Jennie Lundqvist
Job description
In January 2021 I began my PhD employment at UiT and my PhD project is tied to iEarths’ progress domain 2 with focus on students’ learning processes.
The aim of my PhD project is to describe, analyse, and develop the learning environment in geoscience education by gaining a deeper understanding for the formation and development of diciplinary spatio-temporal competency (DSTC) and their influence on individuals' ability to communicate and contextualize geoscience knowledge during a geoscientific career.
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Research interests
I am interested in the spatio-temporal perspective of geoscience education because it plays a central role in students’ experience of geoscience and their ability to solve ill-structured problems. In order to experience and understand the immense spatio-temporal scales involved in geoscience students must move from the concrete to the abstract, they must go from being able to see and touch a phenomenon to being able to only imagine the phenomenon in their minds. Beyond this, students also need to use an array of different representations, for example, equations, diagrams, satellite photos, and computer models, in order to experience and communicate their understanding of a geoscientific phenomenon, such as plate tectonics or the impacts of climate change. By choosing this perspective on progress domain 2, I can also build on the knowledge I gained from my master thesis and explore the formation and development of spatio-temporal competency in geoscience through theoretical frameworks, such as social semiotics, phenomenography, and the variation theory of learning.