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Cultural Diversity, Equity and InclusionConference ProgramIAIE - University of Ioannina

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Multilingual education as a way of preserving cultures and identities and maintaining diversity in multicultural societies: the Kurdish Case in TurkeyInce, Adem

The effects of teacher education programs on teachers’ multicultural attitudes: the case of South KoreaMo Kyong-Hwan, Bangran Ryu, Jaewoo Kim

Intercultural learning opportunities “at home” in Greek higher educationPolymenakou Eva

Positive discrimination and school success: the case of the Muslim population in Western ThraceZachos Dimitris

WEDNESDAY 01/07/15

09:30 -11:30

11:30 -12:00 COFFEE BREAK

13:30 -15:30 LUNCH

12:00 -13:30 FIRST PLENARY SESSIONJagdish Gundara, Emeritus Professor UCl Institute of Education, University College London and President of the IAIE

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Informal education: the museum as venue for teaching about diversity and inclusionFromm Annette B.

The contemporary reality of Greek minority pupils in AlbaniaLymperopoulou Dimitra, Stroumpini Anastasia, Koutsou Elsa, Tsakanika Stavroula, Georgios Nikolaou

“What does a polar bear ask in Africa?” Promoting empathy through reading and writing: intercultural stories with young children.Magos Kostas

Radical love pedagogy: a personal journeyMedina Yolanda

Strand 5 (GREEK)

The importance of teaching intercultural competence in the modern multicultural schoolGiakoumakis Georgios

Local and cultural development: an investigation of the role of intercultural educationPapadimitriou Dimitrios

Diversity and bullyingPapastergiou Sofia

Racism intervention: using oral history in educationVlachaki Maria

Teaching interventions to improve the Intercultural Education. Rentifis Gerassimos

Cultural Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: Intercultural Education in 21st century and beyond

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Teaching children to be “Globe Smart Citizens”Glick Anne

Images of an “international person”: global human resource or global citizen? The challenges of an international exchange programme operated by the Japanese government Haruko Ishii

The globalization of education in the 21st century: enhancing strategies to facilitate intercultural learning and leadershipKalemis Konstantinos

Universal and restricted expressions of cosmopolitanism in diverse students’ perspectivesOikonomidou Eleni

Can the institutionalization of cross-cultural experiences help meet the demands of a global era?Savva Maria

WEDNESDAY 01/07/15

15:30 -17:30

Strand 4

Buraku students’ and the minority schooling experience in JapanAhn Ruth

Through the glass darkly: a pedagogical journey into images and counter-images of MuslimsAli-Khan Carolyne

Muslim women and education: a look at the adult education programme in the Adult Education Centre in RodopiVlachos Ilias

Strand 5 (GREEK)

The educational integration of Roma children in Ioannina through musicAnalyti Dimitra

Teachers’ beliefs in Kastoria: the contribution of group cooperation teaching and the reinforcement of culturally diverse studentsAndreadou Gavriela, Charoumenou Zoi-Charoumenou Nikolet Nikolaou Georgios

Adopting a classroom: the role of the learning space when tackling issues within multicultural settingsLiliou Evangelia

Immigrant pupils in Greek public schools: official statistical dataPalaiologou NektariaEvangelou Odysseas

Working in a multicultural classroom: challenge or problem?Zioga Chrysoula



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“I don’t want to seem racist but...” Young peoples’ views on acknowledging race and racismCameron Lindsay

Bilingualism and its effect on immigrant students’ reading performance in GreecePapadia AikateriniNikolaou Georgios

Using extended and imagined contact to move young learners beyond prejudice Glick K. AnneCameron Lindsay

Teacher support programs for intercultural competenceSantana Angelica

The art of comics: a tool for visuals and writing in intercultural educationTsamouri Aikaterini

WEDNESDAY 01/07/15

18:00 -20:00

Strand 3

Emancipation and empowerment in societies: education and cultural diversityAparisi-Romero Joan A.

