Dawn Sanders

Senior Lecturer

Unit for Subject Matter Education with specialization in Science and Technology

Education

Mail

dawn.sanders@gu.se

Visiting address

Läroverksgatan 15

41120 Göteborg

Room number

B4 431b

Postal address

Box 300

40530 Göteborg

About 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

Research group at the department

Publications

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 - 2021-01-01
The Flowerless Ones: A Vegetal/Human
Encounter

Dawn Sanders
Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture - 2021-01-01
Plant blindness and
sustainability

H. Thomas, H. Ougham, Dawn Sanders
International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education - 2021-01-01
Plant
Blindness

Dawn Sanders, Helen Ougham, Howard Thomas
Oxford Bibliographies in Ecology - 2020-01-01
Beyond Plant Blindness: Seeing the importance of plants for a Sustainable
World

Bryndis Snæbjørnsdóttir, Mark Wilson, Dawn Sanders
- 2020-01-01
Beyond Plant Blindness: Seeing the importance of plants for a sustainable
world

Dawn Sanders, Bryndis Snæbjørnsdóttir, Mark Wilson
PULSE (Linnean Society Newsletter) - 2020-01-01
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
Espírito-Santo, M.D., Soares, A.L. & Veloso, M. (eds) 2020. Botanic Gardens, People and Plants for a Sustainable World. IsaPress. Lisboa. 259 pp. - 2020-01-01
Plantrootweaving

Dawn Sanders, Diana Scherer
Antennae The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture - 2020-01-01
Attention and Abandonment: Finding Lost Plants in the
City

Dawn Sanders
Limited Edition Book Plant Blindness Sara Dunker - 2020-01-01
Encounters with Conflict and Intimacy: The Presence of Plants in the work of Ellie Kyungran
Heo

Dawn Sanders
Plantarians, 2017-2020 Galleri 54 - 2020-01-01
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 - 2020-01-01
Taking a different View: Ecology across
Borders

Dawn Sanders
Embedding Ecology in Sustainable Development Goals Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, 29 July - 2 August 2019 - 2019-01-01
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 - 2019-01-01
Standing in the Shadows of Plants: New Perspectives on plant
blindness

Dawn Sanders
Plants, People, Planet - 2019-01-01
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.) - 2019-01-01
Standing in the Shadows of
Plants

Dawn Sanders
Plants, People, Planet - 2019-01-01
Plants to the fore: Noticing plants in designed
environments

Eva Nyberg, Anna Maria Hipkiss, Dawn Sanders
Plants, People, Planet - 2019-01-01
Trapped in Time: Lingering with
"Plantness"

Dawn Sanders
Plants, People, Planet - 2019-01-01
Seeing Green : The Climbing
Other

Dawn Sanders
Why Look At Plants: The Botanical Emergence in Contemporary Art - 2018-01-01
Att se
växter

Eva Nyberg, Anna Maria Hipkiss, Dawn Sanders
Nordisk forskningskonferens om miljö- och hållbarhetsutbildning 25-26 oktober 2018, Örebro universitet - 2018-01-01
Navigating nature, culture and education in contemporary botanic
gardens

Dawn Sanders, Amy Ryken, Katherine Stewart
Environmental Education Research - 2018-01-01
Plant
Biology

Dawn Sanders, Dan Jenkins
Teaching Biology in Schools: Global Research, Issues and Trends - 2018-01-01
On trying to understand life as
Plant

Dawn Sanders
SLSA2017, 9-12 November in Tempe, Arizona, USA - 2017-01-01
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 - 2017-01-01
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 - 2017-01-01
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 - 2017-01-01
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 - 2017-01-01
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. - 2017-01-01
Seeing things for themselves: Jacqueline Palmer, Natural History Educator
1948-1960

Dawn Sanders
Journal of Natural History Education and Experience - 2016-01-01
‘Plant Blindness’: Time To Find A
Cure.

Dawn Sanders, Eva Nyberg, Bente Eriksen, Bryndis Snæbjørnsdóttir
The Biologist - 2015-01-01
‘Death on Display’: Reflections on Taxidermy and Children's Understanding of Life and
Death

Dawn Sanders, Jill Hohenstein
Curator:The Museums Journal - 2015-01-01
Darwin-Inspired
Learning

Carolyn Boulter, Michael Reiss, Dawn Sanders
- 2015-01-01
Learning in Cultivated Gardens and other outdoor
Landscapes

Paul Davies, Dawn Sanders, Ruth Amos
Darwin-Inspired Learning - 2015-01-01
Epilogue: Transforming the
Ordinary

Dawn Sanders, Carolyn Boulter, Michael Reiss
Darwin-Inspired Learning - 2015-01-01
Staging Darwin’s Science Through Biographical
Narratives

Dawn Sanders
Darwin-Inspired Learning - 2015-01-01
The World of Downe: Charles Darwin’s Living
Laboratory

Dawn Sanders
Darwin-Inspired Learning - 2015-01-01
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 - 2014-01-01
Drawing attention to the 'green side of
life'

Eva Nyberg, Dawn Sanders
Journal of Biological Education - 2014-01-01
The Death and Life of the Plant
Specimen

Dawn Sanders
Learning by Doing: Instruments in the History of Science Teaching - 2011-01-01
Educational Voices in Botanic Garden Histories: From Luca Ghini to Lilian
Clarke

Dawn Sanders
Gardens and Society - 2011-01-01
All Netted Together: Is there a need for cultural consilience in the face of
extinction?

Dawn Sanders
Kew bulletin - 2010-01-01
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 - 2009-01-01
Nature of Experience: Engaging Special Needs Learners Through the Natural
World

Dawn Sanders, J Duemler, E Hartman
Practical Research for Education - 2009-01-01
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 - 2009-01-01
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 - 2008-01-01
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 - 2008-01-01
Making Public The Private Life of Plants: The contribution of informal learning
environments

Dawn Sanders
International Journal of Science Education - 2007-01-01
Secondary School Students’ Participation in School Grounds Improvement: Emerging findings from a study in
England

Dawn Sanders
Canadian Journal of Environmental Education - 2005-01-01