Department for Higher and Adult Education

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The Department for Higher and Adult Education at PH Zurich offers continuing education and services for tertiary education (university, higher vocational training), adult education and upper secondary level education.

Our mission

The Department for Higher and Adult Education covers the range of courses available to teachers in upper secondary, tertiary and adult education.

Its three centres offer training and services for external and internal audiences. In its specialist expertise, the department addresses all four of PH Zurich’s areas of service (training, research, continuing education, services).

People

Management

Portrait photo of Prof. Dr. Markus Weil

+41 43 305 63 84

Professors

Portrait photo of Prof. Dr. Barbara Getto

+41 43 305 68 29

Portrait photo of Prof. Dr. Franziska Zellweger Moser

+41 43 305 63 56

Portrait photo of Prof. Dr. Maik Philipp

+41 43 305 62 13

What we do

The department is aimed at the following target audiences:

  • Vocational schools
  • Higher vocational training and adult education
  • Universities

The department offers a wide range of training and services:

  • Services for vocational schools
  • Higher vocational training and adult education services
  • Services for universities
  • Writing advice for lecturers

In addition, the department makes its expertise available through various publication channels:

The “Forum Hochschuldidaktik und Erwachsenenbildung” (Forum on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education and Adult Education) book series from the Department for Higher and Adult Education deals with various areas of focus and offers lecturers at universities useful tools for reflection and action in their teaching practice. It

  • stimulates discussions and debates on current and practical questions pertaining to teaching and learning in higher education and adult education,
  • provides useful tools for reflection and action aimed at lecturers at universities of applied sciences and teacher education and in higher vocational training, in addition to those responsible for education and training at adult education institutions.

Volume 13: “Wissenschaftlich erzählen – literarisch überzeugen” (Scientific storytelling – persuasive writing)

Edited by Daniel Ammann, Erik Altorfer, Gisela Bürki, Alex Rickert

When writing, you can do everything wrong, but you can never do everything right. Rules are important in literary and academic writing, but creativity is even more so. Even a technical text tells a story, and a novel answers questions. In their contributions, academic supervisors, writing coaches and editors show that creative writing in all formats is an indispensable tool for thinking, learning and expression.

With contributions from Erik Altorfer, Daniel Ammann, Sieglinde Geisel, Hildegard E. Keller, Kirsten Schindler, Nadja Sennewald, Gerhild Steinbuch, Jacob Teich, Vincenzo Todisco, Philip Ursprung und künstlerischen Intermezzos von Katja Brunner, Simon Froehling, Peter von Matt, Martina Meienberg, Fatima Moumouni, Melinda Nadj Abonji, Usama Al Shahmani, Tabea Steiner, Franco Supino, Peter Weber (design by Matthias Gnehm).

Order from publisher Hep-Verlag

Other volumes

  • Dagmar Bach, Erik Haberzeth, Stefan Osbahr (2022) Höhere Fachschulen in der Schweiz. Herausforderungen und Perspektiven, Volume 12.

    Hep-Verlag.

  • Geri Thomann, Niels Anderegg, Sylvia Kaap-Fröhlich, Hans-Peter Karrer (2021) Zwischen Expertise und Führung. Entscheidungen treffen – Laufbahn gestalten – Unerwartetes bewältigen, Volume 11.

    Hep-Verlag.

  • Geri Thomann, Monique Honegger (2021) Mit allem rechnen. Improvisieren in der Bildungsarbeit, Volume 10.

    Hep-Verlag.

  • Monique Honegger, Tamara De Vito, Dagmar Bach (2020) Mehrsprachigkeiten. Mit Vielfalt jonglieren – auf Sekundarstufe II und an Hochschulen, Volume 9.

    Hep-Verlag.

  • Erik Haberzeth, Irena Sgier (2019) Digitalisierung und Lernen. Gestaltungsperspektiven für das professionelle Handeln in der Erwachsenenbildung und Weiterbildung, Volume 8.

    Hep-Verlag.

  • Tobias Zimmermann, Geri Thomann, Denise Da Rin (2018) Weiterbildung an Hochschulen. Über Kurse und Lehrgänge hinaus, Volume 7.

    Hep-Verlag.

  • Geri Thomann, Franziska Zellweger (2016) Lateral führen. Aus der Mitte der Hochschule Komplexität bewältigen, Volume 6.

    Hep-Verlag.

  • Monique Honegger, Daniel Ammann, Thomas Hermann (2015) Schreiben und Reflektieren. Denkspuren zwischen Lernweg und Leerlauf, Volume 5.

    Hep-Verlag.

  • Heinz Bachmann (2013) Hochschullehre variantenreich gestalten. Kompetenzorientierte Hochschullehre – Ansätze, Methoden und Beispiele, Volume 4.

    Hep-Verlag.

  • Tobias Zimmermann, Franziska Zellweger (2012) Lernendenorientierung. Studierende im Fokus. Forum Hochschuldidaktik und Erwachsenenbildung, Volume 3.

    Hep-Verlag.

  • Geri Thomann, Monique Honegger, Peter Suter (2017) Zwischen Beraten und Dozieren. Praxis, Reflexion und Anregungen für die Hochschullehre. Forum Hochschuldidaktik und Erwachsenenbildung, Volume 2.

    Hep-Verlag.

  • Heinz Bachmann (2018) Kompetenzorientierte Hochschullehre. Die Notwendigkeit von Kohärenz zwischen Lernzielen, Prüfungsformen und Lehr-Lern-Methoden, Volume 1.

    Hep-Verlag.

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Contact

PH Zurich

Department for Higher and Adult Education

Lagerstrasse 2
8090 Zurich
Switzerland

+41 43 305 51 09