Maja Drvodelić
Biographic Data
| ID | 6739066 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maja Drvodelić |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maja |
| FAMILY NAME | Drvodelić |
| SIGNATURE | DRVODELIĆ M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Zagreb |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2633-5573 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Teachers’ Negotiation of Democratic Risk and Professional Agency in Early Years and Primary Education: Insights from Participatory Research Ecologies
This article examines how teachers in Early Years and Primary Education experience and negotiate democratic risk when enacting democratic pedagogy. Drawing on qualitative data generated through participatory research in Portugal and Croatia within the Horizon Europe AECED project, the study analyses reflections, dialogical exchanges, and collaborative inquiry processes from 33 participants across four cases. Democratic risk is conceptualised as s…
Teacher shortage in Croatia – a challenge for educational policy, initial teacher education and educational institutions
The aim of this paper is to analyse teacher shortage in Croatia and ways in which educational policy reacts to teacher shortage in early childhood education and primary education. This paper presents descriptive study of current national shortage situation and a content analysis of national education policy documents. The data analyses reveal a significant shortage of early childhood education and care (ECEC) teachers. In the first phase of compu…
Parental behaviors towards preschool age children in Croatia
This article investigates the frequency of what we define as supportive and unsupportive parental behaviors and whether there is a statistically significant difference in the frequency of parental behaviors in reference to different parental characteristics (level of education, employment status, socio-economic status). This research involved a sample of 3500 parents of children aged 5 and 6. The results show that such supportive parental behavio…
Parenting as an Important Factor in the Optimal Development of the Child Enrolled in Early Childhood Education Institutions / Roditeljstvo kao važan činitelj optimalnoga razvoja djece uključene u inst…
The position and role of the child in the family have changed significantly over time, which causes a change in the responsibilities and tasks of parents (Maleš, 2003). The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) recognises the status of the child as the holder or subject of rights and introduced the term parenthood in the best interests of the child. Parenthood in the best interests of the child is one that enables the realisation of all…
Emergency Remote Education during the Covid-19 Pandemic in Spring 2020: Parents’ Perspective / Izvanredno obrazovanje na daljinu tijekom pandemije Covid-19 u proljeće 2020: roditeljska perspektiva
In the spring of 2020, due to the global COVID-19 pandemic caused by the coronavirus, education systems around the world introduced a new form of education called Emergency Remote Education - ERE. Given that parents are important stakeholders in the educational process, their perspective of the new situation can contribute to a better understanding of the educational process that takes place in incident situations. The main aim of the research wa…
Preschool teachers’ attitudes towards the self-evaluation of preschool intitutions / Odnos odgojitelja prema samovrednovanju dječjih vrtića
Systematic self-evaluation of preschool institutions in Croatia started in 2012 and has since been conducted in the form of one-year cycles of collecting data about preschool activities, present-state analyses and designing plans for development. Self-evaluation is a process that systematically assesses, analyses and evaluates work effectiveness in order to assure quality improvement and create a stimulating work climate (Vranković, Reberšak, 200…
An International Perspective on the Teacher Qualities Issue: The Case of Croatia and Turkey / Problem kvalitete nastavnika s međunarodnoga gledišta: slučaj Hrvatske i Turske
It is a well-known fact that the quality of the education system depends greatly on the quality of the teacher (Buchanan, 2012). Therefore, it is clear that it is important for prospective teachers to develop competences and qualities necessary for their future profession in the course of their education. This paper aims to find out how prospective teachers from Croatia and Turkey evaluate the importance and required level of personal and profess…
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An International Perspective on the Teacher Qualities Issue: The Case of Croatia and Turkey / Problem kvalitete nastavnika s međunarodnoga gledišta: slučaj Hrvatske i Turske
It is a well-known fact that the quality of the education system depends greatly on the quality of the teacher (Buchanan, 2012). Therefore, it is clear that it is important for prospective teachers to develop competences and qualities necessary for their future profession in the course of their education. This paper aims to find out how prospective teachers from Croatia and Turkey evaluate the importance and required level of personal and profess…
Preschool teachers’ attitudes towards the self-evaluation of preschool intitutions / Odnos odgojitelja prema samovrednovanju dječjih vrtića
Systematic self-evaluation of preschool institutions in Croatia started in 2012 and has since been conducted in the form of one-year cycles of collecting data about preschool activities, present-state analyses and designing plans for development. Self-evaluation is a process that systematically assesses, analyses and evaluates work effectiveness in order to assure quality improvement and create a stimulating work climate (Vranković, Reberšak, 200…
Emergency Remote Education during the Covid-19 Pandemic in Spring 2020: Parents’ Perspective / Izvanredno obrazovanje na daljinu tijekom pandemije Covid-19 u proljeće 2020: roditeljska perspektiva
In the spring of 2020, due to the global COVID-19 pandemic caused by the coronavirus, education systems around the world introduced a new form of education called Emergency Remote Education - ERE. Given that parents are important stakeholders in the educational process, their perspective of the new situation can contribute to a better understanding of the educational process that takes place in incident situations. The main aim of the research wa…
Parenting as an Important Factor in the Optimal Development of the Child Enrolled in Early Childhood Education Institutions / Roditeljstvo kao važan činitelj optimalnoga razvoja djece uključene u inst…
The position and role of the child in the family have changed significantly over time, which causes a change in the responsibilities and tasks of parents (Maleš, 2003). The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) recognises the status of the child as the holder or subject of rights and introduced the term parenthood in the best interests of the child. Parenthood in the best interests of the child is one that enables the realisation of all…
Parental behaviors towards preschool age children in Croatia
This article investigates the frequency of what we define as supportive and unsupportive parental behaviors and whether there is a statistically significant difference in the frequency of parental behaviors in reference to different parental characteristics (level of education, employment status, socio-economic status). This research involved a sample of 3500 parents of children aged 5 and 6. The results show that such supportive parental behavio…
Teacher shortage in Croatia – a challenge for educational policy, initial teacher education and educational institutions
The aim of this paper is to analyse teacher shortage in Croatia and ways in which educational policy reacts to teacher shortage in early childhood education and primary education. This paper presents descriptive study of current national shortage situation and a content analysis of national education policy documents. The data analyses reveal a significant shortage of early childhood education and care (ECEC) teachers. In the first phase of compu…
Teachers’ Negotiation of Democratic Risk and Professional Agency in Early Years and Primary Education: Insights from Participatory Research Ecologies
This article examines how teachers in Early Years and Primary Education experience and negotiate democratic risk when enacting democratic pedagogy. Drawing on qualitative data generated through participatory research in Portugal and Croatia within the Horizon Europe AECED project, the study analyses reflections, dialogical exchanges, and collaborative inquiry processes from 33 participants across four cases. Democratic risk is conceptualised as s…
Psychology (6 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (3 works) · Family and Disability Support Research (3 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works) · Educational Practices and Challenges (2 works) · Mathematics education (2 works) · Medical education (2 works) · Political science (2 works)