Ifigenia Vamvakidou

Greek Pre-Schoolers Crayon the Politicians: A Semiotic Analysis of Children's Drawing.

This article concerns the ways in which pre-school children use the visual arts to portray their understanding of politicians. The purpose of this research was to discuss childrens drawings of politicians using semiotic analysis. The use of semiotic analysis was based on the need to understand the nature of the drawings and their relation to the ways in which children regarded their politicians. This method can be used to analyze the particular sample of childrens drawings as there is an ‘intention to inform’ and also as the signs, which offer information, are dependent on the objects-persons being described.

Greek University Students Describe the Role of Greece in the Balkans: From Equality to Superiority

The role of Greece in the Balkans1 has been a rather ambiguous but extremely interesting issue for both Greek and European diplomacy for more than 15 years, since the fall of the Communist regimes ...