Department of Arts

Name and surname

Mira Perić, Ph.D. in Art

Title

Full Professor with tenure

e-mail

mperic@foozos.hr

Office Nr.

27

Research interests

The art of drama, drama-in-education (DIE) and puppetry in education

Born 1/5/1961 in Tomašanci near Đakovo, Croatia. Graduated acting in 1984 at Academy of Dramatic Art at University of Zagreb. Played more than hundred important theatre roles and gained a status of principal drama artist. Besides acting, she also directs and writes drama. In 2013 she directed her own drama text Hana and Hana at Croatian National Theatre in Osijek. She played in TV dramas, soap operas, and was included in educational TV programme. In 2013 she celebrated 30 years of acting and got an award from Croatian Association of Actors for contribution to Croatian theatre and theatre arts. Since 1992 she teaches at Faculty of Education. She teaches Drama Education, Drama games, Puppetry, Puppetry games. She published a number of professional and scientific works. She is the author of a handbook Drama plays for preschool kids (2009), two poetry collections Cross-fade of theatre beauty (2009) and Ego Twilight (2012), four dramas in a book Women in Parts (2012), dramatization of Nazor's White deer (2012), monodrama Lioness's Revenge (2011), Reaching acting maturity(2018.).She is the head of Arts Department. She is a conductor of many projects, drama and puppetry workshops. She is a member of many theatre committees. She holds a number of letters of thanks, awards and honours (in 2009 she got a public honur Golden plaque „The City of Osijek Stamp“ for special achievements in theatre culture and education)...

List of publications (link to CROSBI)

1. Drama plays for preschool kids (2009)
2. Cross-fade of theatre beauty (2009)
3. Ego Twilight (2012)
4. Dramatization of Nazor's White deer (2012)
5. Lioness's Revenge (2011)
6. Women in Parts (2012)
7. Reaching acting maturty (2018)

Name and Surname

Goran Kujundžić, Ph.D. in Art

Title

Full Professor

e-mail

gkujundzic@foozos.hr
goran32@gmail.com

Room

35

Research interests

visual arts, drawing, ornament construction, geometric drawing, teaching methods in Arts

Earned a doctoral degree in 2014 fromthe Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb (postgraduate doctoral programme on fine arts) with the dissertationVisualisation of the Permutation Principles Examined on the Ornamental Patterns from the Collection of Traditionally Used Textile Stored in Museum of Slavonia.

In 2003 was a graphic arts graduate at theAcademy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, in the class of professor Miroslav Šutej.

Has authored and co-authored numerous exhibitions in Osijek, Zagreb, Vinkovci,Knin, Nova Gradiška etc; and abroad (Hungary, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Romania).

Has taught Visual Arts in a primary school, and has worked as a teacher of applied arts and design in a secondary school.

Publications

CROSBI Goran Kujundžić

Name and surname

Jelena Kovačević, Ph.D in Art

Profession

Associate professor

e-mail

jelenakovacevic4982@gmail.com

Office number

59

Research interests

methodology of art education, art, art therapy

Jelena Kovačević was born in Osijek in 1982, where she attended elementary school and high school. In 2005 she graduated printmaking on Academy of Fine Arts Zagreb, after which she mastered  printmaking on Academy for Fine Arts and Design, Ljubljana. In 2020 she obtained her Ph. D. in postgraduate doctoral study in painting, on Academy of Fine Arts Zagreb. Currently she is finishing postgraduate specialist study of art therapy, on Academy for Arts and Culture and Faculty of Medicine Osijek. She is an associate professor in Faculty of Education Osijek. She presented her work in many solo and group exhibitions.

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CROSBI Jelena Kovačević

Name and surname

Lidija Nikolić, Ph.D.

Title

Associate 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

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 

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CROSBI Vesna Svalina

Name and surname

Marko Šošić, Ph.D. in Art

Title

Associate Professor

e-mail

msosic@foozos.hr

Office Nr.

35

Research interests

Graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Široki Brijeg, Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2001.Became the Doctor of Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 2015.Since 2001 he has been continuously engaged in pedagogical work, first as a teacher of visual arts at the Technical School in Vinkovci, then as a teacher of Graphic Design and Drawing and Painting at the School of Applied Art and Design Osijek, where he was a mentor of numerous student projects, aCounselor of the Interdistrict Committee for the Art Culture/Fine Art, a multi-year member of the State Art Competition Commission (LIK).In 2012 he waspromoted to an Educational Supervisor.

Since 2015, he has been employed at the Faculty of Education at the University of Josip Juraj Strossmayer in Osijek and at the Campus Branch in Slavonski Brod, where he teaches Fine Arts, Artistic Techniques, Methodology of Visual Arts and Visual Communication and Design. He is a mentor of numerous student workshops, exhibitions and projects. In 2018 as a part of the Erasmus+programme, he was the visiting professor at the University of Edirne, Turkey.

He is the author of University textbook „Visual arts and fine arts techniques“.

He has had eighteen solo exhibitions and over thirty group exhibitions at home and abroad. He has designed graphically a number of editions of the School of Applied Arts and Design Osijek and the Faculty of Education. He is the Head of the Artistic Workshop of Children's Home Sv. Ana in Vinkovci and the member of HDLU Zagreb (since 2006).

www.markososic.com

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CROSBI Marko Šošić

Name and surname

Blanka Gigić Karl Ph.D.

Title

Associate Professor

e-mail

bgkarl@foozos.hr

Office Nr.

Research interests

Graduated from the Academy of Music in Pula in 1993 and obtained the title of mag.mus. In 1993, she completed a one-year study program of music therapy at the Academy of Music in Zagreb and the Clinic for Neurology, Psychiatry, Alcoholism and Other Addictions, Vinogradska 29, Zagreb. In 1994, she went to Stuttgart, Germany, where, along with improving the German language at the Benedict Schule, she applied to work in a day psychiatric clinic in Ludwigsburg with qualifications in music therapy. After returning to Croatia in 1997, in addition to working at the Grammar school, she improved her skills in the field of music by attending seminars and music workshops by Klaus Juergen Etzold (Germany, Hannover) "Croatia cantat" in cooperation with the German Music Council (Deutscher Musikrat). In 1999 and 2000, she attended and participated in the seminars and workshops of Richard Frostic, director of the Islington Music Center in London, "Music for all-composing in the classroom". In the academic year 2007/2008 she teaches "Music Methodology" at the Evangelical Faculty. In March 2008, in Opatija, under the auspices of the Education Agency, she improved her skills through music workshops on dance, movement, folk dances and work with children with developmental disabilities. In the period from January to August 2009, she attended the choral workshops of prof. Branko Starc, where she perfects herself in the areas of affective imposition of the voice: psychotechnics and physiotechnics of singing, vocal stylistics, speech of music: expressive analysis of compositions, voice science. In 2012, she graduated from the specialist study of the Faculty of Economics in Osijek, majoring in "Organization and Management" with the final thesis "The Influence of Music on Consumer Behavior". In the academic year 2014/15 she enrolled in the post-graduate university study of Cultural Studies, major: Management in Culture, Art and Education at the Doctoral School of J. J. Strossmayer University in Osijek. She has been teaching for 26 years, working in various schools, from elementary school to art academy. In 2006, she participated in the national piano duo competition as a mentor to two students from the Varaždin Music School and won the third prize. In 2007, at the regional competition in Varaždin, as a mentor, she won III. prize in the first category, piano discipline. Since April 2018, she has been working as a lecturer at the Academy of Arts and Culture in Osijek. She received her doctorate in September 2020, with the topic "Strategic activities in the branding of the city's cultural identity", and she received the title of assistant professor in March 2024. From July 1, 2024, she is employed at FOOZOS with 50% of the working time. She is the leader of many projects and the executive producer of the series “Dreamers of Croatia”

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Blanka Gigić Karl

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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CROSBI Gordana Ercegovac-Jagnjić

Name and surname

Ana Čolaković

Title

Assistant

e-mail

acolakovic@foozos.hr  

acolakovic.foozos@gmail.com  

Office number

35

Research interests

Fine arts, sculpture, painting, set and stage design

About the teacher

Ana Čolaković was born in 1993 in Vinkovci. In 2017, she graduated with a degree in sculpture under the mentorship of full professor Nikola Vučković at the Academy of Fine Arts in Široki Brijeg, University of Mostar, obtaining the title of Master of Sculpture and Art Education Teacher. From the completion of her studies until 2024, she intermittently worked at the School of Applied Arts and Design in Osijek as a substitute teacher for professional subjects in the fields of drawing and painting, as well as sculptural and scenic-design shaping. Under her mentorship, fourteen students completed their secondary education.

She is the author of three permanently installed public sculptures (Široki Brijeg, Vienna, Posušje), has held six solo exhibitions, and participated in group exhibitions. She has also led art workshops, with a long-term collaboration with the Center for Community Services "St. Ana" in Vinkovci being particularly notable. Since 2016, she has been a member of the Croatian Society of Fine Artists in Zagreb, and since 2022, she has served as the president of SKICA, an association for promoting artistic awareness and creativity.

Since 2020, she has been advocating for the visibility of women artists through the juried exhibition project titled "ONE SU TU" (THEY ARE HERE). In 2024, she became employed as an assistant at the Faculty of Education and Educational Sciences, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, where she leads practical exercises in the courses Art Education (course holder: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Art. Jelena Kovačević), Visual Communication and Design (course holder: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Art. Marko Šošić), Integrated Preschool Curriculum III, and Art Education in the Integrated Curriculum (course holder: Prof. Dr. Art. Goran Kujundžić).