Educación infancia y políticaAraya Carlos

“Queering” the white picket fence: a social justice take on heteronormative parentingBartulović MarijaKušević Barbara

Linking school and community in multicultural settings: two pioneering interventions from a nationwide project in Greek schoolsGouvias DionysiosGasouka MariaVitsilaki Chryssi

poster session

From the periphery to the center Bódi FerencCentre for Social Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

The arms of Philoctetes, the Turin Horse and the exclusion politics effect Danelatou AthanasiaUniversity of Patras

Education for culticultural children in Japan: a case study of muslim children Ito AkikoYoshitani Takeshi Fukuoka University Japan

Bulgarian school for native language in Budapest, Hungary Savova RalitsaInstitute for Social and European Studies (ISES) UNESCO Chair in Cultural Heritage Management

Internationalisation of the curriculum at coventry University through online international LearningVillar Onrubia DanielRajpal Brinder Coventry University

Strand 5 (GREEK)

An error analysis of written texts produced by non-native students attending Greek schoolsChatzipanagiotidi AnnaAvramidou Barbara

A discussion of learning outcomes in the Cyprus Educational System among migrant childrenHadjitheodoulou-Loizidou PavlinaFokaidou Marianna

An experiential students’ practice in the use of the majority language in the classroomMavrommatis Georgios, Sapountzis AntonisTsakona Villy

An educational package for the development of intercultural competence: pilot implementation and evaluation to prospective teachersPapadopoulou Vassiliki Bausewein-Stauridou GeorgiaTsakiridou Eleni

The teaching of the New Testament as a means of promoting intercultural educationKadigiannopoulos Georgios


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A cross-cultural investigation of educators’ attitudes towards disability: the example of Greek and Albanian teachersBolla Eirini-MariaGeorgiou AlexandraKokove HarikleiaKoletsa KonstantinaKoutsou ElsaPapatsimpa MariaNikolaou Georgios

Diversity in the Greek educational context: needs and next stepsPalaiologou NektariaSpinthourakis JuliaNikolaou Georgios

A school’s indigenous millet farm as an intercultural communication and multicultural education projectYeh Joyce Hsiu-Yen

Minorities and disabilities: similar or different?Tsiliggiris Alexios

Foreign students with an immigration profile selecting school careersVavitsas TheodorosSevi AthinaElefteriadou LaskarinaNikolaou Georgios

THURSDAY 02/07/15

09:30 -11:30


13:30 -15:30 LUNCH

12:00 -13:30 SECOND PLENARY SESSIONJulie-Athena Spinthourakis, Associate Professor University of Patras

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The holistic view to ecological citizenship: education through the study of water in integrated science educationAydinli Bahattin

Contemporary art and social issues: educational practices in secondary art educationEfeoglou Elena

The digital divide and inequalities in higher education: students’ access to computers and the internetTsiplakides Iakovos

Towards a new paradigm of intercultural communication in the Greek system of court interpretingVlachopoulos Stefanos

Strand 5 (GREEK)

Nationality as a factor of cultural pluralism in Greek literature (1990-2011)Christoforidou Parissatida

Educational discourse policy within the Greek nationalist party “Golden Dawn” and its propagandistic newspaper: conceptualization of culture and national political spaceKalerante EvaggeliaGalanis Kostas

Educational policy and teacher training in the Greek diasporaLika Maria

The characteristics of an active citizen: a primary student’s perception shift after a citizenship education programVasileiadis Konstantinos

Aspects of diversity and economic crisis: strengthening mental resistance of students in elementary school Vrantsi Agapi


Strand 1

Enhancing intercultural sensitivity through collaborative learning: school-based action research intervention involving Greek prospective teachersArvanitis Eugenia

Interculturally competent educators in the modern era: essential characteristics and relevant pedagogical approachesChatzisavva EkateriniSiaviki AthanasiaNikolaou Georgios

Enhancing the development of intercultural communicative competence through intercultural citizenship actionHuang Mei-Lan

Competencies for intercultural education: conceptualization and empirical findingsLeutwyler BrunoPetrović Danijela S.Zlatković BlagicaJokić Tijana

