CURRICULUM VITAE
Family name: Trivić
First names: Dragica
Date of birth: 30/06/1966
Present position: Associate Professor at the University of Belgrade - Faculty of Chemistry, Studentski trg 12-16, Belgrade, Serbia
Professional experience:
Description of main responsibilities:
 lecture of the following subjects:
1. Chemistry Didactics 1-4
2. History of Chemistry
3. Research in Chemistry Teaching
4. Contemporary Methods in Chemistry Teaching
5. Methodology of Pedagogical Investigations in Chemistry Teaching
 development of curriculum for pre-service chemistry teacher education
 development of syllabus of school practice for students – the future chemistry teachers
PROJECTS:
Supported by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia:
 1995-2000 “History of Chemistry and Chemistry Education”
 2002-2005 “The Development of Chemistry Curriculum for Primary and Secondary Schools. History of Chemistry Education in Serbia”
 2006-2010 “Chemistry Education and History of Science and Chemistry Education in Serbia”
 2011-2014 “Theory and Practice of Science in Society: multidisciplinary, educational and intergenerational perspective”
 2011-2014 “From Encouraging Initiative, Cooperation and Creativity in Education to New Roles and Identities in Society”
Other projects:
 2003-2004 “Quality of school textbooks and quality assurance” – Educational forum project, supported by the Ministry of Education
 2005-2006 “Development of standards of students’ achievements at the end of compulsory education” – supported by the Ministry of Education of the
Republic of Serbia
 2006-2009 TEMPUS project: “Science Teacher Education Revision and Upgrading”
 2010- TEMPUS project: “Mаster programme for Subject Teachers in Serbia”
 2011-2013 “Development of standards of students’ achievements at the end of general secondary school education” – supported by the Ministry of
Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia
CURRICULUM VITAE
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2010-2013 Project: “SECOND CHANCE -Development of a System for Functional Primary Education of Adults in Serbia”, supported by the Ministry of
Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia
Other activities:
Author of the following textbooks:
1. Chemistry didactics 1, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Chemistry, Belgrade, 2007
2. Chemistry in the world around us, University of Belgrade, Teachers’ Training Faculty, Belgrade, 2005
3. Theme from chemistry didactics, Klett, Belgrade, 2013
Co-author of the next textbooks:
1. Handbook for the chemistry didactics 3 and 4, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Chemistry, Belgrade, 2008
2. Chemistry for the first grade of secondary school, The Institute for the textbooks and teaching aids, Podgorica, 2006
3. Chemistry for the eighth grade of primary school, The Institute for the textbooks and teaching aids, Podgorica, 2007
4. Chemistry for the ninth grade of primary school, The Institute for the textbooks and teaching aids, Podgorica, 2008
5. Chemistry for the first grade of grammar school, Klett, Belgrade, 2014
Author / co-author and a performer of the following in-service chemistry teachers’ programs:
1. Chemistry Teacher for the New School
2. Learning Chemistry through Investigation
3. April days – the seminar for chemistry teachers
From 2000 to 2003 work on curricula development for the primary school (the work is supported by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Serbia).
From 2005 to 2007 vice-dean responsible for teaching process at the Faculty of Chemistry
From 2007 to 2008 assistant minister, the Ministry of Science of the Republic of Serbia
From 2004 to 2008 secretary of the Serbian Chemical Society
From 2010 a head of the Chair of Chemical Education at the Faculty of Chemistry
Deputy editor in chief of the journal “Chemical Review”
The member of the editorial board of the “Journal of Education” – the journal of Pedagogic Society of Serbia 2006-2014
From 1991 member of the Commission for school competition in chemistry
From 2009 member of the National Education Council of the Republic of Serbia