Presentation 1
Skoufoglou, E.S. Hatzara, E. Koutra – Iliopoulou, M. Christoforaki, M. Mavrikaki, E. Galani, A. (2023). Urban environment and heat waves: Discussing city planning – a critical view, 4th Panhellenic Conference on Critical Education, Critical Education in the 21st century: challenges and proposals, 15-17 December, Athens, Greece. https://www.pcce.primedu.uoa.gr/
See programme page 3, session 3
https://www.pcce.primedu.uoa.gr/programma/ , Σκούφογλου, Ε.Σ. Χατζαρά, Ε. Κούτρα – Ηλιοπούλου, Μ. Χριστοφοράκη, Μ. Μαυρικάκη, Ε. Γαλάνη, Α. (2023). Αστικό περιβάλλον και καύσωνες: Συζητώντας για τον σχεδιασμό πόλεων – μια κριτική ματιά, 4ο Πανελλήνιο Συνέδριο Κριτικής Εκπαίδευσης, Η Κριτική Εκπαίδευση στον 21ο αι.: Προκλήσεις και προτάσεις, 15-17 Δεκεμβρίου, Αθήνα.
Paper No 1
> 1st paper: Paper for the proceedings of the conference Critical Education in the 21st century: challenges and proposals, in greek (accepted – under publication) pages 17
Title: Skoufoglou, E.S. Hatzara, E. Koutra – Iliopoulou, M. Christoforaki, M. Mavrikaki, E. Galani, A. (2023). Urban environment and heat waves: Discussing city planning – a critical view, 4th Panhellenic Conference on Critical Education, Critical Education in the 21st century: challenges and proposals (in greek)
This paper constitutes a presentation of a part of the study conducted in the framework of the HEAT (Erasmus+) programme. In the study, we have cοmpiled and classified factors affecting the vulnerability of urban areas to heatwaves, as well as the solutions of urban policy, planning and design proposed in the international literature to mitigate it. The paper presents the methodology and findings of the study and attempts a critical examination of the subjects and directions of the relevant literature. At the same time, we raise questions about how to render comprehensible the parameters of the issue of heatwaves in the urban environment, their relative importance and their interconnection with social conditions, in a manner both concise and critical, in the particular case of designing a serious game about urban heatwaves.
Presentation 2
Galani, A., Chatzara, E., Skoufoglou, M., Koutra, M., Christoforaki, M., Mavrikaki, E., (2024) Bringing Heatwaves into Classrooms: A Framework for Education NSTA National Science Teaching Association, Denver, March 2024.
This work aims to present a framework that can be used to integrate the concept of heatwaves and their consequences, in education. Heatwaves are prolonged periods of extremely hot weather in a particular location. Today the whole world is experiencing unusually hot conditions due to climate change. Such events are likely to become more frequent, more intense and last longer in the future. Research that has already been carried out shows that although heat waves affect the environment of schoolchildren and cause extremely dangerous effects, they are not part of the school curriculum. In this presentation, we propose a framework for how the concept of burns could be integrated into the school curriculum. Such a framework would play a critical role in developing student literacy, promoting public health and safety, promoting environmental stewardship, and empowering individuals and communities to respond effectively to the challenges that heat waves and climate change pose to everyday life.
