HOW “INTERCULTURAL” IS CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION IN GREECE? A CONTENT ANALYSIS

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  • Theodoros Vavitsas Teaching Stuff, University of Athens, Greece

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https://doi.org/10.46827/ejes.v10i8.4892

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citizenship, citizenship education, intercultural education, social and political education

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The present article illustrates an attempt made to investigate interculturalism in the School Textbooks of Social and Political Education course of the Greek Primary School. The subject of Social and Political Education features the quality of citizenship of students attending the Greek educational system. The research methodology used is content analysis and, specifically, quantitative content analysis. According to the results of the research, the Social and Political Education textbooks of the Greek Primary School are inspired by the principles of intercultural education, while the presence of cultural diversity, in general, is strong in both the 5th grade and 6th grade textbooks.

 

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  • Theodoros Vavitsas, Teaching Stuff, University of Athens, Greece

    Dr. Theodoros Vavitsas is a graduate of the Department of Primary Education of the University of Ioannina, Greece. He graduated with honors (9.73) from the Postgraduate Program "Educational Sciences" of the same department. He holds a PhD from the Department of Education and Social Work of the University of Patras, Greece. He has completed postdoctoral research at the Department of Primary School Education of University of Ioannina, Greece. He has participated in international scientific conferences, workshops, and his articles have been published in prestigious scientific journals. He had taught at the University of Ioannina and the University of Thessaly, Greece. He is currently a teaching staff at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.

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2023-06-19

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Årg. 10 Nr. 8 (2023)

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