Forskning
I hold a Ph.D. degree in Educational Psychology and a teaching degree (subjects: Geography and Pedagogy) from the German Universities in Münster and Landau. During my Ph.D. research, I have been investigating teacher perceptual processes in the classroom and factors that can foster (or hinder) accurate teacher judgments. This research was built on previous evidence regarding the role of accurate teacher judgments for adapting learning arrangements to students' individual needs and learning prerequisites.
At Karlstad University, I am extending this line of research to identify necessary adaptations in the curricula and teacher education that are needed to address students’ individual needs, pre-concepts and (emotional) reactions in the context of the current societal and environmental challenges (e.g., climate change). I am particularly interested in the role that the school subject Geography can (and needs to) play in this context. I place strong emphasis on the transfer of academic knowledge and evidence to the benefit of the wider community, such as for instance schools and teachers.
Core research areas in brief:
- Education and Bildung in light of the Anthropocene
- Geography didactics and the potential of Geography as a subject in addressing the most central challenges of the Anthropocene (e.g., climate change)
- Cognitive components of teaching and learning, particularly in the context of current and future societal and environmental challenges
Samverkan
Utvalda publikationer
Bhowmik, C.V. (2026, forthcoming). Reimagining Bildung for the Anthropocene through the Emotional Lens: Insights from Geography. In Bhowmik, C. V., & Popa, N. (Eds.) Re-framing Bildung in Light of the Anthropocene: The Role of Subject Education. Springer.
Bhowmik, C.V., Back, M.D., Schrader, F.-W. & Nestler, S. (2025, forthcoming). Towards a Better Understanding of Teacher Perceptual Processes in the Classroom: A Lens Model Approach. In: Adaryukov, J., Collsiöö, A., Hamm, R. M., Kaufmann, E., Molinaro, K.A., & Salmen, K. (Eds.) The Brunswik Society Newsletter, 40. 24-27.
Bhowmik, C.V., Nestler, S., Schrader, F.-W., & Back, M.D. (2024). Appearing smart, confident and motivated: A lens model approach to judgment accuracy in an educational setting. Social Psychology of Education, 28(1), 1-34. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11218-025-10057-1
Bhowmik, C.V. (2024). Towards a better understanding of teacher accuracy: An integrative approach. [Doctoral dissertation, University of Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany].
https://doi.org/10.26204/KLUEDO/8521
Bhowmik, C.V., Nestler, S., Schrader, F.-W., Praetorius, A.-K., Biesanz, J., & Back, M.D. (2021). Teacher judgment accuracy at zero-acquaintance: A social accuracy analysis. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 65, 101965. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cedpsych.2021.101965
Bhowmik, C.V., Schrader, F.-W., Back, M. D., & Nestler, S. (2021). An application of the lens model to the educational context. In: Adaryukov, J., Collsiöö, A., Hamm, R. M., Kaufmann, E., Molinaro, K.A., & Salmen, K. (Eds.) The Brunswik Society Newsletter, 36. 24-27.
Santos P.B., Bhowmik C.V., Gurevych I. (2020) Avoiding Bias in Students’ Intrinsic Motivation Detection. In: Kumar V., Troussas C. (Eds.) Intelligent Tutoring Systems. ITS 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 12149, (pp. 89-94). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49663-0_12