wave watching – Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching

Now published: The book “Teaching fieldwork in geography, earth and environmental sciences”!

mglessmer — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 12:52:01 +0000

Feels like a very long time ago, but Kjersti, Hans-Christian and myself contributed two vignettes to the book “Teaching fieldwork in geography, earth and environmental sciences“, which has now become available! Considerably longer versions of what we ended up being able to publish in our vignettes are available on my blog: “Fieldwork bingo cards” (Daae […]

Source

On redirecting attention

mglessmer — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 14:18:37 +0000

Yesterday morning I went for my morning swim and then sat down at the beach afterwards and drank my coffee. I have been thinking a lot about the “turning the gaze” / “redirecting attention” part of the recent Biesta work that I read, it resonates with me so much! For example, the featured image above […]

Source

A wave-watching writing retreat for joy, motivation and meaning

mglessmer — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 15:33:53 +0000

The other day, I went on a one-day “writing retreat”. I generally work well from new spaces (I am writing this from Copenhagen central station as I am taking a break from “real” work and waiting for a connecting train) and especially moving spaces (so looking forward to being on the train for a couple […]

Source

A little wave watching

mglessmer — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 12:36:22 +0000

This practice of posting pictures only on my blog and not on Instagram is becoming really problematic when I am too busy to post every dip or dive the day it happens and, worse, there are several dips and/or dives happening every day! So here are some pictures from a dive in Limhamn to catch […]

Source

Perfect mini vacation in #WaveWatching pics, and a podcast episode on pedagogy for large classes

mglessmer — Sat, 31 May 2025 16:11:22 +0000

I’m in my podcast phase again… And still on the Tea for Teaching show! Just listened to an older episode where Anna Logan and Ann Marie Farrell talk about pedagogy for large classes. One thought towards the beginning of the episode really resonated with me (and I needed to write this blogpost just to make […]

Source

Currently reading: “Why do teachers matter?” by López-Martín et al. (2023)

mglessmer — Thu, 01 May 2025 16:40:54 +0000

The study I am summarising here is a meta-analysis of 40 studies on how teacher characteristics influence secondary-school students, and they find that teacher characteristics and competencies explain 9% of the difference in student performance! The most important teacher characteristic in that is reflexivity, reconsidering own beliefs and knowledge actively, carefully, and persistently for a […]

Source

Ice watching and thinking about reflections — in the water, and in Harvey et al. (2025)’s article

mglessmer — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 20:01:40 +0000

Climbing the steps out of the water after an ice dip lets me see the world from a different perspective. Instead of focussing on not slipping and on controlling my breath on the way down, on the way up I can linger, observe, and document. Building such small (or larger) moments into life and work, […]

Source

It is not up to us to complete the work, but neither are we free to desist from it

mglessmer — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 12:07:09 +0000

I now finished reading Venet (2024)’s “Becoming an Everyday Changemaker: Healing and Justice in School” (where I understood that “the process is the point“, and where then helpful tools like “Vent diagrams” were introduced). Now, reading the third part of the book felt so empowering. The Talmud quote that I modified for this post’s title, […]

Source

#WaveWatchingWednesday

mglessmer — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 04:41:18 +0000

I think this might be the last repost from my Insta ever, since I have stopped posting there…

Source

#WaveWatching

mglessmer — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 17:54:52 +0000

/weɪv wɒtʃɪŋ/ noun #WaveWatching is the practice of observing water or other fluids, and trying to explain any movement. #WaveWatching is great for several reasons: It is a powerful way of discovering disciplinary content in everyday contexts It can contribute to place-based learning (see for example #BergenWaveWatching) It can help build and strengthen identity as oceanographer […]

Source