Marthe Elden Wilhelmsen

Doctoral Research Fellow

Department of Global Development and Planning

Email: marthe.elden.wilhelmsen@uia.no
Phone: +47 38142095

Office H2013 (Universitetsveien 25, 4630 Kristiansand, Norway)

Research groups

Areas of responsibility

I am a PhD research fellow at the department of Global Development and Planning. My research focuses on different opinions on climate policies. What are we really talking about when we discuss climate policies?

My academic background is a MA in sociology focusing on climate communication. I have worked as a teacher for many years in high schools. My fields of interest include environment, sociology, communication, improvisation, interactive pedagogical methods, and trying to fill the office with plants.

Research

Academic interests

Sociology
Climate Communication
Environment
Climate
Interactive teaching methods

Selected publications

Wilhelmsen, M. E. (2020). How dare she?: A critical discourse analysis of Greta Thunberg [University of Agder]. http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2682426

Wilhelmsen, M. E. (2022). Iver B. Neumann: Innføring i diskursanalyse (2. utgave). Norsk Sosiologisk Tidsskrift, 6(2), 1–3. https://doi.org/10.18261/nost.6.2.5

Tuition

SV-157-1 Approaches, Opportunities and Challenges for Sustainable Transformation (Course Coordinator)

SV-417-1 Sustainable development (Teachers programme)

Wilhelmsen, Marthe Elden; O'Born, Reyn Joseph; Heimdal, Anette & Ruser, Alexander (2023). UNDERSTANDING AND CHALLENGING CLIMATE SKEPTIC ATTITUDES AMONG ENGINEERING STUDENTS THROUGH INTERACTIVE PEDAGOGY. In Buck, Lyndon; Grierson, Hillary & Bohemia, Erik (Ed.), DS 123: Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education (E&PDE 2023). The Design Society. ISSN 978-1-912254-19-4. doi: 10.35199/EPDE.2023.48. Show summary
This paper investigates the prevalence of climate skepticism among 3rd year engineering students and seeks to understand how pedagogical interventions can be used to challenge climate skeptic views. This contribution follows a two-pronged approach to estimate the proportion of climate skeptic attitudes in the classroom, understand their root cause and, most importantly, develop pedagogical tools to challenge such views. The first part involved conducting two statement-based surveys to identify the prevalence of climate skepticism before and after pedagogical interventions. The second part discusses the effect of the use of interactive pedagogical methods to challenge climate skepticism and reduce potential conflict in the classroom. The goal of this research is to determine which pedagogical methods can contribute to changing attitudes towards climate skepticism among engineering students. Two surveys were given to 275 engineering students before and after several hours of lectures on sustainability theory and an interactive class exercise to challenge climate skeptical views. The results of the surveys showed that climate skepticism among our group of engineering students was higher than the Norwegian population average and that the chosen pedagogical intervention showed mixed results in changing these attitudes. The results of the study can be used to understand how engineers perceive the challenge of climate change and to what extent engineering students are skeptical of climate change science. The results will also be useful for educators in understanding how topics of climate change can be effectively taught and how climate skepticism can be dealt with in the classroom through effective pedagogical methods.

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Wilhelmsen, Marthe Elden (2024). Unleashing sustainable imagination in education.
Wilhelmsen, Marthe Elden (2024). Klimaholdninger som identitetsmarkør.
Wilhelmsen, Marthe Elden (2024). Hva er det vi egentlig snakker om når vi diskuterer klimapolitikk?
Wilhelmsen, Marthe Elden (2024). Political Imaginaries of Climate Change.
Wilhelmsen, Marthe Elden (2024). Ytringsfrihet som våpen og humor som skjold. sosiologen.no.
Wilhelmsen, Marthe Elden (2023). Understanding and challenging climate skeptic attitudes among engineering students through interactive pedagogy.
Wilhelmsen, Marthe Elden (2023). What are we really talking about when we discuss climate policies? .
Wilhelmsen, Marthe Elden (2023). Hvorfor er vi uenige om klimaspørsmål?
Wilhelmsen, Marthe Elden (2023). En sjalu sosiolog. sosiologen.no.
Wilhelmsen, Marthe Elden (2023). Hvordan endte vi opp med et polarisert politisk landskap? sosiologen.no.
Wilhelmsen, Marthe Elden (2023). Klimakommunikasjon - Hva snakker vi egentlig om?
Wilhelmsen, Marthe Elden (2023). Bærekraftig fantasi i undervisning.
Wilhelmsen, Marthe Elden (2022). Ulike holdninger til klimatiltak.
Wilhelmsen, Marthe Elden (2022). Iver B. Neumann: Innføring i diskursanalyse (2. utgave). Norsk sosiologisk tidsskrift. ISSN 2535-2512. doi: 10.18261/nost.6.2.5.
Wilhelmsen, Marthe Elden (2022). Hvordan forberede seg til PhD-intervju? sosiologen.no.
Wilhelmsen, Marthe Elden (2022). Antropocen – Hvorfor skal sosiologer bry seg? sosiologen.no.
Wilhelmsen, Marthe Elden (2022). Visste du at folk er idiotar? Syn og Segn. ISSN 0039-7717.
Wilhelmsen, Marthe Elden (2022). PhD-Reisen.
Veland, Siri; Olsen, Stian; Wilhelmsen, Marthe Elden & Bragdø, Magnus Børre (2022). Bærekraftig utvikling i skole og samfunn: muligheter og utfordringer.
Wilhelmsen, Marthe Elden (2021). Hvordan skriver jeg en PhD-søknad? sosiologen.no.
Wilhelmsen, Marthe Elden (2020). Hvordan våger hun? En kritisk diskursanalyse av Greta Thunberg. sosiologen.no.

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Published Apr. 16, 2024 10:51 AM