Anastasia Gkaintartzi holds a PhD from the School of Early Childhood Education of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, specializing in bi/multilingualism and education in the fields of Sociolinguistics and Educational Linguistics. She holds a Master’s Degree in “Contemporary learning environments and development of teaching material” from the University of Thessaly. She has graduated from the Department of English Language and Literature of the Aristotle University. Currently, she is an associate lecturer in English for multicultural academic contexts. She has significant prior experience in open and distance education and in the supervision of dissertations as a member of the teaching staff in Postgraduate Programs of the Hellenic Open University. She has taught at the Foreign Language Centre of the University of Thessaly. She has significant experience in adult education and teacher training. Indicatively, she has participated for several years in the training programme Teach4Integration addressed to teachers involved in the education of refugees and migrants. She has worked in the field of intercultural mediation developing educational-training material for the Educational (professional development) Programme of training Intercultural Mediators. She has more than 12 years of scientific and research experience participating in national and international research projects such as: Project “Education of foreign and repatriate students”, UNICEF Teach4Integration, ELIDEK “Languages ​​for Human Values”, Horizon 2020 ‘ISOTIS Inclusive Education and Social Support to Tackle Inequalities in Society’, and Erasmus KA220 ‘(PEP) Promoting Plurilingual Education’, as a coordinator for the University of Thessaly. Her research interests focus on issues of bilingualism/multilingualism and education, identities in multicultural contexts, pluralistic approaches to education, linguistic and social integration of immigrants, language ideology and attitudes, inclusion and linguistic and cultural diversity in education. She has published widely in these research fields.  She collaborates with the ECML as a national expert.

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

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