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						ABSTRACT

This article explores the recent policy of the educational authorities in Reykjavík, the capital of

Iceland, to implement individualized learning methods in our compulsory schools. The content of

this policy is compared with other related educational trends, such as personalized teaching,

responsive instruction, adaptive education and multiage schooling. Special emphasis is put on

comparing the ideologies behind the individualized learning approach with the philosophy of the

open school and open classroom movement in the sixties and the seventies. The article also 

explores similarities with the concept of curricular differentiation, as presented in the writings of

Carol Ann Tomlinson. The main conclusion is that up to a considerable extent, these three trends

very much share philosophies, methods and arrangements.

Ingvar Sigurgeirsson er prófessor 

í kennslufræ?i vi? Kennaraháskóla Íslands

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