Anita Wallin - a brief presentation
Title: PhD
Unit: Subject-Matter Didactics
Phone: 46 (0)31-786 2639
E-mail: anita.wallin@ped.gu.se
Research interests
In my research I am interested in learning and teaching in science, primarily biology. The point of departure for learning is children’s, pupils’, or students’ prior understanding of various phenomena. When scientific content meets this prior understanding, teaching content is created. The design of teaching takes place in close collaboration with teachers at the school. The key focus of my research is to identify critical aspects for learning of specific content in the course of a lesson. The findings of this research become what we have chosen to call “theories of subject-matter didactics.”
Teaching interests
The major part of my teaching is carried out in the general field of teacher education. Subject-matter didactics, primarily in biology, is another component of my teaching interests. I supervise and examine undergraduate theses and serve as deputy supervisor of a doctoral student.
Keywords
subject-matter didactics, prior understanding, learning, teaching, science, biology
Selected publications
Andersson, Björn, Bach, Frank, Hagman, Mats, Olander, Clas & Wallin, Anita. (2005). Discussing a research programme for the improvement of science teaching. In K. Boersma, M. Goedhart, O. de Jong & H. Eijkelhof (Eds.) Research and the quality of science education, (pp. 221–230). The Netherlands: Springer.
Andersson, Björn & Wallin, Anita. (2000). Students’ Understanding of the Greenhouse Effect, Societal Consequences of Reducing CO2 Emissions and Why Ozone Layer Depletion is a Problem. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 37(10), 1096-1111.
Andersson, Björn & Wallin, Anita. (2006). On developing content-orientated theories taking biological evolution as an example. International Journal of Science Education, 28 (6), 673–695
Wallin, Anita (1988). The Genetics of Foraging Behaviour: Artifi cial Selection for Food Choice of the Fruitfl y, Drosophila melanogaster. Animal Behaviour 36, 106–114.
Wallin, Anita. (2004). Evolutionsteorin i klassrummet: På väg mot en ämnesdidaktisk teori för undervisning i biologisk evolution. Göteborg studies in educational sciences 212. Göteborg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis.