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How history and philosophy of science can inform teaching and learning of general relativity in upper secondary school (in press)
Refereed Conference Contributions
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, Presentations, & Invited Talks
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
07/2019: "Bringing general relativity to secondary schools: Design and evaluation of a digital learning
environment", GR22-Amaldi13, Valencia, Spain
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
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