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Karin Thörne

PhD in Biology Education

Publications

Analogy competence for science teachers
Stina Eriksson, Niklas Gericke, Karin Thörne - 2025
The Challenge of Changing a Genetics Deterministic Teaching Tradition – Teachers’ Views on Including Epigenetics in the Genetics Curriculum
Birgitta Mc Ewen, Niklas Gericke, Karin Thörne - 2025
Uppsatsens roll i AI-tider
Karin Thörne, Axel Berge, Carina Vikström - 2024
Prerequisites for teaching about crisis and disaster preparedness in the younger years of primary school in social study subjects and science studies: a curriculum analysis
David Olsson, Karin Thörne, Martin Jakobsson, Nina Christenson, Emelie Hindersson - 2023
Undervisning för krisberedskap i grundskolans tidigare år – en förstudie
Nina Christenson, Emelie Hindersson, Martin Jakobsson, David Olsson, Karin Thörne - 2023
Teachers´reflections on implementing epigenetics in genetic education
Birgitta Mc Ewen, Niklas Gericke, Karin Thörne - 2021
Implementing epigenetics in secondary school - A design study
Karin Thörne, Niklas Gericke, Birgitta Mc Ewen - 2020
Recent Trends in Genetics Education Research
Niklas Gericke, Birgitta Mc Ewen, Karin Thörne - 2020
Learning epigenetic mechanisms with analogies
Karin Thörne, Niklas Gericke, Birgitta Mc Ewen - 2019
Linguistic Challenges in Science Education - A Classroom Study of Teachers’ and Students’ use of Central Concepts in Genetics
Karin Thörne - 2018
Genetic determinism in teachers’ talk in secondary science classroom
Karin Thörne, Niklas Gericke - 2015
How secondary teachers verbally relate the words gene, DNA and chromosome when teaching genetics
Karin Thörne, Niklas Gericke - 2014
Teaching genetics in secondary classrooms - a linguistic analysis of teachers’ talk about proteins
Karin Thörne, Niklas Gericke - 2014
Linguistic challenges in Mendelian genetics - teachers' talk in action
Karin Thörne, Niklas Gericke, Mariana Hagberg - 2013
Secondary teachers’talk about proteins during genetic lessons
Karin Thörne, Niklas Gericke - 2013
Teachers talk in the classroom: Connecting geneswith traits
Karin Thörne, Niklas Gericke - 2012
Teaching genetics - a linguistic challenge - A classroom study of secondary teachers' talk about genes, traits and proteins
Karin Thörne - 2012
Teachers’ talk aboutgenetics: how do they explain the central concepts and make connections betweenthe micro- and macro-levels?
Karin Thörne, Mariana Hagberg, Niklas Gericke - 2010
Learning genetics in school through communication and drama
Karin Thörne, Mariana Hagberg, Niklas Gericke - 2009
Does teachers’ classroom talk in genetics lessons clarify or confuse? - Investigating semantic relations between the words gene, DNA and chromosome
Karin Thörne, Niklas Gericke -
Teacher-student dialogue in the classroom - does it support students in learning the language of genetics?
Karin Thörne, Niklas Gericke -

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054-700 17 27
karin.thorne@kau.se
5F 410

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