Her research interests focus on: (1) Physical Education Teacher Education; (2) Initial, induction and continuous professional development of teachers; (3) Use of qualitative and post-qualitative methods in education; (4) Game and Play-Based approaches in education; (5) Social and Emotional learning of children and youth; (6) Social Pedagogy with a focus on Social Justice; (7) Transdisciplinary/Interdisciplinary Instruction and Curriculum Development.

Recent Publications (indicative):

• Dania, A. (in press). Affective assemblages: negotiating material and socio-pedagogical practices within higher education contexts. In D.L. Mulligan, M. Forbes, E. A. Anteliz & P. A. Danaher (Eds), The Palgrave Handbook of Autoethnographic and Self-Study Education Research Methods. Palgrave
• Dania, A., & Farias, C. (2024). Social Pedagogy in Physical Education. Human Centred Practice. UK: Routledge.
• Dania, A., Koukounaras Liagkis, M., Gogoulou, A., Karavas, K., Vlachos, K., Vitsou, M., Magos, K., & Nikolopoulou, M. (2024). Supporting preservice teachers’ civic competence as a strategy for internationalisation in the digital era. Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 14(1). https://doi.org/10.26529/cepsj.1676
• Dania, A., (2023). Community facilitation for social justice education. In Impedovo, M., Ferreira-Mayers, K., & Inque, E. (Eds) Creating a Teacher Community – Professional Development Within the Group, the Community, and the Network (Chapter 10). London: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group.
• Dania, A., & Tannehill, D. (2022). Moving within learning communities as an act of performing professional wellbeing, Professional Development in Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/19415257.2022.2081250

Email: adania@phed.uoa.gr

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Coordinator, the Departmental Placement Coordinator and the Deputy President of the Scientific Supervisory Board of the Pilot and Experimental Schools (EPS) in Kastoria. She is the Departmental Representative in the Children’s Identity & Citizenship European Association (CiCEA) and the Departmental Representative in the European Network Democracy and Human Rights Education in Europe. She is a member of the Centre for Teaching and Learning Support of the UoWM and the Committee of the Studies for the Pedagogical and Didactic Competence, too. She is the Deputy President of the Gender Equality and Anti-Discrimination Committee of the UoWM.

She received her BA in Pedagogy at the University of Patras. She completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Ghent in Belgium, with a scholarship from the Hellenic State Scholarships Foundation, in “Children’s Rights” (1995). She has two Masters of Sciences, the first one on the subject of “Comparative Education and Human Rights” from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and the Institute of Education of the University of London and the second in “Bilingual Special Education” from the University of Western Macedonia. She received her PhD in Science Education from the Department of Primary Education in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2008).

She had been for many years (1997 to present) academic staff and a member on research programs at the Democritus University of Thrace, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the University of Ioannina, while she has a continuous cooperation with the Hellenic Open University, the University of Athens, the School of Pedagogical and Technological Education (ASPETE) in Thessaloniki and the Frederick University of Cyprus. From 2012 till now, she is an independent expert and a member of the teaching staff of the National Centre for Public Administration and Local Government (EKDDA) regarding gender issues. She is a reviewer in 15 Greek and International Journals. She has more than 140 presentations in Greek and International conferences and relative publications in collective volumes, Greek and International Journals and proceedings, which focus on human rights education, childhood and children’s rights, citizenship, family-school connection, gender and educational implementations using different pedagogical tools in various formal and non-formal educational environments. From 1998 till now, she has organised or co-organised events, such as conferences, seminars, educational activities which have been mainly addressed to students at the Department of Early Childhood and Primary Education, educators, preschool and primary school children and their families. Since 2011, she is the president of OMEP (World Organization for Early Childhood Education) in Central Macedonia. She has been awarded the first prize of the International Committee of OMEP for 2016 in Education for Sustainable Development under the UNESCO Global Action Programme, at the University of Ewha Womans in Seoul (S. Korea).

Recent Publications:

1. Karakatsani, & Pliogou, V. (2024). Teaching Citizenship in the 1^st century: Current Intersectionalities and Global Challenges (ed. K. J. Kennedy, Book series Springer Briefs in Citizenship Education for the 21st Century). Springer (forthcoming).
2. Kyriakopoulou, A., Pliogou, V. & Zaragas, H. (2023). The implementation of an Educational Program for Human Rights in High School: A practice of promoting Inclusive Education. In S.-G. Soulis, M. Liakopoulou, A. Galani (eds.), Challenges and Concerns in 21^st Century Education (Chapter 18, pp. 216-229). Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
3. Kyriakopoulou, A., Pliogou, V. & Zaragas, H. (2023). The implementation of an Educational Program for Human Rights in High School: A practice of promoting Inclusive Education. In S.-G. Soulis, M. Liakopoulou, A. Galani (eds.), Challenges and Concerns in 21st Century Education (Chapter 18, pp. 216-229). Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Contact info:

vpliogou@uowm.gr / (0030) 23850.55114

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Indicative publications:

1. Communion of Theosis: The synthesis of Christology and Pneumatology in the work of Gregory Palamas (Athens 2001);
2. The Communion of the Eschaton: Essays in Eschatological Ontology (Athens 2016);
3. At the Borderline of Theology: Essays on the Dialogue between Theology and Culture (Athens 2017),
4. Lectures in Dogmatic Theology (Athens 2021), Theology and Culture, Essays on the Relation of Theology, Culture and Education in a Changing World (Athens 2021), Theology and Modernity, Essays on the encounter between Orthodox Theology and the modern world (Athens, 2023).

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Indicative Publications:

1. Gkaintartzi, Vitsou, M. & Kostoulas, A. (2024). Designing a teacher education programme for English as a ‘bridge’ in Early Childhood Education under a multilingual and inclusive approach. Journal of Education and Training 11(1), 59- 78. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/jet.v11i1.21645
2. Gkaintartzi, A. & Triantou, G. (2023). Activating diversity: the use of dual language books for critical plurilingual education. Journal of Applied Linguistics 36, 30-56. https://doi.org/10.26262/jal.v0i36.9917
3. Gkaintartzi, A. (2023). Hebrew language teaching/learning and ideologies in a Jewish school in Greece: Identity, faith and heritage continuity. In Ν. Gogonas (Ed.), Heritage Language Education in Greece and Cyprus. Cambridge Scholars Publishing
4. Gkaintartzi, A. (2021).Teachers’ perspectives about distance education for refugee students amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Greece: Challenges and Implications. Journal of Studies in Education,11(4), 1-16.https://doi.org/10.5296/jse.v11i4.19003
5. Gkaintartzi, Α., Kompiadou, E., Tsokalidou, R., Tsioumis, K., &P etrogiannis, K. (2020). Supporting inclusion and family involvement in early childhood education through ISOTIS: A case study in Greece. International Journal of Learning, Teaching and Educational Research, 19(3), 1337-1355. https://doi.org/10.26803/ijlter.19.3.21

Email: againtartzi@uth.gr

Office phone number: (+30) 24210 93187

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Τhe submission of applications and necessary documents will be completed on May 15^th, 2025, for both the English speaking and Greek-speaking Curriculum.

The innovative Joint MA Program lasts 12 months and it is carried out 100% online, with a separate Greek- and English-language Curriculum and three specializations:

1. Religion, Education and Competences for Democratic Culture
2. Language, History, and Literature in Education and Competences for Democratic
3. Education for Democratic Citizenship (EDC)-Human Rights Education (HRE) and Competences for Democratic Culture

Check out Call for Applications for additional information.

Candidates may fill out the application form on our website.

For any further inquiries please contact us on: secr_MAdemocracy@theol.uoa.gr

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