https://toarcheio.org To Archeio project site Mon, 04 May 2020 23:24:30 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 https://toarcheio.org/items/uni-conflicts-in-spaces-of-crisis-critical-approaches-in-against-and-beyond-the-university/ Mon, 04 May 2020 23:24:30 +0000 https://toarcheio.org/items/uni-conflicts-in-spaces-of-crisis-critical-approaches-in-against-and-beyond-the-university/ https://toarcheio.org/items/adaptation-during-a-great-economic-recession-a-cohort-study-of-greek-and-immigrant-youth/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:51 +0000 http://arc.local/items/adaptation-during-a-great-economic-recession-a-cohort-study-of-greek-and-immigrant-youth/ Continued]]> This study examined how Greek and immigrant youth adapted to school life during the economic recession in Greece. Two cohorts of adolescents (Mage = 12.6 years) were compared, one assessed before the crisis and the other during the crisis (N = 1,057 and 1,052, respectively). Cohort findings were disaggregated by immigrant status, generation, and ethnic group. Crisis‐cohort youth experienced more economic problems, displayed worse conduct, higher levels of absenteeism, and lower self‐efficacy than precrisis youth. The cohorts did not differ in well‐being, school engagement, and academic achievement. Most crisis‐cohort groups showed a pervasive increase in conduct problems compared to the precrisis cohort. However, some of these groups also showed an increase in academic achievement.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/the-role-of-arts-in-raising-ethical-awareness-and-knowledge-of-the-european-refugee-crisis-among-social-work-students-an-example-from-the-classroom/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:51 +0000 http://arc.local/items/the-role-of-arts-in-raising-ethical-awareness-and-knowledge-of-the-european-refugee-crisis-among-social-work-students-an-example-from-the-classroom/ Continued]]> This paper presents and discusses an arts-based project, carried out by the first-year students in the classroom, at the Department of Social Work, in Athens, Greece. The project was designed for raising ethical awareness and knowledge of the 2015 Europe’s refugee crisis among social work students. The purpose of this project was three-fold: (1) to help students to better understand the refugee crisis as an emerging problem in Europe and in the rest of the world; (2) to help students raise their ethical awareness about the plight of refugees and to learn how to avoid discrimination and racism; and (3) to improve students’ abilities to work effectively with refugee populations. The project used art-based activities (drawing, writing, photos, etc.) as a powerful pedagogical tool for teaching students and supporting their learning in the classroom. As the literature has shown, the use of arts in social work education helps student to learn through an artistic and creative way and provides a secure base, from which they can explore real-life situations and try to give meaning to them.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/crisis-brain-drain-short-term-pain-long-term-gain/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:50 +0000 http://arc.local/items/crisis-brain-drain-short-term-pain-long-term-gain/ Continued]]> The emigration of professionals from Greece is a phenomenon that predates the current crisis. It is historically attributed to the low demand for highly skilled work in the Greek labour market and to related structural malfunctions of the Greek productive model of the past decades. Yet it is during the past few years that it has acquired alarming dimensions. In this chapter we explore the magnitude, dynamics and impacts of the phenomenon at times of crisis, recession and austerity. We further provide evidence on the aspirations and experiences of the emigrants themselves based on which we propose policies that could be implemented to alleviate its negative consequences.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/why-high-school-students-aspire-to-emigrate-evidence-from-greece/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:50 +0000 http://arc.local/items/why-high-school-students-aspire-to-emigrate-evidence-from-greece/ Continued]]> This paper investigates why Greek high school students aspire to emigrate, in relation to their educational and socio-economic background. Through fieldwork research conducted at three specialist high schools in Thessaloniki, three main conclusions have been drawn. Firstly, potential emigrants are ambitious, with high educational and professional expectations and a clear migration plan. Secondly, they are middle and upper middle class and excel at school—in socio-economic and educational terms, they therefore constitute the most dynamic Greek youths. Thirdly, in a period of recession on a European level, the alarming fact is that student emigration can undermine recovery for a country in crisis such as Greece. That is, middle-class shrinkage caused by the recession can be aggravated by emigration, which in turn might cost the loss of developmental human resources for Greece and a deepening of the recession. This can further stimulate migration, resulting in a vicious circle between crisis and emigration. Furthermore, if potential emigrants do not return because temporary emigration for studies becomes permanent migration for work, the economic crisis is worsened, and Greece’s prospects for development are further undermined.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/the-role-of-education-in-regional-labour-markets-evidence-from-two-fragile-economies/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:50 +0000 http://arc.local/items/the-role-of-education-in-regional-labour-markets-evidence-from-two-fragile-economies/ Continued]]> This chapter aims to describe regional disparities in the labour market performance of two southern EU countries, Greece and Spain, during the period covering the economic boom and the recession caused by the international financial crisis at the end of the last decade. The crisis hit these two economies with particular virulence due to their macroeconomic imbalances and the weaknesses of their economic structures. This resulted in adjustments in employment and wages in regions that were among the most dynamic during the booming period. An important factor in processes of adjustment, and in the determination of equilibrium outcomes with regard to wages and unemployment more generally, has to do with the human capital endowment available to each regional economy. Thus, this chapter also provides evidence of the effect of the individuals’ level of education on unemployment and wages in each region. The hypothesis is that the regional distribution of individuals’ education would be a key driver of disparities in labour market outcomes and in regional responses to the crisis, and that the impact that education has on unemployment and wages varies depending on the region.