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ÞAKKIR
Greinin er byggð á niðurstöðum doktorsritgerðar minnar, The development of children’s
ideas about the body: How these ideas change in a teaching environment. Rannsóknin var
styrkt af Rannsóknarnámssjóði Rannís og Rannsóknarsjóði Kennaraháskóla Íslands
og fyrir það vil ég þakka. Einnig vil ég þakka leiðbeinendum mínum, dr. Jóni Torfa
Jónassyni, prófessor við Háskóla Íslands, og dr. Michael Reiss, prófessor við Institude
of Education, University of London, fyrir frábæra leiðsögn og stuðning og dr. Allyson
Macdonald, prófessor við Kennaraháskóla Íslands, sem einnig sat í doktorsnefndinni,
fyrir góð ráð og hvatningu. Nemendum og kennara bekkjarins sem tók þátt í rann-
sókninni vil ég færa innilegar þakkir. Loks vil ég þakka ritrýnum Uppeldis og mennt-
unar fyrir gagnlegar ábendingar.
ABSTRACT
The paper focuses on how children’s drawings can give information on children’s
learning and how their ideas about their body change over a period of two school