Ms. Anna Frangoudaki - University of Athens, Center of Intercultural
Research and Pedagogic Intervention – Greece (concluding remarks)
Thank you. It is very interesting that I wrote something like your last proposition. First
of all I would like to once again to thank Professor McDougall for inviting us. It is not a
formality. It is very sincere.
On behalf of my colleague here Professor Dragonas and myself, we would like to thank
you deeply we learned a lot also and we think this initiative Is very precious and it has
to continue. If I may, I would suggest two things for the next meeting on the same
subject.
First of all, given the fact that as far as we learned from a lot of participants here and as
we suggested from our own experience there is a lot of suffering produced by
discriminative and [authoritative] policies.
At the same time it is almost, uneasy, it is possible to change this kind of educational
misery in a short time. It is possible. Also one this is negative, the other one is very
optimistic. I would like to suggest that we go further the general solutions of this
problem that they are all in your recommendations. To go further to the particularities
because beyond this general position we have in the recommendations, there are a lot
of differences from each case to another.
For example, what we were trying to explain to you about the Muslim minority in our
country is that bilingualism for example is not the solution for everything they have
schools there were bilingual for the last [18] years. So the power-relations between the
groups is a bigger problem and another thing I would like to suggest is that we go
beyond the misery that is caused to the victims of discrimination and start discussing
the wrong that is done by such policies to everybody.
Thank you very much.