9:00 – 9:45
Registration
9:45 – 10:00
Welcome address (6th Floor)
10:00 – 11:30
Keynote Lecture 1 (6th Floor)
“Looking for the right stories – and identifying the threats of the wrong ones”
Professor Helen Haste, University of Bath
11:30 – 12:00
Coffee break
12:00 – 13:30
1.1 (6th Floor) Serbia: School Purpose, Politics & Civic Participation
Chair: Jelena Ćeriman (IFDT, University of Belgrade)
A democratic school culture in an autocratizing regime? An analysis of the programme Quality Education for all – Serbia – Erik Ryen (Department of Primary and Secondary Teacher Education, Oslo Metropolitan University)
What Are Schools For? Citizen Views on Educational Purpose in Serbia – Zeljka Buturovic, Suzana Ignjatovic (Institute of Social Sciences, Belgrade)
Education as a site for reproduction of the power relations and dominant ideologies: educational resources for fostering the national culture and developing national identity in Serbia – Jelena Ćalić (University College London)
When Participation Becomes Rubbish: Parental Involvement as a Contested Object of School Activity – Selena Vračar (Department of Psychology, Faculty of Media and Communications, Singidunum University); Sanja Grbić (Department of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade)
1.2 (4th Floor) Misfits stories: resistance to GenAI hype
Being a GenAI ‘killjoy’ in a pro-AI space: reflecting on moments of resistance through journaling – Sam Passeport (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Be(coming) Response-able with AI? Autoethnographic reflections from the classroom – Anna-Mamusu Sesay Wehlitz (Digital Design and Interactive Technologies, IT University of Copenhagen)
Novelty Resistance – Saying No When the Answer is Yes – Dylan Orchard (Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London)
1.3 (1st Floor) Panel edukatora: Vršnjačka edukacija, empatija i izgradnja zajednice
Chair: Miloš Janković (IFDT, University of Belgrade)
Škola kao prostor tihog otpora: socio-emocionalno učenje i vršnjačka edukacija kao temelj izgradnje zajednice – Marija Draganić Vulanović (JU Prva srednja stručna škola/Univerzitet Crne Gore i Univerzitet Mediteran); Danka Medunjanin (Obrazovni centar Plužine)
Vrednosti i vrline kroz prizmu vršnjačke edukacije – Svetlana Drobnjak, Olivera Ostojin (Osnovna škola „Branko Radičević”)
Razvijanje empatije kroz mirovno obrazovanje: iskustva rada sa učenicima u osnovnoj školi – Danilo Vasiljević (JU OŠ „Sutjeska” Modriča, Republika Srpska, BiH)
Od učionice do iskustva: nastava kao prostor smislenog učenja i zajedništva – Boris Petrović (JU OŠ „Milan Rakić”, Banja Luka)
Klimatske promene kroz digitalnu igru: Programiranje kao oblik aktivnog učenja i pedagoškog otpora tradicionalnoj nastavi – Miloš Kozić, Vesna Ignjatović, Biljana Gradojević, Marija Golubović (OŠ „Ujedinjene nacije”, Beograd)
13:30 – 15:00
Lunch
15:00 – 16:30
2.1 (6th Floor) Filozofija i kritička teorija obrazovanja
Chair: Sara Dragišić (IFDT, University of Belgrade)
Obrazovanje u nastajanju: improvizacija, utopija i otpor – Tamara Nikolić, Nikola Koruga (Department of Pedagogy and Andragogy, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade)
Čemu se opire obrazovanje? – Predrag Krstić (Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade)
Natorpov pojam Gemein-ich: mogući okvir za teorijsko artikulisanje zajednice učenja – Aleksandar Milanković (Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade)
Hrišćanski nacionalizam u Americi i Kantova filozofija obrazovanja – Milica Smajević Roljić (Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade); Jelena Govedarica (Institute of Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade)
2.2 (4th Floor) Higher Education: Class, Capital & Global Mobility
Chair: Igor Cvejić (IFDT, University of Belgrade)
Meritocracy and Affective Inequality in China’s Elite Universities: Working-Class Students’ Post-Entry Lives – Nan Zhao (University of Exeter)
From Cognitive Ability to Cultural Openness: Cultural Capital Mediates the Relationship Between Cognitive Ability and Prejudice Toward Marginalized Groups – Jelena Matić Bojić, Saša Puzić (Institute for Social Research in Zagreb); Ajana Löw Maštruko (Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Zagreb)
Challenges of Intercultural Integration and Academic Adjustment among International Medical Students in Serbian Higher Education – Nena Vasojević, Branislav Muškatirović (Institute of Social Sciences, Belgrade)
