Embracing Changes Together in Physics Education

Dagmara Sokołowska, PhD, is an Associate Professor in didactics at the Faculty of Physics, Astronomy, and Applied Computer Sciences of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. She obtained her Ph.D. in physics of soft matter. She is an academic teacher in physics and teaching and learning methods. She mentors academic teachers and PhD students on didactics. She is involved in development and research in physics/science education in Inquiry-based Learning and Practitioner Inquiry at all levels of schooling - from K-1 to higher education. She participated in nine EU projects on physics and STEM education. She is a co-editor, together with Prof. Marisa Michelini, of the book The Role of Laboratory Work in Improving Physics Teaching and Learning (Springer, 2018). Since 2020, she has been a vice-president of the GIREP vzw. In 2024, she led the Local Organizing Committee of the 4th World Conference on Physics Education in Krakow, Poland.Eilish McLoughlin, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the School of Physical Sciences at Dublin City University (DCU). She is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and a Chartered Physicist. She has been a leader of physics education research and physics teacher education at Dublin City University since 2000. Eilish's research is focused on physics education, and in particular physics teacher education at both pre-service and in-service levels. She has led and participated in 10 pan-european projects to enhance physics/STEM teacher education. She has been a member of the GIREP Board since 2020 and has served as President of GIREP since 2024.

• Cultivating a Feeling for Physics The Importance of Epis temic Empathy and Responsive Teaching.- Empowering learning through dynamic modelling activities to enhance physics education.- Exploring thermoelectric phenomena by the method of blended learning.- Flipped classroom: effects on the conceptual understanding in electric circuit teaching.- A Scheduled Teaching Intervention for Newtons Disc Pro grammable with Scratch for Teaching and Learning Optics.- Enhancing Physics Education through Dimensions of Learn ing.- Comparing prior knowledge of first semester physics students between the cohorts of 2013 and 2023.- Teaching a Quantum Physics Class Using a Student Centered Collaborative Learning Approach at the University Level.- Embracing Changes Together in Physics Education.- How thematic analysis can inform designing, planning and evaluation of Teaching Learning Sequences.- Defining and assessing learning goals in physics lab courses.- Cultural understanding of Quantum Physics through a his torical and pedagogical reconstruction of Old Quantum Theory and early Quantum Mechanics.- Reviewing 55 years of literature on Physics Education using Natural Language Processing.- From Alternative Conceptions to Meaningful Understanding through Physics Based Climate Change Education.- Addressing dimensions of climate literacy in physics education Examples from four studies.- Rethinking Agency in the Context of Climate Change The ENCOMPASS Three lens Perspective.- STEM researchers practices for.- Teacher Professional Learning in Transformative Times Three Collaborative Visions for Physics Education From Cognitive Science to Artificial Intelligence.- Insights into practicing teachers pedagogical content knowledge for teaching physics.- Shaping academic physics teacher education together How to promote interdisciplinary collaboration.- Development of digital teaching scenarios on advanced STEM topics for teacher education.- Greek Science Teachers’ Views about the Use of Educational Simulations in their Practice.