Inclusive approaches to Educational Research
NW04 EERA & FFUB Summer School Programme
Keynote lectures
Jonathan Rix
Keynote lecturer
Jonathan Rix is Professor of Participation & Learning Support at The Open University (UK) and Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences. He has been central to the development of numerous research projects over nearly 20 years. These have included ground breaking participatory projects involving disabled people researching heritage venues, firstly setting up the Access to Heritage Forum in 2004 and then being research director for the multinational ARCHES project (Accessible Resources for Cultural Heritage Ecosystems) in 2016. In between he also developed In-the-picture, an internationally-used method to engage with the views of very young disabled children and their families. He has written extensively on issues of participatory research, and his latest book “In Search of Education, Participation and Inclusion – Embrace the Uncertain” is due out with Routledge at the end of 2023.
The While of Participation – Being researchers together
This presentation explores the nature of participation within participatory research. Jonathan Rix will begin by outlining the notion of the While which emerged from a systematic review of participatory research involving disabled people. He will then go on to explore the nature of the while in a variety of research situations from his own perspective and the perspectives of various other participants. He will offer an insight into the emergence of participatory ways of working and the reasoning and tensions behind them. He will also explore how engaging in meaningfully participatory research creates profound practical and institutional challenges, with a risk at their heart. But by disrupting traditional ways of working and anticipated outcomes, it can reveal opportunities for delivering unanticipated and transformatory outcomes.
Jelena Vranješević
Keynote lecturer
Jelena Vranješević is Professor of Developmental psychology and Psychology of education at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade. Her fields of expertise are child development, child rights (especially child participation), teacher professional development and promotion of human and children’s rights through education for social justice and intercultural education. She is the (co)author of five monographies and numerous papers in relevant journals and scientific conference proceedings. She co-authored and coordinated national, regional and international projects on social justice/education for diversity, non-violent communication and alternative dispute resolution techniques, intercultural education and child rights, socioemotional learning, and she wrote handbooks on these topics. She participated in research projects dealing with different aspects of improving the quality of education, parent participation in their children’s education and teacher professional development.
Children as (co)researchers: Becoming an agents of change
The plenary session introduces the concept of participatory research with children, theoretical, methodological and ethical assumptions on which this research is based, as well as transformative, emancipatory and developmental potential that involvement of children as (co)researchers in the research process has. Participatory reasearch treats children as experts for their own experience and active agents in the research process, thus challenging oppressive practices (adultism) based on the image of the child as immature and incompetent. Involvement of children as (co)researchers bears strong developmental potential because through the process of mutual learning children develop competences and values important for living in a democratic society. Transformative potential of participatory research with children is reflected in critical reconsideration of an adult-centered perspective in the research, and the deconstruction of the traditional roles of adults and children based on hierarchical power relations. Emancipatory potential is reflected in the visibility of children’s perspective in public discourse and through promoting the image of the child as an active actor in the society, an equal partner whose voice is heard and appreciated, and who can significantly contribute to the quality of the research process.
Workshops
The workshop aims to explore three approaches for gathering data in non-formal summer school activities. Its purpose is to raise awareness about the mechanisms involved in designing educational research, where leisure and non-formal urban spaces, such as self-organized cultural and social centers, are often overlooked as relevant sources of data for processes of becoming. To generate data for educational research, we will use the concepts of carnivalesque, flaneur, and detournement as everyday leisure practices in relation to learning.
In contemporary society, the carnivalesque promotes situations and behaviors that are typically suppressed or closely regulated by law, or considered unfit for members of respectable society, such as those who pay to enter night clubs. The flaneur, on the other hand, could be described as "hanging out" in urban spaces, providing opportunities for aimless observation, strolling, sitting in cafes, and chatting with friends. Debord argued that contemporary society is characterized by spectacles or images that have replaced reality as a reference point. However, people still have the capacity for subversion through irony, humor, and lifestyle practices, which Debord referred to as "detournement".
Leisure, playfulness, and travel could provide an ideal situation for learning, development, and research. We will interpret the analyzed data from the theoretical perspective familiar to the participants and present it through an imaginative process of a theatrical script, also called ethnodrama. Ethnodrama is a form of interdisciplinary scholarly conversation that presents data collected from "unusual" places and occasions for educational research.