Sociocultural consciousness, worldview and professional development for 21st century teachersYoung Raymond

THURSDAY 02/07/15

15:30 -17:30

Strand 2

School leadership in a European multicultural context: a dream from Disneyland?Andersen Fred Carlo

Cultural/occupational diversity and learning: a matter of educational justiceGobbo Francesca

Leadership amid diversity: culturally responsive instructional leadership and its effect on multicultural teacher efficacy in South KoreaHam Seung-HwanMi-Kyung JuSunjin KimHara KuYun-Kyung Cha

Greek University students’ views about immigrant students’ access to higher education in Greece: equal opportunities or not?Papanikolaou MariaPalaiologou, N.

Developing “world-mindedness” and building connections across language, culture, and social class in pre-service teachersYoung Sara

Strand 5 (GREEK)

Managing the coexistence of people from different nationalities in education: the case for vocational schools in GreeceGalitis Pantelis

The director’s role in the practice of intercultural education policyGeraris HliasKotini Maria

Socio-cultural background of immigrant pupils and school failure: the opinions for primary education directorsPolyzou MarianthiNikolaou Georgios

“All for one and one for all”Stamatopoulou Marina

Dimensions of diversity: the concept of attendance and the graduation certificate from the eyes of learners in a “second chance” school in IoanninaZotou Aggeliki



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School violence and diversity: secondary school educators’ views on school violence demonstrated by foreign students in GreeceBouna AndromachiStatha ParaskeviThanos Theodoros

Representaciones sociales, afrodescendencia y formación de maestros y maestras: la contestación y la acomodaciónMeneses Copete Yeison Arcadio

Teacher’s perception of power distance and organizational cultureOrakci Nazli CerenToker Gokce Asiye

School violence and ethnocultural different students: views of primary school teachersPagouna OlgaGalaziou MariannaGoula GlykeriaTsironi Eleftheria

Creating a positive and supportive school climate: the impact of Greek teachers’ attitudes about cultural diversity and school bullyingSamsari EleniNikolaou Georgios

THURSDAY 02/07/15

18:00 -20:00

Strand 4

Using extended and imagined contact to move young learners beyond prejudiceGlick K. Anne

The anti-Semitic elements in Shakespeare’s Merchant of VeniceLambiris Fotis

Teaching diversity, teaching the holocaustLouta Kathy

“Black rams and white lambs”: the phenomenon of racism in the work of William Shakespeare’s “Othello”Sarantakis IoannisTsakiri Foteini

Strand 5 (GREEK)

Contextualizing CLIL in the Greek primary educationGakoudi AndronikiKoptsis A.

Greek language teachers in Albania present their views on the issues in teaching Greek in bilingual learning environmentsGriva EleniRapti Athina

Using cultural dimensions to better understand the Greek “classroom culture”Karras Ioannis

The enhancement of the mother tongue of foreign and repatriated students: description and evaluation of an innovative approachSamara Katerina

Solving school unit issues, building a working framework: an application in kindergarten with Roma studentsBassagianni Eleptheria


Strand 1

Constructing course models for intercultural business communication based on CLT: a case study of a multicultural program for chinese business professionalsHuang Zhihua

Balancing unity and diversity in a European context: has multiculturalism favored the “others”?Parthenis Christos Gundara Jagdish

The vehicle for promoting educational integration and social cohesion: the education of Roma children Parthenis ChristosTseliou Eirini

“The 7 Keys of the Dragon”: developing the call for heritage languagesSoukalopoulou Maria

Teaching methods and approaches towards implementing intercultural educationTsaliki Evanthia

FRIDAY 03/07/15

09:30 -11:30

Strand 2

“Ethnomathematics”: a multicultural approach for teaching mathematicsKatsioula PanagiotaBoutskou Lemonia

School violence and bulling in relation to national-cultural difference: a students’ perspectiveMaki AikateriniFili ChrisafoNikolaou GeorgiosThanos TheodorosZogaki Paraskevi

