https://toarcheio.org To Archeio project site Mon, 20 Apr 2020 14:08:52 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 https://toarcheio.org/items/hope-for-a-different-kind-of-pedagogy-in-greece-in-times-of-crisis/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:47 +0000 http://arc.local/items/hope-for-a-different-kind-of-pedagogy-in-greece-in-times-of-crisis/ Continued]]> This paper is based on a study conducted in 2014 that aimed to learn more about teachers’ experiences of the recent political and economical changes in Greece and the new challenges that stem from these, as well as teachers’ perceptions of the possibilities for the future. This study attempted to seek out possibilities of hope, particularly those possibilities which are articulated by teachers. Specifically, it attempted to explore how we can build on the strengths of the present education system in order to transform it and create a different system that will suit the current major societal changes and face the challenging circumstances. Throughout this study, it is not assumed that teachers have solutions, nor that they are solely responsible for reconstruction, but rather that they have a worthwhile contribution that may offer possibilities, and which should be heard. As a result, this research study endeavoured to give voice to teachers’ concerns, anxieties, commitments, and hopes. This paper focuses on teachers’ views about the possible role of the Greek education system in the reconstruction of society and political life in post-crisis Greece, and on teachers’ hopes about the creation of an education system that will suit the current major societal changes and face the challenging new circumstances.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/state-education-systems-and-totalitarian-economy-greece-as-a-case-study-of-neoliberalisms-failure-2008-2014/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:31 +0000 http://arc.local/items/state-education-systems-and-totalitarian-economy-greece-as-a-case-study-of-neoliberalisms-failure-2008-2014/ Continued]]> The article attempts to analyze through a critical approach the changes taking place in the domain of public education systems when the financial conditions are reformed due to the capitalist crises and recession. Its basic aim is to examine the extent to which the size, the quality and the existence itself of the education provided by the state is influenced by these conditions. This study, which is based on the presentation of data concerning the extensive simultaneous shrinking of the state and education as in the case of Greece, concludes that this withdrawal of the state from the management of the social reproduction is not a temporary phenomenon but a more permanent one due to a structural transformation of capitalism. The essay predicts a rather bleak future whereby there will be fewer public educational institutions, whose terms of operation will be worse and the professional future of its graduates would correspond to clearly fewer working positions.

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