Annette Lykknes

Norwegian University of Science and Technology | NTNU · Department of Teacher Education (ILU)

‘Scientific practices’ are included as a core element in Norway’s new science curriculum as of 2020. In dialogue with international research on the teaching and learning of scientific practices, Haug et al. (2021) have identified and operationalised eight central scientific practices to support a shared understanding within science education. We ar...

This paper examines the impact of supervised laboratory instruction (SLI) on grade 12 students' understanding of acid-base and solution chemistry topics in the context of Ethiopian secondary schools. A mixed-methods research design was employed, with a purposive sampling of 160 secondary students from six schools in Northwest Ethiopia. The students...

Expectations were high when the Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH) was established in Trondheim in 1910. Large sums were invested in laboratory facilities, which were considered important in training industrial chemists, i.e. chemical engineers. When the laboratory facilities turned out to be too small a decade later and thus inadequate to ser...

Studies have reported that students find geometric optics topics difficult partly because of representations in textbooks. In Ethiopia, textbooks are the main source of content in schools. Therefore, a study of how textbooks present certain topics can shed light on students’ learning difficulties. This study specifically examines how image formatio...

The French natural philosopher Henri Victor Regnault (1810–1878) was one of many researchers who contributed to the development of the thermometer in the 19th century. In this paper, we use an example from Regnault’s work to explore how the history of thermometry can provide a context for teaching upper-secondary chemistry students about the nature...

The modern research university originated in Europe in the second half of the nineteenth century, largely due to the creation and expansion of the teaching and research laboratory. The universities and the sciences underwent a laboratory revolution that fundamentally changed the nature of both. This revolutionary development began in chemistry, whe...

The use of guided inquiry-based learning (GIBL) in a manner designed to challenge individual students’ unscientific conceptions of science, has been researched widely. However, few (if any) studies have investigated the implementation of GIBL in a manner designed to challenge the fundamental patterns of students’ context-dependent unscientific conc...

Education can serve the purpose of trying to mitigate catastrophes. In a school context, teachers can have a role in enacting an interconnection between critical thinking (CT) as a potentially useful tool and education for sustainable development (ESD), in terms of educating and communicating the importance of sustainability to future generations....

The Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH) was the first of its kind when it opened doors in Trondheim in 1910. For the first time, engineers who were perceived as central to the country's industrial development could be educated in Norway. Of the 4,311 students admitted to NTH before 1940, twenty were women who embarked on the course in chemical...

This article introduces a collection of papers on women, gender, and chemistry in eighteenth- and twentieth-century Europe and the United States. After briefly surveying previous research on women and gender in science and outlining the long history of women in chemistry, we present this special issue's main findings concerning several key themes,...

The Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH) was established in Trondheim in 1910, shortly after the country had gained its independence from Sweden. The establishment of NTH coincided with the beginning of large-scale industry in Norway, and expectations were high as to what the Institute could contribute in terms of competence to establish new ind...

The periodic system is an icon of science, with an exceptional level of usage around the world. It is especially celebrated as a source of information and pedagogical tool. Although many publications on the history and philosophy of the system have appeared over the years, few of them deal with its underlying values aside from predictability. In th...

After 150 years of scientific developments, the periodic system of chemical elements is still an icon of modern science. Its resilience is striking. The icon used today by scientists and teachers is in fact the outcome of many rearrangements and reinterpretations by the scientific community during that period. This success is often explained as a r...

This essay analyses 31 science and chemistry textbooks from Spain and Nor-way with respect to their presentations of the history of the periodic system and what these presentations can teach students about the Nature of Science (NOS). The analysis is based on the SOURCE framework, where each letter in SOURCE represents an element from the history o...

Through a series of stories from hydrogen to oganesson the book shed lights on the importance of the chemical elements in society. The authors invite the readers into the lab to demonstrate how scientists have worked to uncover the secrets of nature. With a cultural-historical look at scientific experiments - from alchemists during the 17th century...

In 1907, a 28-year-old Norwegian pharmacist-chemist arrived in Paris to work with Marie Curie at the Radium Institute. Like many women at the time, Ellen Gleditsch was attracted to the newly discovered phenomenon of radioactivity and wished take part in exciting scientific endeavour. Working with the Nobel Laureate Marie Curie was a unique opportun...

Brigitte Van Tiggelen and Annette Lykknes spotlight female researchers who discovered elements and their properties. Brigitte Van Tiggelen and Annette Lykknes spotlight female researchers who discovered elements and their properties.

