This book is mainly addressed to candidates and practicing teachers but also to education executives. It includes a methodological proposal as well as specific tools to support teachers’ professional learning as researchers and reflective practitioners. This proposal is based on the theory, research and practice of professional learning and on working with teachers in action […]
Tag: action-research
Developing Inquiry and Reflection Skills in Student-Teachers: The Use of Action Research
The article focuses on how the process of reflection is taught in an undergraduate teacher education programme at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. By starting with the theoretical framework of action research as well as the reflective practices, it describes the educational process and discusses the complexities of understanding a methodology which questions […]
Refugee children’s integration in Greece: training future teachers to face new educational challenges
The aim of this paper is to present an action research project focusing on refugee children’s integration to the formal Greek education system as it relates to their mothers’ Greek language learning. Drawing on the interrelation between formal and non-formal education, this project took place at the Open Reception facility of Eleonas in Athens and […]
Heterogeneity and school
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 […]
Heterogeneity and school
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 […]