Sub-department of pedagogy

Name and surname

Rahaela Varga, Ph.D.

Title

Associate Professor

e-mail

rvarga@foozos.hr

Room

63

Research interests

education, teacher/student/headteacher competences, lifelong learning, teaching

Holds a Ph.D. in Education Sciences obtained from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at University of Zagreb, Croatia. Works as an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Education, University of Osijek, Croatia. Teaches pedagogy and didactics courses at the undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate level.

Recent projects: Competence standards of teachers, pedagogues and mentors (2019 – 2022);  Principal: a profession and a qualification, not a function (2015-2016); Necessity to modify students’ status in and outside classroom (2009 – 2014).

Regularly takes part in international conferences in the country and abroad, has (co-)authored a couple of books and over thirty research papers. Speaks Croatian, English and German.

Publications

CROSBI Rahaela Varga

Name and surname

Maja Brust Nemet, Ph.D.

Title

Associate Professor

Vice dean for science

e-mail

mbrust@foozos.hr

Offices

Vice deans office and office no.58

Research interest

Pedagogy, Professional Development of Teachers, Teacher Competences, Classroom Management, School Culture, Projects in Educational Institutions, Methodology of Pedagogical Research

Maja Brust Nemet was born in 1984 in Osijek, Croatia. She studied Pedagogy and Croatian Language and Literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek, Croatia, and she graduated in 2007. In 2015 she received the Ph.D. in Pedagogy from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia, defending the dissertation Socio-Pedagogical Competences of Teachers in the Contemporary School Culture Curriculum. From September 2007 to October 2008 she worked as a pedagogue in the elementary school Josipovac. Since November 2008 she has worked as a Teaching Assistant, from July 2018 as Senior Assistant on the Faculty of Education, and from 2017 she has been working as the Assistant Professor at the Department of Lifelong Learning and Education at Faculty of Education in Osijek. She is an external associate of the Department of Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics at the University of Josip Juraj Strossmayer in Osijek. She has participated in more than 20 national and international scientific and vocational conferences. In addition to papers published in the proceedings of conferences, she co-authored and published a scientific book and approx. 20 scientific papers.

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CROSBI Maja Brust Nemet

Name and Surname

Snježana Dubovicki, Ph.D.

Title

Associate Professor

e-mail

sdubovicki@foozos.hr

sdubovicki@gmail.com

Office

office number 58

Research interests

Her scientific interest is focused on curriculum research, teaching at all levels of education (with particular emphasis on university teaching and lifelong learning), creativity, self-actualization, emotions in teaching, methodology and qualitative and futurology research methods.

Snježana Dubovicki, Ph.D., Associate Prof., was born in 1984 in Osijek (Croatia). She got her Ph.D. in 2013 at Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Zagreb (Croatia) with the topic "Correlation between the Curriculum of Teacher Education and Student Creativity Development.” In 2015 she was elected as Assistant Professor. She started working at the Faculty of Education in Osijek at December 1st 2008. At this Faculty, she participates in the teaching of several pedagogical-didactic and methodological courses. She published a university textbook, two scientific monographs and numerous scientific papers. She spoke at numerous international scientific and professional conferences in Croatia and abroad (Japan, United Arab Emirates, Italy, Hungary, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina).

In 2017, during a study trip to the United Kingdom, she visited elementary and pre-school institutions. Within the CEEPUS program, of the academic year 2018/2019, she was a visiting professor for two weeks at the Faculty of Philosophy in Tuzla (Bosnia and Herzegovina), where she taught Didactics to students of pedagogy, psychology, classroom teaching and pre-school education.

Between 2009 and 2014 she was actively involved in the scientific project "Development of Creativity in the Life-long Learning of Teachers" (245-1221170-1063). In 2018, at the Faculty of Education and in co-operation with the Agency for Education, she organized an education class themed "Playtime in Teaching". She is a member of the working group for analyzing and preparing curricula on the topic of children´s well-being within the two-year project "Subjective child well-being in Croatia" (2018-2020) of the Study Center of Social Work (University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law, leader: Marina Ajduković, Ph.D., Full Professor with Tenure), in cooperation with UNICEF Office for Croatia, Children´s World: The International Survey of Children´s Well-Being (ISCWeB). She is a member of the Organizing Committe of Didactic Challenges II (https://didactics-challenges0.webnode.hr/didactic-challenges-ii/), Didactic Challenges III (https://didactic-challenges0.webnode.hr/). She was the executive editor of the journal Life and School (https://hrcak.srce.hr/zivot-i-skola). She is a member of the Croatian pedagogical Society (HPD) and the Croatian Andragogy Society (HDA). Since October 2018 she has been employed as Vice Dean for development and frofessional work by the Faculty of Education in Osijek.

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CROSBI Snježana Dubovicki

Name and surname

Ksenija Romstein, Ph.D.

Position

Associate professor

Vice Dean for development and professional work

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 preschool education 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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CROSBI Ksenija Romstein

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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CROSBI Antonija Huljev

Name and surname

Dražen Rastovski, Ph.D.

Title

e-mail

drastovski@foozos.hr

Office number

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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CROSBI Dražen Rastovski

Name and surname

Ružica Tokić Zec, Ph.D.

Title

Senior Assistant

e-mail

rtokic@foozos.hr

Office Nr.

38

Research interests

Culture of educational institution, Family pedagogy, Parenting

Ružica Tokić Zec graduated in 2013 at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek and obtained a master's degree of Education in English Language and Literature and a Master's degree in Pedagogy. In 2021, she received the PhD from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek with the topic Preschool teachers, primary school teachers and university instructors' perceptions on organizational culture in educational institutions as the first in the generation. Since 2012, she has run early English language programs for preschool children. From 2014 to 2015, she worked as a pedagogue at the Elementary School "Tin Ujević" in Osijek and passed the professional exam for an expert associate pedagogue. Since 2015, she has been teaching courses in the field of pedagogy (Pedagogy, General Pedagogy, Family Education and Partnership with Parents, Parenting, Final Paper Methodology) at the Faculty of Education in Osijek. In 2016, she received UNESCO scholarship and participated in the 10th International Summer School - The contemporary problems of children and childhood in multicultural societies - theory, research, praxis in Warsaw, Poland. She has published scientific and professional papers and participated in several international and domestic scientific and professional conferences.

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CROSBI Ružica Tokić Zec

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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