Overall, this workshop seeks to encourage participants to think more broadly about where data can be gathered for educational research and to consider how non-formal urban spaces and activities can contribute to our understanding of processes of becoming.
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This workshop will help you think about the use of photographic images as a participatory means to collect data, undertake analysis and represent findings. It will present the theoretical underpinnings of this approach and give a range of examples from across the world. This will enable you to explore the challenges and opportunities that this approach presents, whilst reflecting upon a range of ethical concerns that it invariably involves. You will also get a chance to explore this way of working for yourself.
One of the activities will require you to bring a couple of your own photographs of a place you know well, photos that represent what that place means to you, and envisaging with the other participants at the workshop what research could emerge. Come prepared!
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Participant observation method and community engaged research are two distinct research approaches that have been used in social sciences to understand social phenomena. While both methods involve interacting with people in a particular community, they differ in their objectives, methods, and outcomes.
Participant observation is a research method where the researcher immerses themselves in the community they are studying, observing and participating in the activities of the community. The researcher aims to gain a deep understanding of the community's culture, norms, and values. The researcher may take notes, conduct interviews, and collect data to analyze later. This method is often used in anthropology, sociology, and ethnography.
Community engaged research, on the other hand, is a collaborative research approach that involves working with the community to address a specific problem or issue. The researcher works with community members to identify research questions, design the study, collect data, and analyze the results. The goal is to create a partnership between the researcher and the community to create meaningful change.
While participant observation is more focused on understanding the culture and practices of a community, community engaged research is focused on creating change within the community. Both methods have their strengths and weaknesses, and researchers must choose the method that best suits their research objectives. In this workshop, we will explore the differences between participant observation and community engaged research, and how to choose the appropriate method for your research. We will also discuss the ethical considerations involved in both methods and how to navigate them.
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For centuries people have been using storytelling to do things—to connect with other people, to deal with social structures defining their lives, to make sense of what is going on around them, to craft a way of fitting in with various contexts, and sometimes to change them. This workshop aims to introduce participants to the dynamic storytelling design as a methodological approach and to support them in exploring the multilayered nature of stories.
The dynamic storytelling design aims at engaging participants in different expressive activities from different relational positions, for different purposes, and with different intended audiences. In this process, stories integrate the perspectives of diverse individuals and groups with varied influence, experience, knowledge, and goals.
During the workshop, we will present dynamic storytelling activities which we have been using for different purposes and in different contexts, as well as different approaches to analysis.
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This workshop aims to create a space for discussion about the relationships between community-based research and change, emancipation, and transgression, rooted in critical pedagogy and human rights activism. Using these theories, we will analyze the democratic potential of community-based research and unwrap methodologies that can be used in this framework.
The objectives of the workshop are to explore the concept of community development in participatory and inclusive research, to map different research methodologies and the levels of participant involvement they promote, and to understand the researchers' roles and the dilemmas of control and open-endedness. Special attention will be given to building trust with communities and perceiving them as heterogeneous entities with joint but also conflicting interests.
During the workshop, participants will work individually and in teams to analyze examples of community-based research, make connections, compare and emphasize differences between participatory action research, practice-based research, and art education research. We will also examine the impacts of these types of research on development, inclusion, and changes in the communities with which they are developed and implemented.
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There is a strong push towards strengthening institutional integrity, through developing rules and procedures that should be followed. However, we would state that in research practices in which the process and relationships are in the focus, and in which micro-ethical dilemmas are encountered frequently, a professional integrity of a researcher should be in the focus. A Guillemim and Gillam noted: “There is no direct or necessary relationship between ethics committee approval of a research project and what actually happens when the research is undertaken. The committee does not have direct control over what the researcher actually does. Ultimately, responsibility falls back to the researchers’ themselves – they are the ones on whom the conduct of ethical research depends.” (2004, p. 269).
The workshop aims at making visible contradictions between ethics and ethical procedures, through increasing sensitivity for different ethical aspects of participatory research, including relationship between researcher and participants, ownership of knowledge and sensitivity to different cultural practice. During the workshop we will rely on theoretical discussions tackling complex relationship between participation and ethics in research, as well as experience and concerns of workshop participants.