Silent and Subtle Transformation: How Internationalisation at Universities Mediates Global Mobility and Reshapes Local Communities – Duška Radmanović (Department of Sociology, Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Banja Luka)
2.3 (1st Floor) Practitioner panel: Student Voice, Protest & Political Engagement
Chair: Iva Subotić Krasojević (“Tehnoart Belgrade”; EduLab, IFDT, University of Belgrade)
Heading Home: What Educational Institutions Might Learn from Students’ Resistance? – Nevena Mitranić Marinković, Dragana Purešević, Neda Čairović Pavlović (Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade); Tamara Injac, Bojana Milosavljević (Institute of Pedagogy and Andragogy, University of Belgrade); Milena Ulčar (Institute for Art History, University of Belgrade)
Resilience as Resistance: Fostering Belonging and Leadership in Serbia’s Classrooms – Jovana Živković (Teach For All)
Students in Focus: By Students, About Students, For Students – Maja Keskinov (Fourteenth Belgrade Gymnasium); Zorana Matićević (Third Belgrade Gymnasium)
Teaching without Critique: Pedagogy of Politics in the Age of Majoritarian Nationalism – Ardra Neelakandan Girija (Department of Liberal Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Bangalore, India)
16:30 – 17:00
Coffee break
17:00 – 18:30
3.1 (6th Floor) Nastavnici, digitalna i kritička pismenost
Chair: Ivan Nišavić (IFDT, University of Belgrade)
Izazovi i prilike za sindikalno organizovanje nastavnika na početku karijere – Pavle Ilić (University of Belgrade)
Od birokratske kontrole ka demokratskoj participaciji: autonomija nastavnika u pedagoškom odnosu prema učenicima – Ivana Kokeza (Institute of Pedagogy and Andragogy, Department of Pedagogy and Andragogy, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade); Anđela Prijović (Department of Pedagogy and Andragogy, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade)
Epistemičke vrline u digitalnom dobu: kritičko rasuđivanje i upotreba AI alata – Andrea Berber, Aleksandra Vučković (Institute of Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade); Jelena Mijić (Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade)
Sokrat i/ili AI: kritičko mišljenje i digitalna pismenost u doba društvenih mreža i veštačke inteligencije – Aleksandar Pavlović (Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, Belgrade)
3.2 (4th Floor) Emancipation, Subjectivity & Purpose of Education
Chair: Olga Nikolić (IFDT, University of Belgrade)
Rethinking Educational Purpose: Subjectification under Conditions of Standardization and Crisis – Besmira Ibraimi (School of Education and Social Work, University of Sussex)
Between Formation and Transformation: Education and the Making of the Possible Subject – Nisha Daga (School of Liberal Arts, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur)
Emancipation and Pedagogical Authority: A Conceptual Inquiry – Ivana Zagorac (Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb)
Emancipation and the online classroom – Alma Krilic (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
3.3 (1st Floor) Practitioner panel: Critical Thinking, Media Literacy & Performance Pedagogy
Chair: Aleksandar Milovanović (IFDT, University of Belgrade)
Who says the source is biased? Utilising AI to promote critical thinking in History – Luke Bacigalupo (Genesis Learning)
Re-reading Antigone: Devised Theatre as a Pedagogy of Resistance and Community Formation – Dr Mirjana Milenić (Independent scholar)
Teacher invite relevant guest speakers to your classroom! – Frans Van Rumpt (Het Schoter, Haarlem, Netherlands)
9:45 – 10:00
Registration
10:00 – 11:30
Keynote Lecture 2 (6th Floor)
“What Does Resistance Ask of Us? Education, Community, and the Affective Burdens of Democratic Struggle”
Professor Michalinos Zembylas, Open University of Cyprus
11:30 – 12:00
Coffee break
12:00 – 13:30
4.1 (6th Floor) Kritička pedagogija kroz umetnost, književnost i jezik
Chair: Ivan Nišavić (IFDT, University of Belgrade)
Politički roman kao alat kritičke pedagogije? – Karin Doolan (Institute for Social Research in Zagreb); Daniela Dora (University of Cambridge); Andreas Lipowsky (Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies); Liam Mullally (The Autonomy Institute); Lana Pukanić (Institute for Political Ecology)
Participativne pedagoške prakse u visokom obrazovanju – Umetničko obrazovanje kao platforma za negovanje zajednice i kritičke misli – Aleksandra Joksimović (Department of Art Theory, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Arts in Belgrade)
Subverzivni potencijal nastave istorije umetnosti: kolaž i mim kao rekontekstualizacija nasleđa – Iva Subotić Krasojević (“Tehnoart Belgrade”; EduLab, IFDT, University of Belgrade)
4.2 (4th Floor) Ideology, State Control & Institutional Resistance
Chair: Davor Ereš (IFDT, University of Belgrade)
Hacking Educational Ideologies – Mikhail Bukhtoyarov, Anna Bukhtoyarova (Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Montenegro; IFDT, University of Belgrade, Serbia)
Academic Independence vs State Control – Historical Analysis of Resistance in Nigerian Higher Education (1960–2025) – Gabriel Obimuyiwa, Leila Salekhova (Department of Bilingual and Digital Education, Kazan Federal University)
Resisting GenAI in Higher Education through a decolonial lens: engaging with critical consciousness and developing our response-ability – Sam Passeport (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
4.3 (1st Floor) Practitioner panel: Community-Based & Grassroots Education Models
Chair: Marija Petrović (Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade)
Connecting School and Community Through Technical Education Projects – Bojana Temelkovska (State Secondary School – Regional VET Center “Kole Nedelkovski”, Veles)
From Survival to Spark: Teacher-Led Education Reform as Community Resistance in Rural Togo – Komlan Abalo Braly (Djarkpanga High School, Ministry of Education, Togo)
Community-based Education: Cases from the Global Ecovillage Network and High Tech Industry – Sergey Dmitriev (The International Ecovillage Research Institute); Eva Vitorović (Zeleno Doba, Center for Sustainable Development)
13:30 – 15:00
Lunch
15:00 – 16:30
5.1 (6th Floor) History, Memory, Conflict & Peace Education
Chair: Dea Marić (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb)
The Pact of Forgetting – Conflicting Histories of War, Terror and Peace in Spain after Franco – Kim Gunnar Helsvig (Department of Primary and Secondary Teacher Education, Faculty of Education and International Studies, Oslo Metropolitan University)
History Curriculum Reform in the Western Balkans, and the Negative Effects for Regional Reconciliation – Uroš Popadić (Faculty of Political Sciences, Belgrade)
Dissent as Enlightenment and Education (The Case of Charter 77 in Communist Czechoslovakia) – Tomas Hejduk (Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Pardubice)
Teaching controversial issues in post-violence contexts: the EDUTECON project in initial teacher training – Iratxe Gillate, Nekane Aristondo (University of the Basque Country (EHU)); Teresa Benito-Aguado (Public University of Navarre (UPNA))
5.2 (4th Floor) Democracy, Protest & Participatory Practice
Chair: Nemanja Andjelković (IFDT, University of Belgrade)
Direct Democracy in Practice: The emergence of rules of procedure in occupied student spaces – Relja Vitošević, Olga Kremenjak, Dragica Pavlović Babić (Department of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade)
Agency and participation as in democratic learning in education – Solveig Maria Magerøy (Department of Primary and Secondary Teacher Education, Faculty of Education and International Studies, Oslo Metropolitan University)
Co-Constructing Teaching and Learning as Democratic Practice: Insights from Participatory Action Research with Students and Teachers – Zrinka Ristić Dedić (Institute for Social Research in Zagreb)
5.3 (1st Floor) Panel edukatora: Kreativni i pedagoški otpor u nastavi
Chair: Bogdana Miletić (IFDT, University of Belgrade)
Pobunjena prosveta: Moralni otpor nastavnika i učenika u Srbiji – Mirjana Krnić Rakočević (Srednja škola „Svetozar Miletić”; Baletska škola u Novom Sadu)
Izgradnja demokratske zajednice u učionici – Tamara Žnidarič (I. osnovna škola Celje)
Borba za slobodu: Pedagoška moć satiričnog otpora – Marina Vidojević (OŠ „Branko Ćopić”)
Radionica čitanja kao sastavni deo škole jezika – Valerija Majus Marinković (Škola jezika Edu Val)
Reakcija na reč: Kako stilske figure oživljavaju Periodni sistem elemenata – Jasmina Kovačević (OŠ „Skadarlija”, Beograd); Miloš Kozić (OŠ „Ujedinjene nacije”, Beograd)
16:30 – 17:00
Coffee break
17:00 – 18:30
6.1 (6th Floor) Ko obrazuje u digitalnom dobu - institucija i/ili platforma?
