Milena Mileva Blažić (born 12 September 1956) is a
Slovenian literary historian and university professor.
Life and work
Blažić attended elementary and secondary school in
Novi Travnik
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(BiH). She has lived and worked in
Ljubljana
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, Slovenia since 1975. In 1985 she graduated from the Department of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the Faculty of Arts and Science. In 1997, she gained a master's degree in Slovenian literature at the
University of Ljubljana
The University of Ljubljana (, , ), abbreviated UL, is the oldest and largest university in Slovenia. It has approximately 38,000 enrolled students. The university has 23 faculties and three art academies with approximately 4,000 teaching and re ...
(Slovenia) and in 2001 successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled ''Role and importance of teaching creative writing in Literature elementary school''.
In 1991 she started working at the
Pedagogical
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Faculty at University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) as an assistant. In 2002 she became associate professor. She has been associate professor of literature since 2008 and currently teaches didactics of
Slovenian literature
Slovene literature is the literature written in Slovene. It spans across all literary genres with historically the Slovene historical fiction as the most widespread Slovene fiction genre. The Romantic 19th-century epic poetry written by the ...
at the Department of Primary Education (Chair Slovene), as well as lecturing at the department for pre-school education. Since 2007, she has been assistant professor of Slovenian literature.
In 1992 she published the book ''Creative writing: Merry recommended science of words to text''. Three workbooks of the same title were published in 1995, 1996 and 1997. She has led a number of educational seminars for teachers of Slovene literary clubs, trainers and librarians in Slovenia, Italy and Austria.
Blažić has co-edited an anthology of poetry fifth annual ''Time: 100 to songs for the young'' (2001) and is co-author of two award-winning elementary schools ''Beryl Council for words, 7'' (Bologna Book Fair 2003: 2nd prize and the Frankfurt Book Fair, 2003: 1st prize). She has participated in two EU projects in the field of youth literature and
ICT and is a member of two scientific associations: Nordic Network for Children's Literature and International Research Society for Children's Literature (IRSCL).
Between 2006 and 2008 she was secretary of Slavic Association of Slovenia.
Since 2006, she has also worked as a Councillor in the City Council at the Ljubljana Municipality.
Her husband, Jani Kovačič is a singer songwriter.
Selected bibliography
*''Models for the creative teaching of literature in primary school''. Ljubljana: Institute of Education of the Republic of Slovenia, 2000. (COBISS)
''Secret Treasures Reading: reading and literary journals in the primary school education'' teaching manual for teachers to (secret) creative reading log from 2 to 9 (from 1 to 8). Ljubljana: Rokus, 20001; 20012th(COBISS)
''Historical overview of Slovenian children's writing'' (1850-2000) Ljubljana: Faculty of Education, 2002. (COBISS)
Creative writing. Exercises to develop creative writing skills Ljubljana: GV Education, 2003 (COBISS)
''School, in theory - theory in school'' Journal of Science XXI/160/161 criticism. Ljubljana: Journal for the Criticism of Science, 1993. (Co-authorship with others) (COBISS)
''Dane Zajc''Ljubljana: Nova magazine, 1995. (A collection of interpretations, 4). (Co-authorship with others) (COBISS)
''The Understanding of Metaphor by Elementary School Students. Q: The empirical and Systemic Approach to Literature and Culture as Theory and application'' Ed. Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven Sywenky, Irene. 1997th 385-39 1. (COBISS)
''Reading And Writing Appreciation and University Elementary schools: results of a survey'' Reader 35/36. Houghton, Michi, 1996. 55–66. (COBISS)
''Place and Function of Children's Literature and the Next Millennium''1997th (COBISS)
''Feature sites in the Slovenian Youth Literature = The city as a youth, medical and Motif literature'' Urban Challenge XIV / 2 2003rd 29–34, 97-100. (COBISS)
Art and pedagogy: From ''Reader Response to writer-response theory. They are based on II / 2'' 2004th 153–162. (COBISS)
''Literaray history of children's literature in Slovenia. A child and a book''XXXI/61. 2004th 67–77. (COBISS)
See also
*
List of Slovenian literary historians and critics
References
External links
*''Zgodovinski oris prostega spisja na Slovenskem''
istorical overview of creative writing in Slovenian(1850–2000). Ljubljana: Pedagoška fakulteta, 2002. (COBISS) https://web.archive.org/web/20130531201313/http://www2.pef.uni-lj.si/publikacije/M-Blazic_Zgodovinski_oris.pdf
*''Branja mladinske književnosti
eading Children's Literature' http://www.pef.uni-lj.si/fileadmin/Datoteke/Zalozba/prodaja_predstavitev/Blazic_Branja.pdf
*Children's Literature in South-East Europe. CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture. 2011. https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol13/iss1/10/
*''Sistemska didaktika književnosti
eaching Literary System'
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Living people
1956 births
Slovenian literary historians
Academic staff of the University of Ljubljana
People from Šipovo
Slovenian people of Bosnia and Herzegovina descent
Women literary historians