Conference on Educational Sciences
Menntakvika, the annual conference of the School of Education, University of Iceland, was held on Friday, October 5, 2012. The conference is intended to present and communicate the latest research, innovation and development in the field of upbringing and education each year.
Conference proceedings by Netla and the School of Education
The conference proceedings of Netla – Menntakvika 2012 are published by Netla – Online Journal on Pedagogy and Education and the School of Education, University of Iceland. In this publication there are 16 peer-reviewed articles and 4 edited articles by authors who gave talks at Menntakvika in the fall of 2012. The editors were Grétar L. Marinósson, Ólöf Garðarsdóttir and Róbert Berman. Other editorial board members were Anna Kristín Sigurðardóttir, Freyja Birgisdóttir, Jóhanna T. Einarsdóttir and Helgi Skúli Kjartansson. Kristín Erla Harðardóttir and Sigríður Kr. Hrafnkelsdóttir were responsible for the project management of the publication. Torfi Hjartarson supervised the finalization of the articles.
Peer reviewed articles
Peer-reviewed articles are, in addition to a general manuscript reading, read by the editorial board and peer-reviewed by two experts in the field of the article. At least one of the experts does not work in the same field as the authors of the articles. Complete anonymity is maintained during the peer-review.
Ragnar F. Ólafsson, Allyson Macdonald og Auður Pálsdóttir
Teacher efficacy and country clusters: Some findings from the TALIS 2008 survey
Susan Gollifer and Anh-Dao Tran
Exploring the rhetoric: How does Iceland’s curriculum reform address student diversity at the upper secondary level?
