Michalis Kontopodis
Biographic Data
| ID | 93100 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michalis Kontopodis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michalis |
| FAMILY NAME | Kontopodis |
| SIGNATURE | KONTOPODIS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Roehampton |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3948-2265 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Cultural-Historical Activity Theory Travels to Greece: Actors, Contexts and Politics of Reception and Interpretation
This article explores how socio-cultural, cultural-historical and activity theory approaches to education and psychology have traveled to Greece over the last three decades. It explores the history of introducing these approaches in the Greek context while identifying key dimensions of the process, such as: diverse interpretation of original works, key actors in academic teaching and research and linkages with educational policy and activism beyo…
De-centring the psychology curriculum: Diversity, social justice, and psychological knowledge
The psychology curriculum has close ties to the histories and cultural traditions of industrialised societies’ white middle-class populations, so it is unclear how it may reflect the interests and values of students from a variety of ethnic, racial, and socio-economic backgrounds in contemporary higher education settings. To address this question, we established an innovative research project of de-centring the psychology curriculum, so that BA s…
Students on Facebook: From observers to collaborative agents
The aim of this paper is to explore how secondary school students’ agency evolves over time across offline and online spaces. We focus on five Facebook groups of teachers and students interacting online in various ways over a period of eighteen months. Combining a variety of innovative analytical techniques and procedures (descriptive statistics, network analysis and discursive analysis) we analyze students’ online posts and interactions in a cul…
Collaborating on Facebook: Teachers Exchanging Experiences Through Social Networking Sites
This study explores the use of Facebook for educational purposes, as a collaborative online space for enabling communication among teachers from different schools. The article describes how a group of 43 teachers on Facebook, from various schools in the southeast region of Brazil used a group on Facebook as a collaborative space for communicating among each other. On the group, these teachers shared experiences about the use of digital technologi…
How and why should children eat fruit and vegetables? Ethnographic insights into diverse body pedagogies
Trinta anos de construção identitária Sem Terra no Espírito Santo: Explorando Um Projeto Político-Pedagógico De Vanguarda Contra O Neoliberalismo
O neoliberalismo global é marcado pelo desejo de ser bem-sucedido, consumir produtos e serviços, ou até mesmo pessoas ou bens imateriais em um não-lugar, oferecendo uma experiência de um não-tempo. Dessa forma, algumas perguntas podem ser feitas, dentre elas, quais seriam as alternativas para o neoliberalismo e qual seria o papel da pedagogia nesse contexto? Tomando como referência o Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem Terra (MST), o presente texto a…
Neoliberalism, Pedagogy and Human Development: Exploring Time, Mediation and Collectivity in Contemporary Schools
Introduction: Looking to the Future 1. Learning, Development and Technologies of the Self: Dealing with Critical Situations and Marginalization in Germany 2. Either Now or Never: The Developmental Temporalities of School-to Work Transition. Interlude: I Can't Begin Anything with This 3. Freedom Writers, California, 1994 - 1998: When Meta-Reflection Creates Radically New Possibilities for Learning and Development at School 4. Doing Collective Past…
Das Selbst als Netzwerk: Zum Einsatz von Körpern und Dingen im Alltag
Seit Michel Foucault werden mit »Technologien des Selbst« Praktiken bezeichnet, mit denen die Menschen derart auf sich und ihre Lebensumstände einwirken, dass ihre Leben gewissen ästhetischen Vorstellungen zu entsprechen beginnen. Der Band beschäftigt sich mit diesen Transformationsprozessen und untersucht, wie in bestimmten Alltagspraxen Selbstkonzepte und damit assoziierte Praktiken immer wieder neu konfiguriert, in neue Beziehungen gesetzt und…
Biomedicine, psychology and the kindergarten: Children at risk and emerging knowledge practices
This study moves in the space between two fields: science and technology studies (STS) and childhood studies; it thus belongs to the broader STS literature that investigates everyday practices outside the laboratory. The interpretation of ethnographic and bibliographic data on contemporary cardiovascular and obesity prevention in German kindergartens makes evident that when knowledge travels from biomedical laboratories to the preschool, then psy…
