The MaScE Summer School offered PhD research fellows working in the field of mathematics and science education research the possibility to present their work and to discuss its strengths and weaknesses in small groups of four students and two experienced supervisors from one of the partner institutions in MaScE.
In addition, the summer school also offered several plenary lectures. We had plenaries from Martin Carlsen, UiA, Guri Nortvedt, UiO, Ellen Karoline Henriksen, UiO and Frode Rønning, NTNU. We had a visitor from a Swedish Graduate School, Konrad Schönborn, Linköping University. He gave a talk about “Visualization in STEM education” and “Succeeding with your PhD” and draw on his experience from leading the Graduate School, in Sweeden.
The participating PhD research fellows had sent in a synopsis of their work or a draft of an article before the Summer School and all synopses and article drafts were collected in a book. All PhD fellows and group leaders prepared themselves by reading the synopses of the other PhD fellows in their group. One critical friend had a particular responsibility to carefully read the synopsis (s)he was a critical friend for. Another Fellow acted as secretary, taking notes from the responses from the critical friend, the group, and the group leaders.