Macedonia Faculties’ Students - “Chrisi Avgi” (Right Party) Followers’ Critique on the Greek Educational Policy

• Authors: Kalerante Evagelia
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The present paper is involved with the Pedagogical faculties’ students’ critique on the current educational system as it has been altered after 1981. The research was carried out utilizing both quantitative and qualitative tools. Students-voters participated in the interviews whereas active voters were difficult to be located to meet the research requirements. The dynamics of the specific political party is based on a popular profile in terms of standpoints related to economic, social and political issues. The research findings depict the students’ strong wish for a change of the curricula and a turn towards History and Religion as well as an elevation of the Greek historic events, as the History books that have been written and taught at schools over the past years contributed to the downgrading of the Greek national and cultural identity. There is also a students’ strong belief that globalization and the immigrants’ presence in Greece have functioned in a negative way against the Greek ideal. Therefore, an overall change of the educational content could open the path towards the reconstruction of the moral values and the Greek national identity.

Keywords

EN

discipline; Greek discourse; history; immigrants; nation; popular; religion

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Studies of Changing Societies
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 2013
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 3-14

Dates

online

2014-11-05

Contributors

author

Kalerante Evagelia

• Assistant Professor, University of Western Macedonia 4 THRAKIS STR., LYKOVRISI, 14123

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/scs-2014-0172