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Irma Brkovic

Universitetslektor

Avdelningen allmän didaktik och pedagogiskt arbete
Telefon
031-786 49 61
0766-18 49 61
E-post
irma.brkovic@gu.se
Besöksadress
Läroverksgatan 15
41120 Göteborg
Rumsnummer
B3 312b
Postadress
Box 300
40530 Göteborg

Om Irma Brkovic

I am psychologist, assistant professor in developmental psychology and associate professor in pedagogical work. I graduated Psychology at the University of Zagreb (Croatia) in 2003. I received a Master of Science degree in health psychology from Leiden University (the Netherlands) and defended my doctoral thesis in developmental psychology at the University of Zagreb. In my doctoral thesis I applied cohort-sequential longitudinal research design and applied multilevel modelling approach to test dynamic relations between parent-child relationship and self-regulation, within the framework of Self-Determination Theory and Selection, Optimisation and Compensation developmental framework. I worked as an assistant professor at the Department of Psychology, teaching and researching developmental psychology and educational psychology. I taught developmental psychology at the Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences and the Faculty of Teacher Education. As doctoral student I attended trainings at A European Data Laboratory for Comparative Social Research in Cologne (2007, 2008) and Manheim (2010). I completed additional trainings in clinical ASEBA assessment, Early development assessment and Theraplay therapeutic approach.

I currently teach research methodology, statistics, developmental psychology and pedagogical work in GLP and ÄLP teacher education programmes, in the research master’s programmes Master i Didaktik, International Master’s Programme in Educational Research, and Education for Sustainable Development, as well as in the Doctoral Degree Programme in Psychology and doctoral program of Center for Educational Science and Teacher Research (CUL).

When teaching and supervising, I implement experience from over 20 years of research in psychology and other social sciences. In my research I have implemented cross-sectional (1, 2, 3, 4), longitudinal (5), cohort-sequential (6, 7) and school-based (quasi)experimental (8, 9, 10, 11, 26) research designs. I have always been passionate about methodological and psychometric challenges related to studying different age groups of children and adults. I have worked with these challenges when studying groups of lower (8, 9, 10, 11) and upper (5, 23, 24, 25) primary school children, upper secondary school children (12), young adults (13, 14, 15, 27), adults (17, 18) and the elderly (19). I also worked as methodology expert within family (16, 17) and medical (20, 21, 22) studies.

I have focused on developing methodological and analytical approaches to studying child development and parent-child relationships, reading and writing during early and late schooling, children’s early understanding of numbers, and student teachers’ conceptions of didactics and plant awareness. I am currently working in projects studying mentor teachers’ professional development, teachers’ self-efficacy beliefs, the role of mobility in student teachers’ professional development as well as the role of teacher education in developing student research competencies. I currently focus on researching psychological aspects of human-nature relationship, self-determination promoted in teaching profession and the role music education has on well-being throughout the life span.

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