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.
Entry Category: Education Systems & Schooling
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.
“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
Breath-taking letter from the Education Coordinator of Ritsona to the Mayor of Chalkida
The Refugee Education Coordinator of Ritsona, Pepi Papadimitriou, holds the Municipality of Chalkida responsible for the issue of the education of the children of the camp. The letter highlights the responsibility and actions of the Mayor that have resulted in the exclusion of refugee children from school.
Narratives and biographies: The voices of teachers through their life stories. The curriculum as an autobiographical text
A book that studies the life stories, that is, the represented journeys of teachers. A book that tries to show how, through the approach of the Curriculum as an autobiographical text and the analysis of teachers’ life stories, their journey towards the dynamic constitution of their professional identity can be traced. But also how and
RaRE-Understanding Risk and Resilience in the Educational Performance of Refugee Children and Youth
The study is a literature review exploring the risk and resilience factors affecting the educational performance of refugee children and youth. The authors examine how various factors, such as trauma, language proficiency, socio-economic conditions, and educational policies, influence the educational experience of this vulnerable group. The review emphasizes the importance of understanding these factors in
Refugee Education Coordinators in the Greek Educational System: Their Role as Mediators in Refugee Camps
In Greece, the program for the integration of school-aged refugee children in public education has been implemented since 2016. An innovation established by the Greek Ministry of Education to facilitate refugee children’s access to public school was the institution of the Refugee Education Coordinator (REC). The research explores the role of RECs regarding involvement of
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
From Camps to Schools: The Participation of Refugee Children in Greek Public Education
Based on an ethnographic fieldwork in Greece,, this study focuses on the government’s attempt to provide education for children living in Athens’s refugee camps, as well as the actors involved in this effort, interrogating the problematic phenomena and interconnectedness of crisis, hospitality, and solidarity. This article argues that refugee education cannot be understood solely on
“I am a lot of colours, because I have a lot of lives, a lot of me, a lot of myself”. Identities of adolescent refugee students in Greece.
The study attempts to bring to light the voice of Afghani refugees, girls and boys aged between 14 and 17. The adolescents, having been forced to cross many geographical borders, but also to suddenly ‘grow up’, got trapped in Greece, are being ‘hosted’ in a container within a refugee camp and are attending a state