Björn Andersson - a brief presentation
Title: Professor emeritus
Unit: Subject-matter Didactics
Phone: +46 (0)31-786 2257, +46 (0)31-91 65 69 (hem)
E-mail: bjorn.andersson@ped.gu.se
Research interests:
I am interested in how school students construct their knowledge of science through appropriate teaching. Our group has developed a research programme regarding this, called “Design and Validation of Instructional Sequences.” Two dissertations in the programme have involved teaching about geometric optics and biological evolution through natural selection, respectively. Studies are under way about life cycles (Eva Nyberg), sound and hearing (Eva West), biological evolution (Clas Olander) and a particle model for solid, fluid, and gaseous states (Frank Bach).
Teaching interests:
I am interested in science instruction in the schools and the education of teachers for this. A key concept in this context is “subject-matter didactic competence.” This is explained in more detail in the following work by one of the members of our group:
Zetterqvist, Ann. (2003). Ämnesdidaktisk kompetens i evolutionsbiologi. En intervjuundersökning med no/biologilärare. Göteborg studies in educational sciences, 197. Göteborg: Acta
Universitatis Gothoburgensis.
Keywords:
subject-matter didactics, science, physics, chemistry, biology, teaching, design, everyday conceptions, instructional sequences
Selected publications:
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. (2001). Elevers tänkande och skolans naturvetenskap. Stockholm: Skolverket, Liber distribution.
Andersson, Björn; Bach, Frank & Zetterqvist, Ann. (2002). Understanding global and personal use of energy. Journal of Baltic Science Education , 1 (2), pp. 4–18.
Andersson, Björn. (2003). Om integration av kunnande. I D. Jorde & B. Bungum (red.), Naturfagdidaktikk - perspektiver, forskning, utveckling (pp.296–309). Oslo: Gyldendal.
Andersson, Björn. (2005). Design och validering av undervisningssekvenser – en ämnesdidaktisk
forskningsstrategi med exempel från naturvetenskap. (NA-SPEKTRUM, nr 27). Göteborgs universitet, Inst. för pedagogik och didaktik.
Andersson, B. & Bach, F. (2005). On designing and evaluating teaching sequences taking geometrical optics as an example. Science Education , 89(2), 196–218.
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.