All the radio broadcasts created by the children and teachers of the 132nd Primary School of Athens, by school year.
Entry Category: Educational Practices & Pedagogies / Teacher Training
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
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.
“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
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
Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom (2019)
Multi-award winning film from Bhutan. A young teacher in modern Bhutan dreams of becoming a singer in Australia. He accepts with a heavy heart to teach for a season in the civilization-removed village of Lunana, in the Himalayan highlands, with no water, electricity or amenities. There a whole world is revealed to him and what
Opening event of the Teach.In.G. training programme – Part 2, Refugee Education: testimonies from the field – Marasleio 4-11-23
Excerpt from the launch event of the Teach.in.G Programme of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens for the year 2023-2024. The extract concerns the field of education of students with refugee background. It is discussed by people who have lived and are living this experience themselves from different positions: Refugee Education Coordinators in camps
“The Other”
In the school of a mountainous village of Crete, in Patsideros, Heraklion, there are five Albanian and one Greek child. Xenophobia and racism appear inside and outside the school and concern the small village community. The teacher has just returned to his place of origin to offer his services to the school he himself attended.