Magdalena Kersting

• Kersting, Magdalena (2021). Standing on the shoulders of giants: How historical perspectives on gravity can inform modern physics education. In Kersting, Magdalena & Blair, David (Ed.), Teaching Einsteinian Physics in Schools: An Essential Guide for Teachers in Training and Practice. Routledge. ISSN 9781760877712. p. 133–144.
• Kersting, Magdalena (2021). Using the language of gravity to teach about space, time, and matter in general relativity. In Kersting, Magdalena & Blair, David (Ed.), Teaching Einsteinian Physics in Schools: An Essential Guide for Teachers in Training and Practice. Routledge. ISSN 9781760877712.
• Blair, David & Kersting, Magdalena (2021). The difficult birth of gravitational wave astronomy. In Kersting, Magdalena & Blair, David (Ed.), Teaching Einsteinian Physics in Schools: An Essential Guide for Teachers in Training and Practice. Routledge. ISSN 9781760877712.
• Kersting, Magdalena; Haglund, Jesper & Steier, Rolf (2021). A growing body of knowledge. Science & Education. ISSN 0926-7220. doi: 10.1007/s11191-021-00232-z
• Julia, Woithe & Kersting, Magdalena (2021). Bend it like dark matter! Physics Education. ISSN 0031-9120. 56. doi: 10.1088/1361-6552/abe09c Full text in Research Archive
• Hughes, Theo & Kersting, Magdalena (2021). The invisibility of time dilation. Physics Education. ISSN 0031-9120. doi: 10.1088/1361-6552/abce02
• Kersting, Magdalena; Schrocker, Gretchen & Papantoniou, Sandra (2021). ‘I loved exploring a new dimension of reality’ – a case study of middle-school girls encountering Einsteinian physics in the classroom. International Journal of Science Education. ISSN 0950-0693. doi: 10.1080/09500693.2021.1950943 Show summary

  ‘I loved exploring a new dimension of reality’ – a case study of middle-school girls encountering Einsteinian physics in the classroom

• Kersting, Magdalena; Toellner, Richard; Blair, David & Burman, Ron (2020). Gravity and warped time – clarifying conceptual confusions in general relativity. Physics Education. ISSN 0031-9120. 55:55 015023, p. 1–13. doi: 10.1088/1361-6552/ab56d7
• Kersting, Magdalena (2020). Visualizing Four Dimensions in Special and General Relativity. In Sriraman, Bharath (Eds.), Handbook of the Mathematics of the Arts and Sciences. Springer Nature. ISSN 978-3-319-70658-0. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-70658-0_120-1
• Kersting, Magdalena; Steier, Rolf & Venville, Grady (2020). Exploring participant engagement during an astrophysics virtual reality experience at a science festival. International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement (IJSE). ISSN 2154-8455. doi: 10.1080/21548455.2020.1857458 Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Virtual reality applications turn abstract concepts into experienceable phenomena and present exciting opportunities to transform science education and public outreach practices. While research has started to look into the affordances of virtual reality (VR) in the formal science education context, the potential of these technologies to enhance public engagement with science is largely unexplored. To improve the way that VR may be used in informal learning and public outreach contexts, the purpose of our study was to undertake evidence-based investigations that shed light onto the relationship between VR and public engagement. Aiming to identify and develop the benefits of VR technologies, we propose a conceptual framework for engagement with VR at a science festival that comprises four aspects of participant activity: immersion, facilitation, collaboration, and visualisation. This framework guided the research design of our exploratory case study of one VR tour at a science festival. Data included visitor surveys, video recordings, VR screen captures, and focus group interviews with outreach and science professionals. Our findings reveal important ways that VR supports visitor engagement at a science festival. More generally, these findings and our framework contribute to the ongoing efforts of engaging the public with science in more diverse informal learning contexts.

