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
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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.
The “Ritsona’s children” exhibit their works, but they don’t go to school…
Article about the children of the Refugee Accommodation Centre in Ritsona who do not have access to education due to the lack of coaches. Combined with the pandemic, and despite the efforts of the Refugee Education Coordinators, this has resulted in refugee children being out of school for years.
“For us this is education”: a community of practice and learning in a primary school in Athens
The paper focuses on the study of the functioning of the teachers’ association of a primary school in the centre of Athens, where the majority of the student population comes from diverse ethno-cultural backgrounds. It highlights an aspect of the daily school life of this particular school that sheds light on the way teachers perceive
No access for refugee children staying at the Accommodation Facility in Ritsona for the years 2020 and 2021
Universal deprivation of the right of access to public education for refugee children residing in the Accommodation Facility of Ritsona from the beginning of the pandemic (March 2020) until the end of the school year 2020-2021. One hundred children from the facility continue to be denied the right to access due to lack of transportation.
In the name of identity: Violence and the need to belong
In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong (French: Les Identités Meurtrières) is a 1998 book by Amin Maalouf, in which he discusses the identity crisis that Arabs have experienced since the establishment of continuous relationships with the west, adding his personal dimension as a Lebanese Christian. This work is divided into
Here Kaput
This ethnographic study explores the experiences of Albanian migrant women who married Greek men in the Greek-Albanian border region after 1990. Through four case studies, the author examines how migration, nationalism, and gender intersect with the violence these women experience in the domestic sphere. The work highlights the dialectic between political violence and everyday life,
The gaze of X-rays
The book explores the historical and political trajectory of X-ray technology, focusing on how this seemingly neutral medical practice is entangled with systems of control, discipline, and violence. Through interdisciplinary approaches, the contributors examine how X-rays have been used not only for healing but also for surveillance, stigmatization, and the exposure of human bodies within
Building Bridges Between School and Parents-Refugees
This paper presents the practices for the involvement of refugee parents, applied in Magnesia in the school year 2016-17, the year in which refugee children were introduced into the Greek educational system through Reception/ Preparatory Classes. The ultimate aim is to identify those factors that facilitate the involvement of refugee parents in their children’s education