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Arrhenius, M., Bladh, G. & Lundholm, C. (2024). Causes, processes and consequences of earthquakes. Investigating Swedish 12-13-year old students’ geographical understanding. International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Causes, processes and consequences of earthquakes. Investigating Swedish 12-13-year old students’ geographical understanding
2024 (English)In: International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, ISSN 1038-2046, E-ISSN 1747-7611Article in journal (Refereed) Epub ahead of print
Abstract [en]

The aim of this study was to investigate students’ conceptions of causes, processes and consequences of earthquakes and to examine their geographical understanding of such hazards in terms of spatial and societal-nature relations. Data consists of 134 responses from 12 to 13-year-old students who had completed an assignment in the Swedish national test in geography (2013). The responses were analysed using content and thematic analyses. Data was complemented with interviews. Results show that many students hold alternative conceptions of processes causing earthquakes at different plate boundaries, and why poor societies are more severely affected by earthquakes than rich societies. Furthermore, results show that students have a limited understanding of the extent and location of earthquakes in the world. We conclude that instruction aiming to develop students’ understanding of earthquakes as a geographical phenomenon and hazard may integrate map-reasoning skills with examples that support contextual thinking. We also suggest that in order to develop students’ relational thinking on society and nature, instruction can utilise the concept of “capital”. Furthermore, teaching needs to take in to account and design instruction to meet students’ alternative conceptions that societal consequences of earthquakes are solely predetermined by natural factors such as climate or heat. 

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Routledge, 2024
Keywords
Alternative conceptions, capitals, causes, earthquakes, geography education processes, society
National Category
Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified
Research subject
Samhällskunskap
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-98596 (URN)10.1080/10382046.2023.2298555 (DOI)001148679900001 ()2-s2.0-85183100448 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2024-02-19 Created: 2024-02-19 Last updated: 2024-07-09Bibliographically approved
Gottfridsson, H. O., Christenson, N. & Bladh, G. (2024). Hur ser geografiundervisning ut i svensk grundskola?: Resultatrapport av en studie genomförd bland lärare undervisande i geografi i årskurserna 4-9. Karlstads universitet
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Hur ser geografiundervisning ut i svensk grundskola?: Resultatrapport av en studie genomförd bland lärare undervisande i geografi i årskurserna 4-9
2024 (Swedish)Report (Other academic)
Abstract [sv]

Under 2022 genomfördes en studie bland geografilärare i år 4-9 i svensk grundskola. Studien genomfördes av forskare i geografi vid Karlstads universitet. Syftet med studien är att öka kunskapen om hur geografiundervisning genomförs i svenska skola och lärares syn på ämnet.

I föreliggande rapport redovisas resultatet av denna studie dels utifrån ett samlat perspektiv för samtliga lärare i ämnet, men också utifrån olika mönster i svar mellan lärare i olika ålder, av olika kön och undervisande på olika stadier.

I studien behandlas lärarnas personliga relation till geografiämnet, syn på sin utbildning i ämnet och ämnets förhållande till andra skolämnen. Även lärares uppfattning om geografiämnets uppgift som skolämne och syn på hur undervisning i ämnet bäst genomförs har studerats. I det senare fallet såväl utifrån lärares uppfattning om hur undervisning och lärande i geografi bäst bör utformas liksom vilka förmågor som är viktiga att elever utvecklar i ämnet. Studien behandlar också hur lärare organiserar sin undervisning i geografiämnet, vilka arbetssätt och metoder som är vanligast i ämnet och vad som styr deras undervisning. Även vilka lärresurser som lärare använder i sin geografiundervisning, däribland digitala sådana ingår i studien.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Karlstads universitet, 2024. p. 59
Series
Karlstad University Studies, ISSN 1403-8099 ; 2024:6
Keywords
geografi, didaktik, undervisning, grundskola, lärare, utbildning, lärresurser
National Category
Didactics
Research subject
Geography
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-98588 (URN)978-91-7867-437-4 (ISBN)978-91-7867-438-1 (ISBN)
Available from: 2024-02-19 Created: 2024-02-19 Last updated: 2024-03-08Bibliographically approved
Gottfridsson, H. O., Christenson, N. & Bladh, G. (2024). Hur ser geografiundervisning ut i svensk grunskola?: Resultatet av en studie genomförd bland lärare undervisande i årskurserna 7-9. Geografiska Notiser, 1(Spring), 4-7
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Hur ser geografiundervisning ut i svensk grunskola?: Resultatet av en studie genomförd bland lärare undervisande i årskurserna 7-9
2024 (Swedish)In: Geografiska Notiser, ISSN 0016-724X, Vol. 1, no Spring, p. 4-7Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Geografilärarnas Riksförening, 2024
Keywords
geografi, didaktik, undervisning, grundskola, lärare, utbildning, lärresurser
National Category
Educational Sciences
Research subject
Geography
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-101989 (URN)
Available from: 2024-10-10 Created: 2024-10-10 Last updated: 2025-03-10Bibliographically approved
Hammond, L., Healy, G., Bladh, G. & Tani, S. (2024). Reflecting on the powers, possibilities and constraints of geography curricula in England, Finland and Sweden. Journal of Curriculum Studies
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Reflecting on the powers, possibilities and constraints of geography curricula in England, Finland and Sweden
2024 (English)In: Journal of Curriculum Studies, ISSN 0022-0272, E-ISSN 1366-5839Article in journal (Refereed) Epub ahead of print
Abstract [en]

