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Papers by Alexandra Mitsiali

European journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults, Feb 20, 2023

This article covers the places that came to constitute the pivotal points of reference in the nar... more This article covers the places that came to constitute the pivotal points of reference in the narration of the life of Z., a female migrant from Albania to Greece. It attempts to highlight the function of such places as cognitive and reconstructive frames that signify the life, memories and biographical plans of the narrator, the shaping but also the reception of a personal and social identity by herself as also by others. It attempts to point to the meaning of such places not only in the sense of the scenography (setting) of a life and its narration, but also as the defining elements in the trajectory and self-knowledge of an immigrant.

Κριτική Εκπαίδευση (Critical Education), 2023

This article critically approaches the debate concerning the theory of effectiveness which refers... more This article critically approaches the debate concerning the theory of effectiveness which refers to the school function and management and mainly to the term "school leader". At first, the theory deals with the concept of effectiveness from its initial appearance in the business domain to its adoption by the dominant pedagogical narrative of the 20th & 21st centuries. Following, the article examines the concept of the "principal leader" and its characteristic features in comparison to those of the "traditional" and the "charismatic" principal, as presented in the relevant literature. At the same time, this article gives prominence to the ideological and political function of the theoretical argumentation, which attempts to scientifically support the need to establish and welcome the new notion of school leadership.
Keywords: effectiveness theory, manager-leader, hierarchical management model, symbolic power, ideology

Using as a starting point the removal of the course of Theatrical Studies and Free and Linear Dra... more Using as a starting point the removal of the course of Theatrical Studies and Free and Linear Drawing from the curriculum of the Greek High School, this text attempts to detect the current reality regarding the shadowy presence and the essential absence of the arts from the curricula of the secondary education, the veiled logic of social and cultural reproduction that this reality serves and the broader and deeper goals it attempts to achieve.

Keywords: arts courses, liberal education, instrumental and critical literacy, empowerment and emancipation, cultural reproduction and resistance.

European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults

This article covers the places that came to constitute the pivotal points of reference in the nar... more This article covers the places that came to constitute the pivotal points of reference in the narration of the life of Z., a female migrant from Albania to Greece. It attempts to highlight the function of such places as cognitive and reconstructive frames that signify the life, memories and biographical plans of the narrator, the shaping but also the reception of a personal and social identity by herself as also by others. It attempts to point to the meaning of such places not only in the sense of the scenography (setting) of a life and its narration, but also as the defining elements in the trajectory and self-knowledge of an immigrant.

Κριτική Εκπαίδευση 1 (2021), 007-033 Published online: 23 March 2021, 2021

The following article's purpose is to manifest the ideology in the historical narrative o... more The following article's purpose is to manifest the ideology in the historical narrative of the 1821 Greek Revolution in the latest schoolbook editions of Greek Contemporary and Modern History which are taught in the Greek Lyceum.
Having selected as axes of analysis a) the character of the Greek Revolution, b) the National Assembly of Epidaurus, c) the civil conflicts, d) the outcome of Revolution, we therefore tend to regard comparatively the two historical narratives, highlighting both the explicit and the latent aspects of ideology and the political viewpoint they are carrying and thus presented and evaluated in the historical events in each one of the books.

Κριτική Εκπαίδευση 2 (2021), 0058-071 Published online: 29 December 2021, 2021

Το κείμενο εξετάζει όψεις της αναπαραγωγής και της αντίστασης του σχολικού θεσμού στα βιβλία της ... more Το κείμενο εξετάζει όψεις της αναπαραγωγής και της αντίστασης του σχολικού θεσμού στα βιβλία της Άλκης Ζέη Το Καπλάνι της βιτρίνας και Κοντά στις ράγες. Εστιάζεται κυρίως στον κριτικό τρόπο με τον οποίο παρουσιάζονται οι κοινωνικές ανισότητες στα δύο αυτά βιβλία αλλά και σε μια παιδαγωγική αντίληψη που αντιμετωπίζει τα παιδιά ως κοινωνικά και ιστορικά υποκείμενα συνδεδεμένα με τα μεγάλα γεγονότα του καιρού τους. Αναδεικνύει την παιδαγωγική αξία του τρόπου σκέψης και των αξιών τους σήμερα, στον καιρό του αναγεννημένου κοινωνικού δαρβινισμού και της ταξικής αριστείας.

