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Valerija Vendramin, PhD in Women’s Studies, is a senior research associ­ ate at the Educational Research Institute in Ljubljana. Among her current 
fields of interest are educational studies, women’s studies and feminist 
theory, cultural studies (predominantly, but not exclusively, in connec­ tion to the issues concerning the conceptualization of sexual difference, 
curriculum and feminist critiques of science together with epistemolog­ ical issues.). 
Maša Vidmar 
Je raziskovalka na Pedagoškem inštitutu (Ljubljana, Slovenija) in docent­ ka psihologije na Univerzi v Mariboru. Raziskovalno delo, ki ga opravlja, 
se uvršča na področji pedagoške in razvojne psihologije. Njena strokovna 
znanja zajemajo predvsem socialne in čustvene vidike učenje in poučevan­ ja, vključno z odnosno kompetenco in njenim merjenjem ter odnosom 
med socialnim vedenjem in učnimi dosežki. Njeni raziskovalni intere­ si segajo tudi na področje predšolske vzgoje. Trenutno je vključena v več 
nacionalnih in mednarodnih projektov. Redno objavlja članke, poglavja, 
knjige in predstavlja prispevke na konferencah.
Maša Vidmar is a researcher at the Educational Research Institute and a 
docent (assistant professor) of psychology at the University of Maribor. 
Her research work is grounded in educational and developmental psy­ chology. Her expertise lay in social and emotional aspects of learning and 
teaching, including relational competence and its measurement, relations 
of social behaviour with academic achievement. Her research interests in­ clude also early childhood education and care. She is currently involved in 
several national and international projects. She regularly publishes jour­ nal articles, book chapters, books and conference papers.
Manja Veldin
Je raziskovalka na Pedagoškem inštitutu. Je univerzitetna diplomira­ na psihologinja in doktorska študentka eksperimentalne psihologije na 
Filozofski fakulteti. Sodelovala je s Centrom za psihodiagnostična sred­ stva, Svetovalnico Kameleon, v študiji »Kvaliteta življenja bolnikov po 
presaditvi ledvice« in slovenskemu projektu: Pojasnjevanje učinkovitosti 
reševanja problemov s področja trojne narave predstavitev naravoslovnih 
pojmov. Trenutno je aktivna na več EU projektih (HAND in HAND, 
BRAVEdu, ETTECEC).
Manja Veldin is a researcher at the Educational Research Institute. She 
holds a BA in Psychology and is a PhD candidate in Experimental psy­ chology at the Faculty of arts. She used to cooperate with the Centre for 
Psycho­ diagnostic Assessment, Chameleon consulting and participated 

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in the study “The quality of life of patients after kidney transplantation” 
and a Slovenian project: Explaining effective and efficient problem solving 
of the triplet relationship in science concepts representations. She is cur­ rently working on several EU projects (HAND in HAND, BRAVEdu, 
ETTECEC).
Igor Ž. Žagar
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 Primorskem), znanstveni svetnik (predstojnik Centra za diskurzivne 
študije) na Pedagoškem inštitutu v Ljubljani in trenutno tudi njegov di­ rektor. Predaval je na univerzah v Belgiji, Združenih državah Amerike, 
Italiji, na Kitajskem, Tajvanu, Nizozemskem, v Združenem kraljestvu, 
Španiji, Rusiji, Romuniji in na Poljskem. Žagar se ukvarja predvsem s 
pragmatiko (teorija govornih dejanj, (kritična) analiza diskurza), filozofi­ jo jezika, argumentacijo in retoriko. Je (so)avtor in (so)urednik petnajstih 
knjig in preko sto člankov.
Igor Ž. Žagar studied philosophy, sociology, and linguistics in Ljubljana, 
Paris, and Antwerp. He received his doctoral degree in Sociology of 
Culture from the University of Ljubljana. He is Professor of Rhetoric 
and Argumentation (University of Primorska), Senior Research Fellow 
(Head of the Centre for Discourse Studies) at the Educational Research 
Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia, and currently also its director. He has lec­ tured in Belgium, United States, Italy, China, Taiwan, United Kingdom, 
The Netherlands, Spain, Russia, Romania, Poland, and France. 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 fifteen books, and more than a hundred 
articles.
Janja Žmavc
Janja Žmavc je izredna profesorica za jezikoslovje in kot višja znanstve­ na sodelavka zaposlena na Pedagoškem inštitutu v Ljubljani. Področja 
njenega raziskovanja so: zgodovina retorike, retorična teorija in praksa, 
retorična sredstva prepričevanja (ethos, pathos, logos), argumentacija, te­ orija argumentacije, jezikovna pragmatika, didaktika klasičnih jezik­ ov ter didaktika retorike. Je avtorica in soavtorica treh monografij in več 
člankov s področja retorike, argumentacije in jezikovne pragmatike ter 
soavtorica edinega slovenskega učbenika za pouk retorike v osnovni šoli 
pri nas. Kot predavateljica retorike in argumentacije vrsto let sodeluje s