Svanborg Rannveig Jónsdóttir (born 7 February 1953) professor in arts and ónsdócreative work in the School of Education at the University of Iceland.
Professional career
Svanborg finished the national standard lower secondary school examination from Flensborg Upper Secondary School in Hafnarfjörður, her matriculation examination from Menntaskólinn við Tjörnina in 1973, and her Diploma in Education from Iceland University of Education in 1978. She completed a diploma in design and woodwork teaching from Iceland University of Education in 2001 and an MA in pedagogy from the University of Iceland's School of Social Sciences in 2005. Svanborg completed a PhD in Pedagogy and Educational Theory from the University of Iceland's School of Education in 2011. Her research focused on Innovation Education in Icelandic compulsory schools. The title of her dissertation is “The location of innovation education in Icelandic compulsory schools”.
Teaching
Svanborg worked as a primary school teacher from fall 1978 to 2006. Svanborg introduced Innovation Education in Gnúpverjaskóli Elementary School (later Brautarholt and Gnúpverjaskóli and, since 2004, Þjórsárskóli). She has actively participated in development of this area of study in Iceland. Svanborg was a part-time teacher at the Iceland University of Education and at the School of Education at the University of Iceland from 2006 to 2011. As of 2012, she was an associate professor at the same school and from July 2019 a professor there. She has taught various courses in pedagogy and educational science.) She has focused on innovation education, creativity and artistic approaches in studies and teaching. For example, she has taught in continuing education courses for working teachers from 2003 and has given presentations, instructed and taught innovation education in many parts of Iceland as well as abroad to teachers, principals, teacher students, political associations, the general public, and organisations.
Research
Svanborg's research has focused on innovation and entrepreneurial education, creativity in education, organisational change, teachers’ collective efficacy and self-study in teacher education (self-study of teaching and teacher education practice S-STTEP) and collaborative supervision of master's students.
She has directed two research groups, RASKA 1 from 2013 to 2015 and RASKA 2 from 2016 to 2018. The groups consisted of practicing teachers who conducted action research on their own work and focused on creativity in studies and teaching. RASKA 1 (REsearch on CR(SK)eative schooling) ran from 2013 to 2015. It included three teachers in the School of Education and five teachers of Icelandic and mathematics in preschools, elementary schools, and upper secondary schools. The teachers examined their teaching in order to identify how they could strengthen the creative element in their work.
The RASKA 2 group consisted of eight art and vocational teachers on three school levels – elementary and upper secondary schools and university level. The research went on from 2016 to 2018.