Uppeldi og menntun - 01.07.2012, Page 138

Uppeldi og menntUn/icelandic JoUrnal of edUcation 21(2) 2012138
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About thE Authors
Gudrun Alda Hardardottir (gudrunalda@sigalda.is) is a Ph.D. student in education
at the University of Iceland. The topic of her doctoral work is children’s learning
opportunities in one preschool in Iceland. Gudrun Alda completed preschool-teacher
education from the Icelandic College for Preschool Teachers 1985, a diploma in school
management from the same school in 1992 and an M.Ed. degree from the Iceland
University of Education in 1998. Gudrun Alda completed her pedagogista training in
the Reggio Emilia Institute in Stockholm in 2009. She was a lecturer and subsequently
senior lecturer in preschool studies at the University of Akureyri and currently operates
a preschool in Iceland and works there as pedagogista.
Kristjan Kristjansson (kk9@hi.is) completed a Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of
St. Andrews. He is currently a professor in philosophy of education in the School of
Education, University of Iceland, and has recently been appointed professor of character
education and virtue ethics, as well as vice-director of the Jubilee Centre for Character
and Values, at the University of Birmingham. Kristjan has published extensively in the
areas of educational philosophy/theory, ethics and moral education. His latest book is
The self and its emotions (Cambridge University Press, 2010). He is currently working on
another book for C.U.P. on the philosophical credentials of positive psychology.