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nikov za raziskavo PISA 2018 ter pri različnih IEA študijah, izvedenih v 
Sloveniji (TIMSS, PIRLS, TALIS, SITES). Zanimajo jo metodologija in 
sekundarne analize obsežnih baz podatkov.
Nada Trunk Širca
has a Ph.D. in Management in Education from Manchester Metropolitan 
University, UK. Currently she is working as a researcher at the University 
of Primorska and as a professor and advisor to the dean at the Internation-
al School for Social and Business Studies. She has international experi-
ence in research projects, she is also a conference chair for http://make-
learn.mfdps.si/ as well as EIC of Human Systems Management, https://
www.iospress.nl/journal/human-systems-management/. Her research 
and teaching fields include management in tertiary education, managing 
non-profit organization, research methodology, quality and evaluations 
in tertiary education, the recognition of knowledge and lifelong learning.
Nada Trunk Širca
je doktorirala iz menedžmenta v izobraževanju na univerzi Manche-
ster Metropolitan (Velika Britanija). Trenutno deluje kot raziskovalka 
na Univerzi na Primorskem in kot profesorica ter svetovalka dekana na 
Mednarodni fakulteti za družbene in poslovne študije. Ima mednarodne 
izkušnje na področju raziskovalnih projektov, je konferenčna predsedni-
ca http://makelearn.mfdps.si/ in EIC za upravljanje s človeškimi sistemi, 
https://www.iospress.nl/journal/human-systems-management/. Njena 
področja raziskav in poučevanja vključujejo upravljanje v visokem šolstvu, 
vodenje neprofitne organizacije, metodologijo raziskovanja, kakovost in 
vrednotenje v terciarnem izobraževanju, priznavanje znanja in vseživljenj-
sko učenje.
Igor Ž. Žagar
studied philosophy, sociology and linguistics in Ljubljana, Paris, and Ant-
werp. He received his doctoral degree in Sociology of Culture from the 
University of Ljubljana. He is Professor of Rhetoric and Argumentation 
(University of Primorska & University of Maribor), Senior Research Fel-
low (Head of the Centre for Discourse Studies) at the Educational Re-
search Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia, and currently also its director. He 
has lectured in Belgium, United States, Italy, China, United Kingdom, 
The Netherlands, Spain, Russia, Romania, Poland, France, and Taiwan. 
Žagar is especially interested in pragmatics (speech act theory, (critical) 
discourse analysis), philosophy of language, argumentation, and rhetoric. 
He is the (co)author and (co)editor of twelve books, more than a hundred 

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articles, and a member of several editorial boards (Research in Language, 
Res Rhetorica, Ontario Studies in Argumentation, Rhetoric Society of 
Europe …).
Igor Ž. Žagar
je študiral filozofijo, sociologijo in lingvistiko na univerzah v Ljubljani, 
Parizu in Antwerpnu. Doktoriral je iz sociologije kulture na Univerzi v 
Ljubljani. Je redni profesor retorike in argumentacije (Univerza na Pri-
morskem), znanstveni svetnik (predstojnik Centra za diskurzivne študi-
je) na Pedagoškem inštitutu v Ljubljani in trenutno tudi njegov direktor. 
Predaval je na univerzah v Belgiji, Združenih državah Amerike, Italiji, na 
Kitajskem, Tajvanu, Nizozemskem, v Združenem kraljestvu, Španiji, Ru-
siji, Romuniji in na Poljskem. Žagar se ukvarja predvsem s pragmatiko (te-
orija govornih dejanj, (kritična) analiza diskurza), filozofijo jezika, argu-
mentacijo in retoriko. Je (so)avtor in (so)urednik petnajstih knjig in preko 
sto člankov ter član številnih uredniških odborov (Research in Langua-
ge, Res Rhetorica, Ontario Studies in Argumentation, Rhetoric Society 
of Europe …).