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Vasiliki Kantzara is currently employed as Professor at the Department of Sociology, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences. Vasiliki is interested in the structure of social relations, the relation of education to societal institutions; the structure of the self and in methodology. She supervises ph.d studies on teacher's conflict situation with students and on evaluation methods of their work. Her current projects are in the area of research: "The ramifications of the crisis on education in Greece" : governing from a distance and privatising".
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This paper examines educational exclusions of children and young people in the face of transnational dynamics of (forced) migration and New Educational Governance. The latter is understood as a globally dominant reform model that has – based on the two pillars of deregulation and privatization of (formerly) state responsibility for education and, a...
Weber. Αξίζει λοιπόν 100 χρόνια μετά το θάνατό του να εξετάσουμε πώς εφαρμόζεται η φορμαλιστική ορθολογικότητα σήμερα και τι συνέπειες έχει. Λέξεις κλειδιά: ελληνική εκπαίδευση, εκπαιδευτικές μεταρρυθμίσεις, τυπική ορθολογικότητα, Max Weber Abstract In times of crisis, Greek education became the subject of administrative, economic and educational r...
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Το κείμενο αυτό διερευνά τη στάση των εκπαιδευτικών στην ψηφιακή διδασκαλία σε συνθήκες πανδημίας Covid-19 σ ε δ υο χ ώρες, τ ην Ε λλάδα κ αι τ η Γ ερμανία. Στηρίζεται σε έρευνα που διεξήχθη και στις δυο χώρες και η οποία μελέτησε τις συνθήκες, τις σχέσεις και τις επιλογές των εκπαιδευτικών, ώστε να κατανοήσει τη στάση το...
Το άρθρο αυτό επικεντρώνεται στη θέσπιση της «Ελάχιστης Βάσης Εισαγωγής» (Ε.Β.Ε) και αποσκοπεί να θέσει ερωτήματα περί της ουδετερότητας της Ε.Β.Ε ως μέσου ρύθμισης της ροής και της εισαγωγής υποψηφίων στην τριτοβάθμια. Για το λόγο αυτό εξετάζουμε κατά πρώτον την Ε.Β.Ε ως μέσο άσκησης εκπαιδευτικής πολιτικής και κατά δεύτερο την αιτιολόγησή της στο...
The research stream aims to bring together sociologists and social scientists from Europe and beyond who study the impact of forced lockdown due to Covid-19 measures on teaching, training and learning. These measures imposed great pressure on all parties involved in education and it is worth studying how organisations and individuals coped with the...
This work explores, reports, and reflects on the teaching and learning aspects of the online courses in Aikido, a peaceful martial art, under Covid-19 lockdown conditions in Greece. The essay is based on research and on auto-ethnographic accounts of the digital courses the authors of this text have set up as teachers of Aikido during the pandemic....
Ε-ΚτΕ: Η Έρευνα στην Κοινωνιολογία της Εκπαίδευσης (R-SocEdu: Research in Sociology of Education), Vol. 2: 5-27.
[Greek] (For English scrowl below) Το δοκίμιο αυτό επικεντρώνεται στον εκφοβισμό ως μια μορφή βίαιης συμπεριφοράς μαθητών στο σχολείο απέναντι σε συμμαθητές τους, και αποπειράται να το διερευνήσει και να το κατανοήσει από μια κοινωνιολο...
The term “status” originates from Latin and denotes standing in society. Status refers to valued social positions that originate from legal‐political entitlements and command of economic resources, and is accompanied by a particular lifestyle. Status thus indicates the location of individuals and groups on the social hierarchy of honor and prestige...
p>The article aims at exploring the ramification of the crisis on education in terms of access to education, educational attainment of the population, funding, schools, teachers and students. These and other aspects of education are examined on basis of statistical data that has been collected and published by international agencies and Greek sourc...
Prestige originally referred to a conjuror's trick. In the social sciences, however, prestige denotes the honor, respect, and esteem attained by individuals and groups for their skills and achievement. Prestige as a symbolic value constitutes a form of social evaluation. Research has focused on an array of aspects, from professional prestige to pre...
Education as an institution is related in multiple ways to organized society. The education system has been established recently in human history and, since then, has found itself in a reciprocal relationship with other societal institutions and with society as a whole. In the sociology of education, in particular, this relationship has been analyz...
This article examines the ways education isrelated to social cohesion, mainly in sociologyof education approaches. The notion ofcohesion is used widely, especially as a nobleaim worth striving at, in order to sustain theties that keep society together. Education isviewed as an important institution that contributesto cohesion by socialising the new...
Meaning as a concept denotes processes of connotation and signification. Meaning constitutes a means used by humans in order to introduce order in the surrounding chaos. In doing so, humans make sense and understand this world. They do this on the basis of taxonomies that is meaning attribution that involves naming, categorizing, and classifying bo...
This article explores citizens’ initiatives in setting up groups in order to provide relief on a solidarity basis in Greece. The text discusses the diversity of the organisations being set up, since 2011, and the kind of relief offered to all those, who are made to be in need. The articles sets two interrelated targets, a theoretical and an empiric...
The chapter attempts to highlight common premises and views on consciousness in the discipline of sociology. It dwells in particular on issues involved analytically, theoretically and empirically in relation to the question, How is consciousness defined and studied? The term consciousness denotes a constitutive element of life and being of both ind...
Prestige originates from Latin and it initially meant conjuror's tricks, marking in this way its illusory but mostly symbolic nature in human societies. In social sciences the notion prestige denotes symbolic value expressed as a quality of honor and esteem that individuals and social groups may attain on the basis of desirable traits and achieveme...
Education is commonly defined as cultivation, transmission of knowledge, and skill development that is imparted from an older to a younger generation. Historically, education is closely related to organized society. The institutionalization of the education system, more recently, posed a set of questions in social sciences that addressed and explor...
Education as an institution is related in multiple ways to organized society. The education system has been established recently in human history and, since then, has found itself in a reciprocal relationship with other societal institutions and with society as a whole. In the sociology of education, in particular, this relationship has been analyz...
This PhD thesis explores the relationship between gender and professional prestige. In order to study this relationship I focus on professional identity of teachers and ask what ‘characteristics’ play a role when teachers grant respect and esteem to a colleague. In addition, I examine how the quality of teachers’ work performance is evaluated by th...
