Anka Došen - Dobud

Writer, pedagogue, expert in preschool education and a university professor. She is widely considered one of the greatest preschool education experts in the former Yugoslavia.

Born near Bosanski Petrovac, she was educated in Zagreb, Koprivnica, Tuzla and Sarajevo. She taught in numerous schools in Bosnia and Croatia. She was the first to develop the concept of free activities for children in kindergarten, she actualized the idea of free choice of activities and thus opened the way to a more modern understanding of institutional preschool education.

She is the author of a large number of books and articles from preschool pedagogy and methods of educational work.