CURRICULUM VITAE

RADMILA GOŠOVIĆ

PLACE AND DATE OF BIRTH
Yugoslavia, Belgrade, 29.9.1948.

EDUCATION:

• 1975 - B.A. in Philosophy, Department of Philosophy Faculty of Philosophy, University of  Belgrade.
• 1997 - Education and qualification for work in Philosophy for Children program acquired through SAPERE - Society for the Advancement of Philosophical Enquiry and Reflection in Education, in Main B. Christ's Hospital School, Horsham, England
• 1999 - Goodwill Classroom, training of trainers, Group MOST, Belgrade
• 2000/ 01 - RWCT (Reading and Writing for Critical Thinking), training of trainers, International Reading Association and Center for Interactive Pedagogue, Sarajevo.
• 2001/02 - Civic Education, training of trainers, Ministry of Education and Sport (MoES) Republic of Serbia
• 2002 - Training of Trainers in the Project Gender Awareness (CARE)
• 2005 - Becavta (Together) - language of democracy, training of trainers, Adam's Institute, D@dalos , Zagreb, Opatija, Croation
  

EMPLOYMENT RECORD

• Since October 2005 - Executive Director of Group MOST
• April 2003 -  May 2005 - Head of Department for Development Programs, Experiments and Democratization of Education, MoES of the Republic of Serbia, Section for Education Development and International Cooperation, Belgrade
• October 2002 - April 2003 - Co-Head of Department for development of Education, Ministry of Education and Sport of the Republic of Serbia, Section for Education Development and International Cooperation, Belgrade
• 2001/2002 - Acting Headmistress of 13th Belgrade General High School
• 1978 -2002 - Teacher of philosophy in 13th Belgrade General High School

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Teaching and school management

• Coordination and organization of work and school   development (for example School Policy, Team work, students excursions, humanitarian activities, roundtables, Teacher professional development, School representation, communication and cooperation with students parents, local community, Ministry of Education and Sport, of Republic of Serbia (MoES).
• Teaching philosophy, facilitation of  workshops,  introduction of   new  teaching methods and educational Programs ( for Example Culture  of Critical Thinking, Goodwill Classroom, Reading and Writing to Critical Thinking,  Philosophy for children and Philosophical Inquiry)
• Education Programs development (Author of program Philosophy for Children, 1997 - Fund for Open Society; Author of program Philosophical Inquiry as the part of Education for Democracy 1998, NGOs MOST and Center for Antiwar Action; Member of author team for Culture of Critical Thinking program development, 1999-2005, Institute for Psychology, Philosophy faculty, Belgrade and Group MOST; Member of author team of secondary school program Human Values School  CZKD, 1999/2002.,  Belgrade
  

Policy of Education - Education for Democratic Citizenship Development

• Development of EDC and HR Education. Coordination of activities and active participation in the work of different teams in the field of  development EDC and HR Education (For example, Civic Education program and manual for 3rd and 4th grade of secondary school, MoES; EDC National Framework, Action Plan for  2005-European Year of Citizenship through Education, MoES)
• Participation in Council of Europe Project Education for Democratic Citizenship (EDC), promoting the European EDC approach in Serbia, and informing/promoting  in CoE Serbian achievement in the EDC field.
• Participation in international conferences and meetings and presentation of EDC  Policy in Republic of Serbia (For example, General Assembly of  SEECRAN, Training on Separated Children in Europe, 2001, Sofia;Citizenship, Thinking and Philosophy for Children,Winchester, UK, 2001;Reform of Education in Republic of Serbia, Belgrade,2002; EDC coordinators meetings in CE network (from 3rd  - 8th )2002-2005; Coference:2005.- 2005-European Year of Citizenship through Education, CE, Sofia 2004.; Guidelines in EDC in Serbia and Montenegro, Cetinje,  CoE, May 2005; Conference: Year Evaluation, CE, Sinaia, Romania, 2006; Learning and living together-investment for the future of Europe, Bratislava, 2006.; Philosophy for Children, Ljubljana, 2007.)
• Preparation, participation in, organization of international conferences and meetings (example, Incorporation of   EDC in the Curriculum, January, 2003 , MoES,  CoE;  EDC Curriculum Development, Joint Program for Serbia and Montenegro MoES, CoE, EC, Belgrade, October, 2003; www.CoE.int, Development of National EDC Framework,  MoES, CE, Belgrade, 2004; Peaceful School International, MOST, Belgrade, October, 2003; www.most.org.yu
• Cooperation with international and local organization and institution ( CoE, UNESCO, UNICEF, The Citizenship Foundation, London, Fund for Open Society, Open Society Institute, Centre of Civic Education, USA, and OSCE;  Group 484, Centre for Child rights, D@dalos from Sarajevo  and others)
• Production of reports and information on EDC an HR Education development in Serbia and disseminating them ( For example, National Report on EDC in Republic of Serbia, 2002, CoE)
  

