65° - 01.11.1969, Blaðsíða 26

levels and between city and country in social and
educational affairs. This is actually my main
theme today.
What is the standing of Icelandic education
at present and what specific steps would you like
to see taken?
Icelandic education has been severely criticized,
not the least by myself, for teaching students how
to do their lessons, but not what to do with them,
for teaching only groundwork rather than ap-
plication. But it must be remembered that com-
pared to students elsewhere, the Icelandic stu-
dent’s basic educational knowledge is in some
respects quite good, despite its passivity. Now we
must work on the premise that the process of
education is as important as the product, that the
chief criterion of knowledge is its application.
At present there is psychological service for
the elementary schools in Reykj avik, but none for
the higher levels. Increased pupil guidance is
needed which will include education and voca-
tional guidance as well as more extensive psycho-
logical counseling at all levels. The realization of
this depends on many measures, some of which
can be briefly mentioned. 1. Educational author-
ities at all levels must grant official status and
more support to psychology and psychologists. 2.
Educational leaders at all levels must have ex-
tensive academic training in educational psycho-
logy in order to see its importance for the school
system in general and to implement it. 3. School
psychologists and their co-workers must set up an
efficient design for guidance and psychological
services modeled on the most enlightened and
qualified work being done in this field, and this
entails that the school psychologists themselves
be well qualified. 4. There must be more dynamic
communication between parents and teachers,
and school psychologists, and this necessitates a
new approach to teacher education at the ele-
mentary and secondary school level. On all these
factors depend the professional identity and
efficient contribution of workers in psychology
in the schools.
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