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/shooting-a-moving-target-the-sisyphus-boulder-of-increasing-participation-in-adult-education-during-the-period-of-economic-crisis/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:49 +0000 http://arc.local/items/shooting-a-moving-target-the-sisyphus-boulder-of-increasing-participation-in-adult-education-during-the-period-of-economic-crisis/ Continued]]> This article presents a study conducted after the onset of the economic crisis in Greece. The study lasted for more than five years and was organized by the Research Institutes of Trade Union Confederation of Greece and the Hellenic Small Enterprises Institute of the Confederation of Professionals, Craftsmen and Merchants. Using a mixed methodology, combining qualitative and quantitative approaches, we attempt to investigate participation in adult education and record the reasons and barriers which shape participation patterns. Data presented in this article show that participation has increased in Greece, and at the same time inequalities are magnified, while the economic crisis seems to be a serious deterrent factor for a further development of adult education. Our goal is to interpret those findings based on developments of contemporary Greek society with regard to the meaning that participants attribute to the factors affecting their participation.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/an-overview-of-greeces-brain-drain-crisis-morphology-and-beyond/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:49 +0000 http://arc.local/items/an-overview-of-greeces-brain-drain-crisis-morphology-and-beyond/ Continued]]> Greece’s severe economic crisis has been adversely affecting the country as a whole. One response to economic strain, unemployment and the lack of prospects has been the resumption of emigration, which has been expounding significantly. This is not dissimilar with the situation among other crisis-ridden countries too. The crisis’s most adverse impact is also reflected in Greece’s higher education. Specifically, the crisis has encroached and upset the market situation of both university teaching staff and Master and PhD holders to such a measure that it has come to operate as a potent push factor for an intensified brain drain. Indeed, the ongoing migratory exodus is directed primarily, but not exclusively, to Western EU countries, and operates as a survival mechanism. It affects the highly educated or trained, which are the new and potent element when compared with earlier episodes of emigration, although it is not solely limited to them. Even so, the assets that the highly educated actors mobilized in leaving the country and their numerical preponderance point to a middle-class social background. In fact, the resumption of the brain drain from Greece may also be seen as a pre-eminently middle-class social response to the crisis.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/hope-over-fear-social-work-education-towards-2025-esperanza-sobre-el-miedo-la-educacion-en-trabajo-social-hacia-el-ano-2025/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:48 +0000 http://arc.local/items/hope-over-fear-social-work-education-towards-2025-esperanza-sobre-el-miedo-la-educacion-en-trabajo-social-hacia-el-ano-2025/ Continued]]> Prediction of possible futures is fraught with dangers. Neither the global economic crisis which erupted in 2008 nor the political earthquake which shook Scotland over the issue of independence during 2014 was foreseen by many commentators, if indeed any. Given these experiences, predicting where social work education might be in 2025 is a potentially hazardous enterprise. Nevertheless, the recent resurgence of interest in utopian thinking reflects a widely felt desire to go beyond ‘capitalist realism’ and to envisage different possibilities – a desire also reflected in political developments in Greece and Spain. This development is primarily in reaction to the dominance of another form of utopian (or dystopian) thinking: neo-liberalism, with its message that ‘there is no alternative’. In this paper, I will argue that that search for alternatives has important implications for social work and social work education. Following a discussion of the ways in which neo-liberalism has shaped the profession over two decades, the paper will identify current challenges to neo-liberal social work and social work education and more widely, to the politics of austerity. Drawing on examples from different countries, I will argue that this ‘new radicalism’ points the way to a more politically engaged social work education.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/brain-drain-in-higher-education-in-europe-current-trends-and-future-perspectives/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:48 +0000 http://arc.local/items/brain-drain-in-higher-education-in-europe-current-trends-and-future-perspectives/ Continued]]> Since the early 1990s, certain European Union (EU) initiatives such as the Erasmus programme provided the opportunity to a great number of academics, researchers and students to move for a relatively short period of time to other EU member states in order to enhance their skills and improve their career potential (a phenomenon known as ‘brain circulation’). The popularity of particular member states such as Italy, Spain, Germany and the United Kingdoom has gradually created an influx of highly skilled staff especially from the less developed EU member states, from Southern Europe and the former Eastern European countries. The proposed changes in the EU Higher Education and Research frameworks during the 1990s and the 2000s encupsulated in the Bologna and Lisbon initiatives respectively, have had controversial results. In addition, the internationalisation and to a great extent the (competitive) commercialisation of Higher Education (HE) has left many EU member states behind since they failed to reform their national HE systems. A masive exodus of academics and researchers was observed from 2008 until 2017, mainly from the countries that suffered more the consequeses of the economic crisis (Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece and Cyprus). The destination (host) countries included primarily locations within the EU, with the most popular being the the UK and Germany. The mass emigration of academic staff within and outside the EU (‘brain drain’) is causing loss of highly skilled human capital with catastrophic consequenses for the sending (home) countries. On the other hand, host member states utilise to the maximum the capabilities of the EU academics and researchers (‘brain gain’) in order to achieve competitive advantage in the so called ‘knowledge economy’.

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