Selected Peer Reviewed Papers and Chapters​

  1. Lay, E. B., & Magnúsdóttir, B. R. (2024). Competing identities in diverse classrooms: mapping social and academic hierarchies in perceived inclusive utopias. International Studies in Sociology of Education, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1080/09620214.2024.2433974
  2. Magnúsdóttir, B. R. (2024). Útvalin og úrvals: Stofnanaháttur elítuskóla og vegferð stúdentsefna í Reykjavík og Helsinki [The consecrated youth and the institutional habitus of elite upper-secondary schools in the urban north]. Netla – Electronic Educational Journal: Special Issue 2024 – The Upper-Secondary School – Education Policy and Social Justice. DOI: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/20020317.2024.2375087
  3. Steiner-Khamsi, G., Jóhannesdóttir, K. og Magnúsdóttir, B. R. (2024). The school-autonomy-with- accountability reform in iceland: Looking back and making sense. Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 1-19. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/20020317.2024.2375087
  4. Magnússon, G. og Magnúsdóttir, B. R. (2024). Sitting on all sides of the table? OECD’s role in icelandic education policy 2030. Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 10(2), 140-154. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20020317.2024.2360797
  5. Dýrfjörð, K., Magnúsdóttir, B. R. og Bjarnadóttir, V. S. (2024). Principals’ financial and pedagogical challenges when choosing programs and educational materials: The scope of the private education industry for preschools. Education Inquiry, 15(1), 47-62. https://doi.org/10.1080/20004508.2023.2291887
  6. Harðardóttir, E., Lay, E., & Magnúsdóttir, B. R. (2023). Performing the norm in the Global North: migrant parents’ positions and participation within Icelandic schools. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 44(6), 1051-1066. https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2023.2237198
  7. Magnúsdóttir, B.R. & Garðarsdóttir, U.E. (2022). Mótun verðuga sjálfsins í Menntaskólanum. Íslenska þjóðfélagið, 13(1), 17-32.
  8. Magnúsdóttir, B. R., & Jónasson, J. T. (2022). The Irregular Formation of State Policy Documents in the Icelandic Field of Education 2013–2017. In B. Karseth, K. Sivesind, & G. Steiner-Khamsi (Eds.), Evidence and Expertise in Nordic Education Policy: A Comparative Network Analysis (pp. 149-182). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91959-7_6
  9. Magnúsdóttir, B. R., & Kosunen, S. (2022). Upper-Secondary School Choices in Reykjavík and Helsinki: The Selected Few in the Urban North. In A. Rasmussen & M. Dovemark (Eds.), Governance and Choice of Upper Secondary Education in the Nordic Countries: Access and Fairness (pp. 77-95). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08049-4_5
  10. Ydesen, C., Kauko, J., & Magnúsdóttir, B. R. (2022). The OECD and the Field of Knowledge Brokers in Danish, Finnish, and Icelandic Education Policy. In B. Karseth, K. Sivesind, & G. Steiner-Khamsi (Eds.), Evidence and Expertise in Nordic Education Policy: A Comparative Network Analysis (pp. 321-348). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91959-7_11
  11. Magnúsdóttir, B.R. (2021). „Ég hef alltaf minni og minni áhuga á þessu hefðbundna sambandi“: Tilhugalíf fráskilinna framakvenna. Ritið: Ástarrannsóknir, 21(2), 35-62. https://ritid.hi.is/index.php/ritid/article/view/141
  12. Wolff, C. E., Huilla, H., Tzaninis, Y., Magnúsdóttir, B. R., Lappalainen, S., Paulle, B., . . . Kosunen, S. (2021).
  13. Inclusive education in the diversifying environments of Finland, Iceland and the Netherlands: A multilingual systematic review. Research in Comparative and International Education, 15(2), https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1745499921991958
  14. Magnúsdóttir, B. R., Auðardóttir, A. M., & Stefánsson, K. H. (2020). The Distribution of Economic and Educational Capital between School Catchment Areas in Reykjavík Capital Region 1997–2016. Icelandic Review of Politics & Administration, 16(2), 285-308. http://www.irpa.is/article/view/a.2020.16.2.10
  15. Auðardóttir, A. M., & Magnúsdóttir, B. R. (2020). Even in Iceland? Exploring Mothers’ Narratives on Parental Neighbourhood choices in a perceived classless and feminist utopia. Children’s Geographies, 18(4).
