Franziska Massenboeck holds a degree in Environmental Education from the University College for Agricultural and Environmental Education in Vienna, Austria. In recent years, she has worked as a project coordinator for the Teaching Clinic, an action research initiative with in-service teachers, and the One Health Teaching Clinic, which collaborates with subject matter experts to bring pressing One Health topics into schools. She co-organised the Vienna Mushroom Festival, attracting over 5,000 visitors and sparking her research interest in soil health and its interconnections with human and environmental wellbeing. To broaden her perspectives on science education, she came to Melbourne to engage with different educational cultures and research traditions for teaching complex socio-scientific issues.
White Here Franziska offered
- Futures Forum #4: Franziska Massenboeck – RF Visiting Scholar “More Than Just Dirt – Exploring Soil Health through Socio-Scientific Modelling in Teacher Education” – Tuesday 24th March @ 2pm My doctoral project investigates how soil health can be meaningfully integrated into science education within the framework of One Health Education. Conceptualizing soil health as a socio-scientific issue, the study explores how pre-service teachers and in-service teachers engage with complex scientific, societal, and environmental dimensions through socio-scientific modelling. Using a design-based research approach, the project combines exploratory qualitative studies with iterative development and testing of instructional materials in teacher education contexts. The overarching aim is to support the development of content knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge while fostering systems thinking and the ability to connect soil health topics to learners’ everyday lives. see recording here.
- She hosted the Thinking with Systems – SEBE Student project
- MSET Ed Discussion Presentation
Posted May 30, 2026
