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Books

– Focusing on Mathematics. For Primary School, High School, and Early Childhood Education

Book in Danish: STEM-didaktik – med fokus på matematik. Til grundskole, gymnasie og dagtilbud.

The book was published in spring 2024, by University Press of Southern Denmark. The authors are Connie Svabo, Dorte Moeskær Larsen, Maiken Westen Holm Svendsen, Katrine Bergkvist Borch, and Mette Als Kristensen. It is one of the first comprehensive attempts to share experiences and perspectives on using STEM didactics in a Danish context. The book offers, among other things, research-based and practice-oriented examples, many of which are drawn from the LabSTEM project. Read more about the book here.

Creative Pragmatics

Connie Svabo, together with Professor Michael Shanks from Stanford University, Lecturer Chunfang Zhou from FNUG, and Professor Tamara Carleton from Blekinge Institute of Technology in Sweden, are in the final stages of production of an edited book with the publisher Springer in the ESERA book series on science education. This book provides educators, leaders and policymakers with a visionary approach and hands on examples of how education can help students navigate complexity and unpredictability – the challenges of contemporary society. Many of FNUG's researchers have contributed to the book: Gabriele Characiejiene, Katrine Bergkvist Borch, Dorte Moeskær Larsen; Maiken Westen Holm Svendsen, Karina Kiær, Gitte Miller Balslev.

Sustainable School Life

Book in Danish: Bæredygtige Skoleliv

An anthology, published in the spring of 2024, focusing on sustainability in primary schools. All chapters in the book have a strong and broad theoretical foundation and are based on research or development projects that include perspectives from students, teachers, and school leaders, which gives the anthology a close connection to practice. The book's main argument is that current crises require new approaches. It particularly emphasizes the importance of a broad understanding of sustainability that includes ecological, social, economic, and cultural aspects, in order to understand and contribute to the development of sustainable school life in all its diversity.
The anthology is aimed at researchers, educators, students, and practitioners with an interest in research about, with, and for primary schools – viewed from a sustainability perspective. Professor Connie Svabo edited the book in collaboration with Nikolaj Elf and Thomas Skovgaard.

Education, Innovation and Collaboration in an Era of Change: Educational Development through Equity, Co-responsibility and Democracy (forthcoming)

FNUG's Gitte Miller Balslev, together with B. Ribers (ÌǹûÅɶÔ), C. Revsbech (RU) & P. H. Raae (ÌǹûÅɶÔ) are editing a book in the Routledge series on research in teacher education.

Dynamic Routines: How Changes Take Root in Organizations

Book in Danish: Dynamiske rutiner – hvordan forandringer får fodfæste i Organisationer

The book provides an understanding of the characteristics and dynamics of organizational routines, which can help organizations make well-informed decisions about why routines should be maintained and continued, or why they should be dissolved, changed, expanded, or replaced with new ones. Published by Dansk Psykologisk Forlag. Karina Kiær, postdoc at FNUG and associate professor at UC SYD, co-authored the book with Thomas R.S. Albrechtsen, associate professor at UC SYD.

Articles and Book Chapters

About Mathematics didactics and the role of mathematics in STEM education

, a chapter in a book "The Contribution of Mathematics to School STEM Education", published by Springer. The chapter is authored by Dorte Moeskær Lrsen, Mette Als Kristensen and Coonie Svabo, and is based on the experiences from LabSTEM.

. (In Danish). The article written by Dorte Moeskær Larsen, Troels Gannerup, Stig Toke Gissel and Louis Køhrsen in the journal MONA.  

About AI and learning, AI-human collaborative creativity

. Article written by Chunfang Zhou and Wei Zhang and published by mdpi.com/Education Sciences.  

AI Literacy and Professional Development in STEM Education, a book chapter by Chunfang Zhou et al. in the book "AI Roles and Responsibilities in Education", published by Springer. 

Creativity and Care in Participatory Design of Social Robots,  an article by Zhou, C., & Marchetti, E., about a case study on the design of Sanne, an automatic floor washer in a Danish nursing home, will be discussed to reflect on potential strategies for improving the design of social robots and the implications for AI education in the future. Presented at : Social Robots with AI: Prospects, Risks and Responsible Methods. (Vol. 6). IOS Press. (2025, Accepted/In press)

About redesign of STEM education and intersections with design and the environment

Essay Kloge miljøer (Smart Environments) is professor Connie Svabo's contribution to the book Kloge huse. Formidling af bæredygtighed på Frilandsmuseet (Smart houses. Communicating sustainability at the Open Air Museum), that is published on February 21, 2025.

Zhou, C., & Larsen, D. M. (2025). Developing Creativity in steM Education. In The Tenth Nordic Conference on Mathematics Education (NORMA 24): Interplay between Research and Teaching Practice in Mathematics Education (Accepted/In press).

Taxonomies – Reuniting Art and science via a fascination with nature, co-authored by Emanuela Marchetti, Andrea Valente and Shanice Otersen. This paper explores the potential of art-making as a method for naturalistic inquiry through botanical art, traditionally a tool for gathering and documenting scientific data. Natural Sciences provided art subjects and materials, in the form of making of organic colors and coding. The paper discusses results from a collaboration with the director of BioTechLab at Spinderihallerne and the art teacher from Rosborg Gymnasium. Accepted for presentation at .

Nuñez, D. E., Messana, M., Povazanova, D., and Mitchell, R. (2025). “Weight of Scrolling” - Browsing Social Media In Bed With A Collaborative Interface for Horizontal Users. 2025 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work (GROUP '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 94–98.

Reports

Impact assessment of teaching programs and student interest. Documentation report, written by Katrine Bergkvist Borch, PhD candidate, on her follow-up research of the project Bælt i Balance. Read more here.

ÌǹûÅÉ¶Ô Vejle – Learning Environment Development. Written by Connie Svabo, Gitte Miller Balslev, Berfin Colak Oguz, and Andrea Dietz Føge Jensen, about the development of the foundation for the future learning environment at the new ÌǹûÅÉ¶Ô campus in Vejle. You can read the report here.

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