- Anna Frangoudaki, University of Athens, Greece
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Anna Frangoudaki is a professor at the University of Athens. Her fields of research include social inequalities in education, sociology of language, analysis of school textbooks, ethnocentrism in school, discrimination of minorities in education. She has collaborated with academics from Belgium, Israel, Italy, the Palestinian Authority, and Turkey on joint projects trying to adapt school knowledge to democratic ideas and values, by challenging prejudiced knowledge transmitted by schools, through which racism, social discrimination, nationalism and sexism are reproduced. Since 1997, she co-headed the Ministry of Greek Education - European Union Project on the educational reform of the Muslim Minority population in north-eastern Greece.
Monthly Archive for June, 2009
- Thalia Dragonas, University of Athens, Greece
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Thalia Dragonas is a Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Athens. She was for several terms Head of the Department of Early Childhood Education, she was a member of the board of the Greek Open University and the Center of Educational Research. Her research activity lies in the area of identities and the articulation of the social with the psychological. She has participated in and directed many Greek and international projects and has worked extensively for the educational reform of the Muslim Minority in Western Thrace. Specific areas of research interests are: psychosocial identity and intergroup relations, intercultural education and ethnocentrism in the educational system, prevention and promotion of early psychosocial health, transition to parenthood, construction of fatherhood and masculinity as well as research methodological issues such as the relationship of qualitative and quantitative techniques.Currently she is an MP with PASOK. She participates in Parliamentary Committees on Education, Culture, Equality and Human Rights.