A succesful conference took place yesterday, on the 14th of June, at Kierion hotel, Karditsa in the frame of the “Integration through prior knowledge” Erasmus+ project.
The conference focused on inclusive practices and the exploitation of prior knowledge in the field of intercultural education. We thank our speakers, Marja -Lisa Helenius (LFI Finland), Giulia Terracciano, GEINNOVA, Spain), Dr Giota Gatsi (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) and Venia Papakyritsi (University of Thessaly). They presented good practices in the field of intercultural education and stressed the vital role of detecting people’s prior knowledge and resources and help build new knowledge based on the existing one.
Stay tuned for more fuitful and interesting conferences and valuable intellectual outputs from Educom+
About the Author: Georgia Karagianni
Georgia is an English teacher with further training in educational psychology, inclusive education, counselling and teaching Greek as a foreign language. She has participated in many European projects (Erasmus+ KA2 & KA3) producing intellectual outputs on intercultural education, inclusive practices, creativity, pedagogical exploitation of digital tools, environmental education, and more. She has served for five years as Head of the Department of Educational Affairs in the Directorate of Secondary Education of Karditsa Prefecture.
She holds an MA in “New Forms of Education and Learning”, an MA in “Language Education for Migrants and Refugees”, and a PhD in Open and Distance Learning from the Hellenic Open University, with her research focusing on digital metacognition and learning autonomy.
She is a teacher trainer in Erasmus+ KA1 mobility courses and a trainer and syllabus creator at the Center of Lifelong Learning of the Hellenic Open University. She is currently serving as an EFL Education Consultant for Primary and Secondary Education at the Directorates of Education of Trikala and Karditsa, Greece.