Areti Chalkiadaki is an English teacher in Primary Education. She holds a PhD degree in Applied Pedagogy (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain), a Master’ s degree in Management with Human Resources Management (University of Bath, UK) and a Bachelor’ s degree in English Language and Literature (University of Athens, Greece). Her research interests focus on the study of school culture, 21^st century skills and the introduction of new practices in education. She has published relevant articles in international journals and offered seminars in the Department of English Language and Literature of the UOA. She has worked as a teacher of English for Special Purposes in public and private Institutes of Vocational Training and in administrative departments of the Ministry of Education.