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Peer reviewedHolmarsdottir, Halla B. – International Review of Education, 2001
States that despite the country's relatively small population and the globalization pressures from the international community, the Icelandic language and culture have remained strong. Reports that Iceland's language policy comes from the government's and official institutions' commitment to the people of Iceland, who are determined to preserve…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Global Approach, Language Attitudes
Direct linkJohannesson, Ingolfur Asgeir – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2006
This paper deals with the way the vision of including children with special educational needs into their home school, constituted for instance in UNESCO's "The Salamanca Statement and Framework on Special Needs Education", has merged with other contemporary discourses (ideas and practices) in Icelandic education. In particular, the paper…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Special Education, Politics of Education, Home Schooling
Peer reviewedEdelstein, Wolfgang – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 1987
Examines the demise of the Icelandic Social Science Curriculum Project (SSCP) as an example of progressive educational reform thwarted by neofundamentalist ideologies. States that the paper goes beyond Jerome Bruner's 1984 account of the rise and fall of "Man: A Course of Study" to provide a deeper analysis of the politics of…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Curriculum Development, Developmental Psychology, Educational Change