MEMORIAMEDIA Review 6. Art. 2. 2021, 2021

This paper summarizes the "process structures" in the context of Fritz Schϋtze's "Narrative Analy... more This paper summarizes the "process structures" in the context of Fritz Schϋtze's "Narrative Analysis" and investigates in greater detail one of these, the "trajectory of suffering", on which the German sociologist himself focuses his studies. Subsequently, the paper presents the "trajectory of suffering" in the biographical narrative of a second-generation woman of Albanian origin studying at a Greek university and goes on to trace her educational route from a stigmatized national to a transnational identity. The analysis clarifies K.'s different experiences in the course of her educational trajectory from primary school to university, depicting a slow and difficult displacement from the state of insecurity, shame and concealment of her national identity to that of self-esteem and emancipation.

Books by Alexandra Mitsiali

Εκδόσεις Νήσος & Ινστιτούτο Νίκος Πουλαντζάς , 2021

Το κείμενο αυτό, το οποίο συμπεριλήφθηκε στον επιστημονικό τόμο, 1821-2021: Μνήμες τεχνών-Θραύσμα... more Το κείμενο αυτό, το οποίο συμπεριλήφθηκε στον επιστημονικό τόμο, 1821-2021: Μνήμες τεχνών-Θραύσματα Ιστορίας, επιχειρεί να εξετάσει τον τρόπο με τον οποίο η Ζέη, κάνοντας μια τομή στο πεδίο της λογοτεχνίας για παιδιά, τοποθετεί σε πρώτο πλάνο μέσα στα τέσσερα μυθιστορήματά της που αντιμετωπίζω ως βασικό κορμό της μυθιστοριογραφίας της (Το καπλάνι της βιτρίνας, Ο μεγάλος περίπατος του Πέτρου, Κοντά στις ράγες, Η μωβ ομπρέλα), αφενός τη ματιά και τη φωνή των παιδιών και αφετέρου τα παιδιά ως δρώντα υποκείμενα στην καρδιά των σημαντικών ιστορικών και πολιτικών γεγονότων που αφηγείται. Ταυτόχρονα το κείμενό μου επιχειρεί να μελετήσει την άποψη που η λογοτέχνης διατυπώνει μέσα από τις αφηγήσεις της για τη σχέση των παιδιών με την Ιστορία και την πολιτική αλλά και την άποψή της για τον ίδιο τον ιστορικό κόσμο, όπως στοιχειοθετείται από τον τρόπο που στέκονται μέσα σε αυτόν τα παιδιά που η Ζέη επιλέγει να τοποθετήσει στο προσκήνιο των μυθιστορημάτων της.

Conference Presentations by Alexandra Mitsiali

3o Πανελλήνιο Συνέδριο Κριτικής Εκπαίδευσης · «Κριτική εκπαίδευση για την ελπίδα και την κοινωνική χειραφέτηση», 2022

Using as a starting point the removal of the course of Theatrical Studies and Free and Linear Dra... more Using as a starting point the removal of the course of Theatrical Studies and Free and Linear Drawing from the curriculum of the Greek High School, this text attempts to detect the current reality regarding the shadowy presence and the essential absence of the arts from the curricula of the secondary education, the veiled logic of social and cultural reproduction that this reality serves and the broader and deeper goals it attempts to achieve.

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE EDUCATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY Contemporary challenges and concerns. Faculty of Primary Education, University of Ioannina, 13-15 May 2022,https://conf2022.ptde.uoi.gr/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Tomos\_B\_25\_1.pdf, p.p. 906-917 , 2022

This article concerns the creation of the periodical Bookbusters for the 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 ... more This article concerns the creation of the periodical Bookbusters for the 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 school years (https://issuu.com/our.bookbusters). We shall present the cooperative procedures in the formation of the aesthetics and the material of the periodical, the team’s democratic context of functioning in its weekly meetings, the initiatives, self-motivation and assumption of responsibilities on the part of its members, the self-reflective and deliberative processes employed in the improvement of such initiatives, the interaction between educators and pupils, as that developed in the course of the formulation and publication of the four (4) issues of the periodical (January/February/April 2021-March 2022). Keeping in mind the history of school publications (Célestin Freinet, Alexander Neill) and the movement of progressive education in general, this presentation will consider issues pertaining to humanizing pedagogy and critical literacy, taken as a process encompassing, on the one hand, the critical stance vis-à-vis whatever a pupil reads, sees or hears and, on the other, the approach taken towards different cultural viewpoints, the discovery and development of personal interests, though also the making of decisions that function in the interests of the team and in that of the school community.
KEYWORDS: Bookbusters, critical literacy, humanizing pedagogy, self-expression & creation, psychosocial experience.

European journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults, Feb 20, 2023

This article covers the places that came to constitute the pivotal points of reference in the nar... more This article covers the places that came to constitute the pivotal points of reference in the narration of the life of Z., a female migrant from Albania to Greece. It attempts to highlight the function of such places as cognitive and reconstructive frames that signify the life, memories and biographical plans of the narrator, the shaping but also the reception of a personal and social identity by herself as also by others. It attempts to point to the meaning of such places not only in the sense of the scenography (setting) of a life and its narration, but also as the defining elements in the trajectory and self-knowledge of an immigrant.

Κριτική Εκπαίδευση (Critical Education), 2023

This article critically approaches the debate concerning the theory of effectiveness which refers... more This article critically approaches the debate concerning the theory of effectiveness which refers to the school function and management and mainly to the term "school leader". At first, the theory deals with the concept of effectiveness from its initial appearance in the business domain to its adoption by the dominant pedagogical narrative of the 20th & 21st centuries. Following, the article examines the concept of the "principal leader" and its characteristic features in comparison to those of the "traditional" and the "charismatic" principal, as presented in the relevant literature. At the same time, this article gives prominence to the ideological and political function of the theoretical argumentation, which attempts to scientifically support the need to establish and welcome the new notion of school leadership.
Keywords: effectiveness theory, manager-leader, hierarchical management model, symbolic power, ideology

Using as a starting point the removal of the course of Theatrical Studies and Free and Linear Dra... more Using as a starting point the removal of the course of Theatrical Studies and Free and Linear Drawing from the curriculum of the Greek High School, this text attempts to detect the current reality regarding the shadowy presence and the essential absence of the arts from the curricula of the secondary education, the veiled logic of social and cultural reproduction that this reality serves and the broader and deeper goals it attempts to achieve.

Keywords: arts courses, liberal education, instrumental and critical literacy, empowerment and emancipation, cultural reproduction and resistance.

European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults

This article covers the places that came to constitute the pivotal points of reference in the nar... more This article covers the places that came to constitute the pivotal points of reference in the narration of the life of Z., a female migrant from Albania to Greece. It attempts to highlight the function of such places as cognitive and reconstructive frames that signify the life, memories and biographical plans of the narrator, the shaping but also the reception of a personal and social identity by herself as also by others. It attempts to point to the meaning of such places not only in the sense of the scenography (setting) of a life and its narration, but also as the defining elements in the trajectory and self-knowledge of an immigrant.

Κριτική Εκπαίδευση 1 (2021), 007-033 Published online: 23 March 2021, 2021

The following article's purpose is to manifest the ideology in the historical narrative o... more The following article's purpose is to manifest the ideology in the historical narrative of the 1821 Greek Revolution in the latest schoolbook editions of Greek Contemporary and Modern History which are taught in the Greek Lyceum.
Having selected as axes of analysis a) the character of the Greek Revolution, b) the National Assembly of Epidaurus, c) the civil conflicts, d) the outcome of Revolution, we therefore tend to regard comparatively the two historical narratives, highlighting both the explicit and the latent aspects of ideology and the political viewpoint they are carrying and thus presented and evaluated in the historical events in each one of the books.

Κριτική Εκπαίδευση 2 (2021), 0058-071 Published online: 29 December 2021, 2021

Το κείμενο εξετάζει όψεις της αναπαραγωγής και της αντίστασης του σχολικού θεσμού στα βιβλία της ... more Το κείμενο εξετάζει όψεις της αναπαραγωγής και της αντίστασης του σχολικού θεσμού στα βιβλία της Άλκης Ζέη Το Καπλάνι της βιτρίνας και Κοντά στις ράγες. Εστιάζεται κυρίως στον κριτικό τρόπο με τον οποίο παρουσιάζονται οι κοινωνικές ανισότητες στα δύο αυτά βιβλία αλλά και σε μια παιδαγωγική αντίληψη που αντιμετωπίζει τα παιδιά ως κοινωνικά και ιστορικά υποκείμενα συνδεδεμένα με τα μεγάλα γεγονότα του καιρού τους. Αναδεικνύει την παιδαγωγική αξία του τρόπου σκέψης και των αξιών τους σήμερα, στον καιρό του αναγεννημένου κοινωνικού δαρβινισμού και της ταξικής αριστείας.

