Marinos Anastasakis

Background

I am an Assistant Professor of Didactics, specialising in Mathematics Education. I completed a BSc in Physics (2011) and a MSc in Mathematics for Education (2013) at the University of Crete (Greece). Following that I completed a PhD in Mathematics Education (2018) at the Department of Mathematics Education in Loughborough University (UK). I have worked as an Associate for the Further Mathematics Support Program (Mathematics Education Innovation Charity, UK), an Adjunct Lecturer in various Universities in Greece (Department of Mathematics & Applied Mathematics – University of Crete, Department of Electronic Engineering – Hellenic Mediterranean University) and as a Collaborating Researcher at the Socio-Educational Research and Innovation Group located at the Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics (FORTH-Hellas).

My current research is grounded in Cultural-historical Theory, with a focus on the formation and development of concepts, especially in Mathematics. From this perspective, I am in the process of developing didactical approaches that foster generalisation and abstraction in the classroom. 

Key publications

Anastasakis, M. & Dafermos, M. (2023). Exploring Paradoxes in the Development of Mathematical Thinking: a Cultural-historical Perspective. Cultural-Historical Psychology, 19(4), 46—55. https://doi.org/10.17759/chp.2023190405 

Anastasakis, M. & Lerman, S. (2022). Tool-Use profiles in Undergraduate Mathematics. International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 20, 861–879. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10763-021-10196-9

Anastasakis, M., Zakynthinaki, M., Trujillo-González, R., García-Alonso, I., & Petridis, K. (2020). An Activity Theory approach in explaining engineering students’ difficulties with university mathematics. International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 53(6), 1571–1587. https://doi.org/10.1080/0020739X.2020.1834156