Dionysia Bakogianni

My research addresses the transformation of education in the age of data and artificial intelligence. Situated within sociocultural and activity-theoretical traditions, I examine how educational systems respond to emerging epistemic infrastructures and how teachers, teacher educators and academic staff renegotiate professional practice in digitally mediated environments. I lead and contribute to international research initiatives that develop conceptual, curricular, and methodological frameworks for integrating data science into school and teacher education programs, for understanding generative AI as a systemic force in higher education, as well as for supporting sustainable professional learning through resource-oriented approaches. This work combines empirical investigation with theoretical development and is grounded in large-scale European collaboration. My research advances scholarship on data literacy, civic engagement, and digital responsibility, positioning teacher education as a strategic site for educational change. By bridging classroom practice, teacher education, and higher education reform, I contribute to the international research agenda on the societal, epistemic, and institutional implications of AI and data-driven educational practices.

Research projects

Currently involved in the Erasmus+ projects DataScEd4CiEn (https://datasc4ed.euc.ac.cy) and DataSETUP (https://datasetup.euc.ac.cy), focusing on data science education, STEAM education, civic engagement, responsible AI, and teacher education. Serving as Leader of the Research & Evaluation Work Package and member of the Scientific Teams.

Previous participation in European funded projects includes LESSAM (https://www.ucy.ac.cy/lessam/), FORMAS, and Mascil (https://simplexportal.ro/mascil-project.ro/index.html), with a focus on mathematics education, formative assessment, inquiry-based learning, and teacher professional development through lesson study.

Editorial roles

• Meletiou-Mavrotheris, M., Leavy, A., Frischemeier, D., Kazak, Z., Paparistodemou, E., & Bakogianni, D. (forthcoming). Guest editors, Special Issue: Theory and Research in Data Science Education. Education Sciences.
• Chernoff, E. J., Paparistodemou, E., Bakogianni, D., & Petocz, P. (2016). Guest editors, Special Issue: Research on learning and teaching probability within statistics. Statistics Education Research Journal, 16(2).

Meletiou-Mavrotheris, M., Bakogianni, D., Danidou, Y., Paparistodemou, E., & Kofteros, A. (2025). Investigating student teacher engagement with data-driven AI and ethical reasoning in a graduate-level education course. Education Sciences, 15(9), 1179. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci15091179

Bakogianni, D., & Meletiou-Mavrotheris, M. (2025). Reconsidering Basic Resources for Modern Statistics Teaching and Learning: Opening the Dialogue. Proceedings of CERME14, Bolzano, Italy.

Vargas, M. L., Serradó Bayés, A., Meletiou-Mavrotheris, M., & Bakogianni, D. (2025). Empowering creative dispositions for social justice: A data science and STEAM approach in primary education. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation (ICERI2025), Seville, Spain.

Meletiou-Mavrotheris, M., Bakogianni, D., Danidou, Y., Paparistodemou, E., & Kofteros, A. (2025). Integrating Data Science Education and Responsible AI in Teacher Training: A Pilot Study within STEAM-Based Graduate Learning.  Proceedings of the 14th IASE Satellite Conference on "Statistics and Data Science Education in STEAM", Münster, Germany, September 2025.

Bakogianni, D., & Malafekas, I. (2025). DataScEd4CiEn: Integrating Data Science into STEAM Education for Civic Engagement and Social Justice – A Case from Greece.  Proceedings of the 14th IASE Satellite Conference on "Statistics and Data Science Education in STEAM", Münster, Germany, September 2025. doi: 10.52041/iase25.132  

Kassi, A., Bakogianni, D., & Potari, D. (2025). Contradictions of teacher educators and their management within a professional development program on data science. In Proceedings of the 11th Conference of Hellenic Association for Research in Mathematics Education (Heraklion, Crete, Greece).

Meletiou-Mavrotheris, M., Leavy, A., Frischemeier, D., Serradó Bayés, A., Bakogianni, D. & Paparistodemou, E. (2025). Promoting Data Science Literacy in European Schools: The DataScEd4CiEn Project. SRTL-14 “Engaging with complex data: Navigating subjectivities and perspectives”. Pennsylvania State, USA, July 2025.

Bakogianni, D., & Potari, D. (2019). Re-sourcing secondary mathematics teachers’ teaching of statistics in the context of a community of practice. Journal of Mathematical Behavior, 56, 100699. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmathb.2019.03.006

Triantafillou, C., Psycharis, G., Potari, D., Bakogianni, D., & Spiliotopoulou, V. (2021). Teacher educators’ activity aiming to support inquiry through mathematics and science teacher collaboration. International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 19, 21–37. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10763-021-10153-6

Bakogianni, D., Potari, D., Psycharis, G., Sakonidis, C., Spiliotopoulou, V., & Triantafillou, C. (2021). Mathematics teacher educators’ learning in supporting teachers to link mathematics and workplace situations in classroom teaching. In Goos, M., & Beswick, K. (Eds.), The Learning and Development of Mathematics Teacher Educators. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62408-8_15

Triantafillou, C., Psycharis, G., Bakogianni, D. & Potari, D. (2018). Enactment of Inquiry‑Based Mathematics Teaching and Learning: The case of statistical estimation. In E. Bergqvist, M. Österholm, C. Granberg, & L. Sumpter (Eds.). Proceedings of the 42nd Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. Umeå, Sweden: PME.

Triantafyllou, Ch., Bakogianni, D., Kosyvas, G. (2017). Studying the process of collective reasoning development in a group of high-school students. In Zachariades, Th., Potari, D., Psycharis, G. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 7th National Conference of Hellenic Association for Research in Mathematics Education.: Mathematical knowledge and teaching practices. Athens: Hellenic Association for Research in Mathematics Education http://enedim7.gr/

Bakogianni, D. (2017). Negotiating the content and the teaching of statistics: Two complementary processes in teachers’ professional development. In Dooley, T., & Gueudet, G. (Eds.), Proceedings of CERME10 (pp. 708–715). Dublin, Ireland: ERME.

Triantafillou, C., Bakogianni, D., Kosyvas, G. (2016). Tensions in students’ group work on modelling activities. Proceedings of the 40th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. Szeged, Hungary.

Bakogianni, D., Paparistodemou, E., & Potari, D. (2014). Transforming media items into classroom tasks in the context of a study group. In K. Makar (Ed.), Sustainability in Statistics Education. Proceedings of ICOTS9, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA.