1. University of Zadar
Department of  Teacher  and Preschool Teacher Education
Assoc. Prof. Smiljana Zrilić, PhD
Assoc. Prof. Robert Bacalja, PhD
Sen. Research Assist. Tamara Kisovar-Ivanda, PhD
Norrkoping, 2015.

2. Geographical position of Zadar and Croatia

3. Zadar
Zadar is a city in Croatia on the Adriatic Sea. It is the centre of Zadar county and the wider northern Dalmatian region. Zadar faces the islands of Ugljan and Pašman.

4. History
The district of present day Zadar has been populated since prehistoric times.

5. History
The earliest evidence of human life comes from the Late Stone Age, while numerous settlements have been dated as early as the Neolithic.

6. History
Between the 4th and 2nd millennium BC - a we can notice new ethnical unity, that of the Liburnians. Zadar was a Liburnian settlement.

7. From the early days of Roman domination, Zadar gained its Roman urban character and developed into the one of the most flourishing centers on the eastern Adriatic coast, which lasted for several hundred years.

8. From the beginning of 7th century when Salona was destroyed till 1918 Zadar was the capital of Dalmatia.

9. 9th century medivial Church of St. Donat symbol of the city

10. 11th century Church of St. Mary

11. The Permanent Exhibition of Church Art Testimony of the rich medieval culture of Zadar

12. Testimony of the rich medieval culture of Zadar in the Archaeological Museum in Zadar

13. The first university in Croatia was founded in Zadar in 1396 in the monastery of St. Dominic.

14. From 15th to 18th century 1409. Venice obtained control over Zadar.
Zadar remained the administrative seat of Dalmatia, but this time under the rule of Venice.
The Venetians restrained the political and economical autonomy of Zadar but the town remained a prosperous city.

15. 19th and 20th century
After the fall of Venice (1797) Zadar come under the Austrian crown and once again became united with the rest of Croatia.
1809 it was added to the French Illyrian Provinces.
In 1813, all of Dalmatia was reconquered and brought back under the control of the Austrian Empire.

16. Urban life and culture in Austrian Empire period

18. The collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy led to the renewal of national conflicts in the city. With the arrival of an Italian army of occupation in the city on 4 November 1918, the Italian faction gradually assumed control.

19. World War II
The city became the centre of a new Italian territorial entity, called Governorship of Dalmatia, including the provinces of Zadar, Split and Kotor.
Under the Italian rulement the Croatian population was subjected to a policy of forced assimilation.

20. The bombing of Zadar 1943rd

21. This city has been destroyed so many times, but we always come back stronger. 1991.-1995.

22. Zadar today

27. Famous Sea Organ in Zadar

28. The Greeting to the Sun

34. The first meeting of the Senate was held on 25 March 2003 when the Statute of the University of Zadar was accepted.

35. 24 departments and 5500 students
ARCHAEOLOGY PEDAGOGY CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY
CROATIAN AND SLAVIC STUDIES ENGLISH STUDIES
FRENCH AND IBEROROMANCE STUDIES GEOGRAPHY
GERMAN STUDIES HISTORY HISTORY OF ART
LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCES LINGUISTICS
ITALIAN STUDIES PHILOSOPHY PSYCHOLOGY SOCIOLOGY
TEACHERS´ AND PRESCHOOL TEACHERS´ EDUCATION ECONOMICS ETHNOLOGY and cultural anthropology
TOURISM AND COMMUNICATION SCIENCES
TRAFFIC & MARITIME STUDIES HEALTH STUDIES
TEACHERS´ AND PRESCHOOL TEACHERS´ EDUCATION IN GOSPIĆ
ECOLOGY, AGRONOMY AND AQUACULTURE

36. Dept. of English
Dept. of German Studies
Dept. of French and Iberoromance Studies (Spanish, Catalan, Galician, Portugues)
Dept. of Croatian and Slavic Studies
Dept. of Italian Studies
Dept. of Archaeology (Ph.D. Archaeology of Eastern Adriatic)
Dept. of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology
Dept. of Agriculture and Mediterranean Aquaculture

37. Dept. of Linguistics
Dept. of History
Dept. of History of Arts
Dept. of Classical Philology
Dept. of Philosophy
Dept. of Pedagogy
Dept. of Psychology
Dept. of Teachers' and Pre- school Teachers' Education
Dept. Information Sciences (Ph.D. Knowledge Society and Information Transfer)

39. Dept. of Sociology (Ph.D. Sociology of Regional Development)
Dept. of Geography
Dept. of Traffic and
Maritime Studies
Dept. of Sociology (Ph.D. Sociology of Regional Development)
Dept. of Tourism and Communication Sciences
Dept. of Health Studies
 More information about each departments could be found at: lationsOffice/CourseCatalogue/Cours eCataloguebyDepartments/tabid/3216 /Default.aspx

40. New Campus Department of Teachers Education

44. Project of New Campus in Future

45. Department of Teachers and Preschool Educators
28 members of scientific and teaching stuff:
14 scientific and teaching oriented teachers with PhD degree
8 lecturers with teaching focused tasks
6 teaching assistants preparing their PhD dissertations

46. Programs Program for early childhood educators baccalaureate degree
3 years, 180 ECTS
Program for primary education teachers
master's degree (bachelors+MA degree integated)
5 years, 300 ECTS

47. Department of Teacher and Pre-school Teacher Education 2 main programs Pre-school Teachers Study BA (3.0 ) 180 ECTS Teachers’ Study program MA (5.0) 300 ECTS

48. Pre-school Teachers Study BA (3.0 ) 180 ECTS
The acquisition of competencies to work in: nursery schools and kindergartens, preschools, programs of pedagogical and psychological education of parents, various educational, cultural, artistic, sporting, religious and other special, shorter and occasional programs.

49. Future program MA degree 3 + 2 model, 300ECTS
Planed additional competencies
Contribute to a qualitatively higher level in the complex demands of work in the field of early and pre-school education
Develop and test new strategies to design an integrated curriculum that will be the answer to the present knowledge on child development
Participate in the development of programs for children with disabilities and gifted children of early and preschool age

50. Additional competencies
Develop the ability of administration and management of institutions of early and pre-school education and to organize their optimal functioning
Connect and show knowledge and understanding of educational practice at the level of scientific work

51. Some of new additional courses at the MA level
Croatian linguistic heritage
The new paradigm of early and pre-school education
Inclusive education
Psychology of family and parenting
Instructional leadership and management of pre-school institutions
The curriculum of pre-school
Museum Pedagogy
Early media literacy

52. Some of new additional courses at the MA level
Statistics
Academic writing and communication
Academic discourse in English
Action research in early and pre-school education
The lifelong professional education
Professional Practice II etc.

57. International cooperation

58. International cooperation

59. Erasmus students from different countries in kindergarten