Anette Braathen

• Kostøl, Kristine Bakkemo; Remmen, Kari Beate; Braathen, Anette & Stromholt, Shelley (2021). Co-designing cross-setting activities in a nationwide STEM partnership program – Teachers’ and students’ experiences. LUMAT: International Journal on Math, Science and Technology Education. 9(1), p. 426–456. doi: 10.31129/LUMAT.9.1.1414. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  STEM partnerships are popular initiatives but can be challenging to implement in practice. Accordingly, within the context of a nationwide, cross-setting STEM partnership program in Norway – Lektor2 – a co-design tool was introduced to support teachers to collaborate with STEM professionals in developing curriculum units involving authentic STEM problems and practices. Thus, the purpose of this study was to describe the teachers’ and students’ experiences from the curriculum units based on the co-design tool and how the tool might help facilitate partnerships in STEM education. Teacher and student data were collected in 2015-2018 (N= 2479), and responses to open-ended questions were coded using a grounded theory approach. Findings indicate that the co-design tool, particularly “the commission” – where students are commissioned by STEM professionals to design solutions to authentic problems – enhanced teachers’ collaboration with STEM professionals, led to changes in pedagogical approaches, and enabled the teachers to differentiate in their teaching. Student experiences from participating in the co-designed curriculum units are characterised as more expansive views of STEM, STEM learning, and increased STEM engagement. We discuss how the co-design tool enabled teachers to overcome partnership challenges and what aspects of the commission appeared to be important for the students’ experiences. This study provides a specific example of a co-design tool that can enhance pedagogical designs developed through STEM partnerships.

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• Kostøl, Kristine Bakkemo & Braathen, Anette (2021). Spørsmål som drivkraft. Naturfag. ISSN 1504-4564. p. 16–17. Full text in Research Archive
• Kostøl, Kristine Bakkemo & Braathen, Anette (2021). Når formidlingen blir målet. Naturfag. ISSN 1504-4564. p. 62–63. Full text in Research Archive
• Kostøl, Kristine Bakkemo; Remmen, Kari Beate; Braathen, Anette & Stromholt, Shelley (2019). 'I was part of something big' - student outcomes of using a co-design tool in a STEM partnership program. Full text in Research Archive
• Kostøl, Kristine Bakkemo; Braathen, Anette & Frøyland, Merethe (2018). Fra boller og refleksvest til læring - Hvordan lykkes med undervisning som involverer andre læringsarenaer? Naturfag. ISSN 1504-4564. p. 34–37. Full text in Research Archive
• Braathen, Anette; Frøyland, Merethe & Kostøl, Kristine Bakkemo (2018). Gjer tenkinga til elevane synleg! Naturfag. ISSN 1504-4564. p. 50–53. Full text in Research Archive
• Frøyland, Merethe; Braathen, Anette & Kostøl, Kristine Bakkemo (2018). Elever på vei mot forståelse - hvordan kan det se ut? Naturfag. ISSN 1504-4564. p. 86–89. Full text in Research Archive
• Reitan, Berit; Bøe, Maria Vetleseter; Kostøl, Kristine Bakkemo & Braathen, Anette (2018). Undervisning for naturfaglig kapital: Hva har elevene dine i ryggsekken? Naturfag. ISSN 1504-4564. Full text in Research Archive

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