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THE WRITER

A few words about the author…

Panagiotis Toumpos graduated from the Department of Primary Education of the University of the Aegean and completed the Postgraduate Program under the title “International and European Policies on Education, Training and Research” at the Department of International and European Studies of the University of Piraeus.

He has worked as a PrimarySchool teacher, both in the State and Private Sector, since 1999. He has lived in Athens since 2006 and has been working in State schools in the 1st Directorate of Primary Education of Athens.

 

 

His professional interests include issues related to minorities and social change, the interaction between cultures, racism, diversity, school violence, cross-cultural and international development education and digital educational scenarios. While involved in numerous cultural projects in the school context, he had the opportunity to work with accomplished authors of Children’s Literature, such as Christos Boulotis, Eleni Chatzidou Tounta and Eleni Dikeou, aiming at adapting and staging their books. He has received an award from Unicef for carrying out a project entitled: “The children are writing and painting about their rights”.

He has also participated in European projects like: Teachers4Europe and Erasmus KA1, Learning Mobility of Individuals, entitled “Intercultural Education on an e-learning platform environment (Moodle)”

He made professional presentations in the 2016 Conference of “Neos Paidagogos” (New Educator) (ISBN: 78-618-82301-0-1) and the 1st International Conference “Studying, Teaching, Learning the European Union” in 2017 (ISBN: 978-960-08-0814-8). He has received in-service training on intercultural education, school violence and bullying, the management of educational institutions, drama education techniques in the teaching of reading, ICT-skills workshops and school psychology.

He is very experienced in teaching adults on Children’s Literature (at State Institutes of Vocational Training), and has worked as an oral examiner in the Greek Language Exams for the Certificate of Knowledge Adequacy for Naturalization.