2019-20

The first half of the course examines in summary form the education of Orthodox subjects of the Ottoman Empire and the nature of the education provided for them. Particular emphasis is laid upon the changes wrought by the Greek Enlightenment on education, resulting in the move from the 'Greek school' of the Church to the Greek school of the ethnos. The second part of the course offers an analysis of the progress of education from the foundation of the independent Greek nation-state to the present.

The course examines the concept of diaspora and its significance for the understanding of basic questions in modern and contemporary Greek political, social and economic history. The course deals with such matters as the foundation, organization and development of Greek communities abroad, with the aim of offering a composite view of the phenomenon of the Greek diaspora in broader terms.