Overview
- Fills a gap in the literature on Greek American educational initiatives
- Discusses Greek Americans' history as a diaspora community in the context of education
- Examines the dynamics of specific Greek schools and curricula
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This edited collection considers Greek American formal and informal educational efforts, institutions, and programs, broadly conceived, as they evolved over time throughout the United States. The book’s focus on Greek Americans aims to highlight the vast array of educational responses to local needs and contexts as this distinct, yet, heterogeneous immigrant community sought to maintain its linguistic, cultural, and religious heritage for over one hundred years. The chapters in this volume amend the scholarly literature that thus far has not only overlooked Greek American educational initiatives, but has also neglected to recognize and analyze the community’s persistence in sustaining them. This book is an important contribution to an understanding of Greek Americans’ long overdue history as a significant diaspora community within an American context.
Reviews
“The book’s appearance is timely … . this new book will become a standard work on Greek-American education that others will refer to and build upon for many years to come. … The studies in the Soumakis-Zervas volume contain examples of successful methods and models that should be adopted and shared.” (Constantine G. Hatzidimitriou, Journal of Modern Greek Studies, Vol. 40 (1), May, 2022)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Fevronia K. Soumakis is Adjunct Assistant Professor at Queens College, The City University of New York, USA. She received her PhD in the History and Education Program at Teachers College, Columbia University, USA.
Theodore G. Zervas is Professor of Education and Coordinator of the Masters of Arts in Teaching program at North Park University, USA. His previous publications include Formal and Informal Education during the Rise of Greek Nationalism: Learning to be Greek (2017) and The Making of a Modern Greek Identity: Education, Nationalism, and the Teaching of a Greek National Past (2012).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Educating Greek Americans
Book Subtitle: Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Pathways
Editors: Fevronia K. Soumakis, Theodore G. Zervas
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39827-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-39826-2Published: 20 May 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-39829-3Published: 20 May 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-39827-9Published: 19 May 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 188
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: Ethnicity in Education, Diaspora, Religion and Education, Language Education, Eastern Orthodoxy