Nektaria Palaiologou
Biographic Data
| ID | 644188 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nektaria Palaiologou |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nektaria |
| FAMILY NAME | Palaiologou |
| SIGNATURE | PALAIOLOGOU N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hellenic Open University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9647-4507 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Enhancing Refugee Youth Integration Through Vocational Education and Training
Vocational education and training are essential for the integration of refugee youth into Greek society. Therefore, it seems that there is an urgent need for the Greek Ministry of Education and Religion and for the Ministry of Labour (herewith, Greek Ministries of Education and Labour) to redesign and adapt their strategies and practices to address the specific learning needs of refugee youth. The aim of this study is to explore the types of poli…
Exploring Narratives of Teachers Working with Culturally Diverse Students
The aim of the present study is to capture the teachers’ reflections and lived experiences on the inclusion of culturally diverse students in Greek school settings. Through a qualitative narrative inquiry approach, teachers share their personal accounts and stories about their efforts, initiatives, and moves towards more inclusive schooling, as well as the barriers they face in the school environment. Five (n = 5) primary school teachers were rec…
The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic in the Inclusion of Refugee Students in Greek Schools
Over the last two years, the prolonged massive school closure due to COVID-19 has provoked significant constraints for refugee children. The present study aimed to investigate the perceptions of Greek pre-service teachers on refugee education during the COVID-19 pandemic. A questionnaire was addressed to 32 native university students (n = 32) who attended Education Departments in Western Macedonia in Greece. The results showed that the prevalence…
Child friendship patterns at a refugee center in Greece
Since 2015, Greece has seen a large influx of refugees, resulting in increased needs for accommodation and education provision. As most newcomers come in family units, innovative educational measures were established to assist schooling and inclusion for refugee children. Schools provide opportunities to young refugee communities for initiating connections and maintaining friendships with local native peers. However, segregated accommodation stru…
Refugee Students’ Psychosocial Well-Being
Education can be important for assisting the psychosocial well-being of marginalized communities such as refugees and contributes to the effective processing of feelings and isolation prevention by mitigating the long-term effects of trauma and developing strategies to manage life changes. A small-scale study was conducted on 21 students from a Refugee Hospitality Center in Greece to investigate their psychosocial well-being through questions abo…
Perceptions of ZEP Teachers towards Parental Involvement of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Families
Parental involvement of super-diverse families in the educational process is an integral part of the integration of emergent bilingual students, which, however, entails obstacles to its implementation in Greek schools and worldwide. Τhe present study investigates, through a qualitative case study, the perceptions of eight primary school teachers who had worked in zones of educational priority (ZEPs) in Greek public education, which are also calle…
Translanguaging as a teaching practice for linguistically diverse students
Translanguaging refers to the communicative practices that go between and beyond defined linguistic systems. In language learning, it can be applied by helping learners access their whole linguistic and semiotic repertoires, thus enhancing language acquisition. This paper draws on quantitative data provided by language teachers of both elementary and secondary education in Greece through an online survey, in order to study their attitudes and pra…
Insights into Teachers’ Intercultural and Global Competence within Multicultural Educational Settings
As multicultural classrooms appear to be the norm nowadays, giving rise to new, more particular and targeted needs which must be accommodated, teachers now need to reflect on and adjust the strategies and practices they apply in order to meet the specific learning needs of their intercultural classrooms. For this reason, teachers’ education should be re-examined, evaluated, and enriched. In this light, this original study uses a case study to exp…
Teachers’ Global Perceptions and Views, Practices and Needs in Multicultural Settings
Multiculturalism and globalization are common traits of western societies, and affect the way people interact and communicate. In such a context, this study comes to investigate teachers’ perceptions, practices and needs towards global and intercultural competences. This study was designed and implemented in order to shed light on major issues which are associated with the context of global competences as an umbrella term, which arose during the …
Languages and multilingualism on the European agenda
This paper focuses on the language policy of the European Union (hereafter, EU), which is applied in the case of European Schools (hereafter, ES). It is based on a case study conducted at postgraduate level. Our purposes were: a) to examine and analyse the official EU policy on language and multilingualism, b) to find similarities and differences between the official EU texts and the praxis followed in ES regarding language learning, and c) to ex…