Chair: Milica Sekulović (EduLab, IFDT, University of Belgrade)
Algoritamska amnezija kao pedagoški problem: kada platforma postaje arhiv – Ana Martinoli, Ikonija Jeftic (Faculty of Dramatic Arts, University of Arts in Belgrade)
Umjesto skrola: humanističko obrazovanje, upravljanje emocijama i produkcija sadržaja u platformskoj kulturi – Virdzinija Djekovic (Faculty of Dramatic Arts, University of Arts in Belgrade; IFDT, University of Belgrade); Vuk Vuković (Faculty of Dramatic Arts, University of Montenegro)
Čemu još novinarsko obrazovanje? Studije novinarstva u Srbiji u kontekstu degradacije profesije i pritisaka tehnologije – Aleksandra Krstić (University of Belgrade, Faculty of Political Sciences); Dušan Aleksić (University of Niš, Faculty of Philosophy)
6.2 (4th Floor) Istorija, identitet i obrazovanje za mir na postjugoslovenskom prostoru
Chair: Ivan Nišavić (IFDT, University of Belgrade)
Koncept ideologije u hrvatskim udžbenicima povijesti – Irena Raguž (Department of History and Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb)
Od bezbednosne kulture do kulture mira: analiza srpskih školskih programa – Slađana Ćurčić (Institute for European Studies, Belgrade)
Razvoj pozitivnog etničkog identiteta kroz školske prakse: učenička perspektiva – Bojana Janoši, Tijana Jovičić, Jana Kitanović, Natalija Ignjatović, Nataša Simić (Department of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade)
Arheologija brige i pedagogija otpora u nastajanju – Ana Bezić (Srpsko Narodno Vijeće)
6.3 (1st Floor) Aesthetic Education, Relationality & Subject Formation
Chair: Davor Ereš (IFDT, University of Belgrade)
Towards a Third Space in Education: a quest for Subjectivation in a Venetian Middle School – Enrico Ieroncic (University of Verona, Italy)
Imagination, Freedom, and Form: Aesthetic Education as Play, Openness, and Resistance to the Given (Schiller and Husserl) – Tanja Todorović (Philosophy Department, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad)
Why still music education? – Hanne Kihlman Evang, Hanne Rinholm(Music Department, Faculty of Education and International Studies – Department of Primary and Secondary Teacher Education, Oslo Metropolitan University)
‘The relational turn’ and the problem of subject matter knowledge and critical awareness – Dag Skarstein, Lisbeth Elvebakk, Gro Mathias (Faculty of Education and International Studies – Department of Primary and Secondary Teacher Education, Oslo Metropolitan University)
9:45 – 10:00
Registration
10:00 – 11:30
Keynote Lecture 3 (6th Floor)
“Agentic Students Need Agentic Schools: Community and the Everyday Practice of Resistance”
Professor Aleksandar Baucal, University of Belgrade
11:30 – 12:00
Coffee break
12:00 – 13:30
7.1 (6th Floor) Identity, Prejudice & Marginalization in the Curriculum
Chair: Milica Resanović (IFDT, University of Belgrade)
Emotion Regulation Regimes and Resistant Anger in Primary Education in the Context of Structural Racism and Neoliberalism – Susanne Leitner (Department of Participatory Sciences, Ludwigsburg University of Education, ); Florian Weitkämper (University of Education Freiburg)
Education as Managed Resistance: Anti-Racist Reform and Denominational Governance in Irish Primary Schooling – Fiona McArdle (Hibernia College, Ireland)
The Hidden Curriculum on Gender and Sexuality. Knowledge Legitimization and Normalization Across Health, Biology, and Catholic Religious Education – Đurđica Degač, Nika Petriš (Department of Sociology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb)
7.2 (4th Floor) History at the Fault Line
Chair: Bogdana Miletić (IFDT, University of Belgrade)
