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Program Overview

The Health Promotion and Home Economics, B.Ed. program is designed to train students to teach in Icelandic compulsory schools, specializing in health promotion and home economics.

Program Details

• The program focuses on ensuring that prospective home economics teachers are able to take a leadership role in health promotion within their own classrooms and beyond.
• The main objective of the program is to prepare students to teach home economics in Icelandic compulsory schools and equip them to lead the way in health promotion within the school and in the wider community.
• Students will complete school placements where they will learn about how Icelandic compulsory schools operate, as well as teaching and working practices in home economics.

Course Topics

• Health promotion and home economics
• Literacy and literacy learning
• Nutrition, energy balance, and training
• Health and wellbeing
• Cognition, motor skills, and social relations
• Outdoor learning and exercise
• Food, culture, and health
• School-based home economics
• Research methodology in health promotion
• Health behavior and food choices

Admission Requirements

• To be admitted to this program, applicants must have completed a matriculation exam from an Icelandic upper-secondary school with a minimum of 20 upper-secondary credits in Icelandic, including at least 10 credits at competence level 3.
• Applicants who have completed a qualification equivalent to Icelandic upper-secondary school examination from a foreign school must also pass a special Icelandic entrance examination.

Program Requirements

• 180 credits (ECTS) must be completed for the B.Ed. degree.

Program Structure

The program does not offer specializations.

• First year: Fall - Study skills in university work, Icelandic in the classroom I, Learning and Teaching Mathematics, Introduction to Learning and Instruction, Design as a Source for Creativity
• First year: Spring - An introduction to health promotion and home economics, Pedagogy of Compulsory School, Nutrition and energy balance, Icelandic in the classroom II, Mathematics in Teacher Education
• Second year: Fall - Flexitarian diet - healthy food for humans and earth health, The lifespan: Cognition, motor skills and social relations, Ethics and professionalism
• Second year: Spring - Teaching-oriented cooking, Food culture health, Field studies in health promotion and home economics I - Lifestyles and work methods, Field studies in health promotion and home economics II - Food culture and environment, Nutrition and health, Curriculum and Assessment, Health and welfare - health promoting schools and communities
• Third year: Fall - Dietetic food and food for special occasions, Food skills and dietary choices, Determinants of Health, Nutrition and training in youth, Nutrition in performance sports, Research methods in health promotion, sport and leisure studies
• Third year: Spring - Final project, Health behaviour and food choice

Elective Courses

• Designing and making from glass
• Introduction to Design and Craft
• Energy and matter in nature and society
• Diversity of life and evolution
• Physiology
• Literature, Nationality and Culture
• Areas of conflict - challenges of multiculturalism
• Creative play and technology
• The interaction of organism and environment
• Computer games, virtual worlds, and game culture
• Children's literature
• Life skills ethics education
• The art of writing and literature
• History Far and Wide
• Woodcraft, woodturning and Wood Carving
• Toy Design
• The local community
• Green Woodwork and Whittling
• Visual Arts
• Religious education and diversity
• Outdoor Education and Green Design
• Equity in education and equality for all
• Events and Project Management
• Fashion design
• Textiledesign
• Gender based violence: From understanding to action
• Peer to peer support (spring)
• Drama, stories and narration
• Silversmithing
• Games and activities in schools and leisure
• Creativity and innovation in textiles
• Textile methods
• Physiology
• From an idea to a performance

Exchange Studies

The University of Iceland collaborates with over 400 universities worldwide, providing students with the opportunity to pursue part of their studies at an international university.

Potential Careers

This program could open up careers in:

• Home economics teaching in Icelandic compulsory schools
• Specialist positions within the education system
• Health promotion

Social Activities

The student organisation for student teachers at the University of Iceland is called Kennó, which organises events such as socials for new students, annual galas, and workplace tours.