The authors explore why teachers are totally unprepared to accept in the classroom the various versions of diversity: ethnic, social, cultural. They argue that this is largely due to the way they have been trained and are called upon to educate. In Greek education, the value of homogeneity and the silencing of difference are two
Content language: Greek
Through Yeti’s eyes: cultivating respect for the ‘other’ in education
The author presents in a concise and simple way various theoretical approaches to respect for diversity, while giving concrete examples from everyday practice. The thread running through all the chapters of the book is the author’s constant reflection on issues of professional ethics and the dilemmas that arise from them. The message for education professionals
Moments of joy at school
The school can and should function as a source of joy and creativity. Love, mutual help, solidarity, friendship, involvement with the arts, play, teamwork, when integrated into the daily life of the school, are basic conditions to enable us, teachers and children, to feel joy and satisfaction. Can the school cultivate these skills? The pupils
Website of the 132nd Primary School of Athens
The official website of the 132nd Primary School of Athens includes the activities of the school, news and announcements, students’ works (e.g. films they have created), articles and publications of the teachers of the school in educational/scientific journals, as well as educational material that resulted from educational programs implemented by the teachers, for example newspapers,
The radio of the 132 Primary School of Athens
All the radio broadcasts created by the children and teachers of the 132nd Primary School of Athens, by school year.
Motivation in Education
Every school context is unique and every educational effort has as its starting point a full understanding of it. Nothing can be done without taking into account the needs of children, the way they perceive reality, the questions they have, the obstacles they encounter in understanding. In order to succeed in mobilising the learning processes,
“This is not a normal school… that’s the difference”: echoes of the inclusive actions of a teachers’ association in Athens during the pandemic through the eyes of school mothers.
This thesis explores the effects of the inclusive actions of a teachers’ association during the pandemic, which had the central aim of not excluding any child from the educational process. The field of the research is a public school in the center of Athens, with a high percentage of refugee/immigrant children, the majority of whom
Website of the Pedagogical Group “The Skasiarchy” – Experimental palpations for a community school
The official website of the pedagogical group “The Skasiarcheio”, which brings together people of letters and arts, teachers from the fields of primary, secondary and tertiary education in order to exchange views, ideas and proposals for a public school, compensatory to inequalities and political in its characteristics, for a school of the community, in which
Pandemic covid – 19 and educational exclusions: Mapping the practices of refugee students at the Ritsona Refugee Accommodation Centre
The present ethnography analyzes how students-residents in the Ritsona refugee camp are systematically excluded from typical education by the Greek state during the covid – 19 pandemic. Furthermore, by adopting an approach that focuses on both vulnerability and resistance, it examines the forms of collective resistance and the gendered processes of subjectification of the Youth
Articles in educational/scientific journals and books on 132
Articles and publications by teachers of the 132nd Primary School of Athens in educational/scientific journals, with a variety of topics focusing on the way this school approaches and listens to the contemporary educational reality.