ABSTRACT
Chapter 8, ‘The Role of Education in the Reconstruction of Greek Society’, examines teachers’ projections for the possible role of the Greek education system in addressing some of the devastating consequences of the socio-economic crisis. In particular it presents: (a) the changes to the Greek education system that teachers consider necessary in order to meet the new challenges that have arisen from the rapidly changing social and economic context, (b) the skills, attitudes and values that they feel students need to be taught in response to these changes and (c) the existing strengths of the education system that can be built upon in order to create a system better suited to handling major societal changes and better able to face challenging circumstances.
