Athina Dulia: “The power of storytelling”
Because of the children, there are teachers… This phrase that I used often – often during the years of my active teaching and that I like to repeat later on at every opportunity, took possession of my mind, with what Athena Doulia did to me proposal to be a moderator at the presentation of her book “The Power of Narration”. The definition of Teacher the author of.
And as a homeroom teacher in the 8th Dim. Sgt. “Compass of the City” publications. Teachers, however, also with a capital letter and the contributors of the presentation, namely: the former school counselor from Rethemnia and great writer Haris Stratidakis, Harris with the many joys, as he likes and insists on calling him, the also former school counselor , writer and dramatist Angela Malmou who continues to leave traces of her multifaceted contribution, but also child psychiatrist Giorgos Vagionis who insists on “pedology”, to make the title of a radio show a verb.
Low-key, but not high-flying, born and raised in Athens, with extensive studies, Athena, who precisely because she gives love, receives love, as was also confirmed at the event in question – the venue was packed with people, despite the difficult conditions . . Her main concern, as in BIBLIONET I read, is to help young children to love learning and approach knowledge through modern and creative teaching methods. In the present tense of me the verbs. Athena Doulia studied at the Pedagogical Department of Elementary Education of the University of Athens, where she prepared her doctoral thesis, as well as at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Athens. Since 1996 he has been working in Primary Education. Her scientific concerns are mainly focused on theoretical approaches to the pedagogical use of fairy tales, as well as the use of popular culture and literature in educational practice…
“In any case, the “children of the screen” are at stake fundamental virtues that the school once tried to develop, such as the love of reading. Athina Doulia recognizes this and proposes the mediation of parents and teachers, in order to remove the dystocia identified by the school and Greek society in general in reading, which is put into doubt as a whole. And it offers us the opportunity to use an important pedagogical tool, children’s literature and the fairy tale, to reverse this course. We thank her from the bottom of our hearts.” What Haris Stratidakis writes in closing his preface to the aforementioned book. And mine, as well as everyone who knows, the heartfelt thanks…
And… on the fly
“A man without logic, a violin without a bow/ and it is difficult to distinguish the chaff from the wheat”, Nektaria Theodoroglakis tells us in her first mandinada today. Day of Reason tomorrow, January 14th, and our matinadologist “judged” that he should not go to… duku. “A man who has reason counts his words, / on the path of life he advances with courage”, he tells us in the second, by way of definition.
To make, however, the… reversal in the third. “Logic with you says I don’t fit in, / but my heart yearns tightly to embrace you,” he tells us. Logic – Love, standard 2 is played by Nektaria.
The teacher Stelios Proimakis, who left on the 10th of the current month, three days after Stamatis Apostolakis, for the land of the Blessed, was an orthotist and an orthovadian all his life. As president of the Association of Teachers and Kindergarten teachers of our prefecture, in the first years of my teaching, the two years 1977-1979, he discovered him on the inclined plane of memory. Pandimi his funeral in his village, Vamvakopoulos…