“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 experienced on many levels by teachers, can act as levers to adapt their teaching practice to the needs of the specific students.