Sandra Dabić, Msc
MSc Sandra Dabić is a music educator with extensive experience in teaching solfège at all levels of music education (Josip Slavenski Music School, 2000; Vatroslav Lisinski Music School, 2019, Belgrade).
She graduated from the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, Department of General Music Pedagogy, where in 2000 she defended her thesis The Professional and Psychological Aspects of Preparing Teachers for Solfège Instruction. In 2004, she completed her Master’s degree at the same faculty in the field of solfège methodology, with the thesis The Justification of Applying Numerical Assessment in Music Education (Assessment: Evaluation or Measurement). She enrolled in doctoral studies in Music Pedagogy at the same faculty in 2020.
Beginning in 2001, she was employed at the Faculty of Philology and Arts, University of Kragujevac, Department of Music, where she worked as a teaching Аssistant trainee (2001), Аssistant (2004), and Аssistant professor (2005) in the field of Solfège and Solfège Teaching Methodology, actively contributing to the development of curricula and pedagogical practice. Since 2021, she has been employed as an assistant in Music Pedagogy at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade.
Her scientific and professional work focuses on solfège methodology, with emphasis on the development of auditory perception and music literacy. She researches pedagogical aspects of dictation in solfège instruction, with special attention to timbral distinctness and registral characteristics of sound material. She is also engaged in interdisciplinary approaches, examining the relationship between auditory memory, cognitive processes, and the methodology of music literacy. She regularly presents her research at national and international conferences.
She is the author of Melodic Etudes (2008), and co-author of Timbral Distinctness of Auditory Perception – Dictations with Instruments of the Large Symphony Orchestra (Karan & Dabić, 2009). Her works have been published in conference proceedings and journals such as Pedagoški forum, Nasleđe, Music Pedagogy – Challenge, Inspiration, and Creation (SIMPED), and Psychology and Music – Interdisciplinary Encounters, both in Serbia and abroad.