Dr Koula Charitonos (Open University)
- MAP Role: Co-Investigator
- Institution: Open University (OU)
- Position: Lecturer, Institute of Educational Technology
- Location: U.K.
- Twitter: @ch_koula
- ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Koula_Charitonos
- OU Institutional Repository for Resources: http://oro.open.ac.uk/cgi/r/y40ga
- Website: https://iet.open.ac.uk/
Dr Koula Charitonos is a Senior Lecturer in Learning + Technology at the Open University UK. Koula is concerned with understanding aspects of human learning supported by technology in ways that contribute to projects of educational justice. To this end, her work focuses on the study of knowledge work in professional settings and on participatory methods in the design and development of technology, as well as on pedagogical practices across formal and informal settings. Koula maintains a strong interest in education in crisis contexts, particularly in the provision of digital education in conflict and protracted crises and the role of education in promoting peace. Koula’s work foregrounds that educational spaces and practices can be transformative and have capacity to help create more just futures. (https://iet.open.ac.uk/people/koula.charitonos
Related Projects:
- PhotoVoice as an educational tool for intercultural learning and peacebuilding between Forcefully Displaced Populations and Host community youth
- EDiCT project Empathy Dynamics in Conflict Transformation
