Seminars for Greek language teachers

Assistant Professor of Linguistics Aspasia Hadzidakis, head of the Laboratory of Bi Cultural and Migrant Studies (E.DIA.M.ME) at the University of Crete, and Assistant Professor of Pedagogy Ioannis Spantidakis from the University of Crete will be visiting Australia this week, to give four full day seminars for Greek language teachers. One seminar will be given in Adelaide, with two to follow in Melbourne and one in Sydney.

Lectures to be delivered by the two visiting academics as well as local ones, will focus on the intercultural Greek-speaking primary and secondary education in the diaspora, as well as the mode of e-learning and teaching, freely accessible to all students and educators of Greek education in the diaspora.

The first full day seminar for Greek language teachers will be hosted today, 8 February, at the Flinders University in Adelaide.

The Seminar for Greek language teachers in Adelaide is organised by the Australian Centre for Hellenic Language and Culture LOGOS, the education office of the Consulate General of Greece in Melbourne and the Modern Greek Language Teachers’ Association of South Australia.

Registration is $20.00. Participants are advised to bring along their laptops.

The seminar will take place from 8.50 am to 16.00 pm, at Humanities Building (Car Park 5), Room 101, of the Flinders University, Humanities Road, Adelaide.

On Tuesday, 11 February, the visiting professors from the University of Crete, Aspasia Hatzidakis and Ioannis Spantidakis will give their first Melbourne seminar at RMIT university, from 5.30 to 8.30. The speakers will also be professor Anastasios Tamis and Nikolaos Bogiannidis. The second Melbourne seminar will be held at the Oakleigh South High School, from 5.30 pm to 8.30 pm the following day.

The academics will also visit daily and afternoon schools in Adelaide and Melbourne as well the daily public Northcote High School, with which the University of Crete program “Education of Greeks Abroad”, has a long collaboration.

Seminars and workshops are open to all those interested, teachers and parents.