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CHARALAMPOS KOURGIANTAKIS
Member EDIP (Laboratory Teaching Staff)
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES
Ionian University
CURRICULUM VITAE
Education
May 05
PhD from the PTE (Department of Primary Education), Aegean University, Rhodes.
Thesis: "Pupils' Historical Τhinking and Εmpathy in Primary and Secondary Education in History ".
Supervisor: Prof. George Kokkinos.
Degree: excellent.
Sep 96
Postgraduate Degree MA (Master of Arts) in History in Education, Institute of Education, University of London, London.
Dissertation: " Teaching History: Pupils' Major Learning Difficulties, with Special Reference to the Greek Textbooks for History in Secondary School ".
Supervisor: Prof. Alaric Dickinson
(recognition of the title by DIKATSA, Feb 99).
Nov 94
Seminars at the postgaduate course "Theory and practice of teaching and assessment", Department of Philosophy,Pedagogis and Psychology, School of Philosophy, EKPA (Athens University).
Jun 92
BA degree, Department of History, Ionian University, Corfu.
Grade: very good (7.95)
Professional experience
HIGHER EDUCATION
Feb 18 - today
EDIP member (Laboratory Teaching Staff), Department of History, Ionian University.
Subject: "Pedagogics-History Didactics".
Mar 09 - today
Teaching in the interdepartmental postgraduate program of the Department of History, Ionian University, entitled "Historical Research, Didactics and New Technologies". Teaching subjects "History as a subject of teaching" and "Current trends in the teaching of History".
Oct 08 - Feb 09
Lecturer (on contract, PD 407/80) in the Department of History, Ionian University, in the field of Pedagogics I.
SECONDARY EDUCATION
Jan 98 - Feb 18
* Philologist (PE02) in Gymnasium, Lyceum, Evening Lyceum and Ecclesiastical Education (14 years).
* Head of School Libraries EPEAEK (Patmos, Corfu) (3 years).
* Administrative position (Corfu Secondary Education Office) (3 years).
Sep 95 - Jun 96
Teaching Modern Greek Language and History at the School of the Greek Community of St. Apostle Barnabas, Wood Green, London.
Research Projects - Committees
2023-2024
Research Program Zwischen Heimat und Fremde; oral destimonies of Greeks in DDR after the Greek civil war. German Ministry of Foreign Affairs, German Embassy in Athens, Post Graduate Program Historical Research, History Didactics and New Technology; 2 teaching scenarios, based on the oral testimonies and a documentary.
2022
Council of Europe, OHTE (Observatory on History Teaching in Europe): Thematic Report “Pandemics and Natural Disasters as Reflected in History Teaching”; the Greek aspect and the Greek data.
2020-present
Member of the Management Team of the History Educators International Research Network (HEIRNET).
ac. year 2019-present
OMEA (Internal Evaluation Team) member, History Department, Ionian University.
2019-present
Member of the Advisory Committee of the History Educators International Research Network (HEIRNET).
ac. year 2019-2021
Member of the Program Certification Committee,History Department, Ionian University.
Jul 17 - Dec 17
Member of the Committee of Experts for the development of new History Curricula in compulsory Education (3rd Primary to 2nd High School), IEP (Institute of Educational Policy), Athens.
Member of Associations
Ionian Historical Studies Society, Corfu.
Scientific Association Nea Paideia, Athens.
HEIRNET (History Educators International Research Network), London.
Books - Monographs
Silver in the mine
Kourgiantakis, Ch. (2019), Silver in the mine; intelligence, intelligences, empathy and teaching of History, published by Oselotos, Athens (ISBN 978-960-564-774-2).
The present and the future of the past
Kourgiantakis, Ch. (2012), The present and the future of the "past"; issues of historical literacy in Education, published by Kedros, Athens (ISBN 978-960-044-310-3)
School History · soul education or pain?
Kourgiantakis, Ch. (2001), School History; education of the soul or pain ?, published by Apostrophos, Corfu (ISBN 960-743-047-6).
Books - Monographs
Modern Approaches in History Teaching (collective volume)
Aggelakos, K. & Kourgiantakis, Ch. (2024), Modern Approaches in History Teaching, published by Asini, Athens (ISBN 978-618-5346-60-7).
