KANTZARA VASILIKI
Title/academic status: Professor
Section: Social Morphology
Academic field: Sociology of education
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Phone: 210-9201801
Address: 136 Syngrou Av., 176 71 Athens
Research interests
Fields: Education. Social distinctions and divisions, Inequalities (e.g. class, ethnicity, gender, status), Knowledge, Theory, Research methods. Meaning, self, consciousness. Action and social movements. Solidarity. Social conception and perception.
Disciplines: Sociology of education, social and sociological theory, sociology of knowledge, epistemology and methodology of social sciences, gender studies, political theory, and philosophy.
Membership in scientific societies
Hellenic Sociological Society, European Sociological Association, Dutch Sociological
Association (Nederlandse Sociologische Vereniging).
Courses
>Undergraduate level courses: • Social Theory I (Classical sociologists) • Social Theory II (Classical sociologists) • Sociology of Education I • Sociology of Education II • Social Inequalities I • Social Inequalities II: Politics for Combating Social Exclusion (co-teaching) •
>Postgraduate level: • Knowledge and Society, Master’s Study Programme “Sociology”.
Brief CV
Vasiliki Kantzara serves as Professor at the Department of Sociology of Panteion University. In the past she served as a Director of the Master’s Study Programme “Sociology” for two terms (2016-2020) at the same department.
Her academic studies took place in three countries, Greece, Great Britain and the Netherlands. She holds a B.A. in political science (Panteios), a M.Sc in sociology (LSE) and a Ph.D in sociology/social sciences (University of Utrecht). She is also a qualified teacher for secondary education in sociology (University of Amsterdam).
Ms. Kantzara’s expertise lies in sociology of education and social and sociological theory. Her research interests cover a wide range of subjects and study areas, such as the relation of education to society, social inequalities (class, gender, ethnicity), social processes (social movements, solidarity), policy on education, as well as issues pertaining to the grounding of scientific knowledge. She has taught in Greece and abroad in and out of tertiary education institutions to a variety of interested groups.
Her writings cover a wide range of themes and ideas that were published in books and edited journal volume. Her other texts in the form of articles and book chapters have been published in international scientific encyclopedia’s, scientific journals and edited volumes. She writes in three languages, Greek, English and Dutch. Her latest studies examine the ramifications of the crisis in education in Greece, as well as issues of governance and exclusion during the pandemic of Covid-19; lately she focuses on studying evaluation as a means of exercising a policy of control.
She is an active member of Greek and international sociological scientific societies and has served as board member, and as chair of the research network sociology of education (European Sociological Association) (2013-2017); additionally, she has helped coordinate and organise many scientific meetings in Greece and in other European countries. For more information, see her curriculum vitae, also available at the site: https://panteion.academia.edu/Vasiliki_Kantzara
Selected publications
Books and edited volumes
(2020) Education in Conditions of Crisis in Greece (2009-14). Policies and Consequences – A Sociological Approach, [in Greek], Athens: Gutenberg pp. 220.
(2020) Editor of the Greek translation of Ritzer G. & Stepnisky J. (2020) Classical Sociological Theory, (trnsl. by A. Friliggos, edit. by V. Kantzara), Athens: Gutenberg.
(2013) Kantzara V., Colombo M., Brereton B., Sebastiao J., M. Van Houtte, (eds.) Pluralism and Diversity Management in Education, in Italian Journal of Sociology of Education, vol. 5 (2), pp. 252, ISSN 2035-4983, http://www.ijse.eu/index.php/ijse/issue/view/16
(2010) Τa oria tis ekpaideysis. Dokimia (The limits of education. Essays), Athens: Atrapos, pp. 276.
(2008) Ekpaideysi kai koinonia. Kritiki diereynisi ton koinonikon leitourgion tis ekpaideysis (Education and society. A critical exploration of the social functions of education), Athens: Polytropon, pp. 360.
(2001) An Act of Defiance, an Act of Honour. Gender and Professional Prestige among Teachers in Secondary Education in Greece, ISBN:90-393-25790, PhD Thesis, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands, pp. 333.
Articles in scientific journals and edited volumes (most recent)
(2023a) (in press) “The ‘hidden charm’ of evaluation as an instrument of exercising policy in education: framing a sociological approach to constructing quality and value” in Conference Proceedings of The Hellenic Sociological Association (HSS) Societies and Sociologies in the 21st century, 8th Conference 13-15 Oct. ’22, Athens [in Greek], pp. 11.
(2023b) (in press) Kantzara V., Celik C., Gomolla M., Kollender E., Loos M., “Demarcating New Borders: Transnational Migration and New Educational Governance. Empirical Explorations in Greece, Turkey, and Germany” (Reviewed) in Conference Proceedings of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Erziehungswissenschaft (DGfE- German Society of Pedagogy), Conference 14-16.3.22, Germany, pp. 19.
(2022a) “’Numerous clausus’ in tertiary education: policy of managing access on basis of associative flaws in thinking and its consequences” in Kalerante, E. et al. (eds.) Theoretical Approach and Policies in Evaluation Processes, vol. Α’, Grigoris publications, pp. 161-173.
(2022b) “Rationalisation of Greek education in conditions of crisis. Analysis and understanding of educational reforms from a Weberian perspective”, [in Greek] in Zachou Ch., Karakioulafi Ch. & Chatzigianni A. (eds.) Societies afterthe crisis, societies without crisis? Hellenic Sociological Society, Proceedings of 7th Conference, Athens, 23-25/09/20, pp. 292-306. https://www.hellenicsociology.gr/ekdoseis/praktika-7oy-taktikoy-synedrioy
(2022c) (co-authored with Prof. M. Loos) “Exploration and understanding of teachers’ stance towards οnline and remote teaching under Covid-19 conditions: Comparing cases between Greece and Germany” [in Greek] in Zachou Ch., Karakioulafi Ch. & Chatzigianni A. (eds.) Societies after the crisis, societies without crisis? Hellenic Sociological Society, Proceedings of 7th Conference, Athens, 23-25/09/20, pp. 307-324. (https://www.hellenicsociology.gr/ekdoseis/praktika-7oy-taktikoy-synedrioy)