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The workshop aims to promote equitable and inclusive research practices for underprivileged communities, focusing on Roma participation. Drawing on the principles of decolonizing and feminist methodologies, the workshop will apply Critical Roma theory as a theoretical framework to promote equitable participation in research. Through the lens of this theory, participants will learn how to recognize colour-blind narratives and power structures perpetuating inequality, the tokenistic and exploitative politics of participation of Roma in research, explore their own positionality as researchers and discover in more detail implications of this theory for participatory research in education. They will co-create recommendations for more meaningfully engagement of Roma communities, accounting for their needs, voices, and experiences, promoting active participation and agency. This workshop will enable participants to take concrete steps towards more just and meaningful educational research.
Workshop facilitator:
Jelena Savić
Panel discussion
With this panel we aim to explore and analyze the diverse career trajectories within the fields of humanities and natural sciences. By examining these trajectories, the panel aims to identify patterns, challenges, and opportunities that impact the inclusivity of research careers. Participants will explore how factors like academic background, institutional support, mentorship, funding opportunities, access to resources, publication opportunities, gender bias etc. influence the inclusivity of career trajectories in diverse fields of research. Additionally, they will address any unique challenges faced by individuals from underrepresented groups and explore strategies to promote inclusivity. Additionally the scope and activities of the Sustainable Careers for Researcher Empowerment (SECURE) project which aims to improve research careers and reduce career precarity will be presented. By mapping the possible research pathways and identifying the contributing or limiting factors, we strive to inspire positive change within academia, foster diversity, and promote equal opportunities for all researchers.
Panelists:
Nataša Simić, PhD, Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade
Srđan Prodanović, PhD, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory
Petar Laušević, PhD, Center For the Promotion of Science and Vinča Institute of Nuclear Sciences, University of Belgrade
13. July 2023, 16.00-17.30h
Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory
Moderator:
Cultural activities
The play "Girls", by Reflektor theater
THE PLAY "GIRLS" was created through a months-long, artistic, educational and research process. The co-authors and performers of this play tell their personal stories, in their own name. They are not professional actors, but girls and young women, who use theater to share their experiences and observations about growing up as a woman in a patriarchal society.
This is an intimate, personal and feminine play, which brings authentic stories under the spotlight, but at the same time talks about the prejudices and stereotypes that young women encounter while growing up. The idea of the play is to empower girls and young women, to be allies and to support each other, but also to send them the message that GIRLS CAN DO ANYTHING. That all girls in the world are brave, smart and that all deserve to grow up in a safe and secure environment.
Ten girls in this play examine the border between the personal and the political. All the stories they tell are true and special, but at the same time they were chosen as characteristic of a large number of girls in our society. This performance is both: art and activism, because "personal is political". We talk about ourselves in order to understand the world.
The People
Ines Alves
Programme Committee member
Workshop facilitator
Tutor
Ines Alves is a Senior Lecturer in Inclusive Education at the School of Education of the University of Glasgow where she leads the MEd in Inclusive Education: Research, Policy and Practice. She has a PhD in Education, from The University of Manchester, UK; an MA in Special Education (Inclusion and Disability Studies), and an MA in Language, Ethnicity and Education. Ines’ research interests are in the areas of Inclusive Education, Equity and Social Justice, Human Rights and Disability, Teacher Education for Inclusion and in the conceptualisations of diversity and difference within educational settings.
Fabio Dovigo
Programme Committee member
Fabio Dovigo (PhD) is a Professor of Developmental Psychology at the School of Education, Aarhus University, Denmark. His research interests are in the area of Inclusive Education and Early Childhood Education. Since 2012, he has participated in several projects (ITIRE, O4VET, ORACLE, RESCUE, ACCESS4ALL, UE4SD and ALFA III) funded by the EU. He is the holder of the UNESCO Chair “Supporting Early Years Care and Education”. He is a member of the (Networks’ Representative) European Education Research Association Executive Board. His recent publications include: The border within: Decolonising refugee students education; Educator identity in a neoliberal context: Recognising and supporting early childhood education and care educators; Through the eyes of inclusion: an evaluation of video analysis as a reflective tool for student teachers within special education.
Ivan Đorđević
Workshop facilitator
Ivan Đorđević is an anthropologist and Senior Research Associate at Institute of Ethnography SASA, Belgrade, Serbia. He holds a PhD in cultural anthropology from the University of Belgrade and his recent work is mainly focused on health issues related to disadvantaged Roma communities in Serbia and neighboring countries. He has actively participated in many research and policy-informing projects. He is a regular consultant for UNICEF, ILO, WHO, World Bank and other international organizations. In 2018 and 2019 and 2022 he was a contributor to the Northwestern University (Evanston, USA) Global Learning Office program, "Comparative Public Health: Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina". During his time as Visiting Scholar in Global Health Studies at Northwestern (remotely in Spring 2020 and on-campus in Spring 2022), he taught the course "Health care under socialism and postsocialism".
Jelena Joksimović
Programme Committee member
Workshop facilitator
Jelena Joksimović is a psychologist, researcher and activist in the field of education. She received her doctorate in psychology of education, dissertation titled “A New Approach In The Analysis Of The Quality Of The Teaching/Learning Process And Development Of An Instrument For The Sequential Analysis Of The Quality Of Teaching” at the Department of Psychology at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade where she used to work as a teaching associate. Her field of research includes: the field of critical pedagogy; relationship between maker culture and education; art and science as well as the phenomenon of the quality of the teaching/learning process. She is a co-founder and an active member of the Škograd (Schoolcity) collective, within which she researches educational practices as a public good and links between education and public spaces. She works at the Center for the Promotion of Science as an expert associate and coordinator of educational programs.
Olja Jovanović
Programme Committee member
Workshop facilitator
Tutor
Olja Jovanović, Ph.D., is assistant professor at the Belgrade University, Serbia, where she teaches courses in educational psychology. Her research and publications address the role of education systems in the educational and life trajectories of children and youth from marginalized groups. Through engagement in different contexts and settings, she has gained extensive experience in educational research, with a particular interest in the participatory approach.
Nikola Koruga
Programme Committee member
Workshop facilitator
Nikola Koruga is a doctoral student at the Department of Pedagogy and Andragogy, Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade. He is engaged in researching the importance of utopia for adult learning, as well as creative and critical thinking. He has many years of work experience in the non-governmental and business sector. He helped many community learning groups to methodologically improve the learning process. Through research, art and activism, he rethinks the alternatives that can improve life in the community.
Gregor Maxwell
Programme Committee member
Tutor
Dr Maxwell is an associate professor and Arctic Five chair in inclusive and special education at UiT The Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø. His research focuses on inclusion, diversity, and child participation. Gregor works on two Erasmus+ projects, and several projects within the University of the Arctic / UNITWIN/UNESCO thematic network (TN) for inclusive education (IE). Additionally, he is involved in establishing the WERA TN for IE. Nationally Gregor works with initiatives for improving teachers’ inclusive and special education competences and works on the RELEMAST Norwegian Research Councils-funded project studying Newly Qualified Teachers in Work.
Tamara Nikolić
Workshop facilitator
Tamara Nikolić is Assistant Professor at the Department for Pedagogy and Andragogy at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade and a researcher at the Institute for Pedagogy and Andragogy. She holds Ph.D. in Adult Education from the University of Belgrade, also M.A. in Human Relations from the University of Nottingham and M.A. in Applied Theatre from Academy of Arts, University of Novi Sad. She keeps deepening her interests at the intersections of play and performance, adult learning and community building, which she continues to pursue theoretically and practically. Her recent research involves topics of leisure education, creative learning environments, drama and theatre in education, and the role of improvisation in educational settings. She co-authored the publication "Let's Play - A Manual for Drama Process".
Michelle Proyer
Programme Committee member
Workshop facilitator
Tutor
Michelle is Associate Professor of Inclusive Education at the Center for Teacher Education and Department of Education at the University of Vienna, Austria. Her research and teaching focuses on diversity in school and teacher education. Her experiences with inclusive research approaches span activities related to the arts, program development, co-researching, and user-oriented designs.