Published papers
Papers in scientific journals with peers
Kourgiantakis, Ch. (2024), "Alternative evaluation modes in the new Curricula in Greek Secondary School", Nea Paideia, v. 189-190 (April-June), pp. 72-93.
Kourgiantakis, Ch. (2023), "Public History at School; the role of students and teachers. An excerpt from a short-scale research on the Greek example", Ekpaideutiki Epikairotita, vol. 4(3), pp. 4-8.
Aggelakos, K. - Kourgiantakis, Ch. - Pouliasis, E. - Roussou, N. (2022), "Public History in the Greek modern School; dimentions, approaches and limits", Nea Paideia, vol. 184 (October-December), pp. 47-70.
Kourgiantakis, Ch. (2022), "Neuroscience and History Teaching", Nea Paideia, vol. 181 (January-March), pp. 96-108.
Kourgiantakis, Ch. - Athanassoula, A. (2021), "Imagination in Sociology, History and Didactics", Nea Paideia, vol. 179 (July-September), pp. 116-127.
Kourgiantakis, Ch. (2021), "Public History in the modern Greek school; the views of teachers", Sciences of Education, vol. 3/2021, pp. 139-149.
Kourgiantakis, Ch. (2020), "Public History and educational practices", Erkyna, Review of Educational-Scientific Issues, Issue 21, pp. 25-40. At https://www.erkyna.gr
Kourgiantakis, Ch. (2020), "The lesson of History in different educational systems", Issues of History of Education, vol. 19-20, pp. 236-280.
Kourgiantakis, C. (2019), «The “Divine Providence” as Historical Explanation in Public History», Mediterranean Chronicle, vol. 9, pp. 237-255.
Kourgiantakis, Ch. (2019), "Academic vs. School History; the case of the new History curricula in Greece", Nea Paideia, vol. 170 (April-June), pp. 19-28.
Kourgiantakis, Ch. (2018-2019), "«Totem and taboo» in History", Ionios Logos, vol. 7, pp. 108-124.
Kourgiantakis, Ch. (2013), "The collective pain in History", Nea Paideia, vol. 146 (April-June), pp. 56-72.
Kourgiantakis, Ch. (2011), "The historical 'truth' in the classroom; objectivity in the lesson of History", Nea Paideia, vol. 137 (January-March), pp. 93-104.
Kokkinos, G. - Gatsotis, P. - Sakka, V. - Kourgiantakis, C. (2009), "World History in Greek Primary and Secondary Education", International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research, vol. 8, n. 2, pp. 63-91.
Kourgiantakis, Ch. (2008), "August 11 in Corfu; a didactic approach to local history based on historical empathy", Nea Paideia, vol. 127 (July-September), pp. 98-116.
Kourgiantakis, Ch. (2007), "Didactics of History; the logical understanding and the research team of the University of London", Peri Istorias (About History), vol. 5, pp. 101-113.
Kourgiantakis, Ch. (2005), "The murder of I. Kapodistrias; a didactic proposal based on empathy", Philologiki, vol. 92 (July-September), pp. 86-92.
Kourgiantakis, Ch. (2004), "Teaching History and New Technologies; an Approach", Philologiki, vol. 85 (May-August), pp. 58-62.
Kourgiantakis, Ch. (2001), "Objective difficulties in the teaching process of the history lesson", Ta Ekpaideutika, vol. 61-62 (July-December), pp. 140-146.
Papers in scientific journals without peers
Kourgiantakis, Ch. (1994), "Ioannis Kapodistrias; formation of the Greek state", Stratiotiki Epitheorisi (Military Review), vol. 5 (September-October), pp. 6-33.
Papers in collective volumes
Aggelakos, K. – Kourgiantakis, Ch. – Pouliasis, E. – Charalambopoulou, M. – Lazaridou, G. – Kypritzoglou, L. (2024), "The refugees of the Asia Minor disaster in Corfu; memory and metamemory. Teaching scenario based on the tools of Oral History and its digital exploitation", in Aggelakos, K. & Kourgiantakis, Ch. (eds.), Modern Approaches in History Teaching, Asini, Athens (ISBN 978-618-5346-60 -7), pp. 175-235.
