Branko Bognar

At the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Zagreb I gained an MA degree in May 2003. In my dissertation under the title "Critical-emancipatory approach to a professional development of primary school teachers," I represented the experiences of an action research project carried out in a primary school context. The main aim of this project was to help a group of primary school teachers to become action researchers. It was the first attempt to help teachers to become action researchers in a Croatian school context. The results of this project were represented at the BERA 2004 conference in Manchester. In December 2008 I defended my Ph.D. dissertation entitled, "The possibility of becoming a teacher-action-researcher through e-learning". In order to acquire the learning and cooperation of teachers in this two-year project we used a course-management system called Moodle (www.e-lar.net/moodle). In September 2006 in Opatija (Croatia) and in April of 2007 in Aberdeen (UK) at IATEFL conferences I represented the experiences of a two-year collaboration and critical friendship with Dr. Moira Laidlaw who then facilitated Teaching Methodologies with Action Research in Ningxia Teachers University in Guyuan in China's northwest. I have been a member of the editorial board of the Croatian Journal for the Philosophy of Education "Metodički ogledi" from 2001.