Katarina Batarilo
Dr., studied Educational Science and German Philology at the Universities of Heidelberg and Zagreb/Croatia. She completed her MA thesis on "Peace-building Curriculum Revision in Bosnia and Hercegovina". She wrote her PhD thesis on "Human Rights Education in Croatia's Formal School System - An Empiric Study".
From 2001 to 2006, she worked as a research fellow at the Chair of Prof. Dr. Volker Lenhart, Department of Educational Science/University of Heidelberg, where she was committed among others to the project "Peace-building Educational Activities in Armed Conflicts". In her special fields of research, she also acquired many practical experiences in several European countries, among others at the Italian Commission for UNESCO.
From March 2006 to August 2009, she worked as a research fellow at the Georg Eckert Institute, where she conducted the project on the coordination of textbook research, development and comparative studies in South-East Europe.
Since September 2009, she has worked as a research fellow at the Centre for Social Investment/University of Heidelberg.
Publications
Batarilo: Katarina: Menschenrechte - ein "way of (school) life"? Evaluation schulischer Menschenrechtsbildung in Kroatien. PhD thesis Heidelberg 2010, URL: http://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/archiv/11541
- with Heike Karge, "Guidelines guiding history textbook production? Norms and practices of history textbook policy in Bosnia and Hercegovina", in: Augusta Dimou (ed.) 'Transition' and the Politics of History Education in Southeast Europe, 2009
- with Heike Karge, "The Reform of History Teaching in BaH. Past, Present and Future", OSCE, unpublished paper, September 2008
- "Measuring Human Rights Education in School in Croatia", in: Human Rights – Democracy-Participation – a critical view. Council of Europe Press 2008
- with Volker Lenhart and Volker Druba: "Pädagogik der Menschenrechte" Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2006
- with Volker Lenhart, "The Education System in Bosnia and Hercegovina", in: The School Systems in Europe, Döbert/Hörner/von Kopp/Mitter (Eds.), Kluwer-Verlag (Netherlands), 2006
- with Volker Lenhart, "Pädagogischer Umgang mit bewaffneten Konflikten am Beispiel friedensbauender Geschichtscurriculumrevision in Bosnien-Herzegowina", in: Konflikt und pädagogische Intervention, Özkan Ergen/Volker Lenhart (eds.), Frankfurt: Lang-Verlag, 2004, 115-125
- with Volker Lenhart, "Bosnien-Herzegowina", in: Die Schulsysteme Europas, Döbert/Hörner/von Kopp/Mitter (eds.), Hohengehren: Schneider, 2002, 49-61
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