Papers by Per-olof Wickman
... notion of scientific literacy. Cedric Linder is Professor of Physics Education Research, Upps... more ... notion of scientific literacy. Cedric Linder is Professor of Physics Education Research, Uppsala University, Sweden, and Professor of Physics (Physics Education), University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Leif Östman is ...
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Research in Science Education - Past, Present, and Future, 2002
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The role of aesthetic experiences in learning science, on universityundergraduate courses and in ... more The role of aesthetic experiences in learning science, on universityundergraduate courses and in primary schools, was examined in avein inspired by Dewey and the later Wittgenstein. The study showshow aesthetic and normative aspects of learning science are intima-tely related, and that aesthetic experiences are moments of antici-pation and consummation. In such instances, aesthetics is not onlyan expression of joy, but also something that is integrated withcommunicating desirable ways of proceeding, and learning whatenables us to progress, both from the individual’s point of viewand in terms of communicating science. Aesthetic language is usedby teachers and students in establishing norms of action, and intalking about what objects, events and actions are to be includedand excluded. Aesthetic experiences are also intimately linked tothe ability of students to participate.
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This study for the first time describes the unusual life cycle of the northern grizzled skipper, ... more This study for the first time describes the unusual life cycle of the northern grizzled skipper, Pyrgus centaureae Rambur, 1839, where the larvae shift host plant from dwarf birch, Betula nana, to cloudberry, Rubus chamaemorus. Larvae were reared from eggs laid in June by a wild caught female. Eggs hatch after about 10 days in room temperature. The first instar larvae initially prefer leaves of dwarf birch but shift voluntarily to cloudberry leaves after their first moult. The larvae make a tent out of a couple of leaves on dwarf birch. On cloudberry, the tent is made by folding the edge of a leaf. The larvae spend their first winter as second instar larvae in a tent made from a cloudberry leaf. The first instar larva can use cloudberry for feeding, and the second instar larva can use dwarf birch. However, this seems only to occur when the host plant typical for the instar is not available. The cloudberry leaves are shed in the autumn and the tent with the larva spends the winter on...
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Éducation et didactique, 2008
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Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2015
ABSTRACT In this article we respond to the discussion by Alexandra Schindel Dimick regarding how ... more ABSTRACT In this article we respond to the discussion by Alexandra Schindel Dimick regarding how the taste analysis presented in our feature article can be expanded within a Bourdieuan framework. Here we acknowledge the significance of field theory to introduce wider reflexivity on the kind of taste that is constituted in the science classroom, while we at the same time emphasize the importance of differentiating between how taste is reproduced versus how it is changed through teaching. The contribution of our methodology is mainly to offer the possibility to empirically analyze changes in this taste, and how teaching can make a difference in regard to students’ home backgrounds. However, our last two steps of our taste analysis include asking questions about how the taste developing in the classroom relates more widely in society. Schindel Dimick shows how these two steps can be productively expanded by a wider societal field analysis.
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In science education students sometimes engage in imaginary science-oriented play where ideas abo... more In science education students sometimes engage in imaginary science-oriented play where ideas about science and scientists are put to use. Through play, children interpret their experiences, dramatize, give life to and transform what they know into a lived narrative. In this paper we build on the work of Vygotsky on imagination and creativity. Previous research on play in primary and secondary school has focused on play as a method for formal instruction rather than students' spontaneous informal play. Our aim is to explore students' informal play as part of activity in lower secondary school science. The empirical study was conducted as part of a larger study on learning, narrative knowing and remembering in inquiry based science education in two Swedish compulsory schools. Data were collected during 10 weeks using video-and audiotape recordings. Our analyses of play show that the students step in and out of play when engaging in task completion. Play offers opportunities f...
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Research in Science Education, 2014
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Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 1988
ABSTRACT By studying a hilltopping population of the satyrine Lasiommata megera in southern Swede... more ABSTRACT By studying a hilltopping population of the satyrine Lasiommata megera in southern Sweden, the effects of density and meteorological conditions on mate-searching behaviour were investigated. Lasiommata megera males switched between stationary and vagrant behaviour, and the behaviour adopted was correlated to meteorological conditions; more males were stationary at low temperatures, low irradiation levels and high wind speeds than vice versa. Body temperature measurements indicated that these factors were important in deciding the body temperature and thereby the flight activity of males. Male density did not significantly influence mate-locating behaviour. The tendency of males to hilltop and their distribution around the hill were strongly influenced by weather. The hilltopping behaviour of this species did not adhere to an all-or-none pattern, but instead males, as well as the stations they used, were found at increasingly higher elevations on the hill with increasing temperatures and decreasing wind speeds. Moreover, males tended to use the lee side and sun-exposed side of the hill. Females, of which the majority were already mated, also showed this distribution around the hill, but preferred lower elevations than males. Release experiments did not reveal any propensity of mated females to fly uphill. Such a propensity was shown by released virgin females.
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Sport, Education and Society, 2011
ABSTRACT The purpose of this article is to suggest and illustrate a methodological approach for s... more ABSTRACT The purpose of this article is to suggest and illustrate a methodological approach for studies of learning in physical education (PE) and sport pedagogy in order to investigate and clarify the relation between how people learn and the settings or context in which they learn. Drawing on the work of John Dewey, the later works of Ludwig Wittgenstein and socio-cultural approaches, a practical epistemology analysis (PEA) with a focus on aesthetic judgements is suggested as a way of developing a valuable approach for investigating situated learning. The approach is illustrated by an analysis of a biographical story written by the English author Jenny Diski. As can be seen from the illustration, the significance of aesthetic experience for learning is visible when an author tells us about skating as a child. By using PEA to examine aesthetic experience—operationalised through the aesthetic judgements the author includes in the story—we can shed light on the relation between the skater and the situation in which skating takes place. The fact that aesthetic judgements are used by the author normatively to decide what is to be included and excluded in skating, and also that aesthetic judgements are used to make relations between the skater and her life as a whole, facilitates an exploration of the relation between the sports learner and the life situation in which learning is situated.
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