Anna T. Danielsson

My research is in science education. Central questions within science education research concerns selections of content and teaching methods, but also who a student is able to become, as a consequence of those selections. To learn science includes the learning of content knowledge, but it also concerns learning to participate in science as a social and cultural practice.

I’ve primarily focused questions regarding identity, gender, and power in relation to the teaching and learning of science, in particular in the context of higher education. What knowledge is seen as important in science classrooms and what consequences does this have for learners’ possibility to identify themselves with the discipline? What role does gender and social class play in the teaching and learning of science? Questions such as these, where teaching and learning are explored in relation to a particular disciplinary content and culture is what interests me as a science education researcher.