{"id":329,"date":"2025-07-10T15:32:33","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T12:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhizoeduscapes.gdia.uth.gr\/?post_type=omada&p=329"},"modified":"2025-11-02T15:06:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T12:06:54","slug":"kerry-synaiti","status":"publish","type":"omada","link":"https:\/\/rhizoeduscapes.gdia.uth.gr\/en\/omada\/kerry-synaiti\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry Synaiti"},"content":{"rendered":"

My name is Synaiti Kerry and I am a graduate of the Department of Language and Intercultural Studies. The starting point of my research journey \u2014 while I was still a student \u2014 was the creation of our team, “Volos Linguistic Landscape Research Group\u201d in 2021, when we began a journey to answer questions, conduct research, reflect, deconstruct, and redefine. One of our first steps as a team, particularly in the context of non-formal and intercultural education, was our collaboration with a shelter for unaccompanied minors in Volos, where we offered greek language lessons in order to address both the linguistic and other needs of the children. It was a pivotal experience \u2014 academically, but even more so personally. Languages, cultures, lived experiences, and a multitude of emotions reshaped my understanding and outlook entirely. That was my first encounter with unaccompanied minors \u2014 a beginning I never expected would lead me here. Through my studies, I engaged with the arabic language, which had always fascinated me, and eventually became a common space with the children, as it was their first language. I also experienced this as a researcher\/volunteer in the ACTinPRISON project, \u201cInteraction Matters: Research on the development of alternative curricular experiences for young prisoners and prospective teachers\u201d. The young prisoners with whom we carried out educational activities were not all greek-speaking, and their linguistic repertoires varied. In this context, the arabic language became a medium for communication and interaction with the children, allowing us to feel that we were a team. Although I have not studied the concept of “rooting” in depth, for me, this is exactly what it embodies: the relationship that forms between people who do not know each other, who are different, who interact, and in the end, something completely unexpected and unique emerges. Without a beginning or an end, without dependence or external influence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":298,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-329","omada","type-omada","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhizoeduscapes.gdia.uth.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/omada\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhizoeduscapes.gdia.uth.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/omada"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhizoeduscapes.gdia.uth.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/omada"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhizoeduscapes.gdia.uth.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhizoeduscapes.gdia.uth.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}