1st Edition

Crisis, Austerity, and New Frameworks for Teaching and Learning A Pedagogy of Hope for Contemporary Greek Education

By Maria Chalari Copyright 2020
    156 Pages
    by Routledge

    156 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    This book attempts to examine the educational consequences of the recent social and economic situation in Greece, and it explores—on a general level—new possibilities for teaching and learning at times of national crisis. Using Greece as an exemplary case, Maria Chalari demonstrates how the relationship between neo-liberalism and education is especially salient during difficult times; it also demonstrates the effect of this relationship on teachers’ day-to-day experiences. By attending to, yet moving beyond, the negative implications of socio-economic crisis, this volume aims to present core educational values of the current era, as well as the crucial issues that may become opportunities for reflection and change.

    Part I





    Chapter 1: Introduction





    Chapter 2: Crisis





    Chapter 3: Crisis and education





    Chapter 4: Rethinking education





    Part II





    Chapter 5: Researching the impact of crisis and seeking possibilities of hope





    Chapter 6: The impact of the crisis on Greek society and education





    Chapter 7: The social and political problems behind the socio-economic crisis







    Chapter 8: The role of education in the reconstruction of Greek society





    Chapter 9: New frameworks for teaching and learning





    Chapter 10: Conclusions





    Appendices

    Biography

    Maria Chalari is a post-doctoral research fellow in the School of Education at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.

    "This is an important contribution to the study of the consequences that neoliberal policies have on education. Maria Chalari’s book focuses on teachers’ perceptions and experience of the immense difficulties encountered during the darkest days of the Greek fiscal crisis (2009-2014). But more than this, this is a book that grapples with the important question of finding alternative ways forward, ways that resist to the erosion of educational thought by neoliberal ideology. This is of great importance today, as in many parts of the world education is ‘under siege’ by policies and practices that emanate from the entanglement between reactionary-populism and authoritarian neoliberalism."

    -- Panagiotis A. Kanellopoulos, Professor in Music Education, Department of Early Childhood Education, University of Thessaly, Greece and Yannis Pechtelidis, Associate Professor in Sociology of Education, Department of Early Childhood Education, University of Thessaly, Greece.