The evolution of intercultural and multicultural education
When participants of an anti-oppression movement fail to vigilantly protect its integrity – the ideals that made the movement a threat to the existence of oppression – that movement grows more and
Citizenship education and global migration
Citizenship education and global migration: implications for theory, research, and teaching." Intercultural Education, 28(4), pp. 424–425
Multicultural/Intercultural Education Issues in Pre-service Teacher Education Courses
Teachers’ education on Multicultural/Intercultural education issues constitutes a central field in the education of future teachers, i.e. the undergraduate students who attend educational studies at Pedagogical Departments. In this article we present the case of Greece, a southern European country, where Teachers’ education on Intercultural issues has been a new dimension within the curricula of universities. The current study focuses on the curr…
Multicultural/Intercultural Education Issues in Pre-service Teacher Education Courses
How ‘intercultural’ is education in Greece? Insights from policymakers and educators
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 policymakers and other stakeholders in the field of education have defined the notion of interculturalism and…
Negotiating political identities
The modern intercultural persona and civitas
This conceptual paper represents an attempt to reflect on the notion of the ancient Greek polis – a subject of study and sometimes heated debate for many philosophers and historians worldwide – as a paradigm of a city that can offer some insight into modern states, in an era of globalisation and tense multiculturalism. By providing a synthesis of information, based on a selection of well-known philosophers’ and historians’ writings, who have stud…
Language use in the two‐way classroom
Intercultural education
This special issue of Intercultural Education entitled ‘Intercultural education: new century, new needs. Conceptual and empirical challenges’ is a selection of invited contributions, which were pre
Becoming interculturally competent through education and training
edited by Anwei Feng, Mike Byram, and Mike Fleming, (Series: Languages for intercultural communication and education, Series editors: Mike Byram and Alison Phipps), Bristol, Multilingual Matters, 2
Addressing ethnic conflict through peace education. International perspectives
edited by Zvi Bekerman and Claire McGlynn, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 1st edition, 280 pp., [euro]42.50 (hardcover), ISBN 9781‐4039‐7168‐5 Zvi Bekerman and Claire McGlynn have both been invol
School adjustment difficulties of immigrant children in Greece 1
This paper presents the methodology and main results of a longitudinal study in Greece that explored the learning and psychosocial difficulties of immigrant pupils, as compared with those of their Greek classmates. The ‘Teacher–Child Rating Scale’ (T‐CRS) and ‘Child Rating Scale’ (CRS) were used as instruments to measure the school adjustment difficulties of the sample, according to their teachers’ ratings. A total number of 3561 scales were sele…
Virtual and Remote Robotic Laboratory
This paper describes the development and experimental evaluation of an e-laboratory platform in the field of robotics. The system in its current configuration is designed to enable distance training of students in real scenarios of robot manipulator programming. From a technological perspective, the research work presented in this paper is directed towards the adaptation of concepts and techniques developed in the field of telerobotics and virtua…
School adjustment difficulties of immigrant children in Greece 1
This paper presents the methodology and main results of a longitudinal study in Greece that explored the learning and psychosocial difficulties of immigrant pupils, as compared with those of their Greek classmates. The ‘Teacher–Child Rating Scale’ (T‐CRS) and ‘Child Rating Scale’ (CRS) were used as instruments to measure the school adjustment difficulties of the sample, according to their teachers’ ratings. A total number of 3561 scales were sele…
How ‘intercultural’ is education in Greece? Insights from policymakers and educators
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 policymakers and other stakeholders in the field of education have defined the notion of interculturalism and…
The evolution of intercultural and multicultural education
When participants of an anti-oppression movement fail to vigilantly protect its integrity – the ideals that made the movement a threat to the existence of oppression – that movement grows more and
Refugee Students’ Psychosocial Well-Being
Education can be important for assisting the psychosocial well-being of marginalized communities such as refugees and contributes to the effective processing of feelings and isolation prevention by mitigating the long-term effects of trauma and developing strategies to manage life changes. A small-scale study was conducted on 21 students from a Refugee Hospitality Center in Greece to investigate their psychosocial well-being through questions abo…
Perceptions of ZEP Teachers towards Parental Involvement of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Families
Parental involvement of super-diverse families in the educational process is an integral part of the integration of emergent bilingual students, which, however, entails obstacles to its implementation in Greek schools and worldwide. Τhe present study investigates, through a qualitative case study, the perceptions of eight primary school teachers who had worked in zones of educational priority (ZEPs) in Greek public education, which are also calle…
