field learning – Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching

Study trip to the artificial island Pepparholm where the Öresund bridge goes into the tunnel…

mglessmer — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 15:10:00 +0000

The other day I got to go on one of the coolest study trips ever (well, at least on the coolest that I have been on after I stopped going to sea… :-D) — my colleague Ivar and his bridge building course visited the Öresund Bridge, and the artificial island Pepparholm, where the bridge connects […]

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Now published: The book “Teaching fieldwork in geography, earth and environmental sciences”! Summary part 2

mglessmer — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 17:16:01 +0000

This is the second half of my summary of this book, the first half of the book is summarised in this blog post! In case you haven’t checked out that other post: Considerably longer versions of what we ended up being able to publish in our vignettes are available on my blog: “Fieldwork bingo cards” […]

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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 […]

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Currently reading & thinking about “The best of both worlds: A critical pedagogy of place” (Gruenewald, 2003)

mglessmer — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 06:36:04 +0000

I am on the fringes of a course on “Integrating Sustainability Competences in the Curriculum” that my awesome colleague Steven Curtis is currently teaching, and he asked me to read an article about “A critical pedagogy of place” (Gruenewald, 2003) and moderate a discussion about it. Below, I am summarizing the article and adding some […]

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How local field laboratories can enhance student learning – first thoughts

mglessmer — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 11:57:59 +0000

One of iEarth’s stated goals is to develop “local field laboratories” at at least three out of its four member institutions: UiB, UiO, UiT, and UNIS. But what exactly a “local field laboratory” is, and why it actually should enhance learning, is yet to be figured out. In a discussion with iEarth colleagues yesterday, we […]

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