By the Cinematographic Team of Evening High School of Kos. Kos island is one of the areas in Greece that is being “tested” on a daily basis ever since the beginning of the refugee and migrant crisis. “Fortress Europe” touches upon issues such as the refugees, the solidarity from the local residents as well as
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With our own eyes
The students of the sixth grade of the 132nd School of Athens follow the stories of the refugees through photographs – documents. At the same time, they come into contact with refugee families from their school who have experienced the war and the violent displacement from their homes. Through their knowledge and experiences, the children
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
Lives in suspension: Letters to the world from Ritsona
The author, a girl from Afghanistan who lives in the Ritsona camp, writes about the refugee, living in (another) refugee camp – and even in the time of a pandemic. She gives voice to the migrant, the immigrant, the abused, the oppressed, the imprisoned, the exiled and other heroes, through stories of refugees in the
“Solidarity” and “indifference”: the auto-ethnography of a working teacher in refugee camps in Greece
Having worked for almost seven years as an educator for refugee children in various camps in geographically isolated industrial and rural areas of Greece, the author narrates his experience, exploring how this specific ideological and spatial framework shapes the subjectivity and actions of the workers. Using the method of auto-ethnography, he highlights the ways in
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
On Sunday we celebrated TOGETHER in Elaionas – A big celebration at the Open Refugee camp of Elaionas
Video of the celebration organized on Sunday 20 May at the Open Refugee Accommodation Facility of Elaionas, with the main slogan ‘We meet – We celebrate together in Elaionas’. Hundreds of Greek, refugee and immigrant children, parents and teachers from 15 schools in Athens took part in the celebration.
Pedagogical intervention in a refugee camp (Eleonas): an action research between formal and non-formal education
The text refers to a solidarity action in the form of a pedagogical intervention in the logic of critical research-action in a refugee shelter. The intervention sought both to detect, test and create the conditions for the participation of refugee children in the educational process and to train students, future teachers, in the reflective approach
Samatasavata – Voluntary solidarity group of the D.E.C.E.
Samatasavata – Voluntary solidarity group of the Department of Early Childhood Education of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens