Martina Horvat

Martina Horvat enrolled in the study pedagogy in 2011/2012. at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. She graduated on the topic "Contemporary challenges of parenting: the media as a source of information on child-rearing" under the mentorship of Katarina Dadić, Assistant Professor, in 2018. During her studies, she worked as a teaching assistant and as a professional associate pedagogue in elementary school after graduation. During her studies and employment, she specialized in the field of special educational needs of children, contemporary childhood and parenthood, as well as contemporary teaching methods. She has been employed at the Department of Education Sciences since November 2019, where, following her scientific interest in the field of pedagogy, she holds seminar classes in the following courses: Introduction to Pedagogy, Childhood Pedagogy, School Pedagogy, Therapeutic Pedagogy and Correlation Practicum in the Methodology of Teaching.

In 2020, she enrolled in the postgraduate doctoral program Pedagogy and the Culture of the Contemporary School at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek. She defended her doctoral dissertation entitled The Relation Between Social Media Usage Practices and Parenting Styles on October 24, 2025, under the supervision of Associate Professor Katarina Dadić, PhD, thereby earning the academic degree of Doctor of Science in the field of Social Sciences, scientific area of Pedagogy. During her doctoral studies, she further advanced her knowledge of the German language at the Goethe-Institut in Zagreb. She also received additional training in research methodology at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek as part of the Applied Methodology Program for Research and Development led by Professor Željko Pavić, PhD. She publishes professional and scientific papers in national and international journals. In the academic year 2020/2021, she was a member of the Working Group for the development of the study program in Educational Sciences (Pedagogy). At the Faculty of Croatian Studies, in addition to teaching seminar classes, she works as a coordinator for students with disabilities and participates in the Pedagogical-Psychological-Methodological-Didactic Teacher Education Program (PPDMN). She is also a member of the Young Editors’ Circle of the journal Kroatologija.