Author Archives: Jón Torfi Jónasson

Again 2021 was like previous year, defined by Covid. Academically it was relatively calm, but our only trip abroad was to NERA in Odense in November but was also connected to a very pleasant visit to Copenhagen, staying with Inge … Continue reading →

For Dísa and myself the Covid-19 2020 was very different - as for most people. Academically it was OK, socially not as bad as we feared and our domestic travels were superb, being nurtured by the Icelandic nature and our … Continue reading →

January 2020 - Looking back to 2019 Academically 2019 was an interesting year - and socially very pleasant. After the nice time with Dianne and David, Jakob and Birgitte visited us twice and J-C and Mary Lee came during the … Continue reading →

Moving into 2019 looks good. Towards the end of 2018 I particpated with Ævar Kjartanson in ten hour long programmes under the heading Education and the future, where we invited a number of people to talk about different aspects of … Continue reading →

NERA in Oslo last March was interesting. I participated in the NERA panel on the nature of the hierarchy or relationship between "pedagogy" on the one hand and "educational science" on the other. It is clear that the latter is … Continue reading →

I have been fortunate to be working with a number of very interesting people. The people I am supervising for their PhD, Björk Ólafsdóttir (How external evaluation may influence internal evaluation), Jakob Frímann Þorsteinsson (The nature and value of outdoor … Continue reading →

On June 30th I retired from my post as a professor at the University of Iceland. I started there as a part-time teacher in September 1977, sharing my time equally between teaching experimental physics on the one hand and cognitive … Continue reading →

The NERA conference in Copenhagen in March was good. So was Ulead in Banff in April, good combination of theory and practice. Spring has been busy with tasks in the Faroe Islands, Gothenburg and Oslo and several different assignments here … Continue reading →

I will be at NERA in Copenhagen in late March Guðrún Ragnarsdóttir will present a paper, which I co-author: Responses of upper secondary school leaders in Iceland to a new curriculum in an ostensibly decentralized system. This a based on … Continue reading →

Samuel Abrams has a stop-over in Iceland and presents his book. Drawing on his book, Education and the Commercial Mindset (Harvard University Press, 2016), Samuel E. Abrams will discuss the divergent paths taken by education policymakers in Chile, Finland, Sweden, … Continue reading →