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Direct linkHermína Gunnþórsdóttir; Anna Björk Sverrisdóttir; Bergljót Þrastardóttir; Edda Óskarsdóttir; Hanna Ragnarsdóttir – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2024
Icelandic education policy has a strong focus on inclusive education, but available Icelandic evidence indicates a lack of well-defined procedures in schools and municipalities aimed at inclusive education. Research literature has placed emphasis on the central role that school leaders play in developing inclusive schools. The purpose of this…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Inclusion, Educational Practices, Compulsory Education
Dal, Michael; Elo, Janne; Leffler, Eva; Svedberg, Gudrun; Westerberg, Mats – Education Inquiry, 2016
Strategies for entrepreneurship in the educational system are present not only in the Nordic countries, but also in the majority of other Western countries. Linked to these strategies different research efforts have been made. Although the research efforts have a common origin in supranational policies on entrepreneurship, there has been little…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Cross Cultural Studies, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
Jóhannesson, Ingólfur Ásgeir; Bjarnadóttir, Valgerður S. – Critical Studies in Education, 2016
Dropout from upper secondary education in Iceland is higher than in the neighboring countries, but varied options to re-enter school have also been on offer. This article focuses on how students, who had returned to a selected upper secondary school after having quit in one or more other schools, benefited from an innovative pedagogical approach…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Dropouts, Reentry Students, Foreign Countries
Download full textRennie, Frank; Johannesdottir, Sigurbjorg – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2011
The recent economic crisis in Iceland has raised issues of the sustainability of Icelandic higher education to new levels of importance. A key strategy in relation to this economic crisis is to consider the merger of the four public universities in Iceland and to introduce a much higher engagement with online and open delivery methods of higher…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Distance Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Resources
Page, Tom; Thorsteinsson, Gisli – Journal on School Educational Technology, 2008
This paper introduces blended learning as a pedagogical approach, which was explored through the European project InnoEd and the way InnoEd undertook by using the on-line InnoEd VRLE. European educators in the InnoEd project have utilised a range of learning activities to help to improve Innovation Education. A mixture of lectures, visual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Blended Learning, Educational Innovation, Inservice Teacher Education
Jonsdottir, Svanborg R.; Thorsteinsson, Gisli; Page, Tom – Journal on School Educational Technology, 2008
Innovation Education and Practical Use of Knowledge was introduced into the Icelandic National Curriculum for compulsory schools in 1999, where it is defined by the curriculum writers as a "school subject" but is not allocated any direct time in the recommended guidelines for subjects. This paper describes a master's research project…
Descriptors: Ideology, Educational Innovation, Compulsory Education, Foreign Countries
van den Hoven, Gerard H. – 1989
A seminar was held in Reykjavik, Iceland for the purposes of disseminating results of the Council of Europe's Council for Cultural Cooperation's (CDCC) Project 8, Innovation in Primary Education (IPE), and exploring issues in educational reform in Iceland, particularly the revision of the core curriculum. Participants were civil servants of the…
Descriptors: Behaviorism, Child Development, Communication (Thought Transfer), Cooperation
