Katarina Gvozdic
Research and Teaching Fellow
PRESENTATION
After obtaining an undergraduate degree in psychology (University Paris 5) and masters in cognitive science (Cogmaster), Katarina has defended her PhD in psychology in January 2020 at the University Paris 8. She was a Research and Teaching Fellow in the IDEA lab from November 2020 to July 2024. She is currently a lecturer in "Learning processes, differenciation and teachers' conceptions".
She teaches within the FEP (Primary education training), the Bachelor of educational sciences, and the Master AISE (Analysis and intervention in educational systems). Her research focuses on knowledge acquisition, school interventions and teachers' conceptions from a cognitive and developmental perspective using experimental methods.
Katarina's doctoral thesis was rooted in, and put into dialogue, four complementary fields of research: conceptual development, distinction between declarative and procedural knowledge, content effects and teachers' pedagogical content knowledge. She used experimental, quantitative methods to study the representations of teachers and students when solving arithmetic word problems in primary school.
Currently, she is pursuing parallel research on students' knowledge acquisition and teachers' conceptions of teaching and learning. Her research approach consists in investigating intuitive conceptions with the objective of developing ecological school interventions that are aligned with students’ conceptual development.