Gabriele Lauterbach

Gabriele Lauterbach serves as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Stavanger, formally affiliated with the Faculty of Educational Sciences and Humanities and the National Center for Learning Environment and Behavioral Research. Her workspace is located at the Learning Environment Center (room HG N-317), reflecting her institutional integration within educational research infrastructure.

Her research specializes in outdoor education (uteskole), examining how natural learning environments foster student inclusion, psychological well-being, and 21st-century skill development. Key interests include:

• Impact of outdoor settings on immigrant student integration
• Development of student agency and sense of belonging
• Motivational dynamics through self-determination theory
• Behavioral outcomes in science education contexts

Methodologically, she combines mixed-methods approaches with Bayesian analysis to investigate educational psychology in real-world settings.

Analysis of her 2015-2024 publications reveals consistent interdisciplinary focus bridging educational science, psychology, and public health. Her work demonstrates growing emphasis on inclusive pedagogy, with recent studies quantifying uteskole's prevalence in Norwegian schools and its social-emotional benefits. The research trajectory shows increasing sophistication in measuring psychological needs satisfaction within outdoor learning frameworks.

Dr. Lauterbach operates within the National Center for Learning Environment and Behavioral Research, which provides the structural foundation for her investigations into environmental and behavioral dimensions of education. This center facilitates collaborative work with researchers like Ulrich Dettweiler on large-scale studies of outdoor pedagogy.