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bers of the Centre
Docent Dr Janja Žmavc, Scientific Associate, Head of Centre
Professor Dr Igor Ž. Žagar, Scientific Councillor, Director of the
Educational Research Institute

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Centre for Social and Anthropological Studies in Education
The Centre focuses on interdisciplinary themes linking humanities
and social sciences. In addition, interconnections between
different branches of anthropology and their bases also provide
a certain level of standing to the name of the Centre which includes
“anthropology in education”. As the most general part of
educational studies, educational anthropology is derived from a
thematisation of presuppositions related to upbringing, education
and knowledge, i.e. information, which makes it a critical
autorefraction of educational theories and practices.
In the framework of the paradigm of interdisciplinarity, the
colleagues working at the Centre are focusing on research in the
field of upbringing and education by taking into consideration the
following key aspects:
development of democratic education through democratic
educational and political culture;
introduction and justification of the meaning behind the research
of “gender and education” as an inter- and multidisciplinary area
building on the presupposition that academic boundaries
simultaneously also represent epistemological boundaries;
reevaluation of existing knowledge through the connection of
“information and power” through the questioning of the Western
epistemology and manners in which information is obtained;
study of theoretical orientations of educational feminism;
exploration of the influence of cultural changes on the educational
process and on the results of learning, as well as a reflection of
current socio-political models;