  16. Rúdólfsdóttir, A. G., & Magnúsdóttir, B. R. (2020). Mothers / Motherhood. In D. T. Cook (Ed.), The SAGE Encyclopedia on children and childhood studies (pp. 1117-1119). Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications.
  17. Harðardóttir, E., Magnúsdóttir, B. R. & Dillabough, J.-A., (2019). Understanding the politics of inclusion, the ‘refugee’ and nation: Analysis of public policies and teacher narratives in Iceland. International Journal of Inclusive Education, DOI: 10.1080/13603116.2019.1707306 
  18. Magnúsdóttir, B. R. (2018). Differentiation in middle-class identities, values and responses: Parental choice in a working-class, multi-ethnic school. Divine, F. & Hill, L.D. Global Perspectives on Educational Research. New York, Routledge.
  19. Magnúsdóttir, B. R., & Garðarsdóttir, U. E. (2018). “Not my type of people!” Students’ narratives of choosing the ‘right’ school for academic tracks in Iceland. Netla – Electronic Journal on Icelandic Education. Retrieved from http://netla.hi.is/serrit/2018/framhaldskolinn_brennidepli/13.pdf doi:https://doi.org/10.24270/serritnetla.2019.13 
  20. Dovemark, M., Kosunen, S., Kauko, J., Magnúsdóttir, B., Hansen, P. og Rasmussen, P. (2018). Deregulation, privatisation and marketisation of Nordic comprehensive education: social changes reflected in schooling. Education Inquiry, 1-20. af https://doi.org/10.1080/20004508.2018.1429768
  21. Dýrfjörð, K., & Magnúsdóttir, B. R. (2016). Privatization of the early childhood education in Iceland. Research in Comparative and International Education, 11(1), 80-97. doi:10.1177/1745499916631062
  22. Halldórsdóttir, B. E., Jónsson, Ó. P., & Magnúsdóttir, B. R. (2016). Education for Democracy, Citizenship and Social Justice: The Case of Iceland. In A. Peterson, R. Hattam, M. Zembylas, & J. Arthur (Eds.), The Palgrave International Handbook of Education for Citizenship and Social Justice (pp. 435-463). London: Palgrave Macmillan UK.
  23. Magnúsdóttir, B.R. (2015). Analysing educational choices by class-diversifying, feminising and moralising Bourdieu’s theoretical framework. In P. Burnard, Y. Hofvander Trulsson og J. Soderman (Eds.), Bourdieu and the Sociology of Music Education (p. 159-174). Burlington: Ashgate & Routledge.
  24. Magnúsdóttir, B.R. (2013). „Að tryggja framboð og fjölbreytileika“: Nýfrjálshyggja í nýlegum stefnuskjölum um námsgagnagerð. [“To ensure supply and variety” – The dominance of neoliberal discourse in policy documents concerning curriculum materials for compulsory education in Iceland]. Uppeldi og menntun (Icelandic Journal of Education), 22(2), 55-76.
  25. Magnúsdóttir, B.R. (2006). Námshegðun leiðtoga í unglingabekk í ljósi kenninga um menningarauðmagn. (How learning and social standing among adolescents in a classroom setting coincide with dominant and non-dominant interpretations of cultural capital). Tímarit um menntarannsóknir (Journal of Educational Research), 3.
  26. Magnúsdóttir, B.R. (2002). Hvar er drottningin? Orðræðan um kynfrumur og kynfæri mannsins í fræðitextum og kennslubókum. (Where is the Queen? How the human reproductive cells and sex organs are culturally contextualized in Icelandic learning materials and scientific literature). Uppeldi og menntun (Icelandic Journal of Education), (11), 263-278.