Panagiotis (Takis) Kayalis, Professor
Modern Greek Literature (19th-20th c.)
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Emmanouil Koutouzis, Professor
Educational Management
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Antonis Lionarakis, Professor
Open and distance education
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Argyro Loukaki, Professor
Arts I: Greek Visual Arts, Overview of Greek Architecture and Urbanism
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Athanasia Balta, Professor
Greek History
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Vassilia Hatzinikita, Professor
Applied Educational Research
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Antigone Vlavianou Detzortzi, Associate Professor
History of European Literature
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George N. Vlahakis, Associate Professor
Greek Philosophy and Science: From Antiquity to the 20th Century
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Maria Katsantoni, Associate Professor
Teaching French as a foreign language: development of language communication skills and assessment of written and oral language
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Eleni Boliaki, Associate Professor
Introduction to Greek Culture
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Nektaria Palaiologou, Associate Professor
Migration, Multilingualism and Intercultural Communication
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Georgia Pateridou, Associate Professor
Letters II. Modern Greek Literature (19th and 20th century)
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Dimitrios Filippis, Associate Professor
Culture of Spain
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Georgios Koulaouzidis, Assistant Professor
Methodology of Adult Education: principles, theoretical framework, educational methods and psychodynamic dimension
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Zacharias Palios, Assistant Professor
Institutions Shapers European Culture
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Stasinos Stavrianeas, Assistant Professor
Greek Philosophy and Science: From Antiquity to the 20th Century
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Anastasia Filippoupoliti, Assistant Professor
Museums, Science and Technology
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Evangelia Manousou, Assistant Professor
Open and Distance Education: Theory, Institutions and Functions
SHU Laboratories
- Laboratory of Educational Administration and Leadership
Laboratory Director: Emmanuel Koutouzis, Professor, ekoutouzis@eap.gr
- Research and Development Laboratory in Education and Psychology
Laboratory Director: Vasilia Hatjinikita, Professor, vhatz@eap.gr
- Communication Laboratory of Science, Technology and Medicine
Laboratory Director: Giorgos N. Vlachakis, Associate Professor, gvlachakis@eap.gr email: lstmc@eap.gr
- Laboratory of Biographical Learning and Transformational Adult Education
Laboratory Director: Zacharias Palios, Assistant Professor, palios@eap.gr
Research Programmes
1) EQUAL Programme of the Hellenic Open University with the Development Partnership “TECHNOMATHIA” entitled “Network for the Promotion of lifelong Training and Distance Certification of Skills in SMEs».
2) Project “Open Literature / The OpenLit Project” on the Development of Modern Methodology for the University Teaching of Literature in the context of Distance Education funded by the ΕΠΕΑΕΚ II (Operational Programme for Education and Initial Vocational Training Β’) of the Hellenic Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs.
3) The “Training of Trainers” programme for the training of all the trainers in the country (12.000) of continuing vocational training, coordinated by the SHU of HOU and funded by the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs and the European Social Fund.
4) 43 PhD theses are prepared within the framework of the SHU.
Conferences and Networking
The School of Humanities regularly organizes every two years the Panhellenic Conference on Open and Distance Education with international participation and about 5.000 participants. Three volumes of Proceedings have already been published. The School organizes every year a special training programme for the SHU members of the HOU in Open and Distance Education. The collaborating institutions, the Scientific Association for Adult Education and the Hellenic Network for Open and Distance Education, publish peer-reviewed journals.
