GIREP 2026 Summer School, Rethymno, Crete, Greece

from Friday, 3 July 2026 (16:30) to Sunday, 5 July 2026 (23:30)
University of Crete Research Center for the Humanities and the Social & Education Sciences (UCRC)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
3 Jul 2026
4 Jul 2026
5 Jul 2026
AM
08:45
Working Group 1 (until 09:00) (Building A, Room 1)
08:45
Working Group 2 (until 09:00) (Building D, Room 2)
08:45
Working Group 3 (until 09:00) (Building E, Room 3)
09:00
Working Group 1 - Enrico Chiosini (Universidade de São Paulo) (until 10:30)
09:00 Identifying Potential Interdisciplinary Curricular Practices for Initial Physics Teacher Education  
09:00
Working Group 2 - Caterina Giovanzana (Università degli Studi di Trento) (until 10:30)
09:00 Supporting Physics Teachers’ Use of Augmented Reality through a Community of Practice - Caterina Giovanzana (Università degli Studi di Trento)  
09:00
Working Group 3 - Dan Klein (Weizmann Institute of Science) (until 10:30)
09:00 How do advanced physics courses for in-service teachers influence their views of the mathematics-physics interplay?  
10:30
Break (until 11:00) (Cafeteria)
11:00
Working Group 1 - Tobias Patrick Treczoks (Ludwig Maximilians Universitat (DE)) (until 12:30)
11:00 Assessing AI Literacy in Physics & Beyond – Robust Performance-Based Test for High-School Students - Tobias Patrick Treczoks (Ludwig Maximilians Universitat (DE))  
11:00
Working Group 2 - Juuso Jaakola (until 12:30)
11:00 Mining Difficulty and Misconceptions from Quantum Circuit Simulator Logs  
11:00
Working Group 3 - Matteo Onate Orozco (University of Insubria, Department of Science and High Technology, Como, Italy) (until 12:30)
11:00 Physics Education with performing arts: The Physical Clown - Matteo Onate Orozco (University of Insubria, Department of Science and High Technology, Como, Italy)  
09:00
Working Group 1 - Marina Ristol Roura (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - Barcelona Tech) (until 10:30)
09:00 Identifying and Addressing Students’ Conceptions about Force Identification and Newton’s First Law - Marina Ristol Roura (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - Barcelona Tech)  
09:00
Working Group 2 -Ms Ruoshi Wang (University of the Basque Country) (until 10:30)
09:00 Investigating Students’ Conceptual Understanding of RC Circuits - Ruoshi Wang (University of the Basque Country)  
09:00
Working Group 3 -Ms Aiswarya Amalucottage (The Ohio State University) (until 10:30)
09:00 Understanding How Introductory Physics Course Offerings Differ Across U.S. Universities - Aiswarya Amalucottage (The Ohio State University)  
10:30
Break (until 11:00)
11:00
Working Group 1 - Kerstin Lindmaier (Johannes Kepler Universität Linz) (until 12:30)
11:00 Teaching and evaluating mechanics in lower secondary school - Kerstin Lindmaier (Johannes Kepler Universität Linz)  
11:00
Working Group 2 - Petra Plavšić (until 12:30)
11:00 Assessing Secondary School Students’ Understanding of the Energy Conservation Law - Petra Plavšić  
11:00
Working Group 3 - Catalina Arboleda (University of Colorado Boulder) (until 12:30)
11:00 Towards a Justice-Oriented Physics Education  
PM
16:30
Registration (until 17:00)
17:00
Welcome and Setting of Goals - Stamatis Vokos Edit Yerushalmi (Weizmann institute) (until 18:00)
18:00
All Together - Stamatis Vokos Edit Yerushalmi (Weizmann institute) (until 20:00)
20:00
Break (until 22:00)
12:30
Break (until 13:30) (Cafeteria)
13:30
Working Group 1 - Rok Kuk (University of Ljubljana) (until 15:00)
13:30 Design and Implementation of Activities on the Enhanced Greenhouse Effect - Rok Kuk (University of Ljubljana)  
13:30
Working Group 2 - Filippa Dalesjo (University of Copenhagen (DK)) (until 15:00)
13:30 The effect of embodiment on science identity and belonging in physics education – the case of ionizing radiation  
13:30
Working Group 3 -Mrs Margareta Lovkovic Indra (Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Ljubljana, Slovenia) (until 15:00)
13:30 The use of analogies in teaching and learning physics in high school - Mrs Margareta Lovkovic (Strukovna škola Đurđevac, Croatia / FMF Ljubljana, Slovenia)  
15:00
Break (until 15:15)
15:15
Workshop Session A - Geraldine Cochran (until 16:30) (Building E, Plenary Room)
15:15 Complicating Coding: Practical Qualitative Analysis for Physics Education Researchers - Geraldine Cochran  
16:30
Break (until 16:45)
16:45
All Together (until 18:00) (Building E, Plenary Room)
19:30 --- Dinner ---
21:00
Fun and Games (until 22:00)
12:30
Break (until 13:30) (Cafeteria)
13:30
Working Group 1 - Jason Tran (until 15:00)
13:30 How Different Representations Affect Student Understanding of Single Quantum Optical Experiments - Jason Tran  
13:30
Working Group 2 - Gilad Hazaraty Zohar (until 15:00)
13:30 AI-Mediated Peer Dialogue: Evaluating the Relational Dimension  
13:30
Working Group 3 - kana ofir (Weizmann Institute of Science) (until 15:00)
13:30 Fidelity Across Levels of Implementation within a PLCs Network - kana ofir (Weizmann Institute of Science)  
15:00
Short Break (until 15:15)
15:15
Workshop - Shulamit Kapon (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology) (until 16:30) (Building E, Plenary Room)
15:15 Studying Participation in Physics Inquiry: Embedding Sociolinguistic Discourse Analysis in Ethnographic Case Studies - Shulamit Kapon (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)  
16:30 --- Break ---
17:00
Understanding the Publication Process -Dr Eric Brewe (Drexel University) Cesar Mora (until 18:00) (Building E, Plenary Room)
19:30 --- Dinner, Awards, and Games ---