The Future of Education
Maria Andritsou
Institution: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Country: United Kingdom
Maria Andritsou is a primary teacher currently working at Wood Farm Primary School which is a mainstream community school in Oxford.
Maria graduated in Department of Primary Education of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Thessaly in 2013 and School of Early Childhood Education of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki & School of Philosophy and Education of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki where she graduated in the Interdepartmental Postgraduate Studies Programme ‘Psychopedagogy of Inclusion: a School for All’ in 2019, with specialization on ‘Psychopedagogical Components of Multiculturalism’. Moreover, she has been accepted to attend a postgraduate certificate in ‘Children’s Literature’ in Oxford Brookes University.
Over the past 7 years, Maria has been working in mainstream or non-mainstream educational settings as a primary teacher, special education teacher, EAL teacher and private teacher in home-schooling. Maria’s MSc thesis entitled ‘From language practices to language policy: The case of Greek families and Greek-English mixed-lingual families in Great Britain’ was her first attempt to combine her teaching experience with the educational research and deepen her insight on teaching methods and family language practices at home.
Areas of expertise: special education, autism in education, learning difficulties in literacy and Maths, intercultural education, multicultural and multilingual teaching, CLIL, English and Greek as additional languages, curriculum design, education research, childhood bilingualism/multilingualism, family bilingualism/multilingualism, family language policy, bilingual education, language education policy
Maria graduated in Department of Primary Education of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Thessaly in 2013 and School of Early Childhood Education of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki & School of Philosophy and Education of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki where she graduated in the Interdepartmental Postgraduate Studies Programme ‘Psychopedagogy of Inclusion: a School for All’ in 2019, with specialization on ‘Psychopedagogical Components of Multiculturalism’. Moreover, she has been accepted to attend a postgraduate certificate in ‘Children’s Literature’ in Oxford Brookes University.
Over the past 7 years, Maria has been working in mainstream or non-mainstream educational settings as a primary teacher, special education teacher, EAL teacher and private teacher in home-schooling. Maria’s MSc thesis entitled ‘From language practices to language policy: The case of Greek families and Greek-English mixed-lingual families in Great Britain’ was her first attempt to combine her teaching experience with the educational research and deepen her insight on teaching methods and family language practices at home.
Areas of expertise: special education, autism in education, learning difficulties in literacy and Maths, intercultural education, multicultural and multilingual teaching, CLIL, English and Greek as additional languages, curriculum design, education research, childhood bilingualism/multilingualism, family bilingualism/multilingualism, family language policy, bilingual education, language education policy
