Dr. Vassiliki Pliogou is an Associate Professor at the Department of Early Childhood Education, in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Western Macedonia (UoWM), Greece, on the subject of Pedagogy and Applications in Education. She is the Director of the Laboratory of the Pedagogical Studies and Innovative Educational Practices. She is also the ERASMUS Departmental

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