Lars Ulriksen

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My research concerns the encounter between on the one hand the students with their prior knowledge and experiences, their interests, expectations and perspectives, and, on the other, the educational context with its ways of teaching, its curriculum, frames, cultures, traditions, teachers and other students. What happens in this encounter? What affects what happens, and how does it influence the students’ development of an identity and sense of belonging at the education, as well as their interests, motivation and learning outcomes?

Specifically, I have studied university students, particularly within science and engineering, their choice of study, their transition into first year at university and what they find challenging in this transition. We have studied how the students manage this transition, the teaching and the content they meet, and how it affects the completion and non-completion during first year.

Also, I have studied upper-secondary school, in particular students from non-traditional background and the challenges these students experience during upper-secondary school, but also in a wider sense the difficulties students experience in the transition from lower to upper secondary school.

Selected publications

1. Published

   In and out of the STEM pipeline – a longitudinal study of a misleading metaphor

   Lykkegaard, E. & Ulriksen, Lars, 2019, In : International Journal of Science Education. 41, 12, p. 1600-1625 26 p.

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article

2. Published

   Making sense of curriculum - the transition into science and engineering university programmes

   Ulriksen, Lars, Holmegaard, Henriette Tolstrup & Madsen, Lene Møller, 1 Mar 2017, In : Higher Education. 73, 3, p. 423-440 18 p.

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article

3. Published

   Hvorfor vælger de unge ikke naturvidenskab? En kvalitativ undersøgelse af gymnasieelevers valgovervejelser og identitetsarbejde

   Holmegaard, Henriette Tolstrup, Madsen, Lene Møller & Ulriksen, Lars, 2015, In : MONA - Matematik- og Naturfagsdidaktik. 2015, 3, p. 43-59 17 p.

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article

4. Published

   God undervisning på de videregående uddannelser: En forskningsbaseret brugsbog

   Ulriksen, Lars, Oct 2014, Frederiksberg: Frydenlund. 437 p.

   Research output: Book/Report › Book › Communication

5. Published

   What do we know about explanationsfor drop out/opt out among young people from STM higher education programs?

   Ulriksen, Lars, Madsen, Lene Møller & Holmegaard, Henriette Tolstrup, 2010, In : Studies in Science Education. 46, 2, p. 209-244 36 p.

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article

6. Published

   The Implied Student

   Ulriksen, Lars, 2009, In : Studies in Higher Education. 34, 5, p. 517-532 16 p.

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article