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Name: Aggelos Position: Assistant Professor
Surname: Kavasakalis Subject: Life-long learning policies
Email: agkav@upatras.gr Phone: 2610969732

Aggelos Kavasakalis is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Educational Sciences and Social Work with the subject: “Lifelong Learning Policies”. His main field of research is the analysis and interpretation of the processes of production and implementation of European lifelong learning policies as well as the processes of their transformation at national and sub-national level within the modern internationalized environment.
He has been teaching at the University of Patras since the academic year 2016-2017. In the Undergraduate Study Program of the Department he teaches the courses: “Lifelong Learning Policies”, “Social Policy Networks” and “Comparative Education”. He is a Coordinator in the Thematic Unit: “Quality Assurance in Higher Education” in the Postgraduate Study Program (Master) “Higher Education Policy: Theory and Praxis”. He is an adjunct academic staff of the Hellenic Open University from the academic year 2017-2018 and has taught the Thematic Units: “Management of Educational Units” and “Management of Educational Units – Educational Leadership”. He has supervised (as a supervisor or co-supervisor), until August 2021, 45 postgraduate theses. He has worked as a teacher in Secondary education for 22 years. In 2013-2015 he was an external research associate at the Authority for Quality Assurance and Certification in Higher Education.
He has participated in research projects and publications in Greek, English and French. Indicatively 3 recent publications: (i) Stamelos G., Kiprianos P., Evangelakou P., Kavasakalis A. (2021). Comprendre et prévenir l’abandon etudiant, La Recherche en Éducation, No 22, 23-32. (ii) Kavasakalis A., Tzima M. (2020). Erasmus + and Vocational Secondary Education: Analyzing Participating Students ’Views. A Case Study of Students ’Mobility in the Prefecture of Preveza, Greece. Journal of Education and Training, vol.7, (2): 36-62, ISSN 2330-9709. (iii) Vassilopoulos A, Kavasakalis A., Stamelos G. (2020). The Integration of LLL into Higher Education: Non-formal Learning Services Delivery into the Greek HEIs. Academia, No. (18): 224-242. ISSN, 2241-1402.

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Postgraduate:

Interinstitutional Master “Higher Education Policy: Theory and Praxis” (http://mahep.upatras.gr/).

Thematic Units:

  1. “Quality Assurance in Higher Education” (teaching and coordinator)
  2. “Governance and Management in Higher Education” (teaching)
  3. “European framework for higher education” (teaching)
Undergraduate:
  1. “Social Policy Networks”, compulsory course in the Social Work direction
  2. “Life-long learning policies”, compulsory course in the Primary Education direction
  3. “Social Policy Networks”, elective course in the Primary Education direction
  4. “Comparative Education”, elective course in the Primary Education direction

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