Purist language policies in Iceland have preserved and modernized Icelandic up until the present time. However, the impact of globalization and global English has led to the perception that the language is less secure than in the past and has prompted efforts by policy makers towards greater protection of Icelandic. This monograph presents the…

Three general concerns of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) examiners in preparing this first review of Iceland's educational system were that: (1) education contribute to the broader social and economic culture; (2) it differentiate itself from the educational forms of other countries in response to Iceland's…

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)