Shaping a Public Secondary School Culture of Volunteer Commitment During the Economic Crisis in Greece

Styliani Lalagka; Areti Valasidou

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Shaping a Public Secondary School Culture of Volunteer Commitment During the Economic Crisis in Greece

Styliani Lalagka, Areti Valasidou

Published in International Journal of Secondary Education (Volume 3, Issue 6)

Received: 1 October 2015 Accepted: 15 October 2015 Published: 28 October 2015

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Times of economic crisis bring changes. Low funding and sequential problems provide new challenges for school community in order to move forward. This paper demonstrates a completely volunteer program for a Greek, public secondary school, involving the whole school community, school staff, students, parents and citizens, and aiming to shape the school culture into volunteer commitment during hard times. Our research is based on secondary data that were retrieved by up to date sources that aimed to discuss the volunteerism and its impact on modern educational leadership. We discuss the case study of Western Australian schools that used a volunteerism program and we discuss how this can be implemented at Greek schools. Working throughout international literature we found a complete volunteer program for organizations and we adapted it for Greek public secondary school. In order this project to be achievable we suggest a transformational leader who is charismatic and visionary to be the head teacher of the school. On reimaging schooling, our assumption was that if a public school could shape a volunteer commitment by all school members then the consequences of economic crisis will be more easily hand able.

Published in	International Journal of Secondary Education (Volume 3, Issue 6)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijsedu.20150306.11
Page(s)	55-60
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Transformational Leadership, Volunteerism, Economic Crisis, Secondary School, Greek School

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Styliani Lalagka, Areti Valasidou. (2015). Shaping a Public Secondary School Culture of Volunteer Commitment During the Economic Crisis in Greece. International Journal of Secondary Education, 3(6), 55-60. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ijsedu.20150306.11

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Styliani Lalagka, Areti Valasidou. Shaping a Public Secondary School Culture of Volunteer Commitment During the Economic Crisis in Greece. Int J Second Educ. 2015;3(6):55-60. doi: 10.11648/j.ijsedu.20150306.11

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Styliani Lalagka

Department of Education, University of Derby, Derby, UK
Areti Valasidou

Department of International European Studies, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece

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