Magda Vitsou
Dr. Magda Vitsou holds a Bachelor' s degree in Preschool Education from the Department of Preschool Education of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (1996), a Master of Arts (M.A.) in Education from Faculty of Early Childhood Education, Postgraduate Programme “Educational Sciences: Creative Educational Environments and Playing”(2007). In 2016 she obtained her Doctoral degree in Theatre Pedagogy from the Department of Theatre Studies of the University of Peloponnese. She has majored in "Puppetry in education and art therapy", in London School of Puppetry and she has been certified in the development of levels of certification of the knowledge of Greek language as foreign / second. She has worked as a preschool teacher in Greek public schools (2002-2019) and as a scientific collaborator in Preschool Education students at the University of Thessaly. Since 2019 she works as a Laboratory Teaching Staff at the Department of Early Childhood Education of the University of Thessaly (subject: “Applied Preschool Pedagogy in Practicum”). Her scientific interests and publications focus on issues of Drama in Education, puppetry, bilingualism and social life of minority groups. She has contributed to several research projects related to drama in education and school inclusion of students from minority background.
Selected publications
Vitsou, M. ,Kamaretsou, A. (2020). Enhancing Peer Relationships in a Class of Refugee Children Through Drama in Education: An Action Research, Creative Drama Education [Yaratıcı Drama Dergisi] 15(2), 337-354. DOI: 10.21612/yader.2020.028
Vitsou, M., Papadopoulou, M., & Gana, E. (2019). Drama Pedagogy for Refugee Children: means for Empowerment and Communication. Babylonia, Thematic Issue: ‘Languages on the Move’ (Laura Loder Büchel & Nikola Mayer, eds.), 3, 44-49.
Papadopoulou, M., Vitsou, M., Gana, E., (in press). “Me λεμόνι”[lemoni] : Communication practices of children refugees in a project of Literacy through Drama. In Chatzidaki, A. & Tsokalidou, R. Challenges and Initiatives in Refugee Education: the case of Greece, Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Vitsou, M., Papadopoulou, M., (2017). Incorporating drama techniques in refugee’s education: Task-based method and improvisational approach. “Language Education across Borders” conference, University of Graz, Austria, 8-10 December 2017
Vitsou, M. (2016). Writing stories through puppets in a kindergarten classroom. http://ts.uop.gr/syngrafeisargolidas-symposio/index.php/efarmosmena/180-3
Kakana, D., Chatzopoulou, K., Vitsou, M., Χiradaki, Ε., Mavidou, A. (2017). E-mentoring: Experimental application of a modern model of support to students in the preparation, design and implementation of practical training. Kakana in D-M. & Manoli, P. (eds.) (2017). Digital Proceedings from the 3rd International Symposium on New Issues on Teacher Education-ISNITE 2015 (Volos, Greece, 11-13 September 2015). Volos: University of Thessaly Press
Vitsou, M. (2013). “Persona Dolls as an efficient tool in mother tongue teaching”. Presented in the 5th Adriatic-Ionian International Conference “Migration and Diaspora”, Technological Educational Institution of Epirus, Department of Business Administration, Hgoumenitsa, 3rd to 5th October, 2013
Vitsou, M. (2012). Mother tongue thema: Greek paradigm in Swedish preschool education. In Z.Gavriilidou, A.Efthymiou, E.Thomadaki, P. Kambakis-Vougiouklis (eds). Selected papers of the 10th ICGL.(pp. 603-611).Komotini/Greece: Democritus University of Thrace
Vitsou, M. (2011). Second Language Project: Drama as an Educational Tool in Teaching Greek as Second Language. In Yayima Hazirlayan (eds), International Symposium on creative drama in education, Istanbul, (18-19 April 2011)Proceedings (p.p. 9-15)
Vitsou, M., Dimou, P. (2009). Persona Doll in Dimarion, In Proceedings, International Congress, ''Comparative Literature and Literature and Language''. Ankara, Turkey:Gazi University, pp. 757-764