National curriculum statements found within the Official Recontextualising Field (ORF) provide an insight into how geography as a school subject is conceptualized in a country's education system. National curricula can shape teachers' agency in curriculum making and what, how and where children and young people study and learn geography. This paper engages with the lower secondary national geography curriculum for England, Finland and Sweden. We examine the structure and nature of the national geography curricula in each country, before drawing on the threefold arrangement of geographical knowledge as a tool for the analysis of the curricula. Our analysis found that deep and descriptive world knowledge forms the largest proportion of all three national curricula documents, and we argue that this can lead to a potentially limited conceptualization of geographical knowledge and representation of geography. We also suggest that the threefold arrangement could more actively engage with political dimensions when considering futures, and that there should be greater attention paid to the histories and geographies of the discipline (geography) in school geography.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Routledge, 2024
Keywords
National curriculum, geography education, school geography, recontextualisation, geographical knowledge
National Category
Human Geography Didactics
Research subject
Samhällskunskap
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-102243 (URN)10.1080/00220272.2024.2420366 (DOI)001340856200001 ()2-s2.0-85207476582 (Scopus ID)
Funder
Swedish Research Council, 2018-03603Academy of Finland, 355096
Available from: 2024-11-20 Created: 2024-11-20 Last updated: 2024-11-20Bibliographically approved
Bladh, G., Spanget Christensen, T. & Samuelsson, J. (2023). Editorial Nordidactica 2023:1 Jubileum. Nordidactica: Journal of Humanities and Social Science Education (1)
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Editorial Nordidactica 2023:1 Jubileum
2023 (Swedish)In: Nordidactica: Journal of Humanities and Social Science Education, ISSN 2000-9879, no 1Article in journal, Editorial material (Other academic) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Karlstad: Karlstads universitet, 2023
National Category
Didactics
Research subject
Education
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-93699 (URN)
Available from: 2023-02-17 Created: 2023-02-17 Last updated: 2023-05-23Bibliographically approved
Beneker, T., Bladh, G. & Lambert, D. (2023). Exploring 'Future three' curriculum scenarios in practice: Learning from the GeoCapabilities project. Curriculum Journal
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Exploring 'Future three' curriculum scenarios in practice: Learning from the GeoCapabilities project
2023 (English)In: Curriculum Journal, ISSN 0958-5176, E-ISSN 1469-3704Article in journal (Refereed) Epub ahead of print
Abstract [en]

This paper has its origins in the EU Comenius funded GeoCapabilities project. From its outset, the project developed and researched the notion of powerful disciplinary knowledge (PDK) as an underlying principle of curriculum making in the context of secondary school geography teaching. The work, led from the UCL Institute of Education and involving school teachers, teacher educators and other stakeholders across eight mainly European jurisdictions, was framed by Young and Muller's 'three educational scenarios' (Young & Muller, European Journal of Education, 45, 2010 and 11). The three futures heuristic is discussed as a means to distinguish qualities of curriculum thought. Future 3 scenarios, which posit teachers as curriculum makers with responsibility to engage in essential 'knowledge work', provide a principled platform on which to develop ambitious educational classroom encounters. Knowledge working with PDK and (as we go on to argue) other powerful ways of knowing the world, is seen as a bridge between social realist epistemological principles and practical classroom content selections. This opens the possibility of responding to Deng's (Journal of Curriculum Studies, 54, 2022) call for developing practical theories of content with teachers. Although the authors are geographers in education drawing on different international perspectives and traditions, the paper addresses matters of interest applicable to a variety of specialist subject domains across the secondary school curriculum.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
John Wiley & Sons, 2023
Keywords
curriculum making, future 3 scenarios, GeoCapabilities, geography education, powerful disciplinary knowledge, theories of content
National Category
Didactics Pedagogy
Research subject
Samhällskunskap
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-97835 (URN)10.1002/curj.240 (DOI)001115539800001 ()2-s2.0-85179335854 (Scopus ID)
Funder
European Commission, 2018‐1‐UK01‐KA201‐048104
Available from: 2023-12-22 Created: 2023-12-22 Last updated: 2024-01-03Bibliographically approved
Pettersson, S., Myrdal, E., Svensson, E. & Bladh, G. (2023). Gammelvallen i Södra Finnskoga: Finngård, säter – och något mer?. In: Stefan Nilsson (Ed.), Wermlandica: Skriftserie för värmländsk kulturhistoria; Volym 2 (pp. 101-132). Lysvik: Geographica Antikva Förlag
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Gammelvallen i Södra Finnskoga: Finngård, säter – och något mer?
2023 (Swedish)In: Wermlandica: Skriftserie för värmländsk kulturhistoria; Volym 2 / [ed] Stefan Nilsson, Lysvik: Geographica Antikva Förlag , 2023, p. 101-132Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Lysvik: Geographica Antikva Förlag, 2023
National Category
History and Archaeology
Research subject
Risk and Environmental Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-98679 (URN)978-91-519-9212-9 (ISBN)
Available from: 2024-02-26 Created: 2024-02-26 Last updated: 2024-03-04Bibliographically approved
Bladh, G. & Nilsson, S. (2023). Om att utveckla geografiskt tänkande i skolans geografiundervisning. Forskning om undervisning och lärande, 11(1), 8-28
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Om att utveckla geografiskt tänkande i skolans geografiundervisning
2023 (Swedish)In: Forskning om undervisning och lärande, ISSN 2000-9674, E-ISSN 2001-6131, Vol. 11, no 1, p. 8-28Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [sv]

