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mary education, fine arts and music education, and psychology. She also 
takes part in teacher trainings and carries out psychological counselling 
for students. Her research and professional work is mainly focused on ex-
amining social relations in school context, bullying, teachers‘ profession-
al development, psychological counselling in school and socioemotional 
characteristics of gifted pupils. She is an author and co-author of profes-
sional and scientific monographs and author of various scientific articles 
published in national and international scientific publications.
Izr. prof. dr. Katja Košir je zaposlena na Pedagoški fakulteti Univerze v 
Mariboru. Predava študentom razrednega pouka, predšolske vzgoje, lik-
ovne in glasbene pedagogike ter psihologije, sodeluje pa tudi pri progra-
mu pedagoško-andragoškega izpopolnjevanja za učitelje ter izvaja psi-
hološko svetovanje za študente. Njeno raziskovalno in strokovno delo se 
nanaša predvsem na preučevanje socialnih spremenljivk v šolskem kon-
tekstu, medvrstniško nasilje, profesionalni razvoj učiteljev, šolsko psi-
hološko svetovanje in socioemocionalne značilnosti nadarjenih učencev. 
Je avtorica in soavtorica strokovnih in znanstvenih monografij ter avtori-
ca različnih znanstvenih prispevkov, objavljenih v domačih in tujih pub-
likacijah.
Klaudija Šterman Ivančič 
Klaudija Šterman Ivančič is a researcher at the Educational Research In-
stitute in the Center for Applied Epistemology. Her main research focus is 
results from international comparative studies (reading, mathematics, sci-
ence and financial literacy) and personality, motivational and socio-emo-
tional determinants that are linked to student’s behaviour and achieve -
ment in national and international arena.
Klaudija Šterman Ivančič je zaposlena kot raziskovalka na Pedagoškem 
inštitutu, v Centru za uporabno epistemologijo. Raziskovalno se ukvar-
ja s področjem bralne, matematične, naravoslovne in finančne pismenos-
ti v okviru mednarodnih primerjalnih raziskav ter s preučevanjem oseb-
nostnih, motivacijskih in socialno-čustvenih dejavnikov učnega vedenja 
in dosežkov mladostnikov tako v Sloveniji kot v mednarodnem prostoru. 
Melita Puklek Levpušček
Melita Puklek Levpušček is an associate professor of educational psychol-
ogy at the Department of Psychology at Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana. Her 
research interests include: psychosocial development of adolescents (i.e. 
social anxiety, interpersonal problems, individuation in relation to par-
ents and friends, learning autonomy); representations of adulthood and 
individuation in emerging adults; multiple social contexts (family, peers,