Αlexandra Αndroussou

Education

• 1991 PhD in Psychology of Education. University René Descartes – Paris V.
• PhD Thesis: “ Étude de processus identitaires des jeunes issus de l’immigration: enquête auprès d’une population grecque dans divers pays d’Europe et de retour en Grèce ”. Advisor: Professor:  C. Camilleri.
• 1986 D.E.A. in Psychology of Education. University René Descartes – Paris V.
• 1982-1984 Licence and Maitrise en Sciences de l’Éducation, Dominante Psychologie. University René Descartes – Paris V
• 1978-1982 BA in Philology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Philosophy, Department of French Philology.

Research interests

• Teaching methodology and action research
• Teacher’s trraining
• Education of immigrant, minority and refugee children
• Development of Educational Material for chliden and adults

Courses and Seminars

• Introduction Sciences of Education
• Observation in the classroom: analyzing and understanding the framework of the educational act
• Educational material: evaluating, using and developing new materials
• Migrants, Minorities and Education: Identities and Social Hierarchies
• Week-long Workshop: Ιntercultural Education

Graduate

• Educational Practices and Identities
• Minorities, Immigrants, Refugees in Education

Selected Publications

• 2020  Alexandra Androusou & Evangelia KourtiQ Editorial, International Journal of Early Years Education, 28:2, 117-121, DOI: 10.1080/09669760.2020.1765084
•  2020 Alexandra Androusou & Maria IakovouRefugee children’s integration inGreece: training future teachers to face new educational challenges, International Journal of EarlyYears Education, 28:2, 162-175, DOI: 10.1080/09669760.2020.1765090
• 2019 Zambeta, E, Askouni, N., Androusou, Α., Leontsini, Μ., Papadakou, Y., and Lagopoulou V., (eds) () Democratic School Governance for inclusion: a whole community approach, Council of Europe. https://pjp-eu.coe.int/en/web/charter-edc-hre-pilot-projects/outcomes-publications
• 2018 Mapping the impact of economic crisis on Greek education: Teachers’ views and perspectives. International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, (in collaboration with Kakana, D., Roussi-Vergou, C.J., Mavidou, A., Garagouni – Areou, F., Manoli, P., Theodosiou, S., Chatzopoulou, K., Tsafos V. Avgitidou, S). (under publication).
• 2017 Educational interventions out of school, of the Education of Muslim minortity Project: literacy actions in a complex social framework in Thrace, (in greek), in Skourtou E, . Kourti- Kazoulis V.  (ed.) Bilingualism an teaching greek as a second language, www.Kallipos.gr  pp. 115-141.
• 2016 The observation as an educational tool: Understanding the framework as the foundation of an holistic approach of the educational process (In greek) (in collaboration with H.Dafermou and V. Tsafos). Στο Αυγητίδου, Σ., Τζεκάκη, Μ., Τσάφος, Β. (επ.) (2016). Οι υποψήφιοι εκπαιδευτικοί παρατηρούν, παρεμβαίνουν και αναστοχάζονται: προτάσεις υποστήριξης της πρακτικής τους άσκησης. Αθήνα: Gutenberg, pp. 350-395.
•  2016 Αn Educational intervention at a refugee hosting structure: an action research in progress, (in greek)  in http://www.actionresearch.gr/el/i7p6, 17, pp. 109-118.
•  2016 Teacher and School Support Confronting Social Inequalities: Using a Digital Platform. In L. Gómez Chova, A. López Martínez, I. Candel Torres (Eds.) Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies (EDULEARN16), 4th-6th July 2016, Barcelona, Spain, IATED Academy, pp. 0373-0380 (in collaboration with Voulgari, I., Avgitidou, S., Kakana, D., V. Tsafos).
• 2014: “Promoting critical awareness in the initial training of preschool teachers in Greece: resistance and perspectives”, (in collaboration with E.Kourti), International Journal of Early Years Education DOI:10.1080/09669760.2013.832946 , Routledge,
•  2014 Itiinéraires identitaires des enfants de la minorité musulmane en Thrace par l’intermédiaire d’un jeu sérieux, Synergies  Sud-Est Εuropéen, No 4, pp.123-146, 2014
• 2012: “Educating Teachers: Observation of a Classroom’s Framework as part of the Student Teachers’ Education”, The International Journal of Learning, 18, 8 (in collaboration with H. Kortesi-Dafermou).
• 2011: «Educational and political challenges in reforming the education of the Muslim Minority in Thrace, Greece» (in collaboration with Nelly Askouni, Thalia Dragonas, Anna Frangoudaki & Efi Plexousaki), The International Journal of Learning, 17.
• 2010: From the in service education to the development of a professional development of learning and practice.  (In greek) Action Researcher in Education, Vol. 1, /www.actionresearch.gr/AR/ActionResearch_Vol1/Issue01_05_p31-39.pdf
• 2008: The in service training of the teachers in minority education in Thrace: the experience of a three years program» in Dragonas Th. & Frangoudaki A. (eds) «Addition no substraction, multiplication no subvision»  Ed. Metaixmio, Athens, pp 361-375.
• 2005: “Working with others: facets of an educational experience”,  Pedagogy, Culture and  Society, Volume 13, Number 1, 87-107.
• 2004 “Training teachers involved in the education of muslim minority: a narrative of mutual transpositions”, in Proceedings of the Conference “Minorities in Greece’, Athens, pp. 301-312  (in Greek)

Books

• 2020 : Sciences of Education: an interdisciplinary dynamic domain, (in Greek) (in collaboration with V. Tsafos).
• 2013: Teaching practice in initial teacher education: Research approaches. Athens: Teaching Practice Network and National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, (in collaboration with S. Avgitidou).
• 2011: Cultural Diversity and Human Rights. (eds) Athens: Metaixmio (in Greek) (in collaboration with N. Askouni).
• 2005: What’s your name? Interactions in the context of an intervention for training teachers in the education of muslim  minority, Athens, Gutenberg. (in Greek)

Additional Information

• 2016- 2018 Vice chairman of the Scientific Committee for the Support of the Education of Refugee Children of the Ministry of Education, Research and Religious Affairs in Greece.
• 2015 – Present Educational intervention of a student team from the Department of Early Childhood Education, NKUA, at Eleonas Camp for the refugee’s children.
• 2004 – 2019 Member of the Scientific Committee of the Program «Education of the Muslim minority Children in Thrace www.museduc.gr.
• 2016 – 2017 Member of the research project of TOCSIN (Teacher suppΟrt Confronting Social INequalities – TOCSIN) has been co-financed by the General Secretariat for Research and Technology through the Financial Mechanism of the European Economic Area (EEA) (FM GR07 / 3708).
• 2006 – 2019 Scientific coordinator of mobile kespem units of the Program «Education of the Muslim minority Children in Thrace www.museduc.gr