Centre for Rehabilitation

First and last name

Dr. Marinela Rosso, Ph.D., Assistant Professor (Docent), and Primary Care Physician (Primarius)

Profession

Assistant Professor

Email

mrosso@foozos.hr

Office number

2

Research interests

Head and Neck Surgery, Otorhinolaryngology, Medical Sciences, Speech and Language Pathology

Curriculum vitae (up to 300 words)

Dr Marinela Rosso, PhD, Assistant Professor, and Primarius, graduated in 1994 from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Zagreb. From 1998 to 2018, she was employed at the Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery at the Clinical Hospital Center (KBC) Osijek. She passed her specialisation exam in Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery in 2003 and became a subspecialist in Head and Neck Plastic Surgery in 2015. She was awarded the professional title of Primarius in 2013. From 2009 to 2015, she served as Head of the Clinical Department for Head and Neck Surgery, Plastic Reconstructive, and General ENT Surgery.

She defended her doctoral dissertation in 2015 in the field of Clinical Medical Sciences within the area of Biomedicine and Health. From 2018 to 2023, she operated her private clinic, Polyclinic Rosso. In 2022, she was appointed to the academic title of Assistant Professor in the interdisciplinary field of Clinical Medical Sciences and Speech-Language Pathology.

Dr. Rosso has completed advanced training at several healthcare institutions in Europe and the United States and has attended numerous international courses for continuing medical education. She has actively participated in numerous international and national congresses and professional gatherings. Dr. Rosso is the author of a significant number of professional and scientific papers published in indexed and non-indexed journals, as well as chapters in peer-reviewed books. She is a member of several scientific and professional associations, both nationally and internationally.

Since 2023, she has been employed at the Faculty of Education.

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First and last name

Edita Borić, Ph.D.

Profession

Full professor with tenure

Email

eboric@foozos.hr

Office number

45

Research interests

She is an expert in teacher education in the fields of pedagogical competencies, sustainable development, entrepreneurship in education, learning outcomes, as well as student-centered teaching, teaching quality, research-based teaching, and environmental education.

Curriculum vitae (up to 300 words)

Edita Borić holds a master's degree from the Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, in natural sciences, scientific field of biology, branch of microbiology. She holds a doctorate degree from the Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Ljubljana, in interdisciplinary scientific fields: the scientific field of natural sciences, the field of biology, the scientific field of social sciences, the field of pedagogy. She also trained to conduct external audits of higher education institutions. She completed training in Zagreb to become a child expert, which consisted of four modules: Emotional development and support, Children with special needs, Therapeutic play and Cooperation with parents (2016-2017) and the Greenway winter school education at the University of Pécs.
She has cooperated with the Faculty of Pedagogy of the University of Maribor, the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Trnava, the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Tuzla, the University of Novi Sad, the Jözsef Eötvös University in Baja, etc. for many years.
She was an invited visiting professor as part of the project (INOVUP) "Involvement of visiting foreign experts and university teachers in the pedagogical process as a pillar of the quality development process of internationalization of the University of Maribor".
She was the leader or collaborator of several scientific research projects: Biological research of the Kopački rit Special Zoological Reserve; Water protection of the Kopački rit Reserve; Teaching focused on research and action; Encouraging environmental education of young people in Eastern Slavonia; Competencies in teaching Science and Biology; Orientation of Science teaching to student achievement levels. She was the head of the Slovenian and Croatian bilateral project Cultural heritage in the primary education of Slovenia and Croatia, as well as the NATURAVITA project for the creation of educational programs and manuals for education in nature.
She is the president and head of the postgraduate university doctoral study program Educational Sciences and Perspectives of Education at FOOZOS. She is the deputy president of the postgraduate university specialist study program Sustainable and Circular Bioeconomy.
She is the editor-in-chief of the journal Life and School, which publishes scientific and professional papers with the aim of improving the theory and practice of education. She is the president of the examination committees for taking professional exams in Nature and Society for Teachers. She was the vice dean for teaching at the Faculty of Teacher Education in Osijek.
She is a permanent court expert in the fields of biology and pedagogy.

