Commoning Education in Contemporary Greece ∗ Yannis Pechtelidis (University of Thessaly) ∗∗ In contemporary crisis-ridden Greece various social and cultural spaces have been emerged in Greece aiming to a more participatory education. The focus here is on the intergenerational process of commoning education in two examples, a public elementary school (Fourfouras, The school of Nature and Colors - the children aged 6 to 12) and an independent pedagogical community (Sprogs) about early childhood, run by its members (parents, teachers, and children). A core group of two preschool teachers and around 14 parents and 10 children (aged 2,5 to 5) were fully engaged in Sprogs. The empirical data collected from a variety of sources such as participant observation, conversations with teachers and parents, blogs and sites of the school and the pedagogical community, various Internet posts, videos and radio broadcasts, flyers, and a teacher’s autobiographical book about Fourfouras. My intention is to briefly describe rituals, practices, and mentalities produced within these alternative educational social spaces, and to provide an understanding on how alternative children’s subjectivities come into being. The aim is to critically discuss both their dynamics and limitations; their similarities and differences; and subsequently their consequences for the participants and society. ∗ This paper is part of the chapter: “Heteropolitical Pedagogies. Citizenship and Childhood. Commoning Education in Contemporary Greece”, in the book Theorising Childhood: Citizenship, Rights, and Participation edited by Claudio Baraldi and Tom Cockburn, Palgrave Macmillan (forthcoming). ∗∗ Assistant Professor in Sociology of Education, Department of Early Childhood Education, University of Thessaly