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First_name: Pavel

Last_name: Zgaga

occupation: Professor

institution: University of Ljubljana Faculty of Education

address: Kardeljev pl. 16, 1000 Ljubljana

country: Slovenia

telephone: + 386 (0)1 566 14 92

fax: + 386 (0)1 566 14 93

e-mail: pavel.zgaga@guest.arnes.si

website: http://ceps.pef.uni-lj.si

Fields_of_expertise: systems of education , educational legislation , teachers training , higher education , philosophy of education , educational policy

Language_skills: Bosnian , Croatian , English , French , Serbian , Slovenian

References:

1. Zgaga, P.(co-author), White Paper on Education in the
Republic of Slovenia.  Ljubljana: Ministry of Education and Sport, 1995 (SLO
edition), 1996 (ENG edition). ISBN 961-6222-03-1.

2. Zgaga, P., Autonomia, not Autarkeia. - In: Klaus Dieter Wolff(Ed.),
Autonomy and External Control. The University in Search of the Golden Mean. The
Erfurt Declaration Towards the Responsible University of the Twenty-first
Century. Erfurter Beiträge zur Hochschulforschung und Wissenschaftspolitik, Vol. 2,
München: Iudicium Verlag GmbH, 1997, pp. 111-126, xxxiv-xxxvi. 
ISBN 3-89129-541-3.

3. Zgaga, P., School Failure and Education Policy in a Social Transition. -
V: Education Canada. Vol. 38, No. 2, Summer / été 1998, p. 31-36. ISSN
0013-1253.

4. Zgaga, P. (Ed.), Development of Higher Education in Slovenia. Ljubljana:
Ministry of Education and Sport, September 1998. ISBN 961-6222-25-2.

5. Zgaga, P., Educational Policy and Quality in Education. - International
Conference “Ways Towards Quality in Education”. Open Society Institute
Slovenia, Visoka šola za management Koper, Šola za ravnatelje. Brdo pri Kranju, 8-10
April 2000.

CV:

Graduated in philosophy and sociology, University of Ljubljana,
Faculty of  Arts, in 1975. Secondary school teacher experience for three years.
In 1978 a lecturer in contemporary philosophy at Teachers' Training College in
Ljubljana. In 1988 a  Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Ljubljana and
Associate Professor and the head of the Departement of Education Studies at the
newly formed Faculty of Education of the University of Ljubljana. 

>From 1992 to June 1999 Deputy Minister/ State Secretary at  the Ministry of
Education and Sport of the Republic of Slovenia. From July 1999 to June 2000
Minister of Education and Sport of the Republic of Slovenia. Since October 2000
Professor at the Faculty of Education of the University of Ljubljana and
Director of CEPS - Centre for Educational Policy Studies.

In the nineties he took an active part in the educational reform. In the
period February 1994 - September 1999 he has been a member of the Council  for
Higher Education of the Republic of Slovenia. At the UNESCO and Council of
Europe's diplomatic conference for the adoption of the Convention on the
recognition of qualifications concerning higher education in the European region
(Lisbon, 1996) he was appointed as one of its two Vice Presidents. In the process of
negotiations for Slovenian accession to the EU, he has been the head of the
working group "Education, Training and Youth" (1998-1999). 

His professional and research interests focus on social philosophy and
philosophy of education. He is the author and  (co)editor of over 100 papers and
monographs