preschool education

From the traditional Greek act of Boules to Greek Revolution: an online teaching scenario for early childhood education

Submitted by d_zapri on Mon, 12/04/2021 - 22:06

The current school year 2020-2021 entailed a two-fold challenge for teachers in Greek kindergarten schools: a. to develop meaningful and flexible lesson plans for their pupils, in order to overcome the close temporal proximity between two cultural occasions, which differ largely in nature, content and teaching focus, namely the Greek carnival and the Greek Revolution bicentennial; and, b. to adapt these lesson plans to the multi-faceted limitations imposed by a pandemic-defined virtual classroom context.