Olympia Agalianou

Basic information

Title: Teaching Staff

Area of Specialization: Theories of  music and movement Education

Contact details:

Phone No: 210-3688547

Φαξ: 210-3688057

E-mail:  oagalianou@ecd.uoa.gr


Office hours: Announced in the beginning of each semester
Contact address: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Department of Early Childhood Education

Academic information

Education
  • 2011. Ph.D. in Didactics of movement and music. Faculty of Philosophy, Pedagogy and Psychology, School of Philosophy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
  • 2000. Degree in Music Theory. Panarmonion Conservatory, Athens.
  • 1994. Two years post graduate studies in Orff-Schulwerk (music and dance education), Moraitis School (Athens)/ Inerational Orff Schulwerk Forum (Salzburg).
  • 1989. Degree in Sport Science and Physical Education. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
Research interests
  • Dance and music as means of social cohesion
  • Dance and music as means of personal and professional growth
  • Rhythm in movement and music
  • Museum education: relationships between visual and performing arts
  • Greek dance and music  in education and in contemporary art.
Courses and Seminars
Undergraduate

  • Theories of music and movement education
  • Dance in education
  • Introduction to Orff-Schulwerk
  • Music and movement education in early education. Implementation in praxis
Selected Publications

  • Agalianou,O. (2017) Music and movement activities as means of teachers’ personal and professional growth. Minutes of 6th  Conference Hellenic Adult Education Association, p.p. 16-25.
  • Agalianou, O., Tsaftaridis, N. (2016) Informal ways of learning and the notion of knowledge in C. Orff’s music education approach. In M. Kokkidou & Z. Dionyssiou (Eds.), Music Literacy: Formal and Informal Ways of Music Teaching-Learning (Proceedings of the 7th International Conference of the Greek Society for Music Education) (pp. 87-95). Thessaloniki: GSME.
  • Agalianou., O. (2016) The school as network. Ysplixs,1,19.
  • Agalianou, O. (2014) Carl Rogers meets Carl Orff: person-centered theory and Orff-Schulwerk. Orff-Schulwerk Heute, 91, p. 24-27.
  • Agalianou, O., Aroni, A. (2014) Physical education as means of Social Cohesion. Neos Paidagogos, σ. 2343-2350.
  • Αγαλιανοθ, Ο. (2014) Physical Education in Greek primary Education: the transition from 20th to 21st century. MinutesQ 7th Congress of History of Education, p.p. 218-231.
  • Agalianou, O., Alexiadi, K. (2013) “The Hellenic Orff-Schulwerk Association (ESMA): Historical Review, Evolution and Prospects” Approaches 5(2) p. 207-214.
  • Sypsa, Ch., Agalianou, O. (2009) “Een musiken – en bewegingsbenadering voor psychomotorische therapie” in een nieuwe beweging, edt Johan
Additional Information

  • Three years course in Dance Therapy (G.A.D.T.)
  • Four years courses in Systemic Thinking and Epistimology (Athenian Institute of Anthropos)
  • External collaborator of the European University Cyprus, School of Humanistic, Department of Arts, Postgraduate Program of Music Education.
  • Representative of Greece in the International Orff-Schulwerk Forum Salzburg since 2008.
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