2009 Learning Conference – Plenary Speaker Added

Anna Frangoudaki, University of Athens, Greece
www.LearningConference.com 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.