INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CRITICAL EDUCATION

ATHENS 12-16 JULY 2011

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

TUESDAY 12 JULY OPENING CEREMONY Central Building University of Athens – Propylaea, 30 Panepistimiou st. Athens center 11:00 – 11:10 Prof. Kostas Skordoulis Local Organizing Committee 11:10 – 11:25 Office of the Rector University of Athens 11:25 – 11:35 Prof. Athanasios Trilianos Department of Education- President 11:35 – 11:40 A/ Prof. Konstantinos Malafantis President of the Hellenic Pedagogical Society 11:40 – 11:50 Prof. Efthymios Nicolaidis President of the Hellenic Society of History, Philosophy and Didactics of Science 11:50 – 12:30 Prof. Dave Hill International Organizing Committee 12:30 – 13:30 PLENARY SPEECH Prof. Aristides Baltas (National Technical University of Athens) “Teaching radically novel physical theories: the role of nonsense” 13:30 – 17:00 LUNCH BREAK EVENING SESSION Marasleion Academy Building, 4 Marasli st. 17:00 – 18:00 REGISTRATION ROOM 1 ROOM 2 ROOM 3 ROOM 4 ROOM 5 18:00 – 18:30 Alpesh Maisuria Alexandra Lekka & Amima Sayeed Beatrice Dike Alessandra Troian & “A Critical Examination of Theodore Alexiou “The Balancing Act: “Critical Reflective Marcelo Leandro Eichler Critical Race Theory in “Science and Memory: Critical Education vs Practice with "Alice" “Extension or Education” Critical pedagogy and Cultural Values and communication? – The Museum Learning” Traditions” role of rural extension and

2 the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in the perceptions of tobacco farmers…. 18:30 – 19:00 Anastasia Liasidou Achilleas Mandrikas Andreas M. Kazamias Christos Athanasoulis Ajaz Bhat “Inclusive education and “Critical Environmental “The Owl of Minerva: A “Trying To Infuse “Cloning individuals critical pedagogy at the Education for Pre-service Comparative Critical Criticality into Greek through education, intersections of disability, Elementary Teachers” Analysis of "Critical MBA Marketing Education as a medium of race, gender and class” Humanist Pedagogy", Courses” exploitation” Ancient and Modern- With particular reference to Socrates, Paulo Freire and Peter McLaren” 19:00 – 19:30 Angela Hill Constantina Stephanidou Anastassios Liambas & Dilek Cankaya & Gaye Alex Koutsouris “School readiness for “What is the "Nature of Ioannis Kaskaris Unver Germiyanlioglu “Education from a Critical highly mobile Indigenous Science" promoted by “Dialogue and love in “Turkish Teachers' Realist point of view” students: the need for a PISA?” the work of Paulo Union and Historical holistic policy approach” Freire” Roots of Transformation of Their Critics” 19:30 – 20:00 COFFEE BREAK 20:00 – 20:30 Christopher A. Warren Domingos Leite Lima George N. Vlahakis Isik Sabirli Anna Kostoula “The Effect of Post-Racial Filho “Towards a radical “Towards a “The ideologies behind Theory on Education” “The "technological era" education. Trotsky on Transformative Parent our educational system” between reality and Dewey's philosophy of Involvement” fantasy: reflections based education” on the concepts of work, education and technology in Marx's theory”

3 20:30 – 21:00 Dimitris Zachos Evgenia Flogaitis, Giorgos Tsimouris Gerry Czerniawski Anna-Carin Jonsson & “Institutional Racism? Christina Nomikou, Elli “The task of critical “Trust, Contextual Dennis Beach Roma children, local Naoum, Christina educator in the era of sensitivity and student “The problem of community and school Katsenou globalized immigration: voice” reproduction of class in practices” “Investigating the a view from the the teacher educational possibilities of creating a European periphery” programs” Community of Practice. Action Research in three educational constitutions” 21:00 – 21:30 Evangelia Moula & Mary Dimitris Tsoubaris Harpreet Kaur Jass, George Bikos Casey Edmonds Kampouropoulou “The potential of socially Jyoti Dalal “Development of Critical “Diff-ability not disability" “Art and Fairy- tales in an critical environmental “Understanding Critical Thinking by secondary - Right brained thinkers in interdisciplinary education through the Pedagogy: Two case education students” a left brained education interaction: Their examination of local studies of schooling in system” contribution to self- environmental problems” Indian setting” understanding and to the subversion of gender roles and stereotypes” 21:30 – 22:30 WELCOME RECEPTION IN MARASLEION ACADEMY BUILDING

