Biosketch: Emma Edstrand

Emma Edstrand (former Petersson) has a master in sociology, and is currently a PhD student at the Department of Education, Communication and Learning at the University of Gothenburg. Her thesis is centred around issues concerning the role of digital media in environmental education, how science literacy may be promoted through the use of digital tools and how learning about socioscientific issues may be promoted in virtual environments.

Recent publications

Edstrand, E., Lantz-Andersson, A., Säljö, R., & Mäkitalo, Å. (2016). Deciphering the anatomy of scientific argumentation: the emergence of science literacy. In O. Erstad, K. Kumpulainen, Å. Mäkitalo, K C. Schröder, P. Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, & T. Jóhannsdóttir (Eds.), Learning across contexts in the knowledge society (pp. 39-60). Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense Publishers.

Edstrand, E. (2015). Making the invisible visible: how students make use of carbon footprint calculator in environmental education. Learning, Media and Technology, DOI:10.1080/17439884.2015.1032976

Petersson, E., Lantz-Andersson, A., & Säljö, R. (2014). Virtuella laboratorier: Att lära genom att experimentera?. In A. Lantz-Andersson & R. Säljö (Eds.), Lärare i den uppkopplade skolan, s. 69-93. Malmö, Sweden: Gleerups.

Petersson, E., Lantz-Andersson, A., & Säljö, R. (2013). Virtual labs as context for learning - continuities and contingencies in student activities. In E. Christiansen, L. Kuure, A. Mørch, & B. Lindström (Eds.), Problem-based learning for the 21st century. New practices and learning environments (pp. 161-189). Aalborg, Denmark: Aalborg University Press.

Petersson, E., Lantz-Andersson, A., & Säljö, R. (2013). Exploring nature through virtual experimentation. Picking up concepts and modes of reasoning in regular classroom practices. Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy, 3(8), 139-156.

Petersson, E., & Lantz-Andersson, A. (2013). Digital tools as material resources for reasoning in environmental education: the case of the carbon footprint calculator. Invited symposium at the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction conference, EARLI, August 27-31, Munich, Germany.

Petersson, E., Lantz-Andersson, A., & Säljö, R. (2013). Making the Invisible Visible: How Students Make Use of a Carbon Footprint Calculator in Environmental Science. Paper presentation at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association(AERA). April 27–May 1, San Francisco, California.

Petersson, E., Lantz-Andersson, A., & Säljö, R. (2012). The Virtual Lab as a Context for Collaboration and Learning. Invited Symposium by the International Academy of Education at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). April 13-17, Vancouver. British Columbia, Canada.

Petersson E., Lantz-Andersson, A., Fauville, G. & Säljö, R. (2011). Knowing nature through experimentation: Science literacy and the situatedness of knowing. Invited symposium at the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction conference, EARLI, August 30-September 3, 2011, Exeter, United Kingdom.