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Chalari, Maria; Georgas, Thomas – European Journal of Educational Sciences, 2016
This paper aims to engage with issues around Greek national identity and in the light of the above, tries to demonstrate how Greek national identity responds to global pressures and how it is being fractured in an era of economic and humanitarian crisis and uncertainty. The purpose of this critical review of literature is not to simply present the…
Descriptors: Ethnocentrism, Foreign Countries, Self Concept, Nationalism
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Leondari, A.; Magos, K.; Oikonomou, A. – Education 3-13, 2014
Social stereotyping and prejudice constitute pressing societal problems and have many causes. Terror Management Theory offers a compelling and heavily researched account of individuals' reactions towards "dissimilar others" when faced with thoughts of mortality. Building from previous research with adult samples, the present study aimed…
Descriptors: Fear, Ethnic Groups, Social Bias, Ethnic Stereotypes
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Godinho, Sally; Garas, Dimitri – Gender and Education, 2012
This article draws on a case study of 15 boys aged between 13 and 14 years who attend an urban ethno-centric community school located in Melbourne, Australia. The study investigated how the boys' constructions of masculinity were mediated by a strong connectedness to their Greek cultural traditions and ideals. Data generated from focus group…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Community Schools, Focus Groups, Males
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Palaiologou, Nektaria; Faas, Daniel – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2012
Schools in Greece particularly in inner-city areas, have seen a considerable increase in the number of migrant students over the past two decades. In this article, we discuss the intercultural education policy, which was introduced in 1996, in response to the migration and diversity the country has seen since the mid-1980s. We explore how…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Public Policy
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Faas, Daniel – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2011
National curricula are being challenged and transformed by the impact of migration and European integration. This paper examines how cultural diversity and Europe are intertwined in geography, history, and citizenship education curricula in Greece, Germany, and England. This question is explored using quantitative and qualitative methods through a…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Citizenship, Citizenship Education, Geography
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Kostoulas-Makrakis, Nelly; Al-Said, Khaleel; Makrakis, Vassilios; Kalogiannakis, Pella; de Baz, Theodora – Intercultural Education, 2010
The present study examined the perceptions of Jordanian and Greek pre-service teachers (N = 489) towards the "Other" as well as towards tolerance and intolerance. Frequencies, "t"-tests and one-way analysis of variance, as well as multiple regression analyses, were performed for the data analysis. The results show that although…
Descriptors: Religious Cultural Groups, Statistical Analysis, Comparative Analysis, Preservice Teachers
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Philippou, Stavroula – Curriculum Journal, 2007
'Europe' has been increasingly 'invented' and 'reinvented' in discussions about education, curricula and identities over the last five decades. The 'European dimension in education' was a term increasingly used by the European Union and the Council of Europe to denote their educational policies encouraging national educational systems to endorse a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, Geography, Content Analysis
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Herzfeld, Michael – Ethnic Groups: An International Periodical of Ethnic Studies, 1980
Considers the idiom of ethnic discrimination in one small and extremely "closed" Greek village, with the object of demonstrating the artificiality of the prejudice-xenophobia distinction in an ethnographic context. Uses a "folk taxonomy" model which examines the relativistic sense in which group stereotypes are applied.…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Study, Ethnic Bias, Ethnic Stereotypes
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Winters, Clyde Ahmad – Journal of Black Studies, 1994
States that the Afrocentric method is based on fact, not fiction, and addresses criticisms leveled at Afrocentric theory. It examines the sources of Afrocentrism, discusses the presence of blacks and the black influence in Greece, and argues that the ancient Egyptians were black. (GLR)
Descriptors: Afrocentrism, Ancient History, Blacks, Criticism
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Prodromou, Luke – ELT Journal, 1988
Discusses teaching and learning English as a foreign language in its cultural context, and the culture of the native speaker of English and its relation to the culture of the learner. Native-speaking teachers should recognize the international status of English and work from local varieties of the language. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Artificial Languages, Class Activities, Cross Cultural Training, Cultural Background