Jonathan Rix
Keynote lecturer
Programme Committee member
Workshop facilitator
Jonathan Rix is Professor of Participation & Learning Support at The Open University (UK) and Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences. He has been central to the development of numerous research projects over nearly 20 years. These have included ground breaking participatory projects involving disabled people researching heritage venues, firstly setting up the Access to Heritage Forum in 2004 and then being research director for the multinational ARCHES project (Accessible Resources for Cultural Heritage Ecosystems) in 2016. In between he also developed In-the-picture, an internationally-used method to engage with the views of very young disabled children and their families. He has written extensively on issues of participatory research, and his latest book “In Search of Education, Participation and Inclusion – Embrace the Uncertain” is due out with Routledge at the end of 2023.
Jelena Savić
Workshop facilitator
Jelena Savic is a Serbian Roma who works as an Inclusive Education consultant for UNICEF. She has also worked at the Open Society Foundation and Roma Education Fund. Jelena holds MA degrees in Philosophy from Central European University and the Department of Andragogy of the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade. With over twenty years of experience in the Roma and feminist movements, Jelena's recent focus is on studies of whiteness in Europe. She has authored several innovative concepts in Critical Roma epistemology. Her paper “Gadjo privileges” will be published in 2023 in Critical Romany Studies. This year her chapter “The Darker side of Eastern European (post)coloniality: The case of Roma” will be published by Routledge in “Decolonial Politics in European Peripheries: Redefining Progressiveness, Coloniality and Transition Efforts”.
Nataša Simić
Programme Committee member
Tutor
Nataša Simić is a Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Serbia. Her main fields of expertise are inclusive and multicultural education, teacher professional development, student motivation and wellbeing. She has been engaged in many projects aimed at improving inclusive education in Serbia, education and psychosocial support to migrants, preservice teacher education and teachers’ competencies. Since 2020 she has been a national coordinator at the University of Belgrade of the Erasmus+ project “Illumine – A community for exploring and sharing uses of evidence-based teaching strategies”. Since 2010 she has been engaged in teaching several courses in the Centre for Teacher Education at the Faculty of Philosophy and State University of Novi Pazar.
Milan Stančić
Programme Committee member
Milan Stančić is an associate professor at the Department for Pedagogy and Andragogy, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. His research and teaching interests concentrate on the issues of planning and evaluation in teaching, alternative student assessment, quality and equity in education, teacher education and professional development. He also teaches courses related to research methodology, such as Teacher as Researcher course and a PhD course on discourse and narrative analysis in education. He participated in many projects focused on qualitative research and on issues of equity in education. He is also a trainer for the MAXQDA software for qualitative data analysis.
Zorana Jolić Marjanović
Programme Committee member
Zorana Jolić Marjanović is an associate professor of educational psychology at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. Her research interests include various topics in the field of educational and differential psychology. In particular, her recent research focuses on the development and quality of social, emotional, and cognitive skills in children and adolescents, as well as various approaches to their assessment.
Natalija Drakulović
Organizing Committee member
Natalija Drakulović is a student at the Department for Mathematics and Computer Science, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade. She has been tutoring in mathematics and programming for six years. She works as a science communicator at the Centre for the Promotion of Science where she creates workshops, exhibitions and programs for children and coordinates educational projects and facilitates work in the Center’s Makerspace. Her areas of interest encompass fields of education, critical pedagogy, co-creative practices, maker education, art and science. She has also played the piano since the age of 7.
Dejana Mutavdžin
Workshop facilitator
Organizing Committee member
Dejana Mutavdžin is a Ph.D. student of psychology at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, and a Teaching Assistant of Psychology at the Faculty of Music, University of Arts in Belgrade. Her research interest is in the field of educational psychology, psychology of giftedness, and psychology of music. She participated in the preparation of three national and two international scientific conferences, and she is one of the founders of the company for educational consulting.
