Katerina I. Dalakoura

Katerina I. Dalakoura is a lecturer in the history of education (since 2007) at the Department of Philosophical and Social Studies at the University of Crete. She graduated from the Department of Psychology, Pedagogy, and Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) and pursued postgraduate studies at the same university and abroad (European Diploma in Education and Training, after attending courses in comparative, multicultural education and related seminars within the framework of the "Erasmus" postgraduate programs at the University of Glasgow, University of Palma de Mallorca - Spain, and University of Rennes - France). She submitted her doctoral thesis on the History of Modern Greek Education at the Department of Philosophy and Pedagogy of AUTH. Between 2002-2006, she taught the course "Pedagogy of Gender Equality" in the Interdepartmental Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Program of the Faculty of Philosophy of AUTH (collaborating departments of Philosophy-Pedagogy and Psychology). From 2004-2006, she also taught in the postgraduate program "Gender and New Educational and Work Environments in the Information Society" at the University of the Aegean (Rhodes). From 2004 to 2006, she worked as a special scientist (under Presidential Decree 407/1980) at the Department of Philosophy and Pedagogy of AUTH and the Department of Early Childhood Education at the University of Western Macedonia. In 2007, she was appointed as a lecturer at the Department of Philosophical and Social Studies at the University of Crete. Her research interests include the history of modern Greek education (archival research, socio-political and cultural approach), the history of women's education, the historical approach to pedagogical ideas, gender in education, the epistemology, and methodology of historiography. She has authored numerous scholarly articles and the books: "The Central Girls' School of Thessaloniki (1854-1914): A First Approach to Girls' Education in Thessaloniki during the Last Century of Ottoman Rule," Thessaloniki: Kyriakidis Brothers, 2000, and "Women's Education in the Greek Communities of the Ottoman Empire (19th century-1922): Socialization into Patterns of Patriarchy and Nationalism," Athens: Gutenberg, 2008. Additionally, she has co-translated with Christina Athanasiadou the book by Madeleine Arnot "Gender Reproduction Processes: Educational Theory and Feminist Politics," Athens: Metaichmio, 2006.