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WEDNESDAY 13 JULY PLENARY SESSIONS National Hellenic Research Foundation, 48 Vassileos Constantinou Ave. 10:00 – 11:00 PLENARY SPEECH Dave Hill ( ) “Contextualising, Critiquing and Constructing Critical Education: a Marxist activist perspective” 11:00 – 11:30 COFFEE BREAK 11:30 – 13:00 ROUND TABLE “The Unfolding Revolution in the Arab Worlds” Organizer: Sharhzad Mojab (University of Toronto), Participants: Maryam Jazaeri (independent researcher), Amir Hassanpour (University of Toronto, Canada) 12:30 – 14:00 ROUND TABLE “The movement of Syntagma Square, Athens” Coordinator: Spyros Sakellaropoulos (Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, ), Participants: Stavros Stavrides (National Technical University of Athens, Greece), Nicholas Skoufoglou (University of Athens, Greece), Theodore Alexiou (Aristotle University of , Greece), Christina Palliou (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)

14:00 – 18:00 LUNCH BREAK EVENING SESSION Marasleion Academy Building, 4 Marasli st. ROOM 1 ROOM 2 ROOM 3 ROOM 4 ROOM 5 18:00 – 18:30 Ira Papageorgiou Ethel Petrou, Ann Irida Tsevreni Konstantina Charlotte Chadderton “Educational activities in Wright, Gail Zichittella, “Critical pedagogy of Drakopoulou and “UK secondary schools campaign organisations: Joe Zawicki space meets the needs Konstantinos Avramidis under surveillance” Promoting migrants' socio- “Inquiry Based and ideas of disabled “New York Style Graffiti political involvement Performance Assessment children for creative as an Educator of Urban through language Tasks” play and learning Adolescents in Greece”

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18:30 – 19:00 Karen François & Charoula Ioanna K. Stavrou & Jerrold Kachur Maria Nikolakaki & Babis Eleni Prokou Stathopoulou Kostas Skordoulis “The Liberal Virus in Baltas “Higher education and “In-Between Critical “Critical Science Critical Pedagogy: “Post-Neoliberal "lifelong learning" in Mathematics Education and Education and Science Beyond "Anti-This-and- Citizenship: Toward New Europe in the era of Ethnomathematics. The Fiction” That" Postmodernism Notions Of Belonging globalisation” Case of a Romany Students' and Three Problems in Through Education” group Mathematics the Idea of Education” Communism” 19:00 – 19:30 Gianna Katsiampoura Gabor Pallo Jina Kalogirou & Tara Silver & Shahrzad Emery Hyslop-Margison “Gender Studies in the “The Making of Genius: Konstantinos Mojab & Maria Nikolakaki Greek University: from the Science Education in Malafantis “Reading Adult Learning “Post Neo-liberal feminist movement to the “Do I dare/disturb the & Education through Capitalism and The Early 20th Century official curriculum universe? Critical Marxist-Feminism” Collapse of the Higher Hungary” Pedagogy and the ethics Education” of resistance to and engagement with literature” 19:30 – 20:00 COFFEE BREAK 20:00 – 20:30 Kemal Osal & Elif Gultekin Katerina Bazigou Nathalia E. Jaramillo Nosheen Rachel Naseem Evangelos Intzidis “Displaced Peoples “Creating learning “Women in Movement: & Mike Dawney “The flow of vagueness: Educational Opportunities” communities in the Critical Praxis for “Challenging hierarchies the machinery of the context of Education for Revolutionary Action” of learning: Peer internanional agents Sustainability” Mentoring in Pakistani (EU, UN, OECD) for LLL Universities and socio- and citizenship” political change” 20:30 – 21:00 Vicki Macris Kostas Skordoulis Petar Jandric Panagiotis Maniatis Farah Farooqi “Towards a Pedagogy of “From the radical science “What is (critical) e- “Critical Intercultural “Understanding School Philoxenia (Hospitality): movement to critical learning? A conceptual Education: Necessities and Schooling: Pages

