Dawn Sanders
Senior Lecturer
Unit for Subject Matter Education with specialization in Science and TechnologyAbout Dawn Sanders
Associate Professor
Research I am working across the art/science interface and how such ways of working might allow us to create new attentional frames in teaching and learning contexts towards plants and notions of "plantness". My other main research interests involve a) the literary imagination as an extension of environmental aesth/ethics b) contemporary affordances of victorian taxidermy in natural history museums particularly in didactical contexts concerning life and death.
Current Research:
Beyond Plant Blindness: Seeing the Importance of Plants for a Sustainable World
Funding: The Swedish Research Council, Dnr 2014-2013 Period: 2015-2017 www.idpp.gu.se/english/Research/research_projects/beyond-plant-blindness-seeing-the-importance-of-plants-for-a-sustainable-world-/
Herbaria 3.0
Herbaria 3.0 uses the concept of the herbaria to provide historical context for exploring the lives of plants and their shared history with humans. As part of the project, our multi-disciplinary team has created an interactive website, collecting stories that address the question: “Where can a plant take you?” https://herbaria3.org Funding: http://www.theseedbox.se/seed-funding-awards?l=en Period:2016-2017 Seed Box research area: Multispecies stories
Teaching
Teacher Education (Biology Didactics)
International Masters in Educational Research Methods
PhD Methods Course 3 Course Leader
PhD (CUL) Bruner
Keywords Plants, 'plant blindness', Outdoor Learning, Botanic Gardens, School Gardens, Plant Didactics, Carnivorous Plants, Taxidermy, Literary Imagination, Aesthetics, Death, Affordances
Selected Publications Lincs
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Introduction: Education for sustainable development in the
'Capitalocene'
Helena Pedersen, Sally Windsor, Beniamin Knutsson, Dawn Sanders, Arjen E.J. Wals, Olof Franck
Education for Sustainable Development in the 'Capitalocene' - 2024 -
Education for Sustainable Development in the
'Capitalocene'
Helena Pedersen, Sally Windsor, Beniamin Knutsson, Dawn Sanders, Arjen E.J. Wals, Olof Franck
2024 -
Attending to Plantness in Estado
Vegetal
Dawn Sanders
Estado Vegetal: Performance and Plant Thinking (Ed Giovanni Aloi) - 2023 -
Being bird and sensory learning activities: Multimodal and arts-based pedagogies in the
'Anthropocene'
Sally Windsor, Dawn Sanders
Educational Philosophy and Theory - 2023 -
Bringing Barad into Outdoor Learning: A Reflective Case Study Concerning Quadrats and Agential Cuts in Ecology
Education
Dawn Sanders, Paul Davies
Patricia G. Patrick (ed.), How People Learn in Informal Science Environments - 2023 -
Education for sustainable development in
the ‘Capitalocene’
Helena Pedersen, Sally Windsor, Beniamin Knutsson, Dawn Sanders, Arjen E.J. Wals, Olof Franck
Educational Philosophy and Theory - 2022 -
Plant blindness and
sustainability
H. Thomas, H. Ougham, Dawn Sanders
International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education - 2022 -
En kartläggning av forskning om lärande och undervisning om energi: implikationer för
lärarutbildningen
Anne Solli, Miranda Rocksén, Maria Svensson, Dawn Sanders, Maria Åström
Praktiknära skolforskning FND 2022 - 2022 -
Seeing the green cucumber: Reflections on variation theory and teaching plant
identification
Dawn Sanders, B. Eriksen, Catherine MacHale-Gunnarsson, Jonas Emanuelsson
Plants People Planet - 2022 -
Reflecting on Boundary Crossings between Knowledge and Values: A Place for Multimodal Objects in Biology
Didactics?
