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Uppsala University :
Department of Physics and Materials Science : Research
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Physics Education Research
Research Activities
Research Areas
The research activities of the division can be broadly divided into the following areas:
- Theoretical development of the phenomenographic perspective on learning
- Alternative forms of teaching and learning university physics
- Characterizing, understanding and problematizing learning physics from simulations in Physics and Engineering
- Learning and teaching relationships associated with the scholarship of physics teaching
- Emerging gender influences in Physics Education Research
- Identifying, characterising and exploring implications in the realm of educationally critical aspects in teaching and learning of physics
- Linking complexity research and related theories to the field of teaching and learning physics and engineering
- Aspects of the language choice debate in Swedish Higher Education as it relates to physics education
- Physics students’ expectations of good teaching
- Improving learning and teaching in the undergraduate physics laboratory
Current Research Projects
- The nature of student learning associated with computer simulations in physics and engineering-related contexts
- Developing phenomenographic theory. For example, exploring variation as a pedagogical tool, and developing a model of reflective learning by drawing on the work of John Dewey and Donald Schön.
- Relationships between student-learning attributes and the scholarship of teaching, and their implications for improving learning outcomes and teaching practice.
- The role of teaching-language in learning outcomes.
- Profiling alternative ways of teaching university physics against learning outcomes, and their implications for teaching practice.
- Investigating student's conceptual hurdles in Quantum Mechanics.
- Looking at student understanding and its development in undergraduate laboratory settings.
- The experience of learning in groups. For example, Supplemental Instruction (SI) and tutor groups.
- Looking at how female students experience physics.
Collaborators
Shirley Booth, Lund University, Sweden
Shirley.Booth@ll.lu.se
Lärande Lund / Learning Lund
Åke Ingerman, IT University, Chalmers Linholmen, Göteborg, Sweden
ingerman@chalmers.se
Delia Marshall, Department of Physics, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
dmarshall@uwc.ac.za
Duncan Fraser, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Cape Town, South Africa
dmf@chemeng.uct.ac.za
Keith Trigwell, Institute for Teaching and Learning, University of Sydney, Australia
k.trigwell@itl.usyd.edu.au
Melanie Walker, School of Education, University of Sheffield, U.K.
m.j.walker@sheffield.ac.uk
Ming Fai Pang, Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong, China
pangmf@hkucc.hku.hk
Gaalen Erickson, Director of the Centre for the Study of Teacher Education, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
gaalen.erickson@ubc.ca
Burkhard Priemer, Physics Education Research, Department of Physics, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
priemer@physik.rub.de
Loucas Louca, Learning in Science Group, Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Cyprus
Louca.L@cytanet.com.cy
Post-graduate studies / Forskarutbildning
Physics education is a new research direction open to all fields of physics. Students may either focus entirely on physics education for their PhD or they may negotiate to have some of their PhD papers in another area of physics research. In such a case there needs to be a logical link between the areas of study and the students will need supervisors in both areas that support such an arrangement.
Studieplan för forskarutbildning i fysik med inriktning mot fysikens didaktik
/ Study plan for Physics with specialization in Physics Education.
Information on post-graduate studies in the Faculty of Science and Technology
Information on post-graduate studies in the Department of Physics
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