Teaching

Sapere aude!

[Have courage in your own understanding]

IMMANUEL KANT

… it is ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing the ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish that lies in the way to knowledge.

JOHN LOCKE, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, ‘Epistle to the Reader’, New York, A. C. Fraser, 1959, Vol. I, p. 14.

I teach because I believe that education involves daring to think aloud and encouraging students to think critically for themselves. I enjoy facilitating the exchange of ideas between my students, promoting the synthesis of theory and practice, and cultivating a shared sense of academic community. My aim as an educator is to equip my students with knowledge and the skills they need to develop coherent, scientifically- and socially-valid arguments.

I teach to persuade students of the significance of knowledge, science, and democracy, and to encourage their comprehension via discourse with peers and academics. The objective is to promote a mutual, enriched understanding.

MAIN TEACHING APPOINTMENTS [selection]

  1. 2020-2025: Hellenic Open University-Greece, Programme: Politics and Public Administration. Course taught: “Politics and the State”. Position held: Lecturer [Full-time and under contract for two years].
  2. 2020: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens-Greece, Department of Sociology. Spring semester: Course taught “Introduction to social and political philosophy”. Position held: Associate professor (non-tenure).
  3. 2019-2023: University of the Peloponnese-Greece, Department of Political Science and International Relations. Post-graduate programme in Global Challenges and Systems of Analysis. Seminal in “Contemporary Epistemology and Research Methodology”.
  4. 2017-20: Hellenic Open University-Greece, Programme: European Civilization in the 20th Century. Course taught: “Political Philosophy and Theory of Modernity”. Position held: Lecturer [Full-time and under contract for three years].
  5. 2014-17: Hellenic Open University-Greece, Programme: European Civilization in the 20th Century. Course taught: “Political Philosophy and Theory of Modernity”. Position held: Lecturer [Full-time and under contract for three years].
  6. 2017: University of the Peloponnese-Greece, Department of Political Science and International Relations. Course taught: “Politics and Modernity”. Position held: Lecturer [non-tenure track, spring semester].
  7. 2016-17: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki-Greece, Department of Philosophy. Course taught. “Social Philosophy of the 20th Century”. Position held: Lecturer [non-tenure track, winter semester].
  8. 2013-15: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens-Greece, Postgraduate Programme in Modern Epistemology: Plato’s Academy. Course taught: “Ethics and science – bioethics and the evolution of the science”. Position held: Lecturer [non-tenure track].
  9. 2013: Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences-Greece, Department of Social Policy, Postgraduate Programme Epistemology and research methods in the social sciences, teaching and preparation of portfolio for post-graduate students, Spring semester.
  10. 2009-10: University of the Peloponnese-Greece, Department of Political Science and International Relations. Course taught: “Political Philosophy”. Position held: Lecturer [non-tenure track].
  11. 2009: University of Munich-Germany, Geschwister Scholl Institute for Political Science. Course taught (in English-Spring semester): Political Philosophy and Political Theory of the Frankfurt School (undergraduate level), Position held: Lecturer [non-tenure track].