Political Correctness and Education: The case of the primary education trade unionists of Thessaloniki - Greece
Abstract
In recent years in Greece, the term political correctness has increasingly appeared in the media, in social networks and in academia. As with other social science concepts, there is no consensus among those who use the term.
In the first part of this paper, we explore the historical development of the concept of political correctness, the different meanings given to it by those who use it and set out in detail our own approach. In the second part we present a research, the purpose of which was to investigate the views of the members of the boards of the teachers' associations of primary education in Thessaloniki on political correctness in education.
The strategy of our research was the Case Study, and the research technique was the semi-structured interview. Our research participants were thirty-five (35) male and female members of the Thessaloniki school boards.
According to the results, most of the teachers who took part in our research are aware of the concept of political correctness, use politically correct language and consider that the curriculum of primary education should be improved a lot and change the way it presents the "different" social, ethnic, cultural, religious and linguistic groups.
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