Kersting, M., Steier, R., Venville, G. (2020). Exploring participant engagement during an astrophysics virtual reality
experience at a science festival. International Journal of Science Education, Part B, https://doi.org/10.1080/21548455.2020.1857458
Kersting, M., Toellner, R., Blair, D., Burman, R. (2020) Gravity and warped time – clarifying conceptual confusions in
general relativity, Physics Education, 55, 015023, https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6552/AB56D7
Choudhary, R., Kraus, U., Kersting, M., Zahn, C., Zadnik, M., Meagher, R., Blair, D. (2019). Einsteinian physics
in the classroom: Integrating physical and digital learning resources in the context of an international research collaboration, The Physics Educator. 1(4) 1950016, https://doi.org/10.1142/S2661339519500161
Kersting, M., (2019) Free fall in curved spacetime – how to visualise gravity in general relativity, Physics Education,
Physics Education, 54, 035008, https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1361-6552/ab08f5
Steier, R., Kersting, M., Silseth, K (2019). Imagining with improvised representations in CSCL environments,
International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 14: 109. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11412-019-09295-1
Kersting, M. (2019). Navigating four dimensions - upper secondary students' understanding of movement in spacetime, Journal
of Physics: Conference Series, Volume 1287, Number 1, http://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1287/1/012007
Kersting, M., Henriksen, E. K., Bøe, M. V., & Angell, C. (2018). General relativity in upper secondary school:
design and evaluation of an online learning environment using the model of educational reconstruction. Physical Review Physics Education Research, 14(1), 010130-1-010130-18.
http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.14.010130
Kersting, M. (in press). How History and Philosophy of Science Can Inform Teaching and Learning of General Relativity in
Upper Secondary School, Proceedings of the Fifteenth Marcel Grossman Meeting on General Relativity, World Scientific, Singapore (preprint)
Woithe, J., Kersting, M. (in press). Bend it like dark matter. Physics Education (preprint)
Kersting, M., Haglund, J., Steier, R. (under review). A growing body of knowledge: On the four different senses
of embodiment in science education.
Kersting, M., Schrocker, G., & Papantoniou, S. (under review). ‘I loved exploring a new dimension of reality’ - a case study of middle-school girls encountering
Einsteinian physics in the classroom
Books & Book Chapters
Kersting M. (2020) Visualizing Four Dimensions in Special and General Relativity. In: Sriraman B. (eds) Handbook of the
Mathematics of the Arts and Sciences. Springer, Cham, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70658-0_120-1
Kersting, M., Blair, D. (Eds) (2021, forthcoming), Teaching Einsteinian Physics in Schools: An Essential Guide for Teachers in Training and Practice, Routledge,
Singapore.
Kersting, M. (in press) Using the language of gravity to teach about space, time, and matter in general relativity, Teaching Einsteinian Physics in Schools, Kersting, M.,
Blair, D. (Eds), Routledge, Singapore
Kersting, M. (in press) Standing on the shoulders of giants – how historical perspectives on gravity can inform modern physics education, Teaching Einsteinian Physics in
Schools, Kersting, M., Blair, D. (Eds), Routledge, Singapore
Blair, D., Kersting, M. (in press) The difficult birth of gravitational wave astronomy, Teaching Einsteinian Physics in Schools, Kersting, M.,
Blair, D. (Eds), Routledge, Singapore
11/2020: "Instructional Strategies to Foster Motivation for Einsteinian Physics Among Middle School Girls", GIREP 2020, virtual conference
08/2020: "Learning Processes of Embodied Interaction with Disembodied Concepts in CSCL Environments", EARLI SIG 6 & 7, virtual conference
08/2019:"Scientific Concepts and the Role of Imagination in the Language Games of the Science Classroom", ESERA 2019, Bologna, Italy
08/2019:"Design-based Research and the Model of Educational Reconstruction - a Combined Approach to Design Successful Science Instruction", joint work