Croatian Youth’s Representations of National History – Dea Marić (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb)
Navigating Divergent Historical Perspectives: Impact of Multi-Perspective Learning on Youth Historical Thinking and Intergroup Attitudes – Jovan Ivanović, Aleksandar Baucal, Iris Žeželj (Department of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade)
Between Community and Resistance: How Serbian History Teachers Teach the Violent Yugoslav Breakup – Rodoljub Jovanović (Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade)
7.3 (1st Floor) Practitioner panel: Teacher Training & Professional Practice
Chair: Aleksandar Milovanović (IFDT, University of Belgrade)
Educational training seminar for teachers Film in education created by Beldocs film festival – Dubravka Radusinovic, Aleksandra Vusurovic (Beldocs Festival)
Quincentennial of the Battle of Mohac Through the Eyes of High School Students – Ahmet Cem Durak (TEV İnanç Türkeş Private High School for the Gifted); Egemen Onur Unan, Rüya Atalağ (TEV İnanç High School)
13:30 – 15:00
Lunch
15:00 – 16:30
8.1 (6th Floor) Decolonial Resistance in Teacher Education
Chair: Olga Nikolić (IFDT, University of Belgrade)
The Order of Humans: On Education in Light of a Colonial and Fascist Past – Nidhi Gulati (Department of Elementary Education, Institute of Home Economics, University of Delhi); Susanne Leitner (Ludwigsburg University of Education); Nicanora Wächter (University of Education Schwäbisch Gmünd); Anselm Böhmer (Ludwigsburg University of Education)
Decolonising Teacher Education: Between Protest, Policy, and Pedagogical Practice – Zayd Waghid, Samantha Kriger (Faculty of Education, Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT), South Africa)
Discomfort as Pedagogy: Feminist Decolonial Practice in Teacher Education – Manish Jain (School of Education Studies, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University, Delhi, India); Nidhi Gulati (Institute of Home Economics, University of Delhi, Delhi, India)
8.2 (4th Floor) Public Pedagogy, Counter-Publics & Community
Chair: Aleksandar Ostojić (EduLab, IFDT, University of Belgrade)
The Right to Škograd: Mapping Public Spaces of Hope and Resistance Within Urban Landscapes – Jelena Joksimović (Faculty of Education, Jagodina, University of Kragujevac); Natalija Bogdanović (Faculty of Philology and Arts, University of Kragujevac)
Education as Counter-Public: Community and Resistance between Europe and the Global South – Aaron Sandow (University of Ghana)
Students’ educational experiences of theory and practice: Scale and emotion in university-community engagement – Romit Chowdhury (Department of Public Administration and Sociology, Erasmus University Rotterdam); Mélodine Sommier (Department of Language and Communication Studies, University of Jyväskylä)
8.3 (1st Floor) Panel edukatora: Što se dogodi kada škole pozitivno poŠiZe? – iskustva provedbe predmeta Škola i zajednica (ŠiZ) u Republici Hrvatskoj
Chair: Boris Jokić, (Institute for Social Research in Zagreb)
Učesnici/ce:
– Sunčana-Lea Kolbezen, (XVI gimnazija, Zagreb)
– Tatjana Bednjanec, (Škola primijenjene umjetnosti i dizajna, Zagreb)
– Sanja Kostanjčar, (Škola primijenjene umjetnosti i dizajna, Zagreb)
– Katica Knezović, (Obrtnička škola za osobne usluge, Zagreb)
16:30 – 17:00
Coffee break
17:00 – 18:30
Public Keynote Panel: “Why Still Education? Community and Resistance in Turbulent Times” (6th Floor)
Professor Helen Haste, University of Bath; Professor Michalinos Zembylas, Open University of Cyprus; Professor Aleksandar Baucal, University of Belgrade in conversation with Dr Boris Jokić, Institute for Sociological Research, Zagreb
18:30 – 20:00
Cocktail