Dr Andri Christodoulou BA, MA, MRes, PhD
Lecturer
Dr Andri Christodoulou is Lecturer within Southampton Education School at the University of Southampton.
I am a Lecturer in Education at Southampton Education School, which I joined in 2011 after completing my postgraduate and doctoral studies in the field of science education. My research focuses on how teachers’ classroom discourse can support science learning especially in relation to the use of argumentation as an instructional approach. I am interested in how teacher professional learning can be formulated, implemented and sustained in order to provide productive classroom discourse practices and successful science learning within primary and secondary classrooms.
I have previously conducted research on argumentation and dialogic teaching practices within secondary science classrooms, on science inquiry practices in primary and secondary education, and on how argumentation and inquiry practices can be used as pedagogical approaches within socio-scientific issues-based education. Before coming to Southampton, I taught in different contexts and to various age groups teaching in primary schools in Cyprus, language teaching in post-compulsory education whilst studying in London, and teaching modules on qualitative data analysis whilst at King’s College London.
At Southampton Education School, I have taught and acted as placement tutor for trainee teachers on our Primary PGCE and Secondary Science PGCE courses. I have been the programme director for the MSc Education programme (2017-2020) and an associate programme director for the same programme (2014-2017). My current teaching responsibilities include teaching on the MSc Education, and supporting doctoral students. I also work closely with colleagues on the Secondary Science PGCE course.