6 Negotiating Policy Priorities science education” analysis” and Prerequisites for its from School Manager's for Immigrant Students in development in Greece” Diary” Greek Public Schools” 21:00 – 21:30 Duna Sabri L. Prinou & L. Halkia Rebecca Clare Maria Vaina Fayaz Ahmad Bhat “The politics of public “"It's Nature's fault..." “Reclaiming critical “The school experiment “Schooling doesn't carry information and ‘the Chronic difficulties in the education: developing a of Ioannis Kondylakis equal promise to student voice’: student teaching of the theory of collaborative, counter- (1885, Crete) on the everyone, enhances evaluations of teaching” biological evolution in hegemonic community model of Tolstoy school enhanced, diminishes Greece” in some colleges in the (1862, Jasnaja Polyana) diminished”

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THURSDAY 14 JULY PLENARY SESSIONS NATIONAL HELLENIC RESEARCH FOUNTATION, Vassileos Konstantinou 48 10:00 – 11:00 PLENARY SPEECH John Preston University of East London, London, UK “Rediscovering ‘Race Traitor’” 11:00 – 11:30 COFFEE BREAK 11:30 – 12:30 PLENARY SPEECH Amrohini Sahay Hofstra University, New York, USA “Race, Biopolitics, and Class Struggle Now” 12:30 – 14:00 ROUND TABLE “What is the university for? The contemporary university confronted with the irrational forces of the marketplaces” Organiser: Spyros Themelis (Middlesex University, UK), Participants: Zsuzsa Plainer (The Romanian Institute for Researching National Minority Issues, Cluj-Napoca, Romania and Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania), Alpesh Maisuria ( & London Institute of Education, UK), Eyfrosyni-Alkisti Paraskeyopoulou-Kollia (University of Central Greece), Ferenc Arató (Institution of Education, University of Pécs, Hungary), Nosheen-Rachel Naseem (Middlesex University, London, UK), Mike Dawney (Middlesex University, London, UK), Stamatis Kapousis (Birmingham City University), Paraskevi Delikari (University of Crete, Greece)

14:00 – 18:00 LUNCH BREAK EVENING SESSION Marasleion Academy Building, 4 Marasli st. ROOM 1 ROOM 2 ROOM 3 ROOM 4 ROOM 5 18:00 – 18:30 Zeynep Derince Paul J. Welsh Vassiliki Ioannidi & George Pasias & Yannis Ferenc Aratό “Reflections on “Magic, Mystery and Konstantinos Tsilafakis Roussakis “Cooperative paradigm Conditionings in Turkey” Marxism: Is “Building a critical “Who marks the bench? as a de-construction of

8 Denominational Education contribution of A critical review of the the hierarchical, racist, an Oxymoron?” educational approaches topoi, logoi and praxes antidemocratic systems to health promotion” of the EU educational of education” paradigm” 18:30 – 19:00 Tyson Marsh, Danya Al- Matina Balabekou & Xenia Stathatou & Maria Lianou, Angeliki Foteini Papadopoulou Saleh, Mohammed Rafi Georgis Floriotis Anastasia Matsouki & Orsalia “Physical Education Arefin “Antonio Gramsci, Pamouktsoglou Zoubouli teachers and Disaffected “American-Egyptian Education and Science” “Socialization, “Education in Youth: Discussing PE Neoliberal Imperialist consumerism and Critical Afghanistan. A critical teachers’ career long Imperatives and the Pedagogy: Consumer analysis” professional Construction of Consent: Identities” development (CPD) Space, Place, and P-20 needs” Privatization in New Cairo, Egypt” 19:00 – 19:30 COFFEE BREAK 19:30 – 20:00 Peter Pericles Trifonas Vangelis Koutalis Zsuzsa Plainer Ioannis Sideris G. Androulakis, G. “The Aporia of “Making discoveries for a “Is The Second Chance a “Social exclusion Economakis, A. Forgiveness better life vs. bringing Second Chance? - through education?” Lapanaiti, L. Maroudas fruits to the national Implementation of a “The effects of treasury: Davy, Babbage joining-up educational educational reforms on and the (ongoing) struggle programme for Roma in Greek universities' for the soul of science” Romania” institutional - scientific functions and academic labour process” 20:00 – 20:30 Tyson Marsh, Danya Al- Tristan McCowan Magdalini Kolokitha, Saleh, Mohammed Rafi “Political education Layla Branicki, John Arefin through the Preston “American-Egyptian "prefigurative": the case “Be prepared, be Neoliberal Imperialist of the Brazilian Landless resilient, be evacuative; Imperatives and the Movement” evacuation and disaster

