Bringing Parent Education to Iceland

Posted
July 31, 2020

In 2010, an ambitious graduate student named Hrund Þórarins Ingudóttir enrolled in coursework for CEHD’s parent and family education program—all the way from Iceland. The program’s classes were available online, but for Ingudóttir, the personal experience mattered. So she packed up her family for a stay in Minnesota.

Susan Walker directs and teaches in the parent and family education program, and she got to know Ingudóttir well. In addition to taking courses, Ingudóttir participated in academic program meetings, professional conferences, and research events.

“She attended everything,” says Walker. “She was a voracious learner.”

The two didn’t know it at the time, but a partnership much bigger than both of them had begun. Ingudóttir wanted to bring her unique experience and knowledge back to students and families in her home country, where parent education was not an established practice.

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Faculty from the University of Iceland and the University of Minnesota