Vasiliki Pliogkou

Dr. Vassiliki Pliogou is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Early Childhood Education, in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Western Macedonia, Greece, on the subject of Pedagogy and Applications in Education. She had been for many years (since 1997) a member of the academic staff and research programmes at the Democritus University of Thrace, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the University of Ioannina. She has a continuous cooperation with the Hellenic Open University, the School of Pedagogical and Technological Education in Thessaloniki and the Frederick University of Cyprus.
She is a reviewer in 12 Greek and International Journals. She has more than 100 presentations in Greek and International conferences and more than 90 publications in collective volumes, Greek and International Journals and proceedings, which focus on human rights education, childhood and children’s rights, citizenship, family-school connection, gender and educational implementations using different pedagogical tools in various formal and non-formal educational environments. Since 2011, she is the president of OMEP (World Organization for Early Childhood Education) in Central Macedonia. She has been awarded the first prize of the International Committee of OMEP for 2016 in Education for Sustainable Development under the UNESCO Global Action Programme, at the University of Ewha Womans in Seoul (S. Korea).