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Professional Biography
As a geoscientist, I have been involved in research and teaching in geology and geography for almost 40 years. Today, I design competency-based teaching materials for geography and geoscience curricula teaching. My focus lies on identifying learners' and teachers' persistent everyday (mis-)conceptions of geoscience issues which obstruct their learning towards a correct understanding of today's environmental problems. To improve the effectiveness of teaching, I then devise learning environments based on empirical learning research which are conducive to bringing about a sustainable change in learners' insight into environmental issues.
Academic Education
| 2002 |
Certificate of Advanced Studies
in Research in Social Sciences
(University of Zurich, Switzerland) |
| 1988 |
Teacher Certificate in Secondary
Education (University of Zurich,
Switzerland) |
| 1987 |
B.Sc. in Geography (University
of Zurich, Switzerland) |
| 1984 |
Ph.D. summa cum laude in Sedimentology
and Chemistry (Heidelberg University,
Germany) |
| 1981 |
M.Sc. in Geology and Paleontology
(Heidelberg University, Germany) |
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Professional Activities and Experience
| since 2018 |
Continuation of my professional activities at GeoEduc |
| 2006 - 2018 |
Full professor of geography and
geography education at the University
of Teacher Education
Lucerne, Switzerland |
| 2003 – 2006 |
Full professor of geography and
geography education at the University
of Education, Ludwigsburg, Germany |
| 2002 |
Visiting professor, Macalester
College, St. Paul, MN, USA |
| 2000 |
Visiting professor, Western Michigan
University, Kalamazoo, MI, USA |
| 1999 |
Research sabbatical at Western
Michigan University, Kalamazoo,
MI, USA |
| 1993 – 2006 |
Senior lecturer in geography
education at the University of Zurich,
Department of Secondary Education
(until 2003), the Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich),
Department of Earth Sciences (until
2006) and the College of Education,
Zurich (2001-2003), Switzerland |
| 1990 – 1996 |
Senior assistant of geography
and environmental sciences at the
Geography Department of the Swiss
Federal Institute of Technology
(ETH Zurich), Switzerland |
| 1988 – 2003 |
Geography and earth science teacher
on the elementary, secondary and
college level |
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Resarch Interests
Science Education
Research
| Keywords: |
Conceptual change and conceptual
development of geoscience and geographical
concepts and in education for sustainable development (ESD), geocognition |
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Curriculum and
instruction
| Keywords: |
Educational standards, curriculum
frameworks, classroom processes
and practices, professional development |
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