Fakultet za odgojne i obrazovne znanosti - Sub-department of musical arts

Fakultet za odgojne i obrazovne znanosti

E-mail helpdesk@foozos.hr

Cara Hadrijana 1031000 Osijek

Head of the sub-department:

Vesna Svalina, Associate Professor, Ph.D.

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

Members of the sub-department:

Lidija Nikolić, Associate Professor, Ph.D.

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.
List of publications (link to CROSBI)	CROSBI Lidija Nikolić

Blanka Gigić Karl, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.

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”
List of publications (link to CROSBI)	Blanka Gigić Karl

Ana Popović, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.

Gordana Ercegovac-Jagnjić, Senior lecturer