Welcome!

To a SAMTAL@SU lunch seminar with the researchers Kirsty Dunnett, University of Oslo, Carly Faber, The Arctic University of Norway and Julien Pooya Weihs, University of Bergen.

Date and time: October 24, at 12:05-12:55

Venue: Baltic, Room R240, Svante Arrhenius väg 8. (All doors are open.)

Who is the seminar for?

The event is aimed at researchers who teach university geoscience or other science subjects at SU.

Abstract

'Treat your teaching as you treat your research': but what can this mean? In the iEarth Centre for Excellence in Education, the PhD fellows and post-doctoral researchers in the educational research group perform research into a range of topics related to geoscience education. We shall present some our current work, illustrating both education research and projects that can involve teachers as co-researchers into their own practice. Questions we are going to discuss are on the educational research side relating to the development of expertise. How do people conceptualise geoscience, and how does this understanding evolve the more experience they gain in the field? How does collective expert-level knowledge construct itself when we bring together several specialists? On what basis can one differentiate expert from novice knowledge in this regard? We are also going to discuss questions regarding development of your teaching in a particular teaching context. How can one go about doing an investigation which requires expertise from a different discipline? Do you believe that you really are you the only person with that question (or idea)? We will illustrate how it might be possible to go beyond a single classroom and systematically investigate a teaching innovation that is introduced in several contexts, leveraging both earth science discipline knowledge and context understanding and more formal educational research approaches.

About

Kirsty Dunnett is working as a post-doctoral researcher in iEarth (University of Oslo), and exploring the challenges of interdisciplinarity between and within the natural sciences.

Carly Faber is a postdoctoral researcher with the iEarth Centre for Excellence in Geoscience Education, based at UiT, The Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø.

Julien Pooya Weihs is a doctoral student with the iEarth Centre for Excellence in Geoscience Education at the Geophysical Institute of the University of Bergen.

Sign up

Please, sign up for the lunch seminar / coffe/tea and a sandwich by October 21

SAMTAL@SU seminars are arranged in collaboration with:

Department of Teaching and Learning
Centre for the Advancement of University Teaching