Jón Torfi Jónasson

A somewhat busy month, October. I participated in anumber of meetings and I am constantly surprised how much I don't know about nor understand within my own field of specialization. I hope the rest of academic expertise is not like that. I was pleased that my paper about inertia within the system of education was published. It is a general essay and does not focus on either  the Icelandic or Nordic systems as I have often done.  It is called  Educational change, inertia and potential futures, European Journal of Futures Research, 4(1), 1-14

DOI
10.1007/s40309-016-0087-z

and is distributed with Open Access under the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License.  The article is available electronically and is freely accessible to everyone:  http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40309-016-0087-z

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In August I will be preparing for a presentation at ECER in Dublin on  the "Development of a Critical Analysis of the “What Works” Discourse" but also discussing some of the problems that arise in basing practice on data or research.  I also hope to get our Institute for research on Higher Education going in the fall. I will participate in a NAFOL, the Norwegian doctoral school for teachers, summer school held in Iceland in late August. I will give a number of presentations in Iceland in September and October.