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Name and surname

Ksenija Romstein, Ph.D.

Position

Associate professor
Vice dean for study programs and development

e-mail

kromstein@foozos.hr

Office number

Vice deans office and office no. 44

Research interests

inclusive education, rights of the children of incarcerated parents, early childhood intervention, societal learning/community knowledge, qualitative and cross-cultural research

Born in 1997 in Osijek, where she has completed primary education, and high-school for nurses, and later Pedagogical faculty, course: preschool teacher. After that, in 1998., she enters Faculty of education and rehabilitation sciences University of Zagreb, course: educational rehabilitation. From 2001 till 2003 she worked as special education teacher in Centre for education in Osijek Ivan Štark, and from 2003 till 2006 in SOS children’s village int. in Ladimirevci (social care and service) as educator for children without adequate parental care. From 2006, ongoing, she works at Faculty of Education and teaches courses at educational rehabilitation program. Earned PhD in 2014, at the field of special pedagogy. In cooperation with Children’s ombudsman’s office in Croatia actively advocates and promotes the rights of children of incarcerated parents, and she has several keynote lectures on that issue.

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First and last name

Ljiljana Širić, Ph.D.

Profession

Assistant Professor

Email

ljsiric@foozos.hr

Office number

2

Research interests

speech and language pathology, voice, speech and swallowing disorders, neurological speech and language disorders; olfactory rehabilitation, otorhinolaryngology, forensic voice and speech analysis, medical law

Curriculum vitae (up to 300 words)

Ljiljana Širić, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, was born in Osijek in 1986. After completing high school in Osijek, she graduated in speech and language pathology at the Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation, University of Zagreb, in 2009. She obtained her PhD in biomedical sciences in 2018 at the Faculty of Medicine of the J. J. Strossmayer University in Osijek, defending her doctoral thesis. She earned the title of Medical Law Specialist in 2022 at the Faculty of Law, University of Split. She interned at the Department of Neurology, University Hospital Center Osijek, from 2009 to 2010. She received her professional training in Croatia and the Netherlands and completed several postgraduate courses in continuing medical education. From 2010 to 2023, she was employed at the Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery of the University Hospital Center Osijek. From 2016 to 2022, she was an external expert associate at the Department of Neurology of the National Memorial Hospital “Juraj Njavro” Vukovar. Since 2023, she has been working as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Education, J. J. Strossmayer University in Osijek. She is an external associate at the Faculty of Dental Medicine and Health, J. J. Strossmayer University in Osijek, Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Zagreb, and Faculty of Philosophy, University of Mostar. She has published several scientific papers and actively participated in numerous domestic and international congresses. From 2017 to 2021, she was the president, and from 2021 to 2024, she was the vice president of the Slavonia-Baranja branch of the Croatian Speech Therapy Association. She is a member of the editorial board of the journal Logopedija.

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Name and surname

Dražen Rastovski, Ph.D.

Title

Assistant Professor

E-mail

drastovski@foozos.hr

Office Nr.

56

Research interests

Swimming, kinesiological methodology, kinesiological education

Dražen Rastovski was born in Osijek on April 8, 1970, where he finished primary and secondary school. He is a Croatian citizen. and graduated on the Faculty of Kinesiology in Zagreb in 1998 and became a professor of physical culture with an additional specialization - water sports. Since 1999 he has been working at the City Swimmingpool in Osijek where he starts and runs a swimming school with children of all ages. He has been working at the Teachers' College in Osijek since 2001 as an external associate, and since 2003 he has been permanently employed as a lecturer for the subject Physical and Health Culture. As part of his work at the Teachers' College, he leads methodological exercises in the subject Methodology of Physical Education and Health, leads Kinesiological Culture, and in 2003 he introduced the elective subject Swimming, for which he fully developed the curriculum, both for five-year teacher training and for preschool professional study. Since the academic year 2007/2008. introduces a new course, Kinesiology practicum, for which he posted his lectures on the Faculty's website in the same year. In 2004, he won the Annual Award of the Croatian Association of Sports Recreation, for his contribution to the training of non-swimmers in the Republic of Croatia. In the same year, by the decision of the Ministry of the Republic of Croatia, he was appointed a member of the commission for the development of a plan of program activities and the implementation of swimming training. Since November 2008, he has been the vice president of the Association of Kinesiologists of the City of Osijek. From the academic year 2017/18. he also works in Kinesiology where he teaches Swimming and recreation.

