Date: 17 September 2026
Time:
1130 – 1300 UTC
0430 – 0600 San Francisco, CA, USA
0630 – 0800 Chicago, IL, USA
1230 – 1400 London, United Kingdom
1330 – 1500 Amsterdam, Netherlands | Stockholm, Sweden | Zürich, Switzerland
1930 – 2100 Singapore
2030 – 2200 Tokyo, Japan
During the webinar, Associate Professor Anja Thorsten will present findings from a Learning Study focusing on how to teach 9–10-year-old students to use descriptions in story writing in ways that evoke emotions and create suspense for the reader. The study is based on a phenomenographic analysis of qualitatively different ways of experiencing the object of learning, resulting in five categories of description and six critical aspects. She will also illustrate how these critical aspects guided the instructional design.
Chairperson
Angelika Kullberg (Sweden)
Speakers
Anja Thorsten (Sweden) is an Associate Professor of Education, with a particular focus on practice-based research for instructional improvement, often drawing on variation theory and Learning Study.