Regulation for Development of Postdoctoral Research at the School of Humanities
PhD Dissertations
Doctorates
ATHANASIOU ALEXANDRA
SUPERVISOR: KOKKOS ALEXIOS
TOPIC: Attitudes and Transition Stages as Influencing Factors in the Motivation of Adult Learners in Relation to Intrapreneurial Training Programmes
ANAGNOSTOPOULOU KYRIAKI
SUPERVISOR: XATZINIKITA VASILIA
TOPIC: School assessment in Greece and assessment of knowledge and skills in the international PISA programme: a comparative study
APOSTOLIDOU ANNA
SUPERVISOR: LIONARAKIS ANTONIOS
TOPIC: Design and Implementation of Culturally Adapted Distance Education Programmes for Adult Refugees
ARKOLAKIS EMMANOUIL
SUPERVISOR: DRITSA MARGARITA
TOPIC: GREEK CINEMA (1896-1939). COMPARISONS IN EUROPEAN AND MEDITERRANEAN CONTEXT, MODES OF PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION
ASPROULIS NIKOLAOS
SUPERVISOR: AGORAS KONSTANTINOS
TOPIC: Creation, History, lasts in contemporary orthodox theological interpretive: from George Florovsky to Ioannis Zizoulias
VATSOU ANASTASIA
SUPERVISOR: LEONTIDOU TRIANTAFYLLIA
TOPIC: Cross-border movements in Northern Greece at the borders with North Macedonia and Bulgaria
DELIGIANNIS DIMITRIOS
SUPERVISOR: KOKKOS ALEXIOS
TOPIC: The role of the adult trainer and his/her relationship with learners. The case of the Alternative School for Adults of KETHEA EXODOS
IOAKEIMIDOY VASILIKI
SUPERVISOR: LIONARAKIS ANTONIOS
TOPIC: Quality assurance in teaching and learning: applications to multimodal distance education
KAGIAVI MARIA
SUPERVISOR: KOKKOS ALEXIOS
TOPIC: Multidimensional learning as a factor of transformation in adults
KARELA CHRISTINA
SUPERVISOR: PETROGIANNIS KONSTANTINOS
TOPIC: Mental resilience in children of divorced families of preschool and early school age: threatening and protective factors
KOUVDOU ANDRONIKI
SUPERVISOR: SIFAKIS NIKOLAOS
TOPIC: Exploring the potential of alternative assessment in an ELF speaking context within the broader framework of Greek State secondary EFL classes
KOSTARA EUFROSYNI
SUPERVISOR: KOKKOS ALEXIOS
TOPIC: Training of Teachers in the Didactic Use of Ancient Greek Tragedy for the Enhancement of Critical Reflection
KOYTSOMYTI MARIA
SUPERVISOR: SIFAKIS NIKOLAOS
TOPIC: Teacher observation as a tool for the development of Greek state school EFL teachers
LAHLOU SOFIA
SUPERVISOR: ANDROULAKIS GEORGIOS
TOPIC: Le developpement de la sompetence lexicale dew apprenants de francais langue etrangere de l’ecole secondaire hellenique: pratiques courantes et perspectives d’ amelioration (The development of lexical competence in French as a foreign language in Greek secondary education: current practices and prospects for improvement)
LEFTHERIOTOU PIERA
SUPERVISOR: KOKKOS ALEXIOS
TOPIC: Designing adult education programmes in Greece: the case of the General Secretariat for Lifelong Learning
MANOUSOU EVAGGELIA
SUPERVISOR: LIONARAKIS ANTONIOS
TOPIC: Specifications of a pedagogical framework for the implementation of multimodal, supplementary distance environmental education in primary, small and remote schools in Greece.
NIARI MARIA
SUPERVISOR: LIONARAKIS ANTONIOS
TOPIC: Utilization of group dynamics in distance collaborative learning
PAPADAKI-LAPPA ELEFTHERIA
SUPERVISOR: BALTA ATHANASIA
TOPIC: HISTORY AND POLICY OF THE LAVRION INDUSTRY. 19th – 20th CENTURY
PAPADIMITRIOU SOFIA
SUPERVISOR: LIONARAKIS ANTONIOS
TOPIC: The role of the teacher-mentor and the development of a support mechanism in a Collaborative Learning environment in Distance Education
PAVLAKIS EMMANOUIL
SUPERVISOR: KOKKOS ALEXIOS
TOPIC: Developing Competent Adult Educators in Learning Organizations
SIAKAS SPYRIDONAS
SUPERVISOR: LIONARAKIS ANTONIOS
TOPIC: USE OF ANIMATION AND CINEMATIC NARRATIVE IN THE CREATION OF MULTIMEDIA EDUCATIONAL MATERIAL FOR TEACHING/LEARNING PURPOSES
SKOUMIOS MICHAEL
SUPERVISOR: XATZINIKITA VASILIA
TOPIC: Didactic obstacle treatment for the conceptual area of heat
SKOURA AMALIA
SUPERVISOR: BALTA ATHANASIA
TOPIC: The Civil War in Messinia through the Press. From the Liberation, September 1944 to the end of 1949
SPYRIADOU KONSTANTIA
SUPERVISOR: KOUTOUZIS EMMANOUIL
TOPIC: The Multiple Identities of Primary Education Teachers Claiming a Position of Administrative Responsibility
TEREZAKI CHRYSI
SUPERVISOR: KOKKOS ALEXIOS
TOPIC: THE APPLICATION OF THE PROJECT AS AN ALTERNATIVE TEACHING PROPOSAL IN INITIAL AND ADULT EDUCATION
FILLIPS NIKI
SUPERVISOR: KOKKOS ALEXIOS
TOPIC: The contribution of Experiential Education in the development of social skills.
