Eleni Katsarou is Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, Department of Philosophy and Social Studies, University of Crete. Her research interests focus on Curriculum Development, Educational Action Research, (multi)literacies, critical (digital, media) literacy, multimodality, students’ voice, students as auto-ethnographers, Knowledge Democracy in school. She has more than 25 years of experience on more than 15 action research projects. She is Principal investigator in two research projects funded by the EU (one Erasmus+ and one ESPA) and partner in another two Erasmus+ Project during the last 5 years. She is Supervisor in 2 finished PhDs and 3 running now, as well as 22 finished master dissertations and 2 running now.

Academic Publications

• Author of 3 books (in Greek) on action research, critical literacy and democracy in school.
• Editor and co-editor of 5 edited scientific volumes (in Greek) concerning education.
• Author and co-author of 20 papers published in international scientific journals and edited volumes.
• Author and co-author of 35 papers published in national scientific journals and edited volumes.

Selected publications:
Sipitanos, K., Katsarou, E. & Polyzois, G. (2021). Action Research and Critical Discourse Analysis: A Pathway to School Principals’ Professional Development, 9 (9): 149-160.
Katsarou, Ε. & Sipitanos, Κ. (2020). Building Knowledge Ecologies in schools: Reconstructing the curriculum to develop inclusive classrooms. In Α. Chatzidaki & R. Tsokalidou (eds). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Katsarou, E. & Sipitanos, K. (2019). Contemporary school knowledge democracy: possible meanings, promising perspectives and necessary prerequisites, , 27 (1) (special issue on Κnowledge Democracy): 108-124.
Katsarou, E. & Sipitanos, K. (2019). Producing and disseminating marginalized knowledge through students’ drawings, videos and crafts, 5 (1): 92-113.
Katsarou, E. & Tsafos, V. (2018). Official Educational Policy and Action Research in the Era of Crisis: The Case of Greece, 5(1): 221-229.
Katsarou, Ε. (2017). The multi-paradigmatic character of contemporary educational action research: a promising perspective or an underlying threat?, 25(5): 673-686.
Katsarou, E. (2014). Critical action research and the challenge of postmodernism. Perspectives and limitations. In Thomas Stern, Franz Rauch, Angela Schuster, & Andrew Townsend (eds.). (pp. 191-201)Taylor & Francis.
Katsarou, E. & Tsafos, V. (2014). Using action research in curriculum development in a fully-controlled educational context: The case of Greece, , 1 (2): 141-161.    
Katsarou, E. & Tsafos, V. (2013). Student-teachers as researchers: towards a professional development orientation in teacher education. Possibilities and limitations in the Greek university. 21 (4): 532-548.

Google Scholar Link/Profile: Eleni Katsarou