Toumpos Panagiotis
Panagiotis Toumpos graduated from the
Department of Primary Education of the University of the Aegean and completed
the Postgraduate Program under the title “International and European Policies
on Education, Training and Research” at the Department of International and European
Studies of the University of Piraeus. He has worked as a Primary School
teacher, both in the State and Private Sector, since 1999. He has lived in
Athens since 2006 and has been working in State schools in the 1st Directorate
of Primary Education of Athens.
His professional interests include issues
related to minorities and social change, the interaction between cultures,
racism, diversity, school violence, cross-cultural and international
development education and digital educational scenarios. While involved in
numerous cultural projects in the school context, he had the opportunity to
work with accomplished authors of Children’s Literature, such as Christos
Boulotis, Eleni Chatzidou Tounta and Eleni Dikeou, aiming at adapting and
staging their books. He has received an award from Unicef for carrying out a
project entitled: “The children are writing and painting about their rights”.
He has also participated in European projects like: Teachers4Europe and Erasmus
KA1, Learning Mobility of Individuals, entitled “Intercultural Education on an
e-learning platform environment (Moodle)”
He made professional presentations in the
2016 Conference of “Neos Paidagogos” (New Educator) (ISBN: 978-618-82301-0-1)
and the 1st International Conference “Studying, Teaching, Learning the European
Union” in 2017 (ISBN: 978-960-08-0814-8).
He has received in-service training on
intercultural education, school violence and bullying, the management of
educational institutions, drama education techniques in the teaching of reading,
ICT-skills workshops and school psychology.
He is very experienced in teaching adults
on Children’s Literature (at State Institutes of Vocational Training), and has
worked as an oral examiner in the Greek Language Exams for the Certificate of
Knowledge Adequacy for Naturalization.