CHARTOFYLAKA ANTONIA-MARIA
SUPERVISOR: LIONARAKIS ANTONIOS
TOPIC: Quality assurance in the production of open and distance learning materials: formulating content quality criteria
CHRISTOU MARIA
SUPERVISOR: KOKKOS ALEXIOS
TOPIC: Evaluation of the implementation of the method “Transformative Learning through Aesthetic Experience” in Primary Education
PhD Candidates
AGGELI ATHANASIA
SUPERVISOR: LIONARAKIS ANTONIOS
TOPIC: Film as an educational tool in collaborative mixed distance learning
APOSTOLIDOU ANTHI
SUPERVISOR: VLACHAKIS GEORGIOS
TOPIC: Primary and Secondary School Physics Textbooks as sources for the Reconstruction of the Evolution of Science and Technology in Society
ARVANITI CHRISTINA
SUPERVISOR: BOLIAKI ELENI
TOPIC: Child Abuse in Greek Mythology: myths as a tool for trauma management in students with special learning profiles
VENOUTSOU MARIANA
SUPERVISOR: PATERIDOU GEORGIA
TOPIC: The identity of the journal The Word and its contribution to the intellectual life of post-communist Greece
VLACHOPOULOS GEORGIOS
SUPERVISOR: VLACHAKIS GEORGIOS
TOPIC: Rigas Velestinlis as a precursor of the modern Balkan Republics
GEMELOU DESPOINA
SUPERVISOR: KAGIALIS PANAYIOTIS
TOPIC: Marios Vaianos and his contribution to the intellectual life of Greece during the interwar and postwar years (1924-1975)
YIOVANI OLGA
SUPERVISOR: PETROGIANNIS KONSTANTINOS
TOPIC: Investigating the impact of factors associated with student academic achievement and expectations through the ecosystemic perspective in the Greek context: The role of individual, family, school and community
GKOUNELAS CHRISTOS
SUPERVISOR: AGORAS KONSTANTINOS
TOPIC: The theology of leather robes in Nikolaos Kavassilas and Panagiotis Nellas. Ontological, anthropological and cosmological extensions
DIMITRIADOU MARINA
SUPERVISOR: BOLIAKI ELENI
TOPIC: Bible drama as an auxiliary means of (psycho)therapy for psychic and socially deviant children and adolescents
DIAMANTI VICTORIA
SUPERVISOR: KAGIALIS PANAYIOTIS
TOPIC: In every word, in every art: The Conversation of K.P. Kavafy’s poetry and poetic theory with the visual arts and music
DRISTA CHRYSAVGI
SUPERVISOR: VLACHAKIS GEORGIOS
TOPIC: The passage from myth to reason. The case of the modern Greek enlightener Christodoulos Pamplekis: His innovative ideas and their impact on pre-revolutionary political-philosophical thought
KARAGIANNI GEORGIA-KONSTANTIA
SUPERVISOR: LIONARAKIS ANTONIOS
TOPIC: The Open and Distance Education as an agent of an inclusive and democratic pedagogy. The dimension of multilingualism and textual multimodality in enhancing the education of special population groups
KATSIFOS EVAGGELOS
SUPERVISOR: PATERIDOU GEORGIA
TOPIC: Literary writing and political and social reality: aspects of the creation and reception of modern Greek literature during the crisis period (2008-2018)
KORDIA STEFANIA
SUPERVISOR: SIFAKIS NIKOLAOS
TOPIC: Development and implementation of ELF-aware pedagogy in ELF classrooms in Greece: investigating the transformative potential of ELF teacher education (Developing and implementing English as a common language of communication awareness teaching in Greek classrooms where English is taught as a second language: exploring the potential for transforming Teacher Education with an emphasis on English as a common language of communication)
KOUGEAS IOANNIS
SUPERVISOR: BALTA ATHANASIA
TOPIC: Scientific development in the eyes of Greek children through the children’s and young people’s press (1836-1894)
KOUTZEKLIDOU VASILIKI
SUPERVISOR: LIONARAKIS ANTONIOS
TOPIC: Developing the cognitive and social skills of vulnerable groups of adults in alternative education systems
KYRIZOPOULOU SOFIA
SUPERVISOR: LIONARAKIS ANTONIOS
TOPIC: Evaluation of the educational implementation of curricula of distance learning with criteria for adults
KOSTOGLOU CHRISTINA
SUPERVISOR: KAGIALIS PANAYIOTIS
TOPIC: Dimitrios Ainian (1800-1881): the literary, publishing and broader writing work of a forgotten scholar of post-revolutionary Greece
LALIOTI EYFTHIMIA
SUPERVISOR: KOUTOUZIS EMMANOUIL
TOPIC: The culture of the Greek public school
