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Name:
Pribišev Beleslin, Tamara
Country of birth:
Serbia
Languages:
Serbian, English
Current position/function:
Associate Professor at the University of Banja Luka, Faculty of Philosophy at the Study Program for Early Childhood Education.
Main professional activities
Researching pedagogy in early childhood with focus on listening to children’s voices and children’s rights as well as research on ICT and mathematics in the early childhood education,
Member of expert groups in Bosnia and Herzegovina concerning national curricula, pedagogical documentation and policy in early childhood education.
President of Organization for supporting education in early childhood in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Preparatory Committee), member of Assembly for Children of B&H
Why do you want to serve on the CRC?
As a team player who has experiences in working with children and adults, I can understand, communicate, and share different ideas. My mission in my country is focused on supporting young children to develop themselves as active participants within the educational system with a strong voice. I would like to broaden that mission to a global scale, helping all the children to access comprehensive early childhood education of universal quality, as is the basic right of all children.
What do you see as important emerging child rights issues that you believe the Committee should be addressing?
’Deficit of nature’, digitalization of childhoods as a global social practice and leisure in virtual communities of all kinds (some of which are not friendly towards children) are the issues that emerge living in postinformational era. New standards are needed based on informational literacy, accessing, using, understanding, and coping with information which should be clear, localy and global.