LECTURER
Department of Education
Cyprus University of Technology
Cyprus
Stavroula Kontovourki is an Assistant Professor in Literacy and Language Arts Education. She holds a bachelor degree in Education – Primary Education (Hons) from the University of Cyprus (2001), an Ed.M. in Curriculum and Teaching (2005, Teachers College Columbia University), and an Ed.D. with a concentration in Literacy Education (2009, Teachers College Columbia University). She has worked at primary and post-secondary institutions, and been involved in projects researching literacy practices in different educational settings.
Literacy and language arts education, literacy development and literacy practices, performance of literate identities in and out of school, multimodality (textual and embodied), the realization of literacy curricula in elementary classrooms, literacy teachers’ professional identities, literacy policy and educational change.