The intricacies of conditionality: education policy review in Greece 2015–2018

School Leaders’ Perceptions on Barriers for Creating Inclusive Intercultural Environments and Potential Generative Ai Benefits

“…They described multiple instances they had to intervene during their careers in cases they felt migrant students with disabilities were treated in an unfair manner. Participants discussed several issues of systemic inequalities related to the highly centralized and underdeveloped Greek state education system (Traianou, 2023), that results in unequal treatment of marginalized students such as migrant students with disabilities. These issues included deficiencies in personnel and resources, but also to overt and covert ableism, racism, and classism from dominant middle-class parents even teachers who seemed unprepared for culturally and linguistically classes as well as teachers and therapists who seemed indifferent to the diverse needs of migrant students with disabilities.…”

“…Remediation via professional development courses or remediation plans is essentially still on paper and hasn't been implemented. The neoliberal government Nea Dimokratia launched legislation regarding accountability and evaluation of newly appointed teachers yet it has been blocked by teachers' unions (Traianou, 2023). The sole strategy the Greek state system implements for incompetent teachers is transferring teachers to another school, allocating them to a different role within the primary or secondary education district, assigning them less challenging work, and moving them to nonteaching positions, which are also common administrative strategies in different educational contexts such as the US (Chait, 2010).…”

“…In Greece, administrative duty and control lie with the school or, more specifically in the office of the principal or the headteacher, since the vast majority of state schools lack other forms of administrative stuff (Ntalossis & Zarotis, 2019). Despite the countless reforms during the past fifty years, which all aimed to provide state schools with flexibility and autonomy, the Greek system still is the same centralized, underfunded, and underdeveloped system it has always been (Traianou, 2023). The budget spent per student at the local level is made by the central government, therefore, the Ministry of Education in Athens, regulates a school's budget at a tiny island in the middle of the Aegean Sea.…”

Tilgangur og framtíð menntunar í ljósi stefnumörkunar OECD og UNESCO til 2030

“…Í f lestum tilfellum er ekki um að raeða bein ítök í stefnumótunarvinnu einstakra þjóðríkja, þó frá því séu undantekningar. Má þar nefna tilfelli Grikklands, sem vann náið með OECD og f leiri alþjóðastofnunum að skipulagsaðlögun í menntakerfinu (e. structural adjustment) á árunum eftir efnahagshrunið 2008 (Traianou, 2021) Í stað beinna áhrifa alþjóðlegra stofnana á stefnu einstakra landa hafa þaer þróað margvísleg verkfaeri og maelikvarða til að meta og bera saman gaeði menntunar og hvetja til ákveðinna breytinga og samraemingar í stefnumótun (Daun, 2007) Undanfarin ár virðist hafa orðið stefnubreyting hjá OECD, og faerð hafa verið rök fyrir að þaer breytingar megi tengja beint við útgáfu heimsmarkmiða Sameinuðu þjóðanna (Addey, 2021;Xiaomin og Auld, 2020). Sökum þess hversu mikla vigt heimsmarkmiðin hafa haft, hefur OECD þurft að styrkja tilverugrundvöll sinn, ná til f leiri landa og tengja við hugmyndir um sjálf baerni og ábyrga framtíðarsýn.…”

Greek Preschool Teachers’ Professional Features and Their Knowledge and Views of the Official Standards of Early Writing Teaching

“…Over the past 20 years, the Greek educational system has witnessed a reform take place (e.g., the introduction of project work as a compulsory classroom activity), since the two authorities involved in coordinating school practices -the Greek Ministry of Education and the Greek Institution of Educational Policy (former Pedagogical Institute)-have worked towards aligning it with the educational policies of the European Union (Traianou, 2019(Traianou, , 2021.…”