• Steier, Rolf & Kersting, Magdalena (2019). Metaimagining and embodied conceptions of spacetime. Cognition and Instruction. ISSN 0737-0008. 37(2), p. 145–168. doi: 10.1080/07370008.2019.1580711 Full text in Research Archive
• Choudhary, Rahul; Kraus, Ute; Kersting, Magdalena; Blair, David; Zahn, Corvin & Zadnik, Marjan [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2019). Einsteinian Physics in the Classroom: Integrating Physical and Digital Learning Resources in the Context of an International Research Collaboration. The Physics Educator. ISSN 2661-3409. 1(4). doi: 10.1142/s2661339519500161
• Steier, Rolf; Kersting, Magdalena & Silseth, Kenneth (2019). Imagining with improvised representations in CSCL environments. International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning. ISSN 1556-1607. 14(1), p. 109–136. doi: 10.1007/s11412-019-09295-1 Full text in Research Archive
• Kersting, Magdalena (2019). Free fall in curved spacetime—how to visualise gravity in general relativity. Physics Education. ISSN 0031-9120. 54(3), p. 1–9. doi: 10.1088/1361-6552/ab08f5 Full text in Research Archive
• Kersting, Magdalena (2019). Navigating four dimensions – upper secondary students' understanding of movement in spacetime. Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS). ISSN 1742-6588. 1287(1). doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/1287/1/012007 Full text in Research Archive
• Kersting, Magdalena; Henriksen, Ellen Karoline; Bøe, Maria Vetleseter & Angell, Carl (2018). General relativity in upper secondary school: Design and evaluation of an online learning environment using the model of educational reconstruction. Physical Review Physics Education Research. ISSN 2469-9896. 14(1). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.14.010130 Full text in Research Archive
• Kersting, Magdalena & Steier, Rolf (2018). Understanding Curved Spacetime: The Role of the Rubber Sheet Analogy in Learning General Relativity. Science & Education. ISSN 0926-7220. 27(7-8), p. 593–623. doi: 10.1007/s11191-018-9997-4 Full text in Research Archive

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• Kersting, Magdalena & Blair, David (2021). Teaching Einsteinian Physics in Schools: An Essential Guide for Teachers in Training and Practice. Routledge. ISBN 9781760877712. 450 p.

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• Kersting, Magdalena (2021). Engaging the Public with Astrophysics Virtual Reality Experiences.
• Kersting, Magdalena (2021). Engaging students to science through Einstein. [Internet]. PhysicsHigh Podcast YouTube.
• Kersting, Magdalena & Blair, David (2021). Teaching Einsteinian Physics in Schools: Preface. In Kersting, Magdalena & Blair, David (Ed.), Teaching Einsteinian Physics in Schools: An Essential Guide for Teachers in Training and Practice. Routledge. ISSN 9781760877712.
• Kersting, Magdalena (2021). The interplay between nature and ourselves. New Philosopher. ISSN 2201-7151.
• Kersting, Magdalena (2021). Spaces without and within. New Philosopher. ISSN 2201-7151.
• Kersting, Magdalena (2020). Impact in Einsteinian Physics Education.
• Kersting, Magdalena (2020). Grundlagen der Allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie.
• Kersting, Magdalena (2020). Sag mal du als Physiker: Die relativ sensationelle 100. Folge . [Internet]. Podcast Audible.
• Kersting, Magdalena (2020). Einsteinian Physics in the Classroom.
• Kersting, Magdalena (2020). Instructional Strategies to Foster Motivation for Einsteinian Physics Among Middle School Girls.
• Kersting, Magdalena (2020). Learning Processes of Embodied Interaction with Disembodied Concepts in CSCL Environments.
• Kersting, Magdalena (2020). General Relativity in Secondary Schools.
• Kamphorst, Floor & Kersting, Magdalena (2019). DESIGN BASED RESEARCH AND THE MODEL OF EDUCATIONAL RECONSTRUCTION – A COMBINED APPROACH TO DESIGN SUCCESSFUL SCIENCE INSTRUCTION.
• Kersting, Magdalena (2019). Free Fall in Curved Spacetime.
• Kersting, Magdalena (2019). Bringing general relativity to secondary schools: Design and evaluation of a digital learning environment.
• Kersting, Magdalena (2019). Curved Spacetime: Investigating Students' Conceptual Understanding in General Relativity.
• Kersting, Magdalena (2019). THE TRANSFORMATIONAL POWER OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS .
• Kersting, Magdalena (2019). SCIENTIFIC CONCEPTS AND THE ROLE OF IMAGINATION IN THE LANGUAGE GAMES OF THE SCIENCE CLASSROOM.
• Kersting, Magdalena & Bondell, Jackie (2019). MODERNISING SCIENCE TEACHING: BRINGING THE VIRTUAL UNIVERSE INTO THE CLASSROOM.
• Kersting, Magdalena (2018). General Relativity in Upper Secondary School: How Philosophy of Science Can Inform Physics Education of the 21st century.
• Kersting, Magdalena (2018). Generell relativitetsteori.
• Kersting, Magdalena (2018). The Role of Imagination in the Language Games of the Science Classroom.
• Kersting, Magdalena (2018). How history and philosophy of science can inform teaching and learning of general relativity in upper secondary school.
• Kersting, Magdalena (2018). How history and philosophy of science can inform teaching and learning of general relativity in upper secondary school.
• Kersting, Magdalena (2018). Navigating four dimensions – upper secondary students’ understanding of movement in spacetime.
• Kersting, Magdalena (2018). International perspectives on Einsteinian Physics at upper secondary school level.
• Kersting, Magdalena (2018). Navigating Four Dimensions. Lateral Magazine. Show summary