Promoting intercultural learning via classroom telecollaboration Orange-Sibra Victoria

Diverse classrooms, specialised knowledge: teachers contributing to intercultural pedagogyPantazi Efstathia

A training program for parents in a kindergarten that adopts the principles of inclusive education Katsaris Georgia

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“Bloody foreigners” or “exceptional people”?Gogas Themistoklis

Parents’ attitudes towards socially frail groups: the case of disabled and Roma childrenMasouras VasileiosSoulis Spyridon-GeorgiosKaratzeni Ismini-CharikleiaMaleskou Eirini

Restorative approaches, restorative justice and conflict resolution Sia Lucio

Teachers’ perceptions towards minority education in Western Thrace, Greece; reflections on intercultural educationTsiligkiridou Rafailia Maria


13:30 -15:30 LUNCH

12:00 -13:30 THIRD PLENARY SESSIONMichele Kahn, Associate Professor University of Houston-Clear Lake, Vice President of the IAIE


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Colonial differences and epistemological biases within intercultural educationAman Robert

Policies of cultural diversity and education in the public spaceAparisi-Romero Joan A.

Co-constructing the concept of “teacher-as-a-designer” in the context of European projectsGakoudi AndronikiDimitriadou AikateriniSpyrtou AnnaZiogas I.Papadopoulou Vassiliki

Is multiculturalism and epistemic universalism in science education a relationship in conflict?Pournari Maria

Changing concepts: new meanings of intercultural education in Latin American countriesRiedemann Andrea

FRIDAY 03/07/15

15:30 -17:30

Strand 2

Towards gradual first language (L1) attrition? Cross-linguistic choices of two bilingual students learning English (L3)Papalexatou Evangelia

Intercultural education and history teaching: teachers’ perceptions on an intercultural approach to school historyPatinari Fotini

Innovative techniques in the teaching of L2 GreekPouliou Katerina

Teaching intercultural communication in a multicultural classroom: a Brazilian perspectiveStallivieri Luciane

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Marginalization and alienation of students according to their religion: the case of Muslims in Greece and in the EUKalemis Konstantinos

Religious interculturalism (‘diakoultouralismos’) and interreligious ethicsPortelanos StamatisPolyzou Marianthi

The role of education in tackling xenophobic and racist attitudes: a Greek perspectiveSotiropoulou Panagiota (Peny)

A religious ethics of intercultural communication: the “love command”Wolf Alan



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The Grounding of Maria Montessori’s teachings from the Netherlands to the U.S. and Mexico through Cato Hanrath’s “Transformative Intercultural Education”Montero-Sieburth Martha

Language in the context of integration policy: what importance does language have as an inclusion strategy in integration policy in Norwegian society?Nolet Ronald

Language biographies and identity construction as a challenge for intercultural education: a case studyStergiou Lida

Enhancing modern Greek as L2: challenges and achievementsVletsi Eleni

Prospects for global English: which languages may rival English as a “lingua franca” in the 21st century?Zorbas Vasilios

FRIDAY 03/07/15

18:90 -20:00

Strand 3

Applying Sen’s social justice to the social studiesBrown James

Open access as a means for social justice in the context of cultural diversity in EuropeKoutras Nikos

The immigrant childhood in ChilePavez Iskra

Strand 5 (GREEK)

Solidarity and Diversity under CrisisGouga GeorgiaSpinthouraki Ioulia-Athina

The image of the “other” through critical pedagogyMelissova EleniKoltsida Kotinopoulou Rachil Nikolaou Georgios

The era of crisis and the exclusion of the excluded: schooling and children working in the streetPapasimaki Aikaterini

The inclusive school: teacher training and collaborationPenna Alexia

The concept of intercultural in the context of non-formal teachingTopoliati Maria

The contribution of the Theatre of the Oppressed and other dramatic techniques in the development of teachers’ intercultural competence Zoniou Christina

20:00 - 20:30 CONFERENCE CONCLUSION

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