Teaching Citizenship in the 21st Century

Dr. Despina Karakatsani is a Professor of Pedagogy at the University of
the Peloponnese, Greece. She obtained a PhD in Sciences of Education
from the University of Paris 8-Saint Denis in France in 1998, after
which she taught at the University of Crete, Greece (1998-2004), and at
the University of Democritus, Greece (1998-1999). Since 2004, she has
been teaching at the Faculty of Social and Education Policy in the
University of the Peloponnese, and since 2006, at the Open University of
Athens, Greece. She was a research follow at the Oxford Brookes
University, United Kingdom, in 2010-2011. Her research interests include
history of citizenship education, child welfare, pedagogical ideas and
alternative educational methods. She has published several articles in
Greek and international journals, and has also participated in several
European projects in cooperation with Dare (Democracy and Human Rights
Education), CiCe (Children's Identity and Citizenship in Europe), and
Nece (Networking European citizenship Education). She is the co-author
of the book 'Strengthening Young Bodies, Building the Nation: A Social
History of Child Health and Welfare in Greece (1890-1940)', which was
published in 2019.

Dr. Vassiliki Pliogou is an Associate Professor at the Department of
Early Childhood Education, in the School of Humanities and Social
Sciences at the University of Western Macedonia (UoWM), Greece, on the
subject of Pedagogy and Applications in Education. She is the Director
of the Laboratory of the Pedagogical Studies and Innovative Educational
Practices. She is also the ERASMUS Departmental Coordinator, the
Departmental Placement Coordinator and the Deputy President of the
Scientific Supervisory Board of the Pilot and Experimental Schools (EPS)
in Kastoria. She is a member of the Ethics Committee and the Research
Ethics Committee of the UoWM. She is the Departmental Representative in
the Children's Identity & Citizenship European Association (CiCEA) and
the Departmental Representative in the European Network Democracy and
Human Rights Education in Europe (DARE). She is a member of the Centre
for Teaching and Learning Support of the UoWM and the Committee of the
Studies for the Pedagogical and Didactic Competence, too. She is the
Deputy President of the Gender Equality and Anti-Discrimination
Committee of the UoWM. Her publications in collective volumes, Greek and
International Journals and proceedings, focus on human rights education,
childhood and children's rights, citizenship, family-school connection,
gender and educational implementations using different pedagogical tools
in various formal and non-formal educational environments.