The Future of Education

Renata Čepić is an Associate Professor in the field of pedagogy at the Faculty of Teacher Education, University of Rijeka, where she teaches several courses in the field of pedagogy at the undergraduate and graduate levels. She is also an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Pedagogy at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Rijeka, where she teaches postgraduate courses. Her research interest is focused on pedagogy with a special interest in general education, in particular in adult education, lifelong learning, learning organisations, and the continuing professional education of teachers/preschool teachers/andragogists. Many of her scientific papers have been written from the perspective of comparative research. She has participated in the work of several national research projects, and in the period between 2013 and 2018 was the head of the international scientific project 13.10.2.2.02 Teachers’ Professional Development: Status, Personality, and Transversal Competencies, which was approved and funded by the University of Rijeka. Since 2019, she is the head of the scientific project Professional Development Needs, Conditions, and Learning Opportunities of Student-Teachers and In-Service Teachers (uniri-prdrustv-19-13), which is also approved and funded by the University of Rijeka. She has actively participated in numerous national and international conferences, as well as professional training at two international institutions, leaders in the field of pedagogical science. She is actively involved in the International Study Association on Teachers and Teaching Teachers, ISATT, and since 2019 has been the national Coordinator for the Republic of Croatia. She has been the Head of the Department for Early and Preschool Education at the Faculty of Teacher Education in Rijeka and the Head of the Section for Educational Sciences at the Faculty of Teacher Education in Rijeka. She is a member of the Croatian Pedagogical-Literary Choir (Hrvatski pedagoško-književni zbor, HPKZ), Croatian Andragogy Association (Hrvatsko andragoško društvo, HAD), Association for Higher Education Development Universitas, European Society for Research on the Education of Adults (ESREA), and Association for Teacher Education in Europe (ATEE).

Areas of expertise: pedagogy, adult education, lifelong learning, learning organisations, continuing professional education of teachers/preschool teachers/andragogist, higher education.