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Kostas Fassoulis

Professor Educational Administration and Human Resources Development

                    

Contact Details

email: kfassoul@primedu.uoa.gr

Tel.:  +30 210 368 8457

Address:

20, Ippokratous str, 4ος floor, P.C. 10680


 Studies

  • Degree - Faculty of Economics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
  • Degree - Faculty of Law, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
  • Ph.D. in Organization and Management of the Higher Education in Greece, Faculty of Primary Education, University of Athens

Professional experience

Academic staff in the Faculty of Primary Education, University of Athens (2000 onwards)

Research interests

  • Educational administration and development
  • Education policy
  • Administration of higher education
  • Contemporary issues of organization, administration and human resources development in education

Teaching

Undergraduate level

  • Organization and administration of education
  • Management and development of human resources in education
  • Organization and operation of school units

 Postgraduate level

  • Educational administration and human resources management
  • Administration and organization of educational units and organizations: Theory and practice
  • Organizational behavior
  • Strategic and operational planning in education
  • Change management in education

Research projects

Scientific coordinator of projects funded from “Kapodistrias” program of the University of Athens:  

  • “Education and training of Educational Managers”, 2011- 2012. 
  • “Philosophy and administration practices of public schools”, 2009-2010.
  • “The quality of supporting services of the University of Athens”, 2006-2007.
  • “The educational and organizational operation of foreign schools in Greece”, 2005-2006.
Research member of the European research projects:
  • “Thalis – The access in Higher Education: Study of the social, educational and institutional dimensions of the demand for higher education, the problems and the policies for its satisfaction – a comparative and empirical approach”
  • “Pythagoras – Comparative and international education quality of the educational work and investigation of the possibility of transfer of experiences and know-how in greek education”
  • “Odysseas – Dual undergraduate speciality and corresponding postgraduate deepening with aim the more relative production of joint knowledge for the labour market”

Academic activities

  • Director of the laboratory of “Comparative Education, International Education Policy and Communication” of the Faculty of Primary Education of the University of Athens
  • Scientific coordinator of the postgraduate studies program “Comparative education with specialization in quality issues in education” of the Faculty of Primary Education of the University of Athens
  • Member of the editorial board of the six-monthly edition “Comparative and International Education Review” issued by the Greek Comparative and International Education Society and the Laboratory of Comparative Education, International Education Policy and Communication of the Faculty of Primary Education of the University of Athens 

Reviewer of the academic journals:

  • “Mentoras”
  • “Educational Review”
  • “Comparative and international education review”
  • “Scientific Tribune”
  • “Review of educational issues”

 Membership of Professional Bodies/ Associations:

  • Member of the European Comparative Education Society in Europe - CESE.
  • Member of the Administrative Board of the Greek Comparative and International Education Society
  • Member of the Hellenic Educational Society
  • Member of the Center of Research, Science and Education

Selected Publications

(Books/ Journal Articles/ Book Chapters/ Conference Proceedings/ Book Reviews)

Eight (8) books and above fifty (50) publications in Greek and International Journals and Conference Proceedings

Books:
  • Government of Tertiary Education. Diachronic organizational principles and contemporary orientations in the age of “new public management”, Athens, self-edition, 2014, pages 293.
  • The organizational phenomenon on the Internet. Papazisis editions, Athens, 2013, pages 451 (In collaboration with Professor D. Daskalakis).
  • Managerial Globalization - New Public Management. The Context of Educational Management and Leadership. (In collaboration with D. Kalogiannis). “EUROPEAN PAPERS”, No 7, 2013, European Public Law Organization. Available on: www.eplopublications.eu
  • The Quality in the European Higher Education Area: Organizational Structures, Assurance and Accreditation Systems, Atrapos editions, Athens 2010  
  • Foreign Private Schools in Greece: Organization and administration, institutional and research approaches, Atrapos editions, Athens 2010
  • State - university relations: state control mechanisms, Atrapos editions, Athens 2005
  • The greek and european higher education: organizational - administrative structure and function, Lychnos editions, Athens 2001

Selected publications in scientific journals and conference proceedings with reviewers:
  • “Local” bodies of social participation in the Greek educational system: Ambiguous laws and practices and the ambivalence of the public political discourse (1982-2013). Central and Eastern European Legal Studies, Issue 2/2013, European Public Law Organization, pp. 421-459.
  • “Job Satisfaction: Factor Analysis of Greek Primary School Principals’ Perceptions. (in collaboration  with A. Saitis), International Journal of Educational Management, 2012, Vol. 26, No 4, pp. 370-380.
  • “Primary school principals’ attitudes and perceptions towards their administrative professional development” (in collaboration with C. Saitis and E. Valkanos). MENON, Journal of Educational Research.
  • “Factors of teachers’ job satisfaction: A case study”, Administrative Information, Issue 61/2012, pp. 118-127.
  • “The effective organization and school management: characteristic features of the qualitative leadership behavior in compulsory schools in Greece that operate with foreign educational program”, Mentor, Issue 13/2011, pp. 22-41.
  • “Theoretical data and research results of the leadership styles and their effect on the school improvement” (in collaboration with M. Iliofotou and D. Kalogiannis), Comparative and International Education Review, Issue 22.
  • “The role of the forms of theatric expression in the collective action and development of organisations. Case studies from the international literature”. Proceedings of the international conference “Artful Pedagogy, The Educational Role Of The Theatre”, organized by the Art and Speech Centre of the Faculty of Primary Education of the Athens University, November, 22-24, 2013. Available at:      theodoregrammatas.com
  • “Children rights: Their effects on the meaning, the competence and the professional development of school leadership” (in collaboration with D. Kalogiannis). Proceedings of the international conference “Childhood: Sociological, cultural, historical and pedagogical aspects” organised by the Social Sciences Laboratory of the Faculty of Primary Education of the University of Athens, Athens, April, 11-13, 2013.   
  • “The development of the quality culture as a factor of quality assurance in the European Higher Education Area” (in collaboration with G. Koutromanos and V. Fasoulis). Proceedings of the conference “The quality in education: Tensions and prospects” organised by the Faculty of Primary Education of the Athens University, 2012, volume B΄, Athens, pp. 31-40.   
  • “Organisation and Operation of the Primary and Secondary Private Education in Greece. Legislative and Social Innovations and Consequences”, European Review of Public Law, Vol. 21, No. 2, 2009, Esperia Publications Ltd., pp. 827 - 851.
  • “Educational Managers in Primary Education: intentions, attitudes, subjective norms and perceived behavioral control”, Educational Review, Issue 47, 2009, pp. 173-188.
  • “The quality of supporting services in higher education. The case of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens”, Mathematical Review, Vol. 70, 2008, pp. 59-80.
  • “The freedom of teaching as a right and obligation to implement the educational duty in primary and secondary education”, The Constitution, Issue of the Law school of the University of Athens, Issue 3, 2007, pp. 911-918.     
  • “Autonomy of the University and State Mechanisms of Control: The Case of Greece”. European Review of Public Law, 2004, Vol. 56, No.2, pp. 417-454.
  • “The quality in administration of the human resources in education (Critical approach to the “Total Quality Management” system)”, Review of Scientific and Educational Issues, Issue 4, Athens, 2001, pp. 186-198.
  • “European higher education institutions in the 21st century: What prospects? The debate on the reform of the Greek university”. European Public Law Center, Athens 10-12/2/2006, European Public Law Series, European Public Law Center, Vol. LXXXVIII, Esperia Publications LTD, London, 2007, pp. 71-82.