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STUDENT RESEARCHER
**Welcome to the new wiki area and discussion forum created for the promotion of a new profile and role of the student as researcher / producer of knowledge and not as a passive and uncritical consumer of information. ****This profile is based on a Holistic, Critical Developmental Model of Education **

ACTIVE RESEARCH: Teacher and Student as Researchers - Scientific conference  (Thessaloniki, Greece - 20 & 21January 2012)   ** download the programme in <<< English >>> and in <<< Greek >>> **

This theme will be promoted through organised activities based on Active Research philosophy, aims and methodology. Our Active Research approach in its turn is based on a Model of Critical Education 'crossing all the borders' of all school subjects and promoting


 * Critical Self Awareness and personal development as well as
 * Social Awareness and development through processes of active european citizens.

This model has been applied in the context of a three-year (1999-2002) European project entitled SY.N.TH.E.SI. (SYnergetic New THesis for European education SImera -which is a Greek word for the word 'today') (download the booklet of the presentation of the project 6 Mb).

In the context of this project a Transnational, Interdisciplinary Society was created with the main aim of promoting the aims and the philosophy of the project SY.N.TH.E.SI. The title of this Society is "SY.N.TH.E.SI.: The Heuristic Teachers' Society"

Its main aims can be seen in the attached file presenting a booklet developed in the context of the SY.N.TH.E.SI. project and distributed to teachers in Greece, Italy and Spain. In short, however, we aim to promote real democracy and contribute to the development of a better society characterised by diachronic values such as justice and equality through


 * active european citizenship and
 * intercultural communication.

==== In this context we have also promoted the idea of the student as researcher and, starting with our two-day conference in Thessaloniki Greece on the 20th and 21st of January 2012, we intend to work on this issue more strategically mainly in collaboration with students but also with teachers. ====

**Download the reference educational model in**  **<<>>** **or in <<< in Greek>>>**