LAMPROPOULOU EYPRAXIA
SUPERVISOR: VLACHAKIS GEORGIOS
TOPIC: The relationship between science and pseudoscience in the independent Greek state of the 19th century
LASSITHIOTAKIS ZACHARIAS
SUPERVISOR: ΚΑΛΔΗΣ ΒΥΡΩΝ
TOPIC: Η Αριστοτελική Ηθική Θεωρία ως Τρίτη Φιλοσοφία
LIARMAKOPOULOS ALEXANDROS
SUPERVISOR: AGORAS KONSTANTINOS
TOPIC: Highlights of Byzantine hymnography in the west of the empire: Mattheos Kamariotis (15th century) and his hymnography
LITZERINOU EVAGGELIA
SUPERVISOR: VLAVIANOU-DETZORTZI ANTIGONI
TOPIC: The Female Form and Hypostasis in French and Greek Surrealist Writing (Investigation of Influences and Interactional Relationships)
MICHALIADOU ATHINA
SUPERVISOR: VLACHAKIS GEORGIOS
TOPIC: Ways of Teaching Philosophy in Primary Education: Optimal Theoretical and Teaching Approaches for understanding philosophical concepts and changing students’ sttitudes towards the exploration of philosophical questions
MOUTSIANOU OLGA
SUPERVISOR: VLACHAKIS GEORGIOS
TOPIC: NIKOS KARVOUNIS (Ithaca, 1880 – Athens, 1947). The constitution of an intellectual in the first half of the 20th century
BOZNOU PINELOPI
SUPERVISOR: KOKKOS ALEXIOS
TOPIC: Utilizing the theory of Transformative Learning in the context of Primary School
ΟΙΚΟΝΟΜOU STEPHANOS
SUPERVISOR: XATZINIKITA VASILIA
TOPIC: Teachers’ perceptions and practices of scientific literacy with emphasis on the international PISA programme
PAPADOPOULOU MARIA
SUPERVISOR: KOKKOS ALEXIOS
TOPIC: Education and Aesthetic experience: criteria for the selection of artworks to enhance critical thinking
PAPAZOGLOU ASIMINA
SUPERVISOR: KOUTOUZIS EMMANOUIL
TOPIC: Schools as Learning Organizations: The Impact to School Effectiveness and the Role of Educational Leadership
SIRINIAN LUSI
SUPERVISOR: PALIOS ZACHARIAS
TOPIC: The importance of social networks in the socialization and identity formation of young people
SOUVLIDI MARIA
SUPERVISOR: PALIOS ZACHARIAS
TOPIC: The effect of the discourse of sixth grade reading materials on the development of students’ critical thinking
STRATAKI IOANNA
SUPERVISOR: PETROGIANNIS KONSTANTINOS
TOPIC: The developmental niche of children in early and middle childhood: A study on Greek Roma families
SFAKIOTAKI KYRIAKI
SUPERVISOR: LIONARAKIS ANTONIOS
TOPIC: Conditions and procedures for effective study organisation in distance and conventional education
SCHIZA MELPOMENI
SUPERVISOR: PETROGIANNIS KONSTANTINOS
TOPIC: The quality of the relationship between children and teachers in the kindergarten. An ecosystemic study of its influencing factors
TZORTZI EVAGGELIA-MELINA
SUPERVISOR: KAGIALIS PANAYIOTIS
TOPIC: The rhetorical poetics of K. P. Cavafy: Aestheticism and Second Sophistry
TODOULOU IRENE
SUPERVISOR: KOKKOS ALEXIOS
TOPIC: Learning Organizations: The value and dynamics of “relating”
TSANTILA ATHANASIA
SUPERVISOR: SIFAKIS NIKOLAOS
TOPIC: ELF – awareness and English Language Teaching materials: An investigation of the Greek lower secondary state school context
TSIOLPIDOU XANTHOULA
SUPERVISOR: KOUTOUZIS EMMANOUIL
SUPERVISOR: KOUTOUZIS EMMANUIL TOPIC: Sense of self-efficacy and occupational stress in the principals of behavioural primary schools: levels and factors influencing their formation
CHALAMPALAKI STYLIANI
SUPERVISOR: KOUTOUZIS EMMANOUIL
TOPIC: The administrative, pedagogical and leadership role of principals in Greek schools. Responsibilities, job stress and burnout
HATZIPETROU ANTHOULA
SUPERVISOR: PALIOS ZACHARIAS
TOPIC: The disability movement and the struggle for recognition: a condition for transformative learning for people with disabilities
CHORDAKI EVAGGELIA
SUPERVISOR: VLACHAKIS GEORGIOS
TOPIC: Science in Public Discourse: Scientific Popularization in Greece (1910-1960)
CHOUPI MARIA
SUPERVISOR: VLACHAKIS GEORGIOS
TOPIC: Understanding of Natural Sciences by the Public: The Role of Secondary Education
CHOURDAKIS NIKOLAOS
SUPERVISOR: PATERIDOU GEORGIA
TOPIC: Biblical and Christian archetypes in the political poets of the “first post-war generation”. The condensation of the theological tradition in the poetic vision of national and social liberation
