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Kristín Dýrfjörð – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2024
This article critically analyses the dynamic role of the Preschool Teachers' Union in Iceland, tracing its strategic moves within the educational and political spheres from inception to the present. The union's formative years were marked by a fight to become a fully fledged union and active participation in foundational negotiations that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers, Preschool Teachers
Fridborg Jonsdottir; Jóhanna Einarsdóttir – Educational Action Research, 2024
This article addresses the pedagogical practices applied by teachers at pre and primary school level when working with children with culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds (CALD) as well as potential challenges in a research collaboration between teachers and academics. A praxeological study was conducted with two preschool teachers and…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, Teaching Methods, Cultural Differences, Language Usage
Björn Rúnar Egilsson – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2025
While academic interest in belonging in early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings has increased in recent years, the interplay between parental and educators' notions of belonging is under-researched. This article explores preschool educators' experiences of working with families of young children and their perspectives of parental…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Preschool Teachers, Parent School Relationship, Parent Participation
Friðborg Jónsdóttir; Sue Dockett; Jóhanna Einarsdóttir – Education 3-13, 2025
This article reports a praxeological study exploring educational practices and cooperation among teachers intended to create continuity between one preschool and one primary school in Reykjavík. The main participants were two preschool and two primary school teachers, with additional data obtained through interviews with the principals of the two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Elementary Schools, School Transition
Vardy, Emma J.; Al Otaiba, Stephanie; Breadmore, Helen L.; Kung, Shu-Hsuan; Pétursdóttir, Anna-Lind; Zaru, Mai W.; McMaster, Kristen L. – Journal of Research in Reading, 2022
Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies (PALS) is a class-wide structured supplementary paired reading programme to support learners with their reading (Fuchs et al., 1997). What remains at the core of implementing PALS in any given location is the co-creation with teachers to ensure PALS fits with that educational context. This paper discusses the…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Elementary School Teachers
Einarsdottir, Johanna; Ólafsdóttir, Sara M. – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2023
The study examines the views of children and educators with regards to belonging in one diverse preschool setting in Iceland. It builds on the ideology of the politics of belonging, referring to children's relationships in the community of preschool, children's participation, and the process of inclusion and exclusion among the children. This…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Preschool Teachers, Student Attitudes
Urban, Mathias; Reikerås, Elin; Eidsvåg, Gunnar Magnus; Guevara, Jennifer; Saebø, Janken; Semmoloni, Carolina – Global Studies of Childhood, 2023
This paper presents and discusses the findings of a collaborative investigation into Nordic approaches to evaluation and assessment in early childhood education and care. The project explored values and principles that underpin and guide evaluation in ECEC systems and practices in five Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Educational Quality
Nishida, Megumi – Studying Teacher Education, 2022
This self-study employed Haiku poetry as a culturally responsive way to respond to Japanese students' critical reflection needs in a self-study research workshop. I am a Japanese self-study researcher working in the Icelandic education system. Introducing self-study methodology to teacher educators and students demands a careful approach to…
Descriptors: Poetry, Culturally Relevant Education, Workshops, Security (Psychology)
Sigurdardottir, Ingibjorg; Mork, Svava B. – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2022
As the first level of schooling, preschools are part of the educational system in Iceland. All preschools operate according to Preschool Act. No. 90/2008 and the National Curriculum Guidelines, where the emphasis is on children's learning through play and high-quality practice. The aim of this study was to shed light on how the first wave of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Education, COVID-19, Pandemics
Ragnarsdóttir, Hanna – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2021
Many refugee families face challenges in their new educational environments. This qualitative research study aims to explore the experiences of six Syrian refugee families who arrived in Iceland from Lebanon in 2016 and settled in three municipalities (Stjórnarráð Íslands 2019) and their children in their preschool settings; and to explore the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Refugees, Preschool Education, Preschool Children