Frá því á áttunda áratugnum hefur lýðræðisleg borgaravitund verið markmið íslensks menntakerfis og viðfangsefni Sigrúnar Aðalbjarnardóttur í kennslu og rannsóknum. Á síðustu áratugum hefur orðið vitundarvakning um þessi málefni. Í nýlegu riti Evrópuráðsins, ...

Historically, the development of assessment and evaluation in Icelandic public education has been similar to that of other Nordic countries, featuring an amalgamation of knowledge transmission, testing and relative grading, on the one hand, and, on the ...

Application of external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) to localized cancer has long been regarded as a standard treatment option with its purpose being to deliver a ho- mogeneous high-dose distribution within the tumor volume while protecting organs at ...

A better understanding of normal organ development can give deeper insight into which genes are harnessed by aberrant cells during cancer formation and progression. In my thesis, I have investigated two seemingly different, however, related, developmental ...

Children’s play in preschools is a complicated phenomenon studied extensively from different perspectives and paradigms. This study draws on the work of William Corsaro, to develop a study that used the sociology of childhood perspective, with ...

Background: Very little is known about physical activity (PA) and PA patterns measured with objective methods among children with intellectual disability (ID) or their reasons to take part in PA and sport. Moreover, even less is known about their ...

This paper is motivated by the notion that coupling systems allows for mitigating the failure of individual ones. We present a novel approach to determining asymptotic stability and robustness of a network consisting of coupled dynamical systems, where ...

This dissertation discusses the implications of municipal energy-related actions in the generation of low carbon and carbon neutral cities. The purpose of the study is to examine the implications of these actions within the boundaries of scope 2 - 3 ...

Í þessari grein er fjallað um samstarfsrannsókn sem fram fór í einum leikskóla á höfuðborgarsvæðinu. Þátttakendur í leikskólanum voru fimm ásamt meistaranema og kennara frá Menntavísindaviði Háskóla Íslands. Rannsóknin er hluti af samstarfsverkefni ...

Objectives A multi‐isotope study was conducted on individuals buried at Skriðuklaustur monastery (AD 1493–1554) to investigate their geographic origins and dietary composition. Comparative material from individuals excavated from Skeljastaðir, an ...