Kourgiantakis, Ch. (2024), "The scientific field of History Didactics", Introduction, in Aggelakos, K. & Kourgiantakis, Ch. (eds.), Modern Approaches in History Teaching, Asini, Athens (ISBN 978-618-5346-60-7), pp. 9-45.
Aggelakos, K. - Kourgiantakis, Ch. - Pouliasis, E. (2021), "Exploring perceptions, attitudes and knowledge about the Greek Revolution; the case of the graduates of the Department of History of the Ionian University", in Angelakos, K. (ed. ), Studying and teaching the Greek Revolution in the modern school, Metaixmio, Athens (ISBN: 978-618-03-2925-4), pp. 25-60.
Kourgiantakis, Ch. (2006), "Teaching History and Historical Empathy-Rational Understanding", in Kokkinos, G. - Nakou, E. (ed.), Approaching historical education at the beginning of the 21st century, Metaixmio, Athens (ISBN 960-375-860-4), pp. 449-469.
Kourgiantakis, Ch. (2014), "Children's thinking and school history", in the volume In Memoriam, Collective honorary volume for the Metropolitan of Thebes and Levadia Nikodimos, Athens, pp. 341-348.
Conferences
Mar 23
Aggelakos, K. – Kourgiantakis, C. – Pouliasis, E., «Refugees, metamemory and digital reality», The Irschen project (Interdisciplinary Resilience through Science and Cultural Heritage Network), “Digital Technologies, Common European Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development”, Erasmus+, Corfu.
Sep 22
Aggelakos, K. – Kourgiantakis, C. – Pouliasis, E. – Roussou, N., «Public History in the Modern Greek School; Dimensions, Attitudes and Limits. A Survey on the Views of Greek Teachers of Primary and Secondary Education», HEIRNET annual conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Sep 21
Cooper, H. - Kourgiantakis, C., Chairs in the RESEARCH STUDENT SUPPORT from HEIRNET (Seminar), «A new initiative to support History Education researchers during their research», in consultation with David Ingledew, HEIRNET virtual conference.
Sep 19
Angelakos, K. - Kourgiantakis, C. - Roussou, N., «From Freshmen to Seniors: UG students, perspectives, struggles, concerns on History Education. A view on Ionian University History Department reality», HEIRNET annual conference, Vienna, Austria.
Sep 18
Kourgiantakis, C., «Pathology in historiography and public History · the case of the relics of st. Spyridon in Corfu », HEIRNET annual conference, Corfu, Greece.
Aug 18
Member of the Organizing Committee of the HEIRNET Conference annual conference, Corfu, Greece.
Oct 08
Kokkinos, G. - Kimourtzis, P. - Gatsotis, P. - Kourgiantakis, Ch., "Exclusion - violation of rights - concealment of otherness", 5th Conference on the History of Education on "The case of the new history textbooks in Greece", Patras, Greece.
Oct 07
Kourgiantakis, Ch., "Historical thinking, critical thinking, logical understanding in school history", Conference of the Regional Directorate of Primary-Secondary Education on "Language - thought - action as purpose - medium - object of teaching", Ioannina Greece.
Sep 07
Kokkinos, G. - Gatsotis, P. - Sakka, V. - Kourgiantakis, C., «The World History in the Greek Primary and Secondary Education», International Conference: Public Uses of History. International Society for History didactics, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Sep 06
Kourgiantakis, Ch., "The logical understanding of History in the classroom; the results of research", Conference of the PTE of the University of Athens on "Historical research and teaching of History", Kythira, Greece.
May 06
Kourgiantakis, Ch., "Historical empathy-logical understanding in the lesson of History. Presentation of a research ", Conference of the Regional Directorate of Primary-Secondary Education of Epirus on" The Greek School and the challenges of modern society ", Ioannina, Greece.
May 00
Kourgiantakis, Ch., "The school library of the Patmiada School; possibilities and perspectives", Conference of the Municipality of Patmos on "Conditions for the intellectual development of Patmos", Patmos, Greece.
May 99
Member of its Organizing Committee, under the auspices of the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the Ministry of the Aegean, Panhellenic Conference on "Education in Patmos; a journey to the 21st century", Patmos, Greece.
