Uppeldi og menntun - 01.07.2013, Page 76

Uppeldi og menntUn/icelandic JoUrnal of edUcation 22(2) 201376
„að tryggJa framBoð og fJölBreytileika“
However, NCEM is the only publishing house retaining responsibility for meeting all
educational material needs in the official curriculum and for publishing materials for
all subjects, while the private publishers may publish solely in competitive subjects as
reading and math, i.e. subjects that are mostly like to provide a profit in market terms.
It has been established in Icelandic research that, in the majority of Icelandic class-
rooms, the curriculum is the textbook, so it is vital to take good care of the production
of curriculum materials.
Keywords: Educational materials, curriculum materials, educational policy, neo-
liberalism, discourse analysis, democracy
abOUt tHE aUtHOr
Berglind Ros Magnusdottir (brm@hi.is) is an assistant professor at the University of
Iceland, in the School of Education and on the 16th of December, 2013, she will defend
her PhD thesis at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. Prior to her PhD
studies, she worked as an adjunct and equal opportunities officer at the University
of Iceland and has five years of experience as a teacher in the Icelandic compulsory
education system. From 2009 to 2011 after having completed two years of the PhD
study in Cambridge, she took up a post as a special adviser to the Minister of Educa-
tion, Science and Culture in Iceland. Her main research area is on marketization and
privatization in education and its effects on social justice, democracy and the social
context of school communities with a special focus on race, class, gender and disability.