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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The radio of the 132 Primary School of Athens
All the radio broadcasts created by the children and teachers of the 132nd Primary School of Athens, by school year. […]
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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. […]
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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 […]
“We” and the “others”: teachers’ experiences
The authors describe their experiences from two different educational contexts: a primary school in Athens with 65% Turkish-speaking students, internal migrants from Thrace, and a high school in Thrace with exclusively minority students. They explain how they experienced contact with difference in all its forms (students, parents, fellow teachers) and how the conflicts that daily […]
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Building a democratic school in Athens
This book presents the case of a primary school in central Athens that implemented inclusive and democratic practices to support the educational and social integration of students from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds. It documents the collaborative efforts of teachers, students, and families to create a school environment based on respect, participation, and equality. The […]