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Renata Horvatek is a Ph.D. candidate in Education Theory and Policy and Comparative and International Education at Penn State University College of Education. She holds B.A./M.A. in philosophy and comparative literature from the University of Zagreb, Croatia. She was a Hubert H. Humphrey fellow at Penn State University during 2010-2011 academic year. During her Humphrey fellowship, she was a professional affiliate at the Council for Opportunity in Education in Washington, DC. Also, she was the European Commission TEMPUS Individual Mobility Grant recipient in 2007, to spend one month at the University of Liverpool working at International Centre for Excellence in Educational Opportunities. Her research interests that lie at the intersection of education and social change in diverse contexts are driven by the experience of being educated during the civil war, and becoming adult during the transition from socialist regime to democracy in her home country Croatia. Education and political behaviors, minority education in post-conflict societies, and issues of educational equity and access are topics that she is particularly interested in. In her research she is mostly focused on post-socialist countries. Her dissertation is a study of sociopolitical behaviors and attitudes of adults in transitional countries, and the link between these behaviors and constructs they are exposed to within educational context. After the dissertation her goal is to research the conceptual link between educational content and sociopolitical behaviors and attitudes in diverse transitional societies, since in her dissertation she is mainly focused on Croatian context.
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