Marinos Anastasakis is an Assistant Professor of Didactics, specialising in Mathematics Education (Department of Primary Education, University of Crete). He is also the coordinator of the University of Crete's Teaching and Learning Support Centre (CTL TotT).

Marinos holds a BSc in Physics and a MSc in Mathematics for Education from the University of Crete in Greece. He completed his PhD in Mathematics Education at the Department of Mathematics Education in Loughborough University, UK. During his time in the UK he worked as an Associate for the Further Mathematics Support Program (Mathematics Education Innovation Charity, UK).

After finishing his PhD studies, Marinos worked as 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). In 2022, he joined the Department of Primary Education at the University of Crete (Greece) as an Adjunct Lecturer and in 2024 he was appointed Assistant Professor.

A central point of his research activity is Cultural-Historical Theory. From this perspective, he studies the development of concept formation, the design of teaching approaches that foster generalisation and abstraction, and the relationship between phylogeny and ontogeny.

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The Development of Mathematics Anxiety as a Process of Appraisal

Eleni Vasilaki, Marinos Anastasakis

Psychology: The Journal of the Hellenic Psychological Society, vol. 31(1), 2026, pp. 229–250

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Ο Σχηματισμός Μαθηματικών Εννοιών από τη Σκοπιά της Πολιτισμικής Ιστορικής Θεωρίας

Μαρίνος Αναστασάκης

Πρακτικά 11ου Πανελληνίου Συνεδρίου Ένωσης Ερευνητών Διδακτικής των Μαθηματικών: Ανάπτυξη της Διδασκαλίας των Μαθηματικών και Κριτική Σκέψη, Τμήμα Μαθηματικών και Εφαρμοσμένων Μαθηματικών, Πανεπιστήμιο Κρήτης, 2026

The Process of Concept Formation in Infancy: A Cultural-historical Account of Generalisation

Amanda Medeiros, Marinos Anastasakis, Vanessa Neves

CHACDOC 2026 (Cultural-Historical Approaches to Children's Development and Childhood Conference): Perspectives on a good life for children, Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, Denmark, Helsingør, Denmark, 2026 Oct

Change Over Time: Do Variations in the Semantic Profiles of Tools, Artefacts, Instruments, and Resources Denote Changes in Educational Research and Practice?

Marinos Anastasakis, Eleni Vasilaki

Imagining Possible Futures of Teaching and Learning, Regional ISATT24 Conference, 2024, pp. 179-182

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Moving Beyond the Theory-Practice Dichotomy: Putting Student Teachers’ Development at the Centre of Teacher Education

Marinos Anastasakis, Manolis Dafermos

Imagining Possible Futures of Teaching and Learning, Regional ISATT24 Conference, Volos, Greece, 2024, pp. 128-131

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