Thomas Hofstetter

Work at ZHAW

Position

Research Associate Environmental Education

Focus

• Environmental Education
• Education for Sustainable Development
• Transformative learning
• Outdoor and Experiental Education

Teaching

• Module Environmental Education
• Module Didactics and Communication
• Module Educational practice
• Module Fundamentals of Environmental Systems and Sustainable Development 1
• Module Fundamentals of Environmental Systems and Sustainable Development 2
• Module Learning Region
• CAS Nature-based environmental education
• CAS Outdoor Education - Summer
• CAS Forest, Landscape, Health

Education and Continuing education

Education

• Master of Arts / Environment and Education
  University of Rostock
  09 / 2009 - 07 / 2011
• Diploma / Environmental Engineer in Environmental Education
  University of Applied Sciences Wädenswil
  10 / 2003 - 09 / 2007

Continuing Education

• Certificate of Advanced Studies "Teams"
  Institute of Applied Psychology, ZHAW
  10 / 2017
• Adult Educator
  Youth and Sports
  09 / 2013
• Hiking Guide
  various
  04 / 2012
• Trainer for experiential education and outdoor training
  Drudel 11 - experience and learn
  10 / 2009

Network

Membership of networks

• ERBINAT Professional Association for Experience and Education in Nature
• Conference on environmental education
• SAGUF AG Education for Sustainable Development

Projects

• Regionaler Naturpark Schaffhausen / Team member / Project ongoing
• Dekarbonisierungsausstellung Umweltarena: Umsetzung, Entwicklung Texte und Materialien / Team member / Project completed
• Spielraumkonzept für Wädenswil: Überprüfung und Weiterentwicklung / Team member / Project completed
• Natürliche Schulhausareale / Team member / Project completed
• TransformRegio - unterschiedliche Theorien und Konzepte im Kontext von Transformation und nachhaltiger Entwicklung / Project leader / Project completed
• Nachhaltiger Lernort Schloss Hegi / Team member / Project completed
• Blumenschatzwiesen - Naturerfahrungsraum Trockenwiesen Schams / Team member / Project completed
• Konzept Waldlehrpfad Kaltbrunn / Team member / Project completed
• Neugestaltung Spielplatz Schönegg / Team member / Project completed

Publications

• Hunziker, Rebecca; Hofstetter, Thomas,

  2021.

  Swiss regional nature parks : sustainable rural and mountain development through transformative learning?.

  Mountain Research and Development.

  40(4), pp. R17-R24.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-20-00027.1

• Hofstetter, Thomas,

  2018.

  Naturparkpflege mit Firmen und Schulklassen.

  Thema Umwelt.

  2018(4), pp. 16-17.

• Hofstetter, Thomas,

  2016.

  Der Regionale Naturpark Schaffhausen

  .

  In:

  Naturforschende Gesellschaft Schaffhausen; Demmerle, Susi, eds.,

  Regionaler Naturpark Schaffhausen : der Natur auf der Spur.

  Bern:

  ott verlag.

  pp. 11.

• Hofstetter, Thomas; Johnson, Alice; Sironi, Helene; Wilhelm, Sandra; et al.,

  2022.

  Umweltbildung für die grosse Transformation.

  In:

  3. Collaboration Lab der Fachkonferenz Umweltbildung, Biel/Bienne, Schweiz, 7. November 2022.

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