Aspasia Chatzidaki

Dr. Aspasia Chatzidaki is a Professor in the Department of Primary Education at the University of Crete and Director of the Centre for Intercultural and Migration Studies. From 2019 to 2023, she served as the Head of the Department, while from 2016 to 2021 she was an elected board member of the Centre for Research and Studies (CERS-UC) of the University of Crete.

In her research, Dr. Chatzidaki focuses on teacher education for diversity and inclusion in various contexts and on Greek as a second and heritage language. She has participated in various research and teacher education projects (more recently in the ERASMUS KA220-HED project ‘’Global Teacher Education-GatherED’’, 2021-2024) and has published on issues of minority language maintenance and inclusive/ empowering approaches to education with regard to bilingual students. She is currently involved in research on the status of Greek as a heritage language in Ontario.

Since 2019 she has co-edited three collective volumes on refugee education in Greece and ‘new’ migration from and to Greece (J.A. Panagiotopoulou, L. Rosen, C. Kirsch, & A. Chatzidaki, A. (Eds), (2019)‘New’ Migration of Families from Greece to Europe and Canada - A ‘New’ Challenge for Education? Berlin: Springer, Chatzidaki, A. & Tsokalidou, R. (Eds) (2021). Challenges and Initiatives in Refugee Education: the case of Greece. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, and Κousis, M., Chatzidaki, A., & Kafetsios, K. (Eds) (2022). Challenging Mobilities in and to the EU during Times of Crises. The Case of Greece. IMISCOE Springer series (Open Access)] She has also published two books in Greek [Chatzidaki, A. (2020). Teaching bilingual Children: theoretical issues and pedagogical approaches, Athens, pedio, and Chatzidaki, A. & Maligkoudi, C. (2023). Community-language development among minority-group children: the role of family and school. Κallipos, Open Academic Editions, http://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-359]

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Michalis Damanakis

Michalis Damanakis is Professor Emeritus of Intercultural Pedagogy at the University of Crete, founder of the Laboratory for Intercultural and Migration Studies (E.DI.M.ME) and founder and director of the series "Intercultural Pedagogy" at Gutenberg Publications. After his graduation from P.A. Heraklion (1968), he studied Pedagogy, Sociology, Philosophy and History at the University of Cologne, obtaining the degrees of Magister Artium (1975) and Doctor of Philosophy (1977). Between 1979 and 1985 he worked at the Universities of Mainz and Essen in Germany and from 1985 to 1994 at the University of Ioannina, while in the spring of 1994 he moved to the Pedagogical Department of the University of Crete.

From 1999 to 2004 he was Vice Rector of the University of Crete. He also served as Director of the P.E.K. He was also Director of the Heraklion and the Centre for Research and Studies of the University of Crete, while for more than two decades he was a collaborator of the Ministry of Education on issues of Greek-language education in the Diaspora. He has taught as a visiting professor at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia and Hamburg, Germany. In May 2015 he was honoured for his scientific contribution at an International Conference by the Universities of Toronto, the Aegean and Crete.

His scientific interests focus on Migration, Intercultural Education and Education and Greek-language Education in the Diaspora, areas in which he has implemented major research projects, such as the Education of the Homogenous project.

Theodosia Michelakaki

Theodosia Michelakaki is a PhD in Intercultural Pedagogy and a member of the Laboratory Teaching Staff of the University of Crete. She is a member of the Laboratory of Intercultural and Migration Studies (EDIAMME) of the same department and has participated in several research projects. Her research interests focus on Intercultural Pedagogy, identity and diversity in migrant environments, migration, Greek language education in the diaspora, educational policy, intercultural communication. She has edited conference proceedings, teaching materials and published studies on the above topics.

Paraskevi Thomou

Dr Paraskevi Thomou is an Associate Professor of ‘Lexicology and the Teaching of the Modern Greek Language’ at the Department of Primary Education at the University of Crete, Greece. She has studied Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at University of Reading and University of Crete.

Her research interests include semantic aspects of vocabulary, phraseology of Modern Greek, pedagogical lexicography and learning and teaching of vocabulary. More specifically, she has published research on figurative language and teaching, has written the book “Lexical issues of the Greek language: theory and applications” (Λεξιλογικά ζητήματα της Νέας ελληνικής γλώσσας - Πεδίο Εκδοτική (pediobooks.gr) and has compiled a pedagogical dictionary of multi-word units (Λεξικό περιφράσεων (uoc.gr).

She has been the coordinator of the research projects ‘Compilation of a thesaurus of phrasal patterns of Modern Greek’ and ‘Phraseology realization in a Modern Greek language corpus’. Currently, she is the coordinator of the module “Teaching Greek as a second language: learning and teaching of grammar and vocabulary of the “Teach for integration” project and she participates at the Global teacher Education Erasmus+ programme.

Kyriaki Petraki

Petraki Kyriaki ETEP-PTDE University of Crete, MDE Educational Studies

Telephone: 28310 77604.

E-mail: petrakik@uoc.gr

Dina Metaxa

Metaxa Konstantina ETEP-SGTKSΕΤΕΠ - ΣΓΤΚΣ (School of Graphic Arts and Artistic Studies), Department of Graphic Design, ex TEO Athens

Telephone: 28310 77687

E-mail: kmetaxa@uoc.gr

Papadopoulos-Deloglou Simeon

Simos Papadopoulos Deloglou is a graduate of the Department of Philology at the University of Crete, specializing in Linguistics (2020). He completed his postgraduate studies at the Department of Primary Education of the University of Crete, focusing on teaching Greek as a first and second or foreign language. As part of his thesis, he explored the digital literacy practices of bilingual adolescents in schools in Rethymnon (2023). Since November 2023, he has been a PhD candidate at the Department of Primary Education, under the supervision of Aspasia Chatzidaki, Professor at the Department of Primary Education. His dissertation topic is: The use of digital storytelling in teaching Greek as a heritage language: research in Greek language schools in Canada.