Papers by kerstin sonesson
Without a sense of adventure and an awareness that we all - students, teachers and educational de... more Without a sense of adventure and an awareness that we all - students, teachers and educational developers - are on an endless journey of discovery, the good learning assessment (Sonesson & Norden, ...
– • A network of oak (Quercus robur L.) chronologies containing 49 sites and 635 single trees was... more – • A network of oak (Quercus robur L.) chronologies containing 49 sites and 635 single trees was analysed to identify weather variables affecting annual tree-ring increment dynamics in southern Sweden during 1860–2000. •We analysed (1) the growth response of oak to non-extreme weather, and (2) the temporal and spatial patterns of regional growth anomalies (pointer years) and associated climatic extremes resolved on a monthly scale. • Growth was controlled by precipitation in the current (June–July) and the previous growing season (August) in 48 % and 22 % of all sites, respectively. Temperature during July of the current year and August of the previous year was negatively correlated with growth in 29 % and 43 % of the sites, respectively. Growth was positively correlated with temperature in October of the previous season in 72 % of the sites. The most extensive growth anomaly occurred in 1965 and was probably caused by intrusion of cold Arctic air masses into the region at the end ...
All in-text references underlined in blue are linked to publications on ResearchGate, letting you... more All in-text references underlined in blue are linked to publications on ResearchGate, letting you access and read them immediately.
Oral presentation at 5th World Environmental Education Congress, May 10-14, 2009, Montreal, Canada.
Globala utmaningar i en nordisk kontext – utveckling av studentcentrerad didaktik i SPICA-natverk... more Globala utmaningar i en nordisk kontext – utveckling av studentcentrerad didaktik i SPICA-natverket Grundpelare i SPICA-natverket ar didaktiskt utvecklingsarbete och genomforande av en kurs (5 ECTS) for lararstudenter fran de nordiska landerna. Kursens innehall fokuserar pa nordiska losningar pa lokala, regionala och globala intressekonflikter och utmaningar. Kursens malsattning ar att utveckla och starka lararstudenternas didaktiska kompetens i professionellt arbete med handlingskompetens och aktivt medborgarskap i skolan, utifran lokala utmaningar och i samverkan med det omgivande samhallet. Kursen planeras utifran studentcentrerat arbetssatt och bestar av tre delar: * En virtuell del med flipped classroom och studentledda seminarier pa natet, * En intensiv kursvecka med placed-based och challenge-based eduction i ett av landerna, samt * Efterarbete i form av en individuell reflekterande text. I mars 2016 traffas drygt 20 studenter och 10 lararutbildare pa Island. Infor kursstart ...
The 8th IUFRO International Beech Symposium organized by IUFRO Working Party 1.01.07 Ecology and ... more The 8th IUFRO International Beech Symposium organized by IUFRO Working Party 1.01.07 Ecology and Silviculture of Beech. Nanae, Hokkaido, Japan, September 8-12, 2008. Extended abstract, in press
Development is the premise of sustainable development;people are the focus of sustainable develop... more Development is the premise of sustainable development;people are the focus of sustainable development;education for sustainable development(ESD) is based on the needs of sustainable development and education."China-Sweden's Training of Collaboratively Comparative Research on ESD" organized by Yunnan Provincial Federation of Social Science Circle and Swiss International programme office(IPO) launched the new exploration to the creative idea of ESD.In the graduate course named "ESD Research",graduates and scholars air their own views on ESD.
Window farming - utmaningsbaserat och amnesoverskridande larande i slojdsalen. Forfattarna till d... more Window farming - utmaningsbaserat och amnesoverskridande larande i slojdsalen. Forfattarna till denna presentation fick i uppdrag av en kommun i Sydsverige att folja ett utvecklingsprojekt, ”Odling och halsa”, initierat av ett lararlag pa en ak 6-9 skola. Under de tre aren skol- och forskningsprojektet pagick undersoktes och dokumenterades bland annat lararnas utvecklings- och forandringsarbete genom individuella intervjuer och fokusgruppintervjuer med rektor, larare och skoltradgardsmastare. Forskningsansatsen var fenomenografisk. Skolans traslojdslarare inspirerades av projektet och fick en ide om hur han kunde forandra arbetssattet i slojdsalen, fran ”presentfabrik” till kreativt samarbete mellan saval elever som flera av skolans amnen i projektet ”Window farming”. Syftet med projektet ar att fa trevligare klassrum med battre inomhusmiljo, att utveckla elevernas kreativitet och samarbete, samt oka samverkan mellan olika skolamnen. Elever i arskurs 6 indelades i grupper och fick e...
In August 2012 a team of teachers at a secondary school in the City of Lund Southern Sweden start... more In August 2012 a team of teachers at a secondary school in the City of Lund Southern Sweden started a project on Health and learning by cultivation. Teachers in subjects ranging from handicraft and home economics, to science and technology, as well as students in grades 6-7, were involved in various learning activities during the first year of the project. The aims of the project were to revitalize the school grounds and use them in the education, as well as create incentives for both teachers and students to engage in learning in the outdoor environment.
Global university Network for Innovation (GUNI) 6th International Barcelona Conference on Higher ... more Global university Network for Innovation (GUNI) 6th International Barcelona Conference on Higher Education, Barcelona, 13-15 May, 2013
Education for Sustainability : Building Capacity in Higher Education. Copernicus Alliance Confere... more Education for Sustainability : Building Capacity in Higher Education. Copernicus Alliance Conference, October 3, 2014, Prague, Czech Republic
8th World Environmental Education Congress (WEEC) : Planet and People, how can they develop toget... more 8th World Environmental Education Congress (WEEC) : Planet and People, how can they develop together? Gothenburg, Sweden, June 29-July 2, 2015
During the last decades of the 20th century, the condition of oak species throughout Europe gener... more During the last decades of the 20th century, the condition of oak species throughout Europe generally deteriorated. In southern Sweden, oak decline represents a recent phenomenon with complex temporal and spatial patterns. In this region, crown defoliation of the most common oak species, pedunculate oak Quercus robur, increased by >20% from 1988 to 1999. In 1999, 59% of the oaks were considered damaged, i.e. showing >25% crown defoliation. However, a trend of improving crown conditions was observed in southeastern Sweden during 2000–2008. Available research suggests unfavorable climatic variability as the main cause of negative dynamics in oak crown conditions. Studies have demonstrated the important role of climatic extremes (e.g. cold winters during the dormant season and drought events during vegetation season) in initiating decline phenomena, and a strong correlation between crown condition dynamics and tree-ring increments. Phytophthora quercina (class Oomycetes, kingdom ...
We are in the final stage of United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development that ... more We are in the final stage of United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development that ends in 2014. According to the UN the main challenge is to turn abstract concepts into concrete acti ...
ABSTRACT This study aims to investigate whether soil and/or leaf nutrient status is related to oa... more ABSTRACT This study aims to investigate whether soil and/or leaf nutrient status is related to oak damage, and to visible signs of pathogenic fungi. The chemistry of the mineral soil to a depth of 30 cm and leaf nutrients from the centre of the canopies were studied together with tree damage of 10 oak (Quercus robur and Q. petraea) stands in Sweden and 9 oak stands in Poland. Only healthy trees were sampled for nutrient analyses. Possible explanations for increased oak dieback and appearance of pathogenic fungi of the Swedish sites were ...
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