Prof. Dr. Philipp Gonon

Emeritierter Professor für Berufsbildung / Professor Emeritus of Vocational Education and Training (2004-2021)

Research focus

Since 2021	Prof. em. at the Institute of Education, part-time engaged, University of Zurich
2016-2019	Director of the Institute of Education, University of Zurich
2011	Guest Professor at the University of Vienna, Institute of Education
2010	Call for professorship at the University of Luxembourg
Since 2004	Professor for VET and Teacher Training at the University of Zürich
1999-2004	Appointed for a Chair of Life Long Learning at the University of Trier (Germany)
1997	Senior Lecturer and Habilitation about the International Argument in VET-Reforms at the University in Bern
1993	Visiting scholar at the Institute of Education, University of London
1986-1992	Research Assistant and Lecturer at the University of Bern. PhD Thesis, about Georg Kerschensteiner, School and Work
1982-1986	Research projects in the field of workplace learning and earning biographies at the University of Bern (Switzerland). Part-time Job as a Teacher in General Subjects at a Vocational School in Zürich
1976-1982	Graduated in Pedagogy (in Zürich) after Studies of Education (in Berlin and Zürich)
1974-1976	Studied Law and Journalism at the University in Fribourg (Switzerland)

Co-editor: Peter Lang-Book Series, Studies in Vocational and Continuing Education
Editor: Report, Zeitschrift für Weiterbildungsforschung
Member of the editorial board of The Journal of Vocational Education and Training
Member of the editorial board of Vocations and Learning – Studies in Vocational and Professional Education
Member of the German Society of Education (DGFE), Section: Berufs- und Wirtschaftspädagogik
Member of INAP (Network Innovative Apprenticeship)

Ph. Gonon (2023): Ein Handwerk studieren oder die Revision der Berufsbildung, hep Verlag.

Abschiedsvorlesung „Ein Handwerk studieren. Zur Zukunft der Berufsbildung in der Schweiz“ (17.12. 2020)
Diskussion Special Issue Towards an international comparative history of vocational education and training, edited by Philipp Gonon and Thomas Deissinger, Journal of Vocational Education and Training (2021, 73,2)