What is fieldwork for?

This project critically examines fieldwork practices in higher geoscience education, particularly how fieldwork influences students’ learning, sense of belonging, and identity as geoscientists. Through an ethnographic approach, it is shown how fieldwork can both enable and constrain participation, and and the project considers how fieldwork may be reimagined to broaden inclusion in Earth Science.

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Rie Malm, Ph.D. Project completed Jan. 2021.

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Publications 

Madsen and Malm (2022) Doing Geoscience: Negotiations of Science Identity Among University Students When Learning in the Field 

Malm (2021) Developing an Arctic Geology course: exploring the role of fieldwork in a challenging learning space

Madsen, Evans & Malm (2021). Using a Wicked Problem for Inquiry-Based Fieldwork in High School Geology: Addressing Climate Change and Mass Extinction Events. 

Senger et al. (2021). Using digital outcrops to make the high Arctic more accessible through the Svalbox database.

Malm, Madsen & Lundmark (2020). Students’ negotiations of belonging in geoscience: Experiences of faculty–student interactions when entering university. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 44(4), 532-549.

Martens & Malm (2019). Baseline undersøkelse av studiekvalitet og undervisningskultur på Institutt for geovitenskap ved UiT Norges arktiske universitet.

 

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