Forholdet mellom fag og politikk er sentralt i forvaltningsforskningen. Denne artikkelen tar for seg leveranser fra vitenskap til politikk og forvaltning i første halvdel av 1900-tallet. I en tid hvor forvaltningen for noen felt, som på matområdet, hadde svakt utbygde forvaltningsorganer, benyttet staten eksperter fra ulike fag og institusjoner. He...

The aim of this article is to shed light on the relationships between science, state and industry in the field of food and nutrition in Norway in the first half of the 20th century with reference to the scientist Sigval Schmidt-Nielsen (1877–1956). Schmidt-Nielsen was a health authority employed state chemist at the university in the Norwegian capi...

Mansoor Niaz , Chemistry Education and Contributions from History and Philosophy of Science. Heidelberg: Springer International Publishing, 2016. Pp. xx + 250. ISBN 978-3-319-26246-8. £74.50 (hardback). - Volume 49 Issue 3 - Annette Lykknes

In theory, practical work is an established part of university-level chemistry courses. However, mainly due to budget constraints, large class size, time constraints and inadequate teacher preparations, practical activities are frequently left out from chemistry classroom instruction in most developing countries. Small-scale chemistry (SSC) experim...

The above quote from P. K. Hustad (1878–?), a textbook author and teacher at an agricultural school in mid-Norway, might at first glance be taken as an argument for the use of the periodic system in the teaching of chemistry, as opposed to introducing element by element as was the tradition before the periodic system was presented and used in textb...

addition to discussing the appropriation of the periodic system, the book examines meta-physical reflections of nature based on the periodic system outside the field of chemistry, and considers how far humans can push the categories of "response" and "reception." Early Responses to the Periodic System provides a compelling read for anyone with an i...

Akademi og industri forteller historien om kjemiutdanning og -forskning ved NTNU gjennom hundre år. Siden etableringen av Kjemiavdelingen ved Norges tekniske høgskole (NTH) i 1910 har målet vært at kjemikerne i Trondheim skal drive vitenskap til gavn for landets industri. I dag består NTNUs fagmiljøer i kjemi av instituttene for kjemi, kjemisk pros...

Denne studien ser på skriveoppgaver i naturfag fra 6. og 7. trinn, hentet fra det såkalte Normprosjektet. Med utgangspunkt i et funksjonelt syn på skriving, er skriveoppgavene kategorisert og analysert etter naturfaglig disiplin, etter skrivehandling og etter type naturfaglig skriving. Studien viser at det på de utvalgte skolene skrives mye i natur...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the possibility of using a small-scale chemistry (SSC) approach as a means of performing chemistry practical activities in Ethiopian secondary schools. A total of eight experiments from two topics, electrolysis and rate of reaction, in the Ethiopian grade 11 chemistry syllabus were modified into SSC for...

In this volume, a distinguished set of international scholars examine the nature of collaboration between life partners in the sciences, with particular attention to the ways in which personal and professional dynamics can foster or inhibit scientific practice. Breaking from traditional gender analyses which focus on divisions of labor and the assi...

When the German chemist Walter Noddack (1893–1960) suddenly passed away in December 1960, he apparently suffered from the heartache of believing his wife, chemist Ida Noddack-Tacke (commonly, Noddack, 1896–1978) to be dead. His partner in life and science through almost 40 years had been unreachable by telephone – she was at the time receiving medi...

The decomposition of water by electricity, and the voltaic pile as a means of generating electricity, have both held an iconic status in the history of science as well as in the history of science teaching. These experiments featured in chemistry and physics textbooks, as well as in classroom teaching, throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centur...

Ellen Gleditsch (1879-1968) became Norway's first authority of radioactivity and the country's second female professor. After several years in international centers of radiochemistry, Gleditsch returned to Norway, becoming associate professor and later full professor of chemistry. Between 1916 and 1946 Gleditsch tried to establish a laboratory of r...

Ellen Gleditsch (1879-1968) became Norway's first authority on radioactivity and the country's second female full professor. From her many years abroad--in Marie Curie's laboratory in Paris and at Yale University in New Haven with Bertram Boltram--she became internationally acknowledged and developed an extensive personal and scientific network. In...

We present the life and work of the Norwegian scientist Ellen Gleditsch (1879-1968) in the early era of radioactivity. From 1907-1912, Gleditsch worked as Marie Curies assistant in the Laboratoire Curie in Paris on the alleged copper-lithium radioactive transformation and on the radiumuranium ratio, as well as studying chemistry and related subject...

This article presents parts of the history of the element arsenic in order to illustrate processes behind development of knowledge in chemistry. The particular aspects presented here are the use of arsenic as a stimulant by Styrian peasants, in Fowler's solution, in drugs of the 19th century (e.g., salvarsan), and in current medical treatment, all...