Athanasios Marvakis

Address Eteokleous 3, GR – 54250 Thessaloniki (pr.)
University Campus, Building “Tower”, 54124 Thessaloniki
Phone +30-2310-306772 (home), -991296 (office)
Fax +30-28310-306772(home - let me know),
e-mail marvakis[at]eled.auth.gr

 

DATE OF BIRTH
1962

CURRENT POSITION
Associate Professor in Social Psychology, Department of Primary Education, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

EDUCATION
- 1990 Dipl.-Psych., University of Tübingen, Germany
- 1995 Dissertation (Dr. rer.soc.), University of Tübingen, Germany
(Titel: „POLITISCHE ORIENTIERUNGEN JUGENDLICHER IN STRUKTUREN SOZIALER UNGLEICHHEIT. EINE EMPIRISCHE UNTERSUCHUNG MIT EINEM SCHWERPUNKT AUF AUSLÄNDISCHE JUGENDLICHE ARBEITNEHMERINNEN UND ARBEITNEHMER“)

EMPLOYMENT
- 1990 Researcher at the Institute for Working Economy and Organisation of the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Stuttgart/D
- 1991/92 Project Associate at the ?ead Organization for Leisure Institutions, Stuttgart/D (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Jugendfreizeitstätten, AGJF e.V.)
- 1993/94 Research Fellow, Institute of Pedagogic, University of Tübingen/D
- 1998/99 Lecturer in Psychology, University of Ioannina/GR
- 1999-2006 Asst. Prof. in Social Psychology, Dept. of Psychology, University of Crete/GR
- 2007- Assoc. Prof. in Social Psychology, Dept. of Primary Education, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki/GR

RECENT AND CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
- International Learning. Youth and Racism in Europe
- Political Orientations of Young Workers
- Orientation of Youth in the Context of Integration and Exclusion
- Origins and Formation Conditions of Racist Discourses and Racism in Greece
- Cultural Identity and Constitutional Patriotism
- Children in Communication about Migration
- Migrants’ experiences of discrimination in Greece
- Solidarity as a theoretical and practical problem
- The Dialectics of the Schooling-Complex

LECTURING AND UNIVERSITY EXPERIENCE
- Institute for Educational Sciences of the University of Tübingen
- Latvian State University Riga
- Teachers Training Institute (“Dimitrios Glinos”) of the Department for Primary Education of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
- Department of Philosophy, Education and Psychology of the University of Ioannina
- Department of Psychology of the University of Crete
- Supervision of Graduate and Postgraduate Research in the above Institutions
- Visiting Scholar in the Universities of Stellenbosch (South Africa, March 2006) and Roskilde (Denmark, May 2006)
- University of Vienna

PARTICIPATION IN PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS IN (1991-2007)
- Germany, Latvia, Netherlands, Croatia, Greece, United Kingdom, Austria, Turkey, South Africa, Luxemburg

ORGANISATION AND LEADERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS
Co-organizer of
- Scientific and evening lectures for the public
- Training seminars for social workers
- Conferences and International Meetings
- and co-editor of proceedings of a hearing at the City Council of Stuttgart/Germany

EXTERN EXPERT EVALUATOR FOR THE GREEK PEDAGOGICAL INSTITUTE (2001)

CONSULTANCIES
- Member of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology, (Member of the Executive Board 2005-2007)
- Member of the Greek Psychological Association
- Member of the Research Group on Exclusion and Dominance Structures

RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Youth as social group
- Psychology and its relation with the various forms of social inequalities and social exclusion (racism, nationalism, ethnicism, multiculturalism)
- Solidarity as a theoretical and practical issue in the social sciences
- The theoretical constitution of Social Psychology
- The critical psychology of the “schooling-complex”

OTHER RELEVANT ACTIVITIES
- Co-founder and participation in the “Immigrants Center Rethymno” (2001-2006)
- Co-organizer of the up to now five “Antiracist Festival of Rethymno” (2001-2006)

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