Project information
Project manager at Linnaeus University
Bodil Sundberg
Other project members
Sofie Areljung, Umeå University, Sweden (project manager)
Carina Hermansson, University of Borås, Sweden
Marianne Skoog, Örebro University, Sweden
Participating organizations
Linnaeus University, Umeå University, University of Borås and Örebro University, Sweden
Financier
The Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet)
Timetable
1 Jan 2020–31 Dec 2024
Subject
Science education (Department of Biology and Environmental Science, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences)
Website
Umu.se/en/research/projects/drawing-to-learn-and-learning-to-draw-in-primary-school-science
More about the project
This project responds to a need to involve teachers' voices in research on drawing in science teaching. We collaborate in groups that include two primary school teachers, an image educator, a researcher in literacy and a researcher in science didactics. Three such groups develop, test, document and analyse science activities that include drawing.
Our analysis is based on a social-semiotic approach to multimodality and we investigate, among other things, how students create and communicate meaning when drawing. The ambition is that the project will contribute with an educational vocabulary and a practical repertoire for teaching about and through drawing in the natural sciences – and to interpret and evaluate children's drawing as a sign of learning in the natural sciences.