Negotiating political identities
Intercultural education
This special issue of Intercultural Education entitled ‘Intercultural education: new century, new needs. Conceptual and empirical challenges’ is a selection of invited contributions, which were pre
The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic in the Inclusion of Refugee Students in Greek Schools
Over the last two years, the prolonged massive school closure due to COVID-19 has provoked significant constraints for refugee children. The present study aimed to investigate the perceptions of Greek pre-service teachers on refugee education during the COVID-19 pandemic. A questionnaire was addressed to 32 native university students (n = 32) who attended Education Departments in Western Macedonia in Greece. The results showed that the prevalence…
Citizenship education and global migration
Citizenship education and global migration: implications for theory, research, and teaching." Intercultural Education, 28(4), pp. 424–425
The modern intercultural persona and civitas
This conceptual paper represents an attempt to reflect on the notion of the ancient Greek polis – a subject of study and sometimes heated debate for many philosophers and historians worldwide – as a paradigm of a city that can offer some insight into modern states, in an era of globalisation and tense multiculturalism. By providing a synthesis of information, based on a selection of well-known philosophers’ and historians’ writings, who have stud…
Addressing ethnic conflict through peace education. International perspectives
edited by Zvi Bekerman and Claire McGlynn, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 1st edition, 280 pp., [euro]42.50 (hardcover), ISBN 9781‐4039‐7168‐5 Zvi Bekerman and Claire McGlynn have both been invol
Virtual and Remote Robotic Laboratory
This paper describes the development and experimental evaluation of an e-laboratory platform in the field of robotics. The system in its current configuration is designed to enable distance training of students in real scenarios of robot manipulator programming. From a technological perspective, the research work presented in this paper is directed towards the adaptation of concepts and techniques developed in the field of telerobotics and virtua…
School adjustment difficulties of immigrant children in Greece 1
This paper presents the methodology and main results of a longitudinal study in Greece that explored the learning and psychosocial difficulties of immigrant pupils, as compared with those of their Greek classmates. The ‘Teacher–Child Rating Scale’ (T‐CRS) and ‘Child Rating Scale’ (CRS) were used as instruments to measure the school adjustment difficulties of the sample, according to their teachers’ ratings. A total number of 3561 scales were sele…
Addressing ethnic conflict through peace education. International perspectives
edited by Zvi Bekerman and Claire McGlynn, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 1st edition, 280 pp., [euro]42.50 (hardcover), ISBN 9781‐4039‐7168‐5 Zvi Bekerman and Claire McGlynn have both been invol
Negotiating political identities
The modern intercultural persona and civitas
This conceptual paper represents an attempt to reflect on the notion of the ancient Greek polis – a subject of study and sometimes heated debate for many philosophers and historians worldwide – as a paradigm of a city that can offer some insight into modern states, in an era of globalisation and tense multiculturalism. By providing a synthesis of information, based on a selection of well-known philosophers’ and historians’ writings, who have stud…
Language use in the two‐way classroom
Intercultural education
This special issue of Intercultural Education entitled ‘Intercultural education: new century, new needs. Conceptual and empirical challenges’ is a selection of invited contributions, which were pre
Becoming interculturally competent through education and training
edited by Anwei Feng, Mike Byram, and Mike Fleming, (Series: Languages for intercultural communication and education, Series editors: Mike Byram and Alison Phipps), Bristol, Multilingual Matters, 2
How ‘intercultural’ is education in Greece? Insights from policymakers and educators
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 policymakers and other stakeholders in the field of education have defined the notion of interculturalism and…
Multicultural/Intercultural Education Issues in Pre-service Teacher Education Courses
Teachers’ education on Multicultural/Intercultural education issues constitutes a central field in the education of future teachers, i.e. the undergraduate students who attend educational studies at Pedagogical Departments. In this article we present the case of Greece, a southern European country, where Teachers’ education on Intercultural issues has been a new dimension within the curricula of universities. The current study focuses on the curr…
Multicultural/Intercultural Education Issues in Pre-service Teacher Education Courses
The evolution of intercultural and multicultural education
When participants of an anti-oppression movement fail to vigilantly protect its integrity – the ideals that made the movement a threat to the existence of oppression – that movement grows more and
Citizenship education and global migration
Citizenship education and global migration: implications for theory, research, and teaching." Intercultural Education, 28(4), pp. 424–425