Sanja Stojiljković
Organizing Committee member
Sanja Stojiljković is a Ph.D. psychology student and a junior researcher at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. Sanja’s main interests are educational and developmental psychology, as well as psychotherapy. Throughout life, she goes by the quote "Those who want to learn are never idle" (Baron de Montesquieu) which is why she always seeks new opportunities that enable her to gain knowledge, challenge herself, help other people develop and expand her personality, skills, and worldviews through the whole process. This mindset led Sanja to join the organizing committee of the summer school on “Inclusive approaches to educational research”, considering it’s the perfect opportunity to develop personally and academically and to help others do the same. With this in mind, she hopes you will decide to grow with us through this amazing school: “See you in July! :)”
Ana Čorić
Volunteer
Ana Čorić is a lecturer at the Academy of Music, and a doctoral student at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb. The areas in which she is actively engaged in her artistic, scientific and pedagogical work are community music and music mediation, artistic citizenship in the context of music academies, the professional identity of pedagogues in arts, and interdisciplinarity and work with young people. In the creation of programs for children and young people she cooperates with Croatian Radiotelevision, Radio Theater Bajsić and Friends, StoryLab's Storytelling Academy, Mala Scena Theater and others. She actively performs and researches sound and storytelling, conducting participatory programs with students that use audio stories as a basis for encouraging reading, music making and creative expression.
Nikola Đokić
Volunteer
Nikola Ðokić is psychology student at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. He is in his forth year of studies. His main interests lay in the field of developmental and educational psychology, with emphasis on Lev Vygostky's Sociocultural Theory. In addition to psychology studies, he is active in the domain of youth organizations which promote multiculturalism and opportunities for the development of young people through various programs and projects.
Jelena Milenković
Volunteer
Jelena Milenković is psychology student at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. She is in her forth year, with hopes of graduating soon. Her main interest lay in the filed of educational and developmental psychology, or to be more precise in fields inclusive and culturally sensitive education and student motivation.
Ana Milić
Volunteer
I am a final year psychology student majoring in education. During my final year of study, I fell in love with working with children. Also, my other fields of interest are neuropsychology and psychotherapy.
Đorđe Naumović
Volunteer
My name is Đorđe Naumović. I was born on the first June, 1994. I am student at Teacher Education Faculty and I am musician.
Jelena Pavlović
Volunteer
My name is Jelena Pavlović, and I am currently a third-year student of Pedagogy at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. Throughout my studies, I have acquired a broad knowledge of educational principles, learning psychology and child development, and various pedagogical methods. With extensive work experience in the education sector, I have gained valuable practical knowledge that complements my academic education. During my previous work, I had the privilege of collaborating with various educational institutions, working on diverse projects with different age groups.
Lenka protić
Volunteer
I am a final year undergraduate student of psychology, at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade. I am interested in research in developmental psychology and psychology of education. Since recently, I have been an associate at the psychology seminar at the Petnica Research Station, where I participate in holding workshops, lectures and mentoring the students' scientific research work. I enjoy volunteering and organizing gatherings where I have the opportunity to meet colleagues from different countries.
Jelena Toroman
Volunteer
Jelena Toroman is a fourth-year undergraduate student majoring in Pedagogy at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. Jelena looks forward to collaborating with other participants, sharing her knowledge, and embracing new learning opportunities. With a strong dedication to inclusive education and a passionate belief in its transformative potential, she is eager to participate in the summer school “Inclusive approaches to educational research”.
Milica Vasić
Volunteer
Milica Vasić is a fourth-year undergraduate student majoring in Pedagogy at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. She looks forward to working closely with the participants, sharing her knowledge, learning something new, fostering a collaborative and inclusive learning environment that promotes meaningful research and positive social impact. With her dedication, enthusiasm, and strong belief in inclusive education, Milica is eager to contribute to the Summer School "Inclusive Approaches to Educational Research".
Maja Vasiljević
Volunteer
Hello! I'm Maja, and I'm currently finishing my bachelor degree in psychology at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade. I'm excited to learn more about different research fields and methods, and especially about the ways we can make a real world difference trough our research. I'm looking forward to meeting new people with whom I share interests and passions :)
Relja Vitošević
Volunteer
Hi all! I'm Relja, currently an undergraduate student of psychology at the University of Belgrade's Faculty of Philosophy. My primary interests of concern to this Summer School include education, inclusivity, and social activism. Besides those, I’m very passionate about typography, urban design and the humanities, all of which I see as having enormous potential as means for positive change.
