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Katrine Bergkvist Borch defends her PhD dissertation Caring and Aesthetic Science Education in Nature-Based Learning Environments: A Monstrous Investigation on Wednesday, April 22, 2026.

In this context, she will give a lecture titled: From Monstrous Method to Didactic Value: Aesthetics, Care, and Nature-Based Learning Environments in Science Education?

How can science education in nature-based learning environments be rethought and further developed through aesthetic and caring approaches?

This question is central to Katrine Bergkvist Borch's dissertation, which is rooted in science education research and combines it with Science and Technology Studies (STS), pragmatic philosophy of experience, and posthumanism. The overarching ambition is to rethink science education in nature-based learning environments so that teaching more fully considers the relationships between humans, nature, materials, and technologies. Particularly, biology education in Danish primary and secondary schools forms the framework for the investigations, which contribute new theoretical, methodological, and empirical perspectives on teaching practices and fieldwork in science education.

Supervisor

• Founding leader of STEM Education Research Center FNUG, Section Leader og Learning, Experience and Design, SDU

Assessment Commitee

• , Department of Teacher Education and School Research, University of Oslo, Norway
• , Head of the National Centre for Learning Resources and National Programme Manager for Science Education in Teacher Education – the Danish Academy of Science Education (NAFA)
• , Department of Design, Media and Educational Science, University of Southern Denmark (Chair of the Assessment Committee)