Prof. dr PETAR STOJAKOVIĆ

About The Author


Petar Stojaković was born in 1945. He graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo. He finished his postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade and got his PhD title at the Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo, where he later worked as a professor of psychology. After that he got a job as a professor at the Faculty of Philosophy in Banjaluka, where he worked until his retirement. He published many scientific books and expert essays in the field of psychology (thirty books), as well as textbooks for psychology for all the levels of education, from preschool to the university level. As a scientist and a lecturer in the field of psychology, he dealt with studying the connection between psychology and other sciences, especially literature (the connection between psychology of creativity and literature). His best known published works in that field are: Creation and quest for meaning (250p) Educational Psyhology (two volume – 820p.), Psychology of giftedness and cerativity (520p), Born to crate (300p), Psychology (840p), The development of learning abilities (250p), Cognitive styles, learning styles and creativity (420p), Phenomena - Essays on Creativity (300p) itd. He worked at universities in the USA and Canada.and was included in Fulbright program several times). In 2010 he was chosen for a foreign member of the Serbian Academy of Education in Belgrade. Beside his work at the university and his scientific work, he did literary work and he wrote several novels and collections of short stories and four volumes of essays on creativity . He lives in Banjaluka (The Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina) and he is still engaged in scientific and literary work.

LITERARY WORKS TRANSLATD INTO ENGLISH