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Over the past five years, the UN Sustainable Development Goals have been guiding principles in international affairs, ever since the member states agreed to work towards them in September 2015.
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There has been much media discussion about the lifestyles of young people, which sometimes involve long periods sitting on computers and other devices, with less physical activity than children used to do.
Many people who have been involved in caring for young children will know the challenge of getting them to try and enjoy new foods.
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Research is very important to us all. It would be hard to create knew knowledge and develop society and change it to the better without research.
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| EDUCHANGE seeks to become one of the first ever projects to conduct simultaneous field experiments in multiple, strategically selected countries (Denmark, Germany; Hungary, Iceland) with the goal to reduce inequality at the educational transition from compulsory to secondary education and at the transition to higher education. |
The best case scenario would be if the research results would lead to further development of means of support for under-privileged students who need to prioritise their budget.
Mothers' descriptions of their children in public interviews have changed a lot over the last 50 years.
The research focuses on tracing how the discourse on queer people in Iceland has developed from displaying queer people, especially gay men, as sexual outcasts over to a mostly positive discourse on queer model citizens, reflecting the new and more positive discourse on queer people.
Gender is defined by society's ideas on what is considered feminine and masculine; with reference to social and cultural differences rather than biological ones. These concepts are thus both subjective and shaped by culture.
There are concerns in our society about the numbers of women leaving the teaching profession, including the fact that many young teachers do not last long in the job.
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Whales have probably always fascinated humans due to their incredible size, their mysterious lives in the depths of the sea, and their unusual intelligence.
Rector Silja Bára R. Ómarsdóttir sent the following message to students and staff at the beginning of the autumn semester: Dear students and colleagues, welcome to a new academic year.
Freyja Hreinsdóttir, professor of mathematics and mathematics teaching at the Faculty of Subject Teacher Education, has been appointed as Dean of the School of Education for the next five years.
In the last few years, early childhood music programmes have surged in popularity across many countries, drawing interest from researchers, educators, and policymakers alike for fostering child development, parent-child bonds, and community.
Björn Rúnar Egilsson, assistant professor at the School of Education, University of Iceland, is leading the Icelandic part of a large Nordic research project examining the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the preschool system.
Food insecurity can be defined as the situation when people do not have regular access to safe and nutritious food to thrive and have an active and healthy life.
„This podcast series explores key issues in programme development, pedagogy, education policy, systemic challenges, and social and cultural dynamics, drawing on the lived experiences of our students and teachers,“ says Susan Elizabeth Gollifer, Assistant Professor at the School of Education.
Children who fled Grindavík because of the volcanic eruption evaluate their life satisfaction as lower than their peers.
Benedikta Björg Sörensen Valtýsdóttir, a doctoral student at the School of Education at the University of Iceland is currently working on a study about young people's experiences of gender-based violence and prevention in Iceland, under the guidance of Brynja Elísabeth Halldórsdóttir.
Teachers in primary and secondary schools in Iceland have noticed an increase in derogatory rhetoric amongst students and sometimes experience negative attitudes from parents and guardians when it comes to discussions on LGBTQ+ issues.
Milos Petrovic has with his colleagues worked on developing a new Research centre for sport and health sciences at the University of Iceland.