RESEARCH IN DISTANCE LEARNING IN GREEK KINDERGARTEN SCHOOLS DURING THE PANDEMIC OF COVID-19: POSSIBILITIES, DILEMMAS, LIMITATIONS

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  • Paraskevi Foti Dr., Educational Coordinator in Third Region of Attika, Greece

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Recently, and in the circumstances created due to COVID-19, it has been established that new conditions have been created for almost the entire educational potential of the country. The closing of schools created new data and difficulties that had to be overcome in order to continue the educational activity and the general pedagogical process and in these new data the use and development of electronic means of communication was inevitable In particular, the field of pre-school education, kindergarten teachers were called upon to respond to even more difficult challenges and difficulties, taking into account the age of the students (4-6 years) and the objective inability to approach the electronic forms of education. The purpose of this paper is first to describe the main objectives and conditions for distance education and then it will be presented a research that took place in kindergartens schools of 3rd region in Athens during the closing period of schools due to COVID-19. In this research was tried to explore perceptions, possibilities, and limitations regarding the implementation distance learning in kindergarten schools.

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    Paraskevi Foti is a Coordinator of the Primary and Secondary Education at the 3rd Region of Attica (Greek Ministry of Education) and formerly Head of the 4th Kindergarten of Agia Varvara. She has studied piano and higher theory at the National Conservatory of Athens and has completed her master’s degree in Intercultural Education and Management of Diversity. She completed her second degree in Psychology at Ethnic Kai Kapodistrian University of Athens with a specialization in Psychology and at the same department she completed her doctoral dissertation with the title: "The contribution of ancient Greek language to art and language of Aesop and the added value of ICT Technology". Her first book, entitled "Otherness, Prejudice and Stereotypes in the School Class. Teacher Management Methods” (2016, Athens: Grigoris) was selected as a university textbook at Harokopeio University of Athens and has participated in a collective volume on Teaching Scripts through ICT. (2017, Athens: Grigoris). He has published in international and national conference proceedings as well as in scientific journals and has a keen interest in Information and Communication Technologies and their contribution to the teaching process while being an eTwinning and Moodle trainer in support of open source software. She is a Researcher Associator in the Early Childhood Department of Education and Care at the University of West Attica teaching the courses in "Children's Literature" and "Pedagogy of Image" and in the Interdisciplinary Program of Pedagogy through New Technologies.

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2020-05-27

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Diel 5 Číslo 1 (2020)

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