Investigating Emerging Biomedical Practices: Zones of Awkward Engagement on Different Scales
This special issue of Science, Technology, & Human Values critically explores a new stage in which the life sciences and biomedical practices have entered. This new stage is marked by postgenomic developments and an increased interest of life sciences in the everyday lives of people outside laboratories and clinical settings. Furthermore, particular attention is given to many chronic and degenerative disorders such as cardiovascular disease, Alzh…
Cardiovascular Disease and Obesity Prevention in Germany: An Investigation into a Heterogeneous Engineering Project
Cardiovascular diseases present the leading cause of death worldwide. Over the last decade, their preventio has become not only a central medical and public health issue but also a matter of political concern as well as a major market for pharma, nutrition, and exercise. A preventive assemblage has formed that integrates diverse kinds of knowledges, technologies, and actors, from molecular biology to social work, to foster a specific healthy life…
Transforming the Power of Education for Young Minority Women: Narrations, Metareflection, and Societal Change
This article elaborates on different modes of reflecting and on the significance of these differences for educational and educational-psychological practice. It contrasts exemplary materials from two research projects at schools where students share experiences of social exclusion, poor performance in mainstream educational settings, economic challenges, and family-related problems. These materials stem from my own ethnographic research that took…
Building Bridges in Dialogue with the Future: An Introduction
In this introduction to the Ethos 2011 Dialogue the guest editors discuss questions related to child and youth development as seen from a cultural-historical and critical psychological point of view. The authors contributing to the dialogue develop a particular focus on the notions of mediation, practice, and active subjectivity while examining a series of conflictual cases of child and youth development. We seek here to introduce this work as it…
Documents' memories: Enacting pasts and futures at the School for Individual Learning-in-Practice
The study presented below has been an effort in examining the interdependence between time and memory practices, and in particular in studying how memory is related to the generation of pasts, presents and futures. Drawing on a one-year ethnographical research project in a secondary vocational school for students from sociocultural minorities in Germany, I examine how material-semiotic orderings determine how students' development and everyday ac…
Cardiovascular Disease and Obesity Prevention in Germany: An Investigation into a Heterogeneous Engineering Project
Cardiovascular diseases present the leading cause of death worldwide. Over the last decade, their preventio has become not only a central medical and public health issue but also a matter of political concern as well as a major market for pharma, nutrition, and exercise. A preventive assemblage has formed that integrates diverse kinds of knowledges, technologies, and actors, from molecular biology to social work, to foster a specific healthy life…
Investigating Emerging Biomedical Practices: Zones of Awkward Engagement on Different Scales
This special issue of Science, Technology, & Human Values critically explores a new stage in which the life sciences and biomedical practices have entered. This new stage is marked by postgenomic developments and an increased interest of life sciences in the everyday lives of people outside laboratories and clinical settings. Furthermore, particular attention is given to many chronic and degenerative disorders such as cardiovascular disease, Alzh…
Collaborating on Facebook: Teachers Exchanging Experiences Through Social Networking Sites
This study explores the use of Facebook for educational purposes, as a collaborative online space for enabling communication among teachers from different schools. The article describes how a group of 43 teachers on Facebook, from various schools in the southeast region of Brazil used a group on Facebook as a collaborative space for communicating among each other. On the group, these teachers shared experiences about the use of digital technologi…
Documents' memories: Enacting pasts and futures at the School for Individual Learning-in-Practice
The study presented below has been an effort in examining the interdependence between time and memory practices, and in particular in studying how memory is related to the generation of pasts, presents and futures. Drawing on a one-year ethnographical research project in a secondary vocational school for students from sociocultural minorities in Germany, I examine how material-semiotic orderings determine how students' development and everyday ac…