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Name and surname

Zvjezdana Penava Brekalo, Ph.D.

Position

Assistant Professor

E-mail

zpenavabrekalo@foozos.hr

Research interests

Zvjezdana Penava Brekalo graduated from the Faculty of Education in Osijek in 1990, becoming an English and German teacher. 1990-1995 she lived and worked in Vienna and during the Homeland War she was engaged at the Pädagogisches Institut der Stadt Wien, on the Project for the Admission and Integration of Refugee Children in the Vienna School System, functioning as a coordinator at preparing teaching materials for bilingual literacy classes, and later on she herself was teaching the bilingual literacy. Consequently, her Kommentar zum Lehrplan der Volkschule was published in Vienna, 1995. In the same year she moved to Toronto for further professonal and language experience. She returned to Croatia in 1998 and taught English and German at II. gimnazija Osijek till April 2020. Having been promoted to a teacher-advisor, from 2014 till 2020 she was the head of the County Council of English Teachers. 2002-2005 she had also taught German courses at the Teacher Training College. In 2008 she earned her master’s degree in Personal Marketing at the Faculty of Economics in Osijek. In 2012 she got her PhD from the Faculty of Economics and Tourism »Dr. Mijo Mirković », at Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, having defended her doctoral thesis titled The Conceptualization of Education for Personal Marketing in Higher Business Education. Since May 2020, she has been employed at the Faculty of Educational Sciences and she teaches the following courses: Integrated Teaching, Methodology of Education, Personal Marketing of Teachers, Action Research in Early and Preschool Education.

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First and last name

Ana Katalenić, Ph.D.

Profession

Assistant Professor

Email

akatalenic@foozos.hr

Office number

63

Research interests

Mathematics education, teacher competencies

Curriculum vitae (up to 300 words)

Ana Katalenić graduated as a mathematics and computer science teacher in 2009 from the Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb. She obtained her PhD in 2017 at the same institution with a dissertation entitled Asymptote and asymptotic behavior – didactic transposition in general secondary education in Croatia under the supervision of Dr. Sc. Aleksandra Čižmešija and Dr. Sc. Željka Milin Šipuš. Since July 2009, she has been an employee at the Faculty of Education, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, where she teaches courses in computer science, mathematics, and mathematics education. She was elected an assistant professor in 2022. She worked as a co-leader of extracurricular activities for fourth-grade elementary school students with a special interest in mathematics and an associate on the scientific project Education of Students with a Special Interest in Mathematics (2008-2013) under the leadership of Dr. Sc. Margita Pavleković. She is a member of the Croatian Mathematical Society, Osijek Mathematical Society, and the Seminar for Mathematics Education, as well as the editorial board of the professional journal Mathematics and Schools and the organizational and scientific committee of the International Scientific Colloquium Mathematics and Children. As a co-author with teacher training students, she participated in the Congress of Mathematics Teachers and in activities of science popularisation. She has presented independently and as a co-author at several professional and scientific conferences. She is the co-author of several scientific and professional papers in mathematics education and one of the editors of the scientific monographs Effective teaching and learning of mathematics through bridging theory and practice (2024) and Advances in research on teaching mathematics (2022). She lives in Đakovo with her husband and three children.

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Name and surname

Antonija Huljev, Ph.D.

Title

Assistant Professor

e-mail

ahuljev@foozos.hr

Office Nr.

38

Research interests

pedagogy, socio-political impacts of music, history of Croatian literature

Antonija Huljev was born in Osijek on November 22, 1987. She was a teaching assistant for philology an pedagogy at the Department of Cultural Studies of Josip Juraj Strossmayer University in Osijek (2013 – 2018). Since 2018, she has been a teaching assistant at the Faculty of Education. The areas of her scientific and professional interest are pedagogical axiology and the history of Croatian literature, and in a broader sense, pedagogy and literature. In 2009 she graduated from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek with a BA degree in Croatian language and literature and Pedagogy and in 2011 she became the Master of Education in Croatian Language and Literature and Master of Pedagogy at the same Faculty. In 2018, she completed the Post-graduate Interdisciplinary Doctoral Study Programme in Culture (Faculty of Arts and Literature in Culture) and earned a Ph. D. from the Doctoral School of Social and Human Sciences at the University of Josip Juraj Strossmayer in Osijek (interdisciplinary field of science, i.e. interdisciplinary humanities and interdisciplinary social sciences).

She has edited several conference proceedings and books, published several scientific papers in Croatian and foreign journals, and participated in several conferences in Croatia and abroad. So far, she has published three books. She is a member of the editorial board of the magazine "Vospitanie - Journal of Educational Sciences, Theory and Practice" (Republic of Northern Macedonia) and the magazine "Pannoniana" (Faculty of Educational Sciences, Osijek, Croatia).

In the period from 2009 to 2010, she worked as a student in the library of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Osijek. From 2011 to 2012, she worked as a proofreader for the magazine "Military History" published by Večernji list.

She is a member of the School Board of the Center for Education "Ivan Štark" in Osijek. She is also a member of Matica Hrvatska and an honorary member and professional associate of the Croatian Association of Prisoners in Serbian Concentration Camps.

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Name and surname

Daria Župan Tadijanov, Ph.D.

Profession

Assistant Professor

E-mail

dzupan@foozos.hr

Office number

56

Research interests

Kinesiology teaching methods, kinesiology education, physical activity and physical education

Daria Župan Tadijanov, a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Education (Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek), was born in Osijek, where she has gained primary and secondary education (III. Grammar School). In 2010 she graduated from the Faculty of Kinesiology (University of Zagreb) with a major in Kinesitherapy. A year later she enrolled on a postgraduate doctoral study programme in Kinesiology, field of specialisation: Kinesiology Education. The dissertation title is "Determining Differences in Kinantrophological Characteristics of Students With Cochlear Implants Included in the Compulsory Teaching of Physical Education From the Standpoint of Etiology“. From 2008 to 2015, Daria Župan Tadijanov worked as a Physical Education teacher in several primary and secondary schools in Osijek. She also worked as a teacher at the Universal Sports School in Osijek from 2008 to 2010, and a conditioning trainer at TK Olimpija from 2010 to 2014. In February 2015, she was appointed Lecturer in Social Sciences, field of Kinesiology. In May 2017, she received a Charter of Appreciation for creating a new study programme for Kinesiology. The areas of her research interests are: kinesiology teaching methods, kinesiology education, physical activity, and P. E. Within the field of kinesiology, she has published several papers in scientific and professional journals, and has appeared at several international scientific and professional conferences.

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•Klaričić, I. i Farkaš, D. Razlike u natjecateljskoj učinkovitosti smeča u procesu napada i kontranapada. //Zbornik radova 22. ljetne škola kineziologa Republike Hrvatske / Findak, V. (ur.). Zagreb: Hrvatski kineziološki savez, 2013. 218-222 (objavljeni rad, znanstveni).

•Farkaš, D., Branko, J. i Tomac, Z. High School Students' Attitudes and Interests Toward Sporting Activities and Physical Education Syllabus Content. 3rd International Scientific Conference „EXERCISE AND QUALITY OF LIFE 2013“ / Madić, D. (ur.) Novi Sad: Faculty of Sport and Physical Education, University of Novi Sad, 2013.  315-320 (objavljeni rad, znanstveni).

•Papec, M., Farkaš, D., Štriga Đapić, S. Trends in increase of functional abilities in primary school students. 8th FIEP European Congress „Physical Education and Sports Perspective of Children and Youth in Europe“ / Zapletalova, L. (ur.). Bratislava: Comenius University, Faculty of Physical Education and Sports, 2013. 172-173 (sažetak, znanstveni)

•Vidranski, Tihomir; Tomac, Zvonimir; Farkaš, Daria.
Indicators of Kinantrophologic characteristics in Students with Cochlear Implants in Individualized pe class program creation // Proceedings book 9th Fiep European Congress and 7th International Scientific Congress „Sport, stress, adaptation” / Daniela Dasheva, Branislav Antala, SteNa Djobova, Milena Kuleva (ur.).
Sofia : SoIa 1700, Studentski grad, naOonal Sports Academy “ Vassil Levski”, 2014. 454-458 (poster,međunarodna recenzija,objavljeni rad,znanstveni).

•Farkaš, Daria; Tomac, Zvonimir; Petrić, Vilko; Novak, Dario.
Anthropometric characteristics and obesity indicators among preschool children in an urban area in Croatia. // Graduate Journal of Sport, Exercise & Physical Education Research. 3 (2015) ; 13-27 (članak, znanstveni)

•Vidranski, Tihomir; Tomac, Zvonimir; Farkaš, Daria.
Motor proficiency of students with cochlear implants. // Croatian Review of Rehabilitation Research. 51 (2015) , 1; 1-9 (članak, znanstveni).  

•Vidranski, Tihomir; Farkaš, Daria.
Motor Skills in Hearing Impaired Children With or Without Cochlear Implant - A Systematic Review. // Collegium antropologicum. Supplement. 39 (2015) , Suppl. 1; 173-179 (pregledni rad, znanstveni).  

•Krešimir Ižaković; Branko Jovanovac; Daria Župan: Influence of the frequency of physical activities on anthropometric characteristics of male and female students at the Faculty of Agriculture in Osijek / Utjecaj učestalosti tjelesnih aktivnosti na antropometrijska obilježja studenata i studentica Poljoprivrednog fakulteta u Osijeku, Zbornik radova 5. međunarodnog znanstvenog simpozija “Gospodarstvo istočne Hrvatske – vizija i razvoj”,održanog u Osijeku, 2.-4.lipnja 2016., str. 411.-421

•Đapić Štriga, S., Farkaš, D., Kolić, L. (2013). Kondicijska priprema vojnika. 11. godišnja međunarodna konferencija "Kondicijska priprema sportaša 2013" / Jukić, I., Gregov, C., Šalaj, S., Milanović, L., Wertheimer, V. (ur.). Zagreb: Kineziološki fakultet Zagreb, Udruga kondicijskih trenera Hrvatske, 363-368 (objavljeni rad, stručni).

•Budetić, Vedran; Velki, Tena; Župan, Daria.
Odnos bavljenja sportskim aktivnostima i socio- emocionalni razvoj adolescenata. // Zbornik 26. ljetne škole kineziologija Republike Hrvatske: Kineziološke kompetencije u područjima edukacije, sporta, sportske rekreacije i kineziterapije / Findak, Vladimir (ur.). Poreč, 2017. 127-131 (predavanje,domaća recenzija,objavljeni rad).

Name and surname

Jurica Lovrinčević

Title

Senior Lecturer

e-mail

jlovrincevic@foozos.hr

Office Nr.

56

Research interests

Kinesiology, kinesiology education, kinesiological recreation, kinesiology of sport, athletesnutrition

Born on June 18th 1984 in Osijek. After completing the Jesuit classical grammar school, I enrolled the Faculty of Kinesiology in Zagreb. From early age I showed interest in sports. As a student in high school and collegeI participated in various sport competitions and won medals. The sport I decided to train was water polo.I actively trained for 20 years and after finishing my career as water polo player,I started working as a coach of younger categories.I am a member of the Civil Defence Department of the Osječko – Baranjska county and the Red Cross rescue team. In 2016 I started working at the Faculty of Education. In my leisure time I play tennis, soccer, water polo, swim and exercise in the gym.

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