy, and educational change.
Over the years, she has been involved in and or developed research programs that have studied children’s literacy practices across contexts, immigrant children’s literate performances, teachers’ enactment of curricula and professionalism, parents’ and teachers’ digital biographies and literacy practices, and children’s digital literacies and wellbeing. She has published in edited volumes and international peer-reviewed journals, including Reading Research Quarterly, Literacy, Pedagogies, and English Teaching: Practice and Critique. She has also contributed to the development of policy briefs, white papers, and teaching materials, and has collaborated with official entities and organizations for the promotion of literacy and L1 education in schools and the broader society, through academic and professional development activities for students, teachers, and the general public. She joined ARLE and the SIG Technology and Literacy Education in 2018, and chaired the 13th ARLE Conference that was organized by the University of Cyprus in 2022.
E-mail:
kontovourki.stavroula@ucy.ac.cy
