The Icelandic education system has developed largely in line with the Nordic social welfare model emphasising principles of democratic citizenship and inclusion. In the past two decades, Iceland has moved from marginal immigration to being one of ...

This thesis aims to explore how power relations are reproduced through parental choices and practices in Iceland, with a focus on classed and gendered dimensions. The thesis can be viewed as two separate yet connected parts. In the first part, I ...

The topic of this PhD dissertation is the social support networks adolescents of foreign origin and immigrant adolescents perceive to be available, both in their immediate environment (family, friends), and the more distal environment (neighborhood). ...

Many students experience mathematics as meaningless and irrelevant to their lives outside the school system. In response, mathematics educators have called for more emphasis on meaning making and dialogue in the classroom, and some have argued that ...

This research is a contribution to critical feminist scholarship on intimate partner violence (IPV). The project adopts the framework of affective–discursive practices to understand how violence thrives and is discursively maintained in Icelandic ...

This doctoral thesis contributes to the discussion on teaching the values aspect of environmental and sustainability education (ESE). Although fostering values is promoted within ESE, and a shift in values seen as essential for a sustainable future, ...

This article criticizes an acclaimed Icelandic documentary film series from 2019, People Like That („Svona fólk“), which has become the quasi-canonical history of the country‘s gay and lesbian rights struggle. The series tells the story of the forward ...

In recent years, “queer joy” has become a prominent topic in queer circles in the West. It refers to a defiant sense of joy felt by LGBTQ + people in the face of an increasingly hostile environment. However, the political use of queer joy has a troubling ...

Rannsóknin sem hér segir frá er hluti af stærra rannsóknarverkefni um siðfræði í bókmenntakennslu. Í þessari grein er sjónum beint að reynslu íslenskukennara af því að kenna unglingum í 9. og 10. bekk í grunnskóla ...

Þessi ritgerð greinir nýlega íslenska hinsegin sögu með áherslu á árin 1990–2010. Á þessu tímabili færðust íslenskir hommar og lesbíur frá því að vera utangarðs utan þjóðarímyndarinnar og tóku sér stöðu innan hennar. Löggjöf um staðfesta samvist milli ...