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The first Greek national dissemination and training event focused on the role of teachers and schools for the development and maintenance of a democratic culture in our societies. The event was initiated and self- organised by Greek members of the Community of Practice of the Pestalozzi Programme (PPCoP).

A group of teachers, teacher trainers, school psychologists, head masters - former participants in our diverse training activities - took it on themselves to organise this event for an audience of about 100 Greek education professionals who participated in this training on their own costs. Many more would have liked to participate and hope that there will be a follow-up training. After a brief welcome addresses by Ms Maria Fassari of the Hellenic Ministry of Education, Greek member of the CDPPE and National Liaison Officer for the Pestalozzi Programme, Mr Athanassios Zoutsos mayor of the municipality of Pallini, Athens and Mr Stefanos Kapellas, Director for secondary education of East Attica, Ms Vivian Chiona presented the Pestalozzi Programme of the Council of Europe. Mr Josef Huber, Head of the Pestalozzi Programme gave a keynote on Education for change – Change for Education based on the recent Council of Europe conference “The professional ethos and image of teachers”.
The larger part of the day was dedicated to two rounds of parallel hands-on workshops lead by members of the PPCoP on diverse aspects of education for democracy.
The day ended with a round table debate moderated by Angelos Vallianatos, member of the PPCoP, focusing on continued professional development of teachers with the participation of Dr George Bagakis, Professor of Methodology and Policies of Life Long Learning and In Service Training of the Department of Social and Educational Policy, University of Peloponnese, Mr. George Moshos, Assistant Greek Ombudsman for Children’s Rights, and Mr Josef Huber.
A full report on this very successful dissemination and training event is online here and will certainly be an inspiration for other groups of members of the Community of Practice of the Pestalozzi Programme in other countries.

 

Special thanks also go to Barbara Koziori and Foteini Veneti for making it possible for me to participate in this event and understand what was being said.
The event was organised and sponsored by the Greek group of the Community of Practice of the Pestalozzi programme, the Directorate of Secondary Education of East Attica and the Municipality of Pallini, Athens.

Organising committee:

Vivian Chiona; Pavlos Kosmides; Barbara Koziori; Paraskevi Lioumpi; Anna-Maria Panayiotidou; Maria Sfetkou

Trainers:

Angeliki Aroni; Efthimios Goumas; Pavlos Kosmides; Barbara Koziori; Vassiliki Kremmida; Anna-Maria Panayiotidou; Irene Papadaki; Maria Sfetkou; Angelos Vallianatos

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The Pestalozzi Programme was the Council of Europe's programme for the professional development of teachers until the end of 2017.