Institute of Education

Curriculum Vitae Dr. Ramona Thümmler

since April 2016

postdoc with the University of Tubingen’s Institute of Educational Science. Working out of the Department of Social Pedagogy, she has been assigned to one of its desks: Kindheits- und familienpädagogische Forschung (KipF) – see above

2015-2016postdoc in educational science with the Heidelberg School of Education
SoSe 2015 & WS 2015/2016term-appointed lecturer with the MSB Medical School in Berlin. The course she taught there was titled: “Transdisciplinary early-life promotion”
WS 2014/2015

acting professorship in childhood pedagogy at the Fachhochschