Qualifications

Senior Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy, since 08/2019, Fellow since 2015.

PhD in Education Sciences, 12/2011, the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Utrecht University.

Doctoral thesis topic: The Meaning of Teacher Competence in Contexts of Change: In Search of Missing Elements of Teacher Education - Moral Purposes and Change Agentry (A contribution to the articulation of a fuller knowledge base for teacher education, more comprehensive than the teacher education traditionally designed to prepare teachers exclusively in subject disciplines and pedagogical knowledge. The thesis argued that teacher education would need to systematically integrate preparation for dealing with competing values in education and with the ongoing educational change. Read more...) Supervised by prof. dr. Theo Wubbels.

MSc in Education (with Distinction),11/2005, the Moray House School of Education, the University of Edinburgh. British FCO/Chevening scholar.

Dissertation topic: Personal and Social Development Component of the Scottish 5–14 Curriculum: Theoretical Perspectives and Implications for Teacher Training (A study of policies and curricula to identify underlying moral philosophical and social theoretical perspectives, including those aligned to John Rawls’ theory of justice, and relativist and non-relativist virtue ethics of Alasdair McIntyre and Martha Nussbaum). Supervised by prof. dr. David Carr.

BSc in English Language and Literature, 12/2002, the Faculty of Philology, the University of Belgrade.