GIREP 2026 Summer School, Rethymno, Crete, Greece

from Friday, July 3, 2026 (4:30 PM) to Sunday, July 5, 2026 (11:30 PM)
University of Crete Research Center for the Humanities and the Social & Education Sciences (UCRC)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Jul 3, 2026
Jul 4, 2026
Jul 5, 2026
AM
8:45 AM
Working Group 1 (until 9:00 AM) (Building A, Room 1)
8:45 AM
Working Group 2 (until 9:00 AM) (Building D, Room 2)
8:45 AM
Working Group 3 (until 9:00 AM) (Building E, Room 3)
9:00 AM
Working Group 1 - Enrico Chiosini (Universidade de São Paulo) (until 10:30 AM)
9:00 AM Identifying Potential Interdisciplinary Curricular Practices for Initial Physics Teacher Education  
9:00 AM
Working Group 2 - Caterina Giovanzana (Università degli Studi di Trento) (until 10:30 AM)
9:00 AM Supporting Physics Teachers’ Use of Augmented Reality through a Community of Practice - Caterina Giovanzana (Università degli Studi di Trento)  
9:00 AM
Working Group 3 - Dan Klein (Weizmann Institute of Science) (until 10:30 AM)
9:00 AM How do advanced physics courses for in-service teachers influence their views of the mathematics-physics interplay?  
10:30 AM
Break (until 11:00 AM) (Cafeteria)
11:00 AM
Working Group 1 - Tobias Patrick Treczoks (Ludwig Maximilians Universitat (DE)) (until 12:30 PM)
11:00 AM Assessing AI Literacy in Physics & Beyond – Robust Performance-Based Test for High-School Students - Tobias Patrick Treczoks (Ludwig Maximilians Universitat (DE))  
11:00 AM
Working Group 2 - Juuso Jaakola (until 12:30 PM)
11:00 AM Mining Difficulty and Misconceptions from Quantum Circuit Simulator Logs  
11:00 AM
Working Group 3 - Matteo Onate Orozco (University of Insubria, Department of Science and High Technology, Como, Italy) (until 12:30 PM)
11:00 AM Physics Education with performing arts: The Physical Clown - Matteo Onate Orozco (University of Insubria, Department of Science and High Technology, Como, Italy)  
9:00 AM
Working Group 1 - Marina Ristol Roura (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - Barcelona Tech) (until 10:30 AM)
9:00 AM Identifying and Addressing Students’ Conceptions about Force Identification and Newton’s First Law - Marina Ristol Roura (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - Barcelona Tech)  
9:00 AM
Working Group 2 -Ms Ruoshi Wang (University of the Basque Country) (until 10:30 AM)
9:00 AM Investigating Students’ Conceptual Understanding of RC Circuits - Ruoshi Wang (University of the Basque Country)  
9:00 AM
Working Group 3 -Ms Aiswarya Amalucottage (The Ohio State University) (until 10:30 AM)
9:00 AM Understanding How Introductory Physics Course Offerings Differ Across U.S. Universities - Aiswarya Amalucottage (The Ohio State University)  
10:30 AM
Break (until 11:00 AM)
11:00 AM
Working Group 1 - Kerstin Lindmaier (Johannes Kepler Universität Linz) (until 12:30 PM)
11:00 AM Teaching and evaluating mechanics in lower secondary school - Kerstin Lindmaier (Johannes Kepler Universität Linz)  
11:00 AM
Working Group 2 - Petra Plavšić (until 12:30 PM)
11:00 AM Assessing Secondary School Students’ Understanding of the Energy Conservation Law - Petra Plavšić  
11:00 AM
Working Group 3 - Catalina Arboleda (University of Colorado Boulder) (until 12:30 PM)
11:00 AM Towards a Justice-Oriented Physics Education  
PM
4:30 PM
Registration (until 5:00 PM)
5:00 PM
Welcome and Setting of Goals - Stamatis Vokos Edit Yerushalmi (Weizmann institute) (until 6:00 PM)
6:00 PM
All Together - Stamatis Vokos Edit Yerushalmi (Weizmann institute) (until 8:00 PM)
8:00 PM
Break (until 10:00 PM)
12:30 PM
Break (until 1:30 PM) (Cafeteria)
1:30 PM
Working Group 1 - Rok Kuk (University of Ljubljana) (until 3:00 PM)
1:30 PM Design and Implementation of Activities on the Enhanced Greenhouse Effect - Rok Kuk (University of Ljubljana)  
1:30 PM
Working Group 2 - Filippa Dalesjo (University of Copenhagen (DK)) (until 3:00 PM)
1:30 PM The effect of embodiment on science identity and belonging in physics education – the case of ionizing radiation  
1:30 PM
Working Group 3 -Mrs Margareta Lovkovic Indra (Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Ljubljana, Slovenia) (until 3:00 PM)
1:30 PM The use of analogies in teaching and learning physics in high school - Mrs Margareta Lovkovic (Strukovna škola Đurđevac, Croatia / FMF Ljubljana, Slovenia)  
3:00 PM
Break (until 3:15 PM)
3:15 PM
Workshop Session A - Geraldine Cochran (until 4:30 PM) (Building E, Plenary Room)
3:15 PM Complicating Coding: Practical Qualitative Analysis for Physics Education Researchers - Geraldine Cochran  
4:30 PM
Break (until 4:45 PM)
4:45 PM
All Together (until 6:00 PM) (Building E, Plenary Room)
7:30 PM --- Dinner ---
9:00 PM
Fun and Games (until 10:00 PM)
12:30 PM
Break (until 1:30 PM) (Cafeteria)
1:30 PM
Working Group 1 - Jason Tran (until 3:00 PM)
1:30 PM How Different Representations Affect Student Understanding of Single Quantum Optical Experiments - Jason Tran  
1:30 PM
Working Group 2 - Gilad Hazaraty Zohar (until 3:00 PM)
1:30 PM AI-Mediated Peer Dialogue: Evaluating the Relational Dimension  
1:30 PM
Working Group 3 - kana ofir (Weizmann Institute of Science) (until 3:00 PM)
1:30 PM Fidelity Across Levels of Implementation within a PLCs Network - kana ofir (Weizmann Institute of Science)  
3:00 PM
Short Break (until 3:15 PM)
3:15 PM
Workshop - Shulamit Kapon (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology) (until 4:30 PM) (Building E, Plenary Room)
3:15 PM Studying Participation in Physics Inquiry: Embedding Sociolinguistic Discourse Analysis in Ethnographic Case Studies - Shulamit Kapon (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)  
4:30 PM --- Break ---
5:00 PM
Understanding the Publication Process -Dr Eric Brewe (Drexel University) Cesar Mora (until 6:00 PM) (Building E, Plenary Room)
7:30 PM --- Dinner, Awards, and Games ---