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Peer reviewedJohannesson, Ingolfur A. – Teaching and Teacher Education, 1993
Considers the professionalization of progress and educational expertise among Iceland's teacher educators and other education reformers in the 1980s and 1990s as an example of how the creation of learned discourse is linked to the phenomenon of professionalism. Reform discourse is interpreting using the conceptual framework of Bourdieu. (GLR)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Planning, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Direct linkStuebing, Susan – PEB Exchange, 2004
"On the day we heard that there was agreement to establish an upper secondary school in the region, every house in Snaefellsnes flew the Icelandic flag," explained one parent in the first workshop to develop the Snaefellsnes Upper Secondary School. The new school in this rural Icelandic region will be a "meeting place to learn"…
Descriptors: Community Leaders, Workshops, Educational Change, Teaching Methods
Download full textChapman, David W., Ed.; Mahlck, Lars O., Ed. – International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) UNESCO, 2004
This book presents a compilation of articles based on the premise that the move to advanced technology use in primary and secondary schools offers great hope for improving the access, quality, and efficiency of basic education. The aim of the book is to identify and examine how information technologies can be, and are being, used to strengthen the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Educational Planning, Educational Change
