Philipp Gonon

Philip C. Gonon (* October 15, 1955 in Flensburg ) is a Swiss educationalist with a focus on vocational education and training.

Gonon studied from 1974 to 1976 Law and Journalism at the University of Fribourg, then in Zurich and Berlin pedagogy. From 1986 to 1992 he was Assistant Professor at the Pedagogical Institute of the University of Bern. There he completed his habilitation in 1997. From 1999 to 2004 Gonon was C4 professor of occupational and corporate training at the University of Trier. Since 2004 he is Professor of Vocational Education at the University of Zurich.

Gonon has researched Georg Kerschensteinerschule, about the relationship between school and work and the European VET reforms. He specializes in historical and international comparative vocational training research. He also published on topics such as philosophy and theory of ( vocational) education. Evaluation, quality assurance and modularisation in VET are other research topics Philipp Gonons.

As a founding member of the international network Vetculture (since 1995) has Gonon approaches - with the Swiss dual ( trialen ) training model as a counterpoint - contributed to the European VET debate.

Writings

• With Emil Wettstein: vocational training in Switzerland. Bern: hep -Verlag, 2009.
• The Quest for Modern Vocational Education - Georg Kerschensteinerschule in between Dewey, Weber and Simmel. Bern: P. Lang, 2009.
• From the respectable artisans for innovative self - Entrepreneur. Modernization of vocational education on the basis of ideal-typical role models. Gütersloh: Bertelsmann Foundation, 2008 (PDF)
• With Dieter Munk, Klaus Breuer, Thomas Deissinger (ed.): Modernization of Vocational Training. New Research Results and Perspectives of the professional and business education. ( Series of Section Business and Vocational Education at the DGFE ). Opladen: Verlag Barbara Budrich 2008.
• With Désirée A. Hunter, Mark Weil: Statistical classification of higher vocational education in Switzerland. Report commissioned by the Federal Office of Statistics. Zurich 2008.
• With Rolf Arnold: Introduction to Vocational Education. Opladen: Barbara Budrich ( UTB ) 2005.
• With Stefanie Stolz ( ed.): training. Empirical findings, theoretical perspectives and current challenges. Bern: h.e.p 2004.
• Jobs, employment and education. Bern: h.e.p., 2002.
• Georg Kerschensteinerschule - Concept of work school ( Edited by Dieter- Jürgen Löwisch: Factory interpretations pedagogical classics ). Darmstadt University Press, 2002.
• With André Schläfli: training in Switzerland. Situation and perspectives. Frankfurt 1999.
• The international argument in education reform. The role of international references in the educational policy debate on Swiss vocational training and English reform of upper secondary Bern 1998.
• School work and qualifications. Work and school in the 19th century, Kerschensteinerschule and today's debates on professional qualifications. Bern: Peter Lang 1992.