with Floor Kamphorst, ESERA 2019, Bologna, Italy
07/2019:"Free Fall in Curved Spacetime", GIREP 2019, Budapest, Hungary
12/2018: "General Relativity in Upper Secondary School", AIP Congress 2018, Perth, Australia
07/2018: "The Role of Imagination in the Language Games of the Science Classroom", BWS 2018, London, UK
07/2018: "Navigating Four Dimensions - Upper Secondary Students' Understanding of Movement in Spacetime", GIREP-MPTL 2018,San Sebastian, Spain
07/2018: "How History and Philosophy of Science Can Inform Teaching and Learning of General Relativity in Upper Secondary
School", GIREP-MPTL 2018,San Sebastian,
Spain
07/2018: "How History and Philosophy of Science Can Inform Teaching and Learning of General Relativity in Upper Secondary School", 15th Marcel Grossmann Meeting, Rome, Italy
06/2018: "Gravity, Imagination, and Embodied Conceptions of Spacetime", 2nd Symposium on Embodied Interaction: "Gesture, Touch, and Embodied Meaning-Making", Odense,
Denmark
03/2018: "General Relativity in Upper Secondary School: How Philosophy of Science Can Inform Physics Education of the 21st
century", PESGB 2018, Oxford, Great Britain
08/2017: "Educational Reconstruction of General Relativity Through a Collaborative Online Learning Environment", JURE 2017, Tampere, Finland
08/2017: "Gravity, Imagination, and Embodied Conceptions of Spacetime", ESERA 2017, Dublin, Ireland
07/2017: "Teaching General Relativity in Upper Secondary School: an Educational Reconstruction",GIREP-ICPE-EPEC 2017, Dublin, Ireland
07/2017: "An International Research Collaboration in the Teaching and Learning of Einsteinian Physics", GIREP-ICPE-EPEC 2017, Dublin, Ireland
Workshops, Key Note & Invited Talks
07/2020 "General Relativity in Secondary Schools", LIGO IPA Online Conference
06/2020 "Einsteinian Physics in the Classroom", UkEdChat Online Conference
02/2020 "Impact in Einsteinian Physics Education", Inaugural Einstein-First Interational Workshop, Perth, Australia (keynote talk)
11/2019: "Computer-supported collaborative learning & embodied conceptions of spacetime", Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden (invited
talk)
11/2019: "Embodied Cognition in Science Education - Examples from Relativity", Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden (invited
talk)
11/2019: "Computer-supported collaborative learning & embodied conceptions of spacetime",
Linköping University, Norrköping, Sweden (invited talk)
08/2019: "Modernising Science Teaching: Bringing the Virtual Universe into the Classroom", Workshop with Jackie Bondell, ESERA 2019, Bologna,
Italy
07/2019: "The Transformational Power of Educational Research Collaborations - Impact in Physics Education", Bridging the Skills Gap in Physics
Education, Institute of Physics, London, UK (invited talk)
07/2019: "Bringing general relativity to secondary schools: Design and evaluation of a digital learning
environment", GR22-Amaldi13, Valencia, Spain (invited talk)
07/2019: Symposium "Teaching and Learning of Einsteinian Physics", GIREP 2019, Budapest, Hungary
02/2019: "Curved Spacetime: Investigating Students' Conceptual Understanding in General Relativity", WE-Heraeus Seminar - General Relativity as a
Challenge for Physics Education, Bad Honnef, Germany
12/2018: "Modernising Physics Teaching", STAWA Future Science 2018, Perth, Australia
11/2018: "Understanding Curved Spacetime", Fogarty Foundation Postgraduate Research Forum 2018, Perth, Australia
07/2018: Chair of symposium: "International Perspectives on Einsteinian Physics at Upper Secondary School
Level", GIREP-MPTL 2018,San Sebastian, Spain
07/2017: Chair of symposium: "The Teaching and Learning of Einsteinian Physics in International
Contexts", GIREP-ICPE-EPEC
2017, Dublin, Ireland
12/2016: "General Relativity: Making Einstein's Theory Teachable", STAWA Future Science 2016, Perth, Australia
11/2016: "Curved Space and Warped Time: Students' Understanding of Gravity", International Workshop on the Teaching and Learning of
Einsteinian Physics in the Era of Gravitational Astronomy, Gin Gin, Western Australia
8/2016: "ReleKvant - undervisningsopplegg om relativitetsteori og kvantefysikk", National Conference on Teaching of Physics, Copenhagen,
Denmark