9 Construction of Consent: discourses” Space, Place, and P-20 Privatization in New Cairo, Egypt” 21:00 CONFERENCE DINNER AT RESTAURANT “EP’AVLI”, ARCHIMIDOUS 14 STR., PAGRATI

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FRIDAY 15 JULY PLENARY SESSIONS NATIONAL HELLENIC RESEARCH FOUNDATION, Vassileos Konstantinou 48 10:00 – 11:00 PLENARY SPEECH Peter McLaren University of California at Los Angeles, USA “From Critical Pedagogy to Revolutionary Critical Pedagogy: Towards a Decolonial Marxism for a Post-Capitalist Future” 11:00 – 11:30 COFFEE BREAK 11:30 – 12:00 PLENARY SPEECH Papageorgiou Chrysoula Greek Unemployed Teachers Union, Greece 12:00 – 13:00 DISCUSSION ABOUT THE FUTURE of this CONFERENCE and other matters 13:00 – 18:00 LUNCH BREAK EVENING SESSION Marasleion Academy Building, 4 Marasli st. 18:00 – 20:00 SYMPOSIUM 1: “Transparency, Surveillance And The SYMPOSIUM 2: “Inciting the Political Imagination: Obedient Citizen: How A Shifting Narrative Is Higher Education Teaching and Research for Criminalizing Critical Pedagogical Spaces” Progressive Change”

Organizer: Shultz Lynette (University of Alberta, Organizer: Themelis Spyros (Middlesex University, Canada),Participants: Cambre Carolina (University of UK), Participants: Sumar Wesley (Drexel University, Alberta, Canada), Hamdon Evelyn (University of USA), Themelis Spyros (Middlesex University), Alberta, Canada), Shultz Lynette (University of Alberta, Canaan Joyce (Birmingham City University) Canada) 20:00 – 20:30 COFFEE BREAK

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20:30 – 21:00 Panagiotis Sotiris Selda Polat Ulas Ozer Nicholas Halil Buyruk , Berna “Theorizing the “A Research Intended To “A Comparison Of Music Georgopoulos Sahin Ozdemir, Yalcin Entrepreneurial Analyse The Vocational Education Provided In “Building Awareness of Ozdemir University: open Technical Education In The Village Institutes And Linguistic Imperialism “Researches in questions and possible Context Of The Social Contemporary Schools In in Education” Economics of Education: answers” Inequality” Terms Of Ideology” A Conflict Arena of The Paradigms Relating to the Educational Realities” 21:00 – 21:30 Periklis Pavlidis Stacey Krueger Yiannis Roussakis Marnie Holborow Petros D. Damianos “The Rise of General “Individual Consequences “Educational policies in “Neoliberalism, human “The educational Intellect and the Meaning of Systemic Oppression the European South in capital and the skills inequality in Greece” of Education. Reflections among Urban Students” times of the debt crisis: A agenda: the Irish case” on the PIGS Education?” Contradictions of Cognitive Capitalism”

SATURDAY 16 JULY NATIONAL HELLENIC RESEARCH FOUNDATION, Vassileos Konstantinou 48 10:00 – 12:00 OPEN DISCUSSION “Marxism and Education” Coordinators: Kostas Skordoulis (Department of Education, University of Athens, Greece), Dave Hill (Middlesex University, London, UK)

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