FAQ
Check-in is every day from 12:00 a.m, while check-out is every day until 10:00 a.m.
However, for the participants of the Summer School, the staff of the hostel will be understanding and you can leave your things in the hostel until you have to leave Belgrade to board the plane. In the event that you stay longer than the checkout time, and the room you are in is rented to another guest, you will be able to leave your things in another room, and you will be able to use that room until departure.
In the very center of Belgrade, there is a large number of potential accommodations of different pay ranges. Below are some of them, which are very close to the Faculty of Philosophy.
- High pay range: Belgrade Inn (4 stars), Beograd Art Hotel (4 stars), Bohemian (3 stars), Centar No.1 (4 stars), Courtyard by Marriott (4 stars), Envoy (4 stars), Indigo Beograd (4 stars), Le Petit Piaf (4 stars), Majestic (4 stars), Mama Shelter (4 stars), Museum (4 stars), Opera (4 stars), Passpartu Home (4 stars)
- Medium pay range: Hotel Kasina (3 stars), Royal Inn (4 stars)
- Low pay range: Palace Hotel
In the very center you have a large selection of locations where you can eat. In the end, it's a matter of your preferences, and we're just listing some for you here:
- High pay range: Eatalian food bar, Karuzo, Mama’s Bistro, Pepe, Red Bread, Restoran City Garden, Restoran Mokum, Šumatovac Al Forno, W Sushi & Steakhouse
-Medium pay range: Le Moliere, Manufaktura, Ottimo, PlatoRestoran, Klub književnika, Smokvica, Snežana, Via del Gusto Restaurant
- Low pay range: ArkaBarka, Ferdinand, Hleb & Kifle Bakery, KMN, Lonče, LU LU Bakery, Mayka, Proleće
From the Nikola Tesla airport, you can reach the Faculty of Philosophy and the "Petar Drapšin" hostel in several ways. If you take a taxi, make sure you pick up a voucher at the airport!
Another option is public transport. There are two options - one is a bus and the other is a Minibus:
Minibus line A1
Route: Airport - Trg Slavija (Kralja Milutina Street) - Airport
Ticket price - 400 dinars (on the bus)
Approximate travel time - 30 minutesJust note that this minibus only goes to Slavija square, from where you will have to take either bus EKO02, line 31, or trolleybus line 29 to get to Students square.
Bus line 72
Route: Airport - Zeleni venac
Ticket price - 150 dinars (on the bus)
Approximate travel time - 30-40 minutes.
We are glad that some of you want to stay longer in Belgrade and use this opportunity to get to know the city better. :)
The price for an additional night in a shared or single room includes only accommodation, while meals are not included (outside the Summer School). However, we hope that you will find something to your taste in the list of restaurants and bakeries near the hostel.
Of course! Upon completion of the Summer School, all participants will receive receipts for the paid registration fee.
Participation in the Summer School earns you 1 ECTS.
If you need a certificate about this, write to us at the official email address of the Summer School (inclusive.research@f.bg.ac.rs) and we will issue you a certificate after the end of the Summer School.
The exchange office "Pirana" (Čika-Ljubina 16) is located in the immediate vicinity of the Faculty of Philosophy. We recommend it as the closest and reliable.
There are a large number of exchange offices in Belgrade, but we advise you to consult official information about the exchange rate on the website of the National Bank of Serbia.
The only preparation we count on you for is making some sort of short presentation to introduce yourself and your research work to the other participants. Also, for some workshops you will be asked to bring some materials, e.g. photos. We will send you the instructions soon. For everything else, just a good mood and curiosity to learn and explore new topics is more than enough.
In order to get to know each other in a more informal context, we have prepared a Welcoming party for you. The party will take place in the Club of the Faculty of Philosophy's Students (Vase Čarapića 15). The space is very pleasant and informal, and our volunteers will be in charge of the music. A complimentary drink awaits you at the party. Get ready for a pleasant evening! :)