MEMORIAMEDIA Review 6. Art. 2. 2021, 2021

This paper summarizes the "process structures" in the context of Fritz Schϋtze's "Narrative Analy... more This paper summarizes the "process structures" in the context of Fritz Schϋtze's "Narrative Analysis" and investigates in greater detail one of these, the "trajectory of suffering", on which the German sociologist himself focuses his studies. Subsequently, the paper presents the "trajectory of suffering" in the biographical narrative of a second-generation woman of Albanian origin studying at a Greek university and goes on to trace her educational route from a stigmatized national to a transnational identity. The analysis clarifies K.'s different experiences in the course of her educational trajectory from primary school to university, depicting a slow and difficult displacement from the state of insecurity, shame and concealment of her national identity to that of self-esteem and emancipation.

Εκδόσεις Νήσος & Ινστιτούτο Νίκος Πουλαντζάς , 2021

Το κείμενο αυτό, το οποίο συμπεριλήφθηκε στον επιστημονικό τόμο, 1821-2021: Μνήμες τεχνών-Θραύσμα... more Το κείμενο αυτό, το οποίο συμπεριλήφθηκε στον επιστημονικό τόμο, 1821-2021: Μνήμες τεχνών-Θραύσματα Ιστορίας, επιχειρεί να εξετάσει τον τρόπο με τον οποίο η Ζέη, κάνοντας μια τομή στο πεδίο της λογοτεχνίας για παιδιά, τοποθετεί σε πρώτο πλάνο μέσα στα τέσσερα μυθιστορήματά της που αντιμετωπίζω ως βασικό κορμό της μυθιστοριογραφίας της (Το καπλάνι της βιτρίνας, Ο μεγάλος περίπατος του Πέτρου, Κοντά στις ράγες, Η μωβ ομπρέλα), αφενός τη ματιά και τη φωνή των παιδιών και αφετέρου τα παιδιά ως δρώντα υποκείμενα στην καρδιά των σημαντικών ιστορικών και πολιτικών γεγονότων που αφηγείται. Ταυτόχρονα το κείμενό μου επιχειρεί να μελετήσει την άποψη που η λογοτέχνης διατυπώνει μέσα από τις αφηγήσεις της για τη σχέση των παιδιών με την Ιστορία και την πολιτική αλλά και την άποψή της για τον ίδιο τον ιστορικό κόσμο, όπως στοιχειοθετείται από τον τρόπο που στέκονται μέσα σε αυτόν τα παιδιά που η Ζέη επιλέγει να τοποθετήσει στο προσκήνιο των μυθιστορημάτων της.

3o Πανελλήνιο Συνέδριο Κριτικής Εκπαίδευσης · «Κριτική εκπαίδευση για την ελπίδα και την κοινωνική χειραφέτηση», 2022

Using as a starting point the removal of the course of Theatrical Studies and Free and Linear Dra... more Using as a starting point the removal of the course of Theatrical Studies and Free and Linear Drawing from the curriculum of the Greek High School, this text attempts to detect the current reality regarding the shadowy presence and the essential absence of the arts from the curricula of the secondary education, the veiled logic of social and cultural reproduction that this reality serves and the broader and deeper goals it attempts to achieve.

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE EDUCATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY Contemporary challenges and concerns. Faculty of Primary Education, University of Ioannina, 13-15 May 2022,https://conf2022.ptde.uoi.gr/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Tomos\_B\_25\_1.pdf, p.p. 906-917 , 2022

This article concerns the creation of the periodical Bookbusters for the 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 ... more This article concerns the creation of the periodical Bookbusters for the 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 school years (https://issuu.com/our.bookbusters). We shall present the cooperative procedures in the formation of the aesthetics and the material of the periodical, the team’s democratic context of functioning in its weekly meetings, the initiatives, self-motivation and assumption of responsibilities on the part of its members, the self-reflective and deliberative processes employed in the improvement of such initiatives, the interaction between educators and pupils, as that developed in the course of the formulation and publication of the four (4) issues of the periodical (January/February/April 2021-March 2022). Keeping in mind the history of school publications (Célestin Freinet, Alexander Neill) and the movement of progressive education in general, this presentation will consider issues pertaining to humanizing pedagogy and critical literacy, taken as a process encompassing, on the one hand, the critical stance vis-à-vis whatever a pupil reads, sees or hears and, on the other, the approach taken towards different cultural viewpoints, the discovery and development of personal interests, though also the making of decisions that function in the interests of the team and in that of the school community.
KEYWORDS: Bookbusters, critical literacy, humanizing pedagogy, self-expression & creation, psychosocial experience.