News
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08.10.2024
On a Quest for Mathematical Awareness
An interview with Søren Krogh Hansen, PhD student at FNUG, Center for Research in Science Education and Communication, IMADA, SDU.
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07.10.2024
Talk by Professor Darlene Cavalier
Honorary Fellow at SDU, affiliated with the Center for Research in Science Education and Communication (FNUG) and Citizen Science Knowledge Center, Darlene Cavalier, is giving a talk “Citizen Science, deliberative democracy, and the future of public engagement in science”, on October 11, 2024.
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22.08.2024
SDU professor plays a key role in a historically large research programme
The Centre for Research in Science Education and Communication, led by Professor Connie Svabo, is a strategic partner in the newly established Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for University Science Education, which, with a grant of DKK 125 million from the Novo Nordisk Foundation, represents one of the largest investments in science didactics research on a global scale.
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21.05.2024
From Hairdresser to Researcher
An interview with Maiken Westen Holm Svendsen, PhD student at the Center for Research in Science Education and Communication (FNUG), Department of Mathematics and Computer Science (IMADA)
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01.05.2024
New Honorary Fellow at University of Southern Denmark
Darlene Cavalier has been appointed by the Faculty of Science in collaboration with Citizen Science Knowledge Center as an Honorary Fellow for a 5-year period.
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30.01.2024
The Center is Expanding
In 2023, as many as six PhD students have been assigned to FNUG, and the staff is growing. An adjunct researcher has joined, and the center has been visited by a number of visiting researchers.
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30.01.2024
FNUG Publications in 2023
During 2023, FNUG's researchers have authored several research articles, books and book chapters. Below you will find a small excerpt
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04.01.2024
What we know and understand, we care for
The stay-at-home mom and sustainability enthusiast who chose to use her powers for research in science education. An interview with Katrine Bergkvist Borch, PhD student at the Research Center for Science Education and Communication at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, SDU.
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04.10.2023
Art-based Science Research
In today's academic landscape, there is a growing consensus that research should incorporate exploratory, creative, and artistic practices. At FNUG, we explore methods within art and design-based research and connect them with practices in science and mathematics education research.
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04.10.2023
The first laboratories in LabSTEM+ have started
The first laboratories in LabSTEM+ have started at schools in Vejle, Sønderborg and Odense. The project works for a higher quality in the teaching of mathematics and science in primary school education and in youth and vocational education
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26.09.2023
Guests at FNUG make presentations at FNUG Foundations
In September, two guest researchers from Germany will visit FNUG: Malte Michelsen, Science Staff at Institute of Science Education, Leibniz University Hannover, and Axel Langner, Science Staff at Institute of Chemistry Education, Justus Liebig University Giessen.
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20.08.2023
The Budding Writer who Embarked on a Journey into Sensuous Mathematics
An interview with Amalie Thorup Eich-Høy, who is a Ph.D. student at the Research Center for Science Education and Communication (FNUG), SDU
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12.06.2023
Stanford Mathematician to be Adjunct Professor at SDU
Can there be a (mathematically-grounded) “physics” of learning?" is the title of Dr. Keith Devlins Inaugural Lecture as an Adjunct Professor at IMADA
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24.04.2023
Visit by guest researcher Professor Nancy Longnecker
Professor of Science Communication Nancy Longnecker from the University of Otaga, New Zealand visited SDU April 17.-20., with FNUG as her host
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01.03.2023
Associate Professor Inmaculada Navarro Gonzalez is a Guest Researcher at IMADA
Guest Researcher Inmaculada Navarro Gonzalez will visit IMADA in the period from March 1 to May 31 2023. During her visit, she will be a guest at the Centre for Research in Science Education and Communication, where Associate Professor Chunfang Zhou will be her host
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10.02.2023
New Assistant Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Dorte Moeskær Larsen started on 1 February 2023 as an assistant professor at the Center for Research in Science Education and Communication (FNUG). She has great expertise in mathematics didactics and STEM, and in how STEM can be used to create inquiry-based mathematics education driven by curiosity.
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22.09.2022
Keith Devlin, Mathematician Emeritus at Stanford University Professor holds Open Lecture
The lecture ‘The Emergence and Development of Mathematical Thinking in Human Society’ was given by Professor Keith Devlin from Stanford University. The lecture is a part of course History of Mathematics in Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Southern Denmark (SDU).