Insights into Teachers’ Intercultural and Global Competence within Multicultural Educational Settings
As multicultural classrooms appear to be the norm nowadays, giving rise to new, more particular and targeted needs which must be accommodated, teachers now need to reflect on and adjust the strategies and practices they apply in order to meet the specific learning needs of their intercultural classrooms. For this reason, teachers’ education should be re-examined, evaluated, and enriched. In this light, this original study uses a case study to exp…
Teachers’ Global Perceptions and Views, Practices and Needs in Multicultural Settings
Multiculturalism and globalization are common traits of western societies, and affect the way people interact and communicate. In such a context, this study comes to investigate teachers’ perceptions, practices and needs towards global and intercultural competences. This study was designed and implemented in order to shed light on major issues which are associated with the context of global competences as an umbrella term, which arose during the …
Languages and multilingualism on the European agenda
This paper focuses on the language policy of the European Union (hereafter, EU), which is applied in the case of European Schools (hereafter, ES). It is based on a case study conducted at postgraduate level. Our purposes were: a) to examine and analyse the official EU policy on language and multilingualism, b) to find similarities and differences between the official EU texts and the praxis followed in ES regarding language learning, and c) to ex…
Child friendship patterns at a refugee center in Greece
Since 2015, Greece has seen a large influx of refugees, resulting in increased needs for accommodation and education provision. As most newcomers come in family units, innovative educational measures were established to assist schooling and inclusion for refugee children. Schools provide opportunities to young refugee communities for initiating connections and maintaining friendships with local native peers. However, segregated accommodation stru…
Refugee Students’ Psychosocial Well-Being
Education can be important for assisting the psychosocial well-being of marginalized communities such as refugees and contributes to the effective processing of feelings and isolation prevention by mitigating the long-term effects of trauma and developing strategies to manage life changes. A small-scale study was conducted on 21 students from a Refugee Hospitality Center in Greece to investigate their psychosocial well-being through questions abo…
Perceptions of ZEP Teachers towards Parental Involvement of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Families
Parental involvement of super-diverse families in the educational process is an integral part of the integration of emergent bilingual students, which, however, entails obstacles to its implementation in Greek schools and worldwide. Τhe present study investigates, through a qualitative case study, the perceptions of eight primary school teachers who had worked in zones of educational priority (ZEPs) in Greek public education, which are also calle…
Translanguaging as a teaching practice for linguistically diverse students
Translanguaging refers to the communicative practices that go between and beyond defined linguistic systems. In language learning, it can be applied by helping learners access their whole linguistic and semiotic repertoires, thus enhancing language acquisition. This paper draws on quantitative data provided by language teachers of both elementary and secondary education in Greece through an online survey, in order to study their attitudes and pra…
Exploring Narratives of Teachers Working with Culturally Diverse Students
The aim of the present study is to capture the teachers’ reflections and lived experiences on the inclusion of culturally diverse students in Greek school settings. Through a qualitative narrative inquiry approach, teachers share their personal accounts and stories about their efforts, initiatives, and moves towards more inclusive schooling, as well as the barriers they face in the school environment. Five (n = 5) primary school teachers were rec…
The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic in the Inclusion of Refugee Students in Greek Schools
Over the last two years, the prolonged massive school closure due to COVID-19 has provoked significant constraints for refugee children. The present study aimed to investigate the perceptions of Greek pre-service teachers on refugee education during the COVID-19 pandemic. A questionnaire was addressed to 32 native university students (n = 32) who attended Education Departments in Western Macedonia in Greece. The results showed that the prevalence…
Enhancing Refugee Youth Integration Through Vocational Education and Training
Vocational education and training are essential for the integration of refugee youth into Greek society. Therefore, it seems that there is an urgent need for the Greek Ministry of Education and Religion and for the Ministry of Labour (herewith, Greek Ministries of Education and Labour) to redesign and adapt their strategies and practices to address the specific learning needs of refugee youth. The aim of this study is to explore the types of poli…
Sociology (20 works) · Pedagogy (18 works) · Political science (14 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Multiculturalism (11 works) · Global Education and Multiculturalism (10 works) · Mathematics education (7 works) · Multicultural education (7 works) · Education and experiences of immigrants and refugees (6 works) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (5 works)