Den här artikeln tar ett geografididaktiskt perspektiv på geografisk kunskap och hur geografiskt kunnande kan utvecklas i geografiundervisningen i grundskolan. I den geografididaktiska forskningen har det poängterats hur geografiska perspektiv med fokus på världen (relationer i rummet till exempel från lokalt till globalt) och jorden (relationer mellan natur och samhälle) kan kopplas till olika former av att tänka geografiskt. Geografididaktiken försöker också beskriva vilket geografiskt kunnande som elever kan få tillgång till när de utvecklar ett geografiskt tänkande. I det här sammanhanget blir det tydligt att olika kunskapsformer behöver integreras i en undervisning för att utveckla förmågan att tillämpa geografiskt tänkande. Vårt syfte med den här artikeln är tudelat. Vi vill dels lyfta fram centrala delar i den internationella geografididaktiska teoretiska diskussionen men också genom tre konkreta geografididaktiska exempel visa vägar att utveckla det geografiska språket, där lärare och forskare tillsammans utformar en undervisning som fokuserar geografiskt tänkande.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: Lärarstiftelsen, 2023
Keywords
Geografididaktik, geografiskt tänkande, powerful knowledge
National Category
Human Geography Didactics
Research subject
Educational Work; Samhällskunskap
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-95524 (URN)
Available from: 2023-06-20 Created: 2023-06-20 Last updated: 2024-07-04Bibliographically approved
Bladh, G. (2023). Rethinking geography education in the Anthropocene: Exploring some key issues.. In: : . Paper presented at 9th EUGEO Congress, Barcelona, 4-7 september 2023.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Rethinking geography education in the Anthropocene: Exploring some key issues.
2023 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
National Category
Didactics Economic Geography
Research subject
Geography
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-98741 (URN)
Conference
9th EUGEO Congress, Barcelona, 4-7 september 2023
Available from: 2024-03-04 Created: 2024-03-04 Last updated: 2024-03-21Bibliographically approved
Stolare, M., Bladh, G. & Kristiansson, M. (2022). Supporting Teachers' Professional Development in Social Studies Education (1sted.). In: Brian Hudson; Niklas Gericke; Christina Olin-Scheller; Martin Stolare (Ed.), International Perspectives on Knowledge and Quality: Implications for Innovation in Teacher Education Policy and Practice (pp. 185-204). London: Bloomsbury Academic
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Supporting Teachers' Professional Development in Social Studies Education
2022 (English)In: International Perspectives on Knowledge and Quality: Implications for Innovation in Teacher Education Policy and Practice / [ed] Brian Hudson; Niklas Gericke; Christina Olin-Scheller; Martin Stolare, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022, 1st, p. 185-204Chapter in book (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022 Edition: 1st
Series
Reinventing Teacher Education
Keywords
Social Studies Education, Primary School, Didactic, Powerful Knowledge, Model for Educational Reconstruction, Professional development
National Category
Didactics
Research subject
History; Samhällskunskap
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-92338 (URN)978-1-3501-7840-3 (ISBN)9781350178427 (ISBN)
Available from: 2022-10-31 Created: 2022-10-31 Last updated: 2023-06-20Bibliographically approved
Organisations
Identifiers
ORCID iD: ORCID iD iconorcid.org/0000-0003-0786-6977

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