Sub-department of musical arts

Name and surname

Vesna Svalina, Ph.D.

Profession

Associate professor

e-mail

vsvalina@foozos.hr, vesna.svalina@gmail.com

Office number

52

Research interests

Social Sciences; Educational Sciences; Music Education

Vesna Svalina, PhD (1968) is an associate professor for music education at Faculty of Education (Department of Art, Music Subdepartment), Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek. She graduated from the study programme of music pedagogy of the University of Osijek (Faculty of Education) in 1991. She holds a Master of Music Education degree from the University of Zagreb (Music Academy, 2009) and a doctoral degree in early education and compulsory education from Faculty of Teacher Education of the University of Zagreb (2013).

She publishes her scientific works in journals and proceedings of domestic and international conferences. She is the author of two books in the field of music pedagogy, has published over forty scientific papers, and actively participated in numerous domestic and international scientific conferences.

As a member of the scientific committee, she contributed to the preparation of the 5th, 7th, and 8th International Symposium of Music Pedagogues (Pula, 2017, 2021, 2023), as well as the International Symposium The Perspectives of Contemporary Music Education, held within the International Scientific and Art Conference

Contemporary Themes in Education – CTE (Zagreb, 2019, Faculty of Education, University of Zagreb) and the international symposium Opening the Doors to the Art and Science of Music (Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2022, Music Academy in Ljubljana). As a member of the program committee, she was involved in the preparation of the international scientific conference 12 th Days of Primary Schools A circle from science to the classroom (Split, 2021, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Split) and the third National Scientific Conference with international participation and international solfeggio competition named 'Scientia et musica - SEM' (Faculty of Philology and Arts of the University in Kragujevac, Serbia, 2023). Serving as the president of the organizational committee, she organized the 6th International Symposium of Music Pedagogues (Osijek, 2019, Faculty of Education) and the First International Conference Creative Approaches to Learning and Teaching (Osijek, 2023, Faculty of Education). She also contributed to the organization of the 1st Thematic ECHA Conference entitled Creativity Research and Innovation in Gifted Education: Social, Individual, and Educational Perspective (Dubrovnik, 2019). She was a member of the organizational committee for the first, second, and third artistic festivals EKTe (2015, 2016, and 2017) organized at the Faculty of Education.

She collaborated on the project Development of creativity in lifelong teacher education (2009-2013) and led the scientific-research project Listening to music as an area in the curriculum of music culture teaching – IZIP-2014-20 (2015-2016). Since 2018, she has been a collaborator on the scientific-research project within the framework of bilateral Croatian-Slovenian cooperation titled Giftedness in the field of art - analysis of the situation among primary school students from the aspect of artistic and musical talent. From 2015 to 2018, she served as the executive editor of the journal Life and School, and since 2021, she has been a member of the editorial boards of the journals SN Social Sciences, International Journal of Psychological and Brain Sciences, and Journal for the Interdisciplinary Art and Education.

In addition to her scientific pursuits, she is actively involved in artistic activities, achieving numerous concerts in Croatia and abroad (Italy, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Switzerland) – Rome, Fermignano, Germany – Lindenholzhausen, Ulm, Pfortzheim, Wiesbaden). She won numerous prizes, both nationally and internationally, at different choir competitions (11 at national and 7 at international competitions). She also won three special prizes: for the best performance of the compulsory song, for best interpretation of song composed by Croatian composer and for the artistically most convincing conductor.

Personal website: www.vesna-svalina.net  

List of publications (link to CROSBI)

CROSBI Vesna Svalina

Name and surname

Lidija Nikolić, Ph.D.

Title

Assistant Professor

e-mail

lnikolic@foozos.hr

Office Nr.

60

Research interests

Her research work focuses on the musical competence of primary education teachers, the development of the model of music education of future teachers, musical abilities, the method of teaching music in school and the method of teaching music in a teacher's study, the influence of music on the general development of the child, teaching vocal and instrumental music, music performance, and the psychological factors of acquisition and development of music competencies.

Lidija Nikolić graduated Music pedagogy study program at the Faculty of pedagogy, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, in 1996. In 2016 she acquired PhD at the doctorall studies of Science of music art - module of Music pedagogy in the Faculty of music art, University of art in Belgrade.

Since 1996, she has been a music teacher for studies for future primary school teachers and preschool teachers at the Faculty of pedagogy, and today at the Faculty of education, University of Josip Juraj Strossmayer in Osijek in the position of a senior lecturer. She teaches on subjects: Playing the music, Choir, Singing and playing, Music theory, Music culture, Music teaching methodology, Music listening, Music culture and methodology, Children's music creativity, Music with practice, Music in an integrated curriculum, Acquiring music literacy skills.She is an author of positively reviewed and adopted curricula of compulsory musical subjects in the teacher study in 1998, 2003 and 2005 and in 2002 and 2005 in the study for preschool teachers.

She exhibits papers at international scientific conferences in the field of music pedagogy and publishes scientific papers in Croatia and abroad.

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CROSBI Lidija Nikolić

Name and surname

Ana Popović, Ph.D

Title

e-mail

apopovic@foozos.hr

Office Nr.

59

Research interests

Musicology, Sociology of Music, Psychology of Music, Music Pedagogy

Ana Popović graduated in musicology from the Academy of Music in Zagreb. In 2022, she obtained the title of Doctor of Arts at the Doctoral School of Josip Juraj Strossmayer University in Osijek, defending the dissertation: Musical landscape of Osijek and the region.

Since completing her studies, she has mainly worked professionally as a teacher of various musical subjects in primary, secondary and music schools (history of music, musical forms, solfeggio, harmony, choir, piano, musical art and musical culture). She has been employed at the Faculty of Educational Sciences in Osijek since 2017 and takes part in various music courses at the integrated undergraduate and graduate university teacher training program and full-time and part-time university undergraduate and graduate studies in early and preschool education.

She regularly publishes scientific, professional and popular papers, as well as music reviews, and actively performs as a trombonist in various musical ensembles (orchestra, big band). She participated in numerous scientific and professional conferences. The list of her works can be found on the page of the Croatian Scientific Bibliography CRORIS under profile number 40036. She is a member of the Croatian Musicological Society and the Croatian Association of Music Theorists, and is also involved in adult education.

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CROSBI Ana Popović

Name and surname

Gordana Ercegovac-Jagnjić

Vocation

Senior lecturer

e-mail

gordana.ercegovac@htnet.hr

Number of offices

60

Research interests

Music and music pedagogy

1989. graduated from the Music Culture

1995. graduated from the Croatian Language and Literature studies

1989th to1991st a high school professor in Osijek

1989 employed at the Pedagogical Faculty,

which grew into today's Faculty of

Educational and Educational Sciences in Osijek

Courses:

Theory of music

Music culture

Music with Practice

Music in Integrated Curriculum

Integrated Preschool Curriculum III

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Gordana Ercegovac-Jagnjić