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02.09.2022
New three-year LSUL partnership
The parties behind Laboratory for STEM Education and Learning (LSUL) – UCL University College, University College South Denmark and the Faculty of Science at SDU – will continue and further develop their longstanding collaboration.
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08.07.2022
Chunfang Zhou as guest presenter at BMBs annual teaching seminar
August 22, Chunfang Zhou will be guest presenter at the annual teaching seminar for the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (BMB), in collaboration with Cita Nøregård from SDUUP. The theme ‘Creativity - what it is and how can we teach it?’ is the key area of Chunfang’s research at IMADA.
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16.06.2022
’The Math Guy’ - Adjunct Professor from Stanford
Mathematician Keith Devlin from Stanford University has been named Adjunct professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, starting 1st of August 2022.
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29.04.2022
Creativity in STEM Education: A lecture by Chunfang Zhou
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21.04.2022
Archive of Network Meetings for Danish Science Education Researchers
Danish Science Education Researchers meet for Webinars in the network in STEM Education (NiSE), organized by th Center of Excellence in Science Education (CESE/NAFA) and Centre for Research in Science Education and Communication (FNUG). The materiale from the webinars is compiled here. Some of the webinars are in Danish.
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26.11.2021
New grant for Space Club SDU from the Danish Technology Pact
With a grant from the Danish Technology Pact, lecturers and students at University of Southern Denmark will be involved in the future development of STEM teaching in space science.
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12.11.2021
LabSTEM conference 2021
On Thursday, 28 October, 140 educators, teachers and supervisors from primary and lower secondary schools and youth education programmes, employees and students from university colleges and universities as well as consultants from the whole of Denmark gathered for a LabSTEM conference in Odense with large-scale live communication of how Mathematics can be integrated with S, T and E in STEM.
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01.11.2021
What is the culinary experience like when the food is served on a petri dish?
When SDU was visited by CESE’s management on 1 November 2021, dining, dissemination of knowledge and design came together.
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16.10.2021
Experienced development of PCK in natural science/technology – also a collegiate and material matter
Jens Jakob Ellebæk defends his PhD project ‘Oplevet udvikling af Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) i natur/teknologi’ (Experienced development of Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) in natural science/technology) at SDU on 21 October 2021.
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04.10.2021
From STEM to space travel
There are still a number of challenges in integrating the basic ideas behind STEM in the education system. One challenge is that subject professionals and pupils may have difficulty seeing the benefits of this. Here, Denmark’s strong research environments in space research can provide inspiration.
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30.09.2021
Interdisciplinary STEM teaching
Three researchers’ views on how to develop teaching through co-creation and ease the transfer burden from the young people’s shoulders.
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16.09.2021
Pupils understand subjects better by developing models
To study and strengthen pupils’ modelling competences in mathematics and science subjects, Claus Auning, Associate Professor and PhD, has worked with two assignments in several lower secondary school classes: percolation of water in different soil layers in connection with cloudburst and an imploded tanker. The work with developing models helps pupils understand phenomena and apply abstract knowledge.
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03.09.2021
Head of CESE is from SDU
On 1 October, Gitte Miller Balslev starts as head of the newly established Center of Excellence in Science Education (CESE), which will handle the research part of the investment in Science Academy NAFA, which runs into millions. The NAFA programme aims to promote motivating and rewarding science education in primary and lower secondary schools.
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03.09.2021
The role of mathematics in STEM
There is growing concern about the role of mathematics in STEM (Science Technology Engineering Mathematics). A concern that it will fade into the background and not get the attention it should have as a key component in all science subjects.
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05.07.2021
The high school teacher who became a top researcher
Professor Claus Michelsen has spent a long research life putting practical mathematics teaching on the agenda. Now he is – almost – ready to retire.
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21.01.2013
New PhD Fellow at NAMADI
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01.01.0001
Online Sustainable Development Goals Forum
Laboratory for Stem Education and Learning (LSUL) invites everyone to an online Sustainable Development Goals Forum on 1 December 2021 at 13.00-15.00 with presentations by postdocs Stine Mariegaard and Martin Hauberg-Lund Laugesen. The Sustainable Development Goals Forum is held on ZOOM and is open to all interested parties.