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'In Drama You Can Be Anything … ': Student Perspectives on Drama Teaching and School Performance in Icelandic Compulsory Education
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Thorkelsdóttir, Rannveig Björk – Research in Drama Education, 2023
The aim of this article is to shed light on how students experience drama lessons and school performance when drama is part of the school curriculum. Within a sociocultural framework of understanding, an ethnographic study was conducted on the culture and context of drama implementation in two schools in Iceland. The students talk about drama…
Descriptors: Drama Education, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Compulsory Education
Testing or Transforming Practice: Probing an Icelandic National Initiative to Improve Literacy Education
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Sigþórsson, Rúnar – Literacy, 2017
In the wake of a White Paper on Education Reform, published in 2014 by the Icelandic Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, the minister launched a national initiative to improve literacy education in Icelandic compulsory schools. The White Paper and the national initiative came as a reaction to the disappointing performance of 15-year-olds…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Educational Improvement, Foreign Countries, Compulsory Education
An Epidemiological Study of ADHD Symptoms among Young Persons and the Relationship with Cigarette Smoking, Alcohol Consumption and Illicit Drug Use
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Gudjonsson, Gisli H.; Sigurdsson, Jon Fridrik; Sigfusdottir, Inga Dora; Young, Susan – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2012
Background: This study investigates the relationship between attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms and cigarette smoking, alcohol use and illicit drug use. Method: The participants were 10,987 pupils in the final three years of their compulsory education in Iceland (ages 14-16 years). The participants completed questionnaires in…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Smoking, Compulsory Education, Lysergic Acid Diethylamide