Dawn Sanders
NorDiNa : Nordic Studies in Science Education - 2022 -
Chapter 13. Towards Extinction: Mapping the Vulnerable, Threatened and Critically Endangered Plant in ‘Moments of
Friction’
Dawn Sanders
Animals, Plants and Afterimages The Art and Science of Representing Extinction - 2022 -
Beauty, memories and Symbolic meaning: Swedish student teachers´ views of their favourite plant and
animal
Eva Nyberg, Irma Brkovic, Dawn Sanders
Journal of Biological Education - 2021 -
The Flowerless Ones: A Vegetal/Human
Encounter
Dawn Sanders
Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture - 2021 -
BEYOND PLANT BLINDNESS: SEEING THE IMPORTANCE OF PLANTS FOR A SUSTAINABLE WORLD-An Overview of Preliminary
Findings
Dawn Sanders, Bente Eriksen, Eva Nyberg, Irma Brkovic
Botanic Gardens, People and Plants for a Sustainable World. Espírito-Santo, M.D., Soares, A.L. & Veloso, M. (eds) - 2020 -
Plant
Blindness
Dawn Sanders, Helen Ougham, Howard Thomas
Oxford Bibliographies in Ecology - 2020 -
Beyond Plant Blindness: Seeing the importance of plants for a Sustainable
World
Bryndis Snæbjørnsdóttir, Mark Wilson, Dawn Sanders
2020 -
Beyond Plant Blindness: Seeing the importance of plants for a sustainable
world
Dawn Sanders, Bryndis Snæbjørnsdóttir, Mark Wilson
PULSE (Linnean Society Newsletter) - 2020 -
Plantrootweaving
Dawn Sanders, Diana Scherer
Antennae The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture - 2020 -
Attention and Abandonment: Finding Lost Plants in the
City
Dawn Sanders
Limited Edition Book Plant Blindness Sara Dunker - 2020 -
Encounters with Conflict and Intimacy: The Presence of Plants in the work of Ellie Kyungran
Heo
Dawn Sanders
Plantarians, 2017-2020 Galleri 54 - 2020 -
The girl with the garden gloves: researching the affordances of sensual materialities in the school
garden
Anna Maria Hipkiss, Sally Windsor, Dawn Sanders
Ethnography and Education - 2020 -
Standing in the Shadows of
Plants
Dawn Sanders
Plants, People, Planet - 2019 -
Trapped in Time: Lingering with
"Plantness"
Dawn Sanders
Plants, People, Planet - 2019 -
Taking a different View: Ecology across
Borders
Dawn Sanders
Embedding Ecology in Sustainable Development Goals Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, 29 July - 2 August 2019 - 2019 -
Bortom ”Plant Blindness”: Att se växternas
betydelse för en hållbar
värld
Dawn Sanders, Eva Nyberg, Bryndis Snæbjørnsdóttir, Mark Wilson, Bente Eriksen, Margaretha Häggström
Resultatdialog_VR_2019 - 2019 -
Standing in the Shadows of Plants: New Perspectives on plant
blindness
Dawn Sanders
Plants, People, Planet - 2019 -
Life, Living and Lifelessness in
Taxidermy
Luanne Meehitiya, Dawn Sanders, Jill Hohenstein
Natural History Dioramas-Traditional Exhibits for Current Educational Themes. Scheersoi A., Tunnicliffe S. (red.) - 2019 -
Plants to the fore: Noticing plants in designed
environments
Eva Nyberg, Anna Maria Hipkiss, Dawn Sanders
Plants, People, Planet - 2019 -
Navigating nature, culture and education in contemporary botanic
gardens
Dawn Sanders, Amy Ryken, Katherine Stewart
Environmental Education Research - 2018 -
Seeing Green : The Climbing
Other
Dawn Sanders
Why Look At Plants: The Botanical Emergence in Contemporary Art - 2018 -
Att se
växter
Eva Nyberg, Anna Maria Hipkiss, Dawn Sanders
Nordisk forskningskonferens om miljö- och hållbarhetsutbildning 25-26 oktober 2018, Örebro universitet - 2018 -
Plant
Biology
Dawn Sanders, Dan Jenkins
Teaching Biology in Schools: Global Research, Issues and Trends - 2018 -
On trying to understand life as
Plant
Dawn Sanders
SLSA2017, 9-12 November in Tempe, Arizona, USA - 2017 -
Beyond Plant Blindness: Seeing the importance of plants for a sustainable world
(Poster)
Dawn Sanders, Eva Nyberg, Bryndis Snæbjørnsdóttir, Mark Wilson, Bente Eriksen, Irma Brkovic
State of the World's Plants Symposium, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew May 25 - May 26 2017 - 2017 -
Windows on a changing world: Using children's literature as an aesth/ethical trope in early years education for
sustainability
Dawn Sanders
Ethical Literacies and Education for Sustainable Development - 2017 -
Bortom 'Plant Blindness': Att se växternas betydelse för en hållbar värld: Preliminära resultat och
implikationer
Dawn Sanders, Eva Nyberg, Anna Maria Hipkiss, Irma Brkovic
Presentation vid Utbildningsvetenskapliga fakultetens samverkanskonferens Forskning Pågår, Göteborg, 31 oktober 2017 - 2017 -
Children’s development of existential interpretations of death: A vital issue in a changing World.
Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia, PESA Conference 2017. Birth, Death and Rebirth: Does philosophy of education need a new Subject?, Newcastle, Australia 1st - 5th of December
2017.
Olof Franck, Dawn Sanders
PESA Conference 2017 Abstracts - 2017 -
Observations and perceived experiences in two non-formal learning
environments.
Anna Maria Hipkiss, Eva Nyberg, Dawn Sanders
45th Congress of the Nordic Educational Research Association (NERA), 23-25 March 2017, Copenhagen, Denmark. - 2017 -
Seeing things for themselves: Jacqueline Palmer, Natural History Educator
1948-1960
Dawn Sanders
Journal of Natural History Education and Experience - 2016 -
‘Plant Blindness’: Time To Find A
Cure.
Dawn Sanders, Eva Nyberg, Bente Eriksen, Bryndis Snæbjørnsdóttir
The Biologist - 2015 -
‘Death on Display’: Reflections on Taxidermy and Children's Understanding of Life and
Death
Dawn Sanders, Jill Hohenstein
Curator:The Museums Journal - 2015 -
Darwin-Inspired
Learning
Carolyn Boulter, Michael Reiss, Dawn Sanders
2015 -
Learning in Cultivated Gardens and other outdoor
Landscapes
Paul Davies, Dawn Sanders, Ruth Amos
Darwin-Inspired Learning - 2015 -
Epilogue: Transforming the
Ordinary
Dawn Sanders, Carolyn Boulter, Michael Reiss
Darwin-Inspired Learning - 2015 -
Staging Darwin’s Science Through Biographical
Narratives
Dawn Sanders
Darwin-Inspired Learning - 2015 -
The World of Downe: Charles Darwin’s Living
Laboratory
Dawn Sanders
Darwin-Inspired Learning - 2015 -
Swedish teachers’ and teacher students’ attitudes towards nature and environment – A survey of attitudes related to ecosystem
services
Eva Nyberg, Dawn Sanders, Mats Hagman, Jan Landström, Niklas Gericke, Birgitta Mc Ewen, Maria Petersson, Pierre Clément
NERA 2014 (Nordic Educational Research Association, 42nd Congress – Education for Sustainable Development), Lillehammer, Norway, 5-7 March, 2014 - 2014 -
Drawing attention to the 'green side of
life'
Eva Nyberg, Dawn Sanders
Journal of Biological Education - 2014 -
The Death and Life of the Plant
Specimen
Dawn Sanders
Learning by Doing: Instruments in the History of Science Teaching - 2011 -
Educational Voices in Botanic Garden Histories: From Luca Ghini to Lilian
Clarke
Dawn Sanders
Gardens and Society - 2011 -
All Netted Together: Is there a need for cultural consilience in the face of
extinction?
Dawn Sanders
Kew bulletin - 2010 -
Murderous Plants: Victorian Gothic, Darwin and Modern Insights into Vegetable
Carnivory
M.W Chase, M. J. M Christenhuez, Dawn Sanders, M. F Fay
Botanical journal of the Linnean Society - 2009 -
Nature of Experience: Engaging Special Needs Learners Through the Natural
World
Dawn Sanders, J Duemler, E Hartman
Practical Research for Education - 2009 -
Behind the Curtain: Treat and Austin’s Contributions to Darwin’s Work on Insectivorous Plants and Subsequent Botanical
Studies
Dawn Sanders
Jahrbuch für Europäische Wissenschaftskultur - 2009 -
Botanical gardens as places of sociability and meeting places for amateurs and professionals: Balancing the interplay between botanic gardens and
schools
Dawn Sanders
Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes Special Issue Designing Botanical Gardens: Science, Culture and Sociability - 2008 -
School councils as an arena for pupils’ participation in collaborative environmental education
projects
Dawn Sanders, M Carlsson
Participation and Learning: Perspectives on Education and the Environment, Health and Sustainability - 2008 -
Making Public The Private Life of Plants: The contribution of informal learning
environments
Dawn Sanders
International Journal of Science Education - 2007 -
Secondary School Students’ Participation in School Grounds Improvement: Emerging findings from a study in
England
Dawn Sanders
Canadian Journal of Environmental Education - 2005