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Pernilla Granklint Enochson is a Senior Lecturer in Science Education at the Department of Science, Mathematics and Society.

Ongoing projects:

  • The Nordic network SPICA, within which I conduct accompanying research together with colleagues in the network. The shared focus of this research is place-based learning.

  • Understanding the body’s different systems and how they are interconnected is challenging. In what ways can discussion and creative activities contribute to improved understanding?

Completed projects: Several projects building on my doctoral thesis, which showed that one of the greatest challenges for Year 9 students was linking more than two organ systems. This led to further studies focusing on student teachers’ knowledge. One study examined primary teacher students’ prior understanding of the pathway of water through the body and the challenges they perceive in teaching these topics. Another study focused on prospective early childhood education students’ understanding of the pathway of water through the body and how they imagine they would respond to a preschool child who asks where the water goes in the body after drinking.

From Great to Excellent. This project focused on how guiding questions intended to steer a regional project change within a hierarchically structured organisation. This was a collaborative project involving Region Halland, four municipalities, and Halmstad University.

“The relation between trends in large-scale science studies and how teaching and learning are constituted in science classrooms.” The focus of this study was to examine how and to what extent teachers used pupils’ everyday experiences when addressing subject content during lesson introductions. The empirical data were analysed using two different frameworks: Gilbert’s (2006) definition of context, and a more language-oriented perspective grounded in literacy (Krajcik & Sutherland, 2010).

DeCoSTE (Designing and Enacting Coherent Science Teacher Education). The aim of this project is to develop a shared tool for achieving coherence in teacher education. This is an Erasmus project conducted in collaboration with researchers and teacher educators from universities and higher education institutions at seven European institutions. The project was preceded by an earlier Erasmus project, Promoting Instructional Coherence in Science through Teacher Education.

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