Transforming the Power of Education for Young Minority Women: Narrations, Metareflection, and Societal Change
This article elaborates on different modes of reflecting and on the significance of these differences for educational and educational-psychological practice. It contrasts exemplary materials from two research projects at schools where students share experiences of social exclusion, poor performance in mainstream educational settings, economic challenges, and family-related problems. These materials stem from my own ethnographic research that took…
Cultural-Historical Activity Theory Travels to Greece: Actors, Contexts and Politics of Reception and Interpretation
This article explores how socio-cultural, cultural-historical and activity theory approaches to education and psychology have traveled to Greece over the last three decades. It explores the history of introducing these approaches in the Greek context while identifying key dimensions of the process, such as: diverse interpretation of original works, key actors in academic teaching and research and linkages with educational policy and activism beyo…
How and why should children eat fruit and vegetables? Ethnographic insights into diverse body pedagogies
Biomedicine, psychology and the kindergarten: Children at risk and emerging knowledge practices
This study moves in the space between two fields: science and technology studies (STS) and childhood studies; it thus belongs to the broader STS literature that investigates everyday practices outside the laboratory. The interpretation of ethnographic and bibliographic data on contemporary cardiovascular and obesity prevention in German kindergartens makes evident that when knowledge travels from biomedical laboratories to the preschool, then psy…
Building Bridges in Dialogue with the Future: An Introduction
In this introduction to the Ethos 2011 Dialogue the guest editors discuss questions related to child and youth development as seen from a cultural-historical and critical psychological point of view. The authors contributing to the dialogue develop a particular focus on the notions of mediation, practice, and active subjectivity while examining a series of conflictual cases of child and youth development. We seek here to introduce this work as it…
Documents' memories: Enacting pasts and futures at the School for Individual Learning-in-Practice
The study presented below has been an effort in examining the interdependence between time and memory practices, and in particular in studying how memory is related to the generation of pasts, presents and futures. Drawing on a one-year ethnographical research project in a secondary vocational school for students from sociocultural minorities in Germany, I examine how material-semiotic orderings determine how students' development and everyday ac…
Das Selbst als Netzwerk: Zum Einsatz von Körpern und Dingen im Alltag
Seit Michel Foucault werden mit »Technologien des Selbst« Praktiken bezeichnet, mit denen die Menschen derart auf sich und ihre Lebensumstände einwirken, dass ihre Leben gewissen ästhetischen Vorstellungen zu entsprechen beginnen. Der Band beschäftigt sich mit diesen Transformationsprozessen und untersucht, wie in bestimmten Alltagspraxen Selbstkonzepte und damit assoziierte Praktiken immer wieder neu konfiguriert, in neue Beziehungen gesetzt und…
Biomedicine, psychology and the kindergarten: Children at risk and emerging knowledge practices
This study moves in the space between two fields: science and technology studies (STS) and childhood studies; it thus belongs to the broader STS literature that investigates everyday practices outside the laboratory. The interpretation of ethnographic and bibliographic data on contemporary cardiovascular and obesity prevention in German kindergartens makes evident that when knowledge travels from biomedical laboratories to the preschool, then psy…
Investigating Emerging Biomedical Practices: Zones of Awkward Engagement on Different Scales
This special issue of Science, Technology, & Human Values critically explores a new stage in which the life sciences and biomedical practices have entered. This new stage is marked by postgenomic developments and an increased interest of life sciences in the everyday lives of people outside laboratories and clinical settings. Furthermore, particular attention is given to many chronic and degenerative disorders such as cardiovascular disease, Alzh…
Cardiovascular Disease and Obesity Prevention in Germany: An Investigation into a Heterogeneous Engineering Project
Cardiovascular diseases present the leading cause of death worldwide. Over the last decade, their preventio has become not only a central medical and public health issue but also a matter of political concern as well as a major market for pharma, nutrition, and exercise. A preventive assemblage has formed that integrates diverse kinds of knowledges, technologies, and actors, from molecular biology to social work, to foster a specific healthy life…
Transforming the Power of Education for Young Minority Women: Narrations, Metareflection, and Societal Change
This article elaborates on different modes of reflecting and on the significance of these differences for educational and educational-psychological practice. It contrasts exemplary materials from two research projects at schools where students share experiences of social exclusion, poor performance in mainstream educational settings, economic challenges, and family-related problems. These materials stem from my own ethnographic research that took…
Building Bridges in Dialogue with the Future: An Introduction
In this introduction to the Ethos 2011 Dialogue the guest editors discuss questions related to child and youth development as seen from a cultural-historical and critical psychological point of view. The authors contributing to the dialogue develop a particular focus on the notions of mediation, practice, and active subjectivity while examining a series of conflictual cases of child and youth development. We seek here to introduce this work as it…
Neoliberalism, Pedagogy and Human Development: Exploring Time, Mediation and Collectivity in Contemporary Schools
Introduction: Looking to the Future 1. Learning, Development and Technologies of the Self: Dealing with Critical Situations and Marginalization in Germany 2. Either Now or Never: The Developmental Temporalities of School-to Work Transition. Interlude: I Can't Begin Anything with This 3. Freedom Writers, California, 1994 - 1998: When Meta-Reflection Creates Radically New Possibilities for Learning and Development at School 4. Doing Collective Past…
Trinta anos de construção identitária Sem Terra no Espírito Santo: Explorando Um Projeto Político-Pedagógico De Vanguarda Contra O Neoliberalismo
O neoliberalismo global é marcado pelo desejo de ser bem-sucedido, consumir produtos e serviços, ou até mesmo pessoas ou bens imateriais em um não-lugar, oferecendo uma experiência de um não-tempo. Dessa forma, algumas perguntas podem ser feitas, dentre elas, quais seriam as alternativas para o neoliberalismo e qual seria o papel da pedagogia nesse contexto? Tomando como referência o Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem Terra (MST), o presente texto a…
How and why should children eat fruit and vegetables? Ethnographic insights into diverse body pedagogies
Collaborating on Facebook: Teachers Exchanging Experiences Through Social Networking Sites
This study explores the use of Facebook for educational purposes, as a collaborative online space for enabling communication among teachers from different schools. The article describes how a group of 43 teachers on Facebook, from various schools in the southeast region of Brazil used a group on Facebook as a collaborative space for communicating among each other. On the group, these teachers shared experiences about the use of digital technologi…
De-centring the psychology curriculum: Diversity, social justice, and psychological knowledge
The psychology curriculum has close ties to the histories and cultural traditions of industrialised societies’ white middle-class populations, so it is unclear how it may reflect the interests and values of students from a variety of ethnic, racial, and socio-economic backgrounds in contemporary higher education settings. To address this question, we established an innovative research project of de-centring the psychology curriculum, so that BA s…
Students on Facebook: From observers to collaborative agents
The aim of this paper is to explore how secondary school students’ agency evolves over time across offline and online spaces. We focus on five Facebook groups of teachers and students interacting online in various ways over a period of eighteen months. Combining a variety of innovative analytical techniques and procedures (descriptive statistics, network analysis and discursive analysis) we analyze students’ online posts and interactions in a cul…
Cultural-Historical Activity Theory Travels to Greece: Actors, Contexts and Politics of Reception and Interpretation
This article explores how socio-cultural, cultural-historical and activity theory approaches to education and psychology have traveled to Greece over the last three decades. It explores the history of introducing these approaches in the Greek context while identifying key dimensions of the process, such as: diverse interpretation of original works, key actors in academic teaching and research and linkages with educational policy and activism beyo…
Sociology (11 works) · Social science (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Ethnography (4 works) · Pedagogy (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (3 works)