Policy of Education- Roma Education Development

• Coordination of activities and active participation in the work of different teams in the field of   Roma Education (For example, Strategy for Improvement of Roma Education in the Republic of Serbia; 2003. Common Action Plan For Improvement  of Roma Education In Serbia, (JAP), 2005,
• Organization and coordination different activities of  the implementation of Roma Education Policy of MoES (Affirmative measures for enrollment in secondary schools(2003, 2004); Providing free textbooks for Roma children from socially deprived families (2003); Financial support for school's projects related to improvement of Roma education awarded following open competition procedure (2003)
• Preparation, participation in, organization of international conferences/meetings on Roma Education (for example Improvement of Roma Education in Republic of Serbia, Belgrade October, 2003.MoES, CoE)
• Participation in international conferences and meetings and presentation Roma Education Policy in Serbia (example, Roma Education Workshop, OSI & World Bank , Budapest, February, 2002; European School and Multi-cultural Education, Belgrade, European Capitals, City Assembly of Belgrade, May, 2003)
• Cooperation with international and local organization and institution in the field of Roma Education (example, Ministry for Human and Minority Rights; Ministry for Social Affair, CoE, UNICEF, Fund for Open Society, Open Society Institute, OSCE.;  Centre for Interactive Pedagogy, Roma Education Center, and others)

Consultations

• 2006 & 2007   Consultant in the Development Armenian State Curriculum for General   School Education -  Facilitating work of Armenian Experts Team for development National Social Science Standards in Education, supervision and workshops facilitation Civic Education teachers Seminar for piloting new Standards (OSI, Armenia, Yerevan and Tsaghkadzor)

Workshops facilitation and teacher training

• 1997/8 -  Philosophy with Children, Workshops facilitation, Primary School  Đorđe Krstić (FOS, Belgrade)
• 1997/8 -  Philosophical enquire as the part of Education for Democracy Workshops facilitation, 13th Belgrade General High School (Group MOST & CAA, Belgrade)
• 2000 - ABC of Democracy, Workshops facilitation (Group 484, Belgrade )
• 2000 - Intercultural Understanding  and Local  Initiatives, Training of teachers, (Group MOST, supported by HEX, Switzerland)
• 2001/02 - Civic Education, New subject in the 1st Grades of Secondary   schools in     Serbia -  Training of teachers (MoES)
• 2000 -   A Found Friend, Training of teachers, Budva, (NGO 484)
• 2000 - The Goodwill Classroom, Training of teachers, Novi Pazar (Group MOST)
• 2002 - Gender Awareness, Training of teachers, (CARE)
• 2001 -  Dialog is the Key Training of teachers, (Group MOST, supported by NOVIB,  Netherlands)
• 2001/03 - Culture of Critical Thinking,  Palic and Belgrade (FOS)
• 2005. & 07. - Becavta- language of democracy, Workshops facilitation, Studies of Peace Studies and Civic Education Teachers, (Group MOST), and students in summer camp organized  by Pax christi Derventa, Derventa B&H
• 2007 - Intercultural Education and understanding, teacher training, Niš, Bujanovac, Pančevo, Grupa MOST (CIDA), 2007;
• 2007 - Initial planning session on initiatives in SEE  within the framework of OSI mission in education ( FOS, Belgrade)
• 2007 - Extending of Inclusion of Roma Children in Preschool Education meeting/workshop (REF, Belgrade)

COAUTHOR OF PUBLICATIONS:

• Struktura sposobnosti i veština kritičkog mišljenja, Psihologija, časopis Udruženja psihologa Srbije, Belgrade, 2001,1-2, 195-208.
• Šta je to - Kritičko mišljenje? Konceptualizacija i relevantni pojmovi, Psihologija, Belgrade, XXXIII 3-4, 2000, str.385-399)
• Kultura kritičkog mišljenja:Teorijsko zasnivanje i implikacije za nastavu, Institut za psihologiju, Grupa MOST, Belgrade, 2007.
• Vodič za unapređenje interkulturalnog obrazovanja,Group MOST, (FOD), Belgrade, 2007.
• Filozofija s decom, Kreativni centar, Belgrade, 2007.

LANGUAGES

• Serbian (mother tongue)
• English
• French

CONTACT ADDRESSES

Group MOST
Dečanska 5/14,     
11000 Belgrade, Serbia

+381 11 3 222 581 (Office)
+381 65 355 00 99 (Mob.)
rgosovic@sbb.rs