Gátt - 2010, Qupperneq 29

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Þ á T T T A K A Í F R Æ Ð S L U o g N á M I
g á T T – á R S R I T – 2 0 1 0
U M H Ö F U N d I N N
Svava Guðrún Sigurðardóttir hefur starfað við ættfræði-
grunninn Íslendingabók frá 1997 og situr jafnframt í stjórn
Menningarfélagsins Spákonuarfs. Hún lauk BA prófi frá HÍ
árið 1996, kennsluréttindum frá KHÍ árið 2008 og er að ljúka
meistaranámi í menntunarfræðum frá HÍ með áherslu á full-
orðinsfræðslu. Lokaverkefni hennar er rannsókn á ástæðum
fyrir fjarveru og/eða þátttöku 10 kvenna í námi að loknum
grunnskóla.
A b S T R A c T
In studies on participation in or absence from education, the-
ories on incentives and obstacles are prevalent. This paper,
however, aims to study incentives and obstacles from a new
point of view, particularly from the perspective and attitudes
of women to family commitments. The paper is essentially
based on semi-structured interviews with ten women in the
Greater Reykjavík Area aged 29-43 of whom half had only
completed compulsory schooling but the others had com-
pleted their further education after a long absence. All the
women had children, four of them being single mothers. The
interview research is based on qualitative methodology and
is part of the author’s M.Ed. degree in education studies at
the University of Iceland.