  The geometry of a world map is remarkably similar to the geometry of spacetime. Science educators are using maps as models for teaching Einstein’s theory of general relativity.

• Kersting, Magdalena & Steier, Rolf (2018). Gravity, imagination and embodied conceptions of spacetime.
• Kersting, Magdalena (2018). General Relativity in Upper Secondary School.
• Kersting, Magdalena (2018). Modernising Physics Teaching.
• Steier, Rolf & Kersting, Magdalena (2018). When a sandwich becomes the earth: imagination and creativity with improvised representations.
• Kersting, Magdalena (2018). General Relativity – Why high school students should learn about Einstein’s most revolutionary idea. Titan.uio.no. Show summary

  Despite our better knowledge, physics in schools is still taught from an outdated 19th century point of view. This essay argues for introducing general relativity, a cornerstone of modern physics, to physics students at high school.

• Kersting, Magdalena & Myhrehagen, Henning Vinjusveen (2017). A Relatively Modern Physics Lesson.
• Kersting, Magdalena; Zadnik, Marjan; Stannard, Warren; Moschilla, John & Blair, David (2017). An International Research Collaboration in the Teaching and Learning of Einsteinian Physics.
• Kersting, Magdalena (2017). Teaching General Relativity in Upper Secondary Schools: an Educational Reconstruction.
• Kersting, Magdalena & Steier, Rolf (2017). GRAVITY, IMAGINATION AND EMBODIED CONCEPTIONS OF SPACETIME.
• Kersting, Magdalena; Henriksen, Ellen Karoline; Bøe, Maria Vetleseter & Angell, Carl (2017). Educational Reconstruction of General Relativity Through a Collaborative Online Learning Environment.
• Bungum, Berit; Henriksen, Ellen Karoline; Frågåt, Thomas & Kersting, Magdalena (2016). ReleKvant - læring og undervisning i kvantefysikk og relativitetsteori.
• Kersting, Magdalena; Frågåt, Thomas; Henriksen, Ellen Karoline & Tellefsen, Cathrine Wahlstrøm (2016). Introduction to ReleQuant: Developing online learning resources in modern physics.
• Kersting, Magdalena (2016). Curved space and warped time: Students’ understanding of gravity.
• Kersting, Magdalena (2016). General Relativity: Making Einstein’s Theory Teachable.
• Henriksen, Ellen Karoline; Angell, Carl; Bungum, Berit; Bøe, Maria Vetleseter; Tellefsen, Cathrine Wahlstrøm & Frågåt, Thomas [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2016). ReleKvant - undervisningsopplegg om relativitetsteori og kvantefysikk.
• Ødegaard, Marianne; Kjærnsli, Marit; Karlsen, Solveig; Kersting, Magdalena; Lunde, Mai Lill Suhr & Olufsen, Magne [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2021). Tett på naturfag i klasserommet (Linking Instruction in Science & Student Impact). Utdanningsdirektoratet.
• Kersting, Magdalena (2019). General Relativity in Secondary School. Research-Based Development of Learning Resources & Analyses of Students' Conceptual Understanding Using the Model of Educational Reconstrucion. Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet.
• Kersting, Magdalena (2019). General Relativity in Secondary School -Research-Based Development of Learning Resources and Analyses of Students’ Conceptual Understanding Using the Model of Educational Reconstruction. Series of dissertations submitted to the The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Oslo.

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