Aleksandar Baucal

Full time professor

Studying how children and young persons develop competences within social interaction with peers and adults in different contexts (family, education etc.) and how sociocultural context constitute their development in order to ensure equal opportunities for development of all children

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Dragica Pavlović Babić

Associate professor

Wide field of interest in psychology Experienced in the implementation of national and international large-scale assessment studies of educational achievements. Fairness of education, effects of depopulation on the educational process, cultivation of critical thinking. She worked on developing a monitoring framework for the inclusiveness of education.

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Ana Altaras Dimitrijević

Full time professor

Covers topics from the field of intelligence and giftedness, their assessment and relevance in the educational context. Has initiated research on emotional intelligence in Serbia. Also concerns herself with the characteristics and needs of gifted students and teachers’ readiness to identify and support them within the framework of inclusive education and individualized instruction.  

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Ksenija Krstić

Associate professor

Topics in the field of socio-emotional development, especially early childhood development and parenting; socio-emotional aspects of teaching and learning and the development of socio-emotional skills in the school context. The second domain of interest refers to the development in the period of adolescence and the specifics of this developmental period in the socio-cultural context.

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Zorana Jolić Marjanović

Associate professor

Various topics from educational and differential psychology, with the most recent research specifically focusing on the quality and development of social, emotional, and cognitive abilities of children and adolescents, including different approaches to their assessment.

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Ivana Stepanović Ilić

Assistant professor

Thinking development in adolescence and the influence of societal factors (family and school peers) on that development, youth life and socialization (spare time, transition to adulthood, values), education (drop out, critical thinking, students’ learning strategies, textbooks).

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Marina Videnović

Research associate

Various topics in the field of developmental psychology (with a focus on adolescent development, as well as care quality in early childhood development) and psychology of education (early school leaving, analysis of factors that contribute to success in schooling).

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Smiljana Jošić

Research associate

Topics in the field of developmental psychology and psychology of education with a focus on phenomena related to cognitive development and learning in the educational context: scaffolding of the development and learning and the role of others (adults and peers) in these processes.

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Tijana Nikitović

Research assistant

Developmental processes and the relations between a person and their sociocultural environment, particularly in work with adolescents and emerging adults. My focus is on mastering qualitative analyses of developmental phenomena, especially discourse and personal experiences of young women.

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Kristina Mojović Zdravković

Research assistant

Topics from developmental psychology and psychology of education, with special focus on the research of the development of socio-emotional skills and opportunities to support the development of these skills in the academic context.

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Milana Rajić

Research assistant

Primary interests are topics in the field of developmental psychology and educational psychology. Special focus on early childhood development and socio-emotional development of children from the general population and children from vulnerable groups (low socioeconomic status); parenting, determinants of the care quality in family as well as factors contributing to the quality of support in the educational context.

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Jovan Ivanović

Research assistant

My main research interest lies at the intersection between social psychology and history education. For instance, in my PhD thesis, I’m investigating how youth deal with multiple historical perspectives in dialogue with outgroup peers.

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