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School: Gennadios School Alimos/athens
Contact: mail@genadios.edu.gr
Date: 1-15-2001
Hello A very quick reply is the following : In our books you can red about Mercator (not in history books but maybe in geography) and Pieter Paul Rubens Also people have heard about Eddy Merckx and Wilfried Martens, but not nessecarily through school books !
Regards
Stelios Kessanidis
School: American Community Schools of Athens Aghia Paraskevi
Contact: karvouni@acs.gr
Date: 1-15-2001
I am the Head of the Social Studies Department at the American Community Schools of Athens. I teach Humanities and History to high school students aged 14-17. A review of our texts revealed these results: Mercator, Vesalius, Pieter Brueghel, Pieter Paul Rubens and Jan Van Eyck are mentioned in the texts. None of the others on your list appears.
I hope this is of some use to you in your research. Please let me know the general results when the study is completed.
Jan Karvouniaris
School: TASIS Hellenic International School Kifissia
Contact: Tasis Hellenic International
Date: 1-19-2001
We have just received your request the concerning Flemish celebrities. I was asked as a Middle School teacher here at TASIS Hellenic to look into your request. My classes and my interests are around history and geography. Incorporated into my classes I quite often introduce the Flemish artists as a special focus to an era in history. (Even when the textbook does not mention them!)
Upon inspection of the books we use in our classes for grades 6 through 9 a few names did appear. Our books for this age span come from the publisher Prentice Hall. Kindly note the books and our confirmations:
Prentice- Hall WORLD EXPLORER series
The Ancient World (1998)
No record
Geography :Tools and Concepts (1998)
Mercator
Medieval Times to Today (1998)
No record
World History: Connections to Today (1999)
Pieter Brueghel
Pieter Paul Rubens
Jan Van Eyck
Mercator
Andreas Vesalius
I hope that I have helped you. Please stay in touch with me and share your findings at the end of your research.
A Flemish fan.
Sincerely yours,
Meg Matsaganis
a TASIS-Hellenic Middle School teacher
School: Pinewood-The International School of Thessaloniki, Greece
Contact: Pinewood School
Date: 2-15-2001
I teach Art History and when we do the Baroque, Rubens is one of the artists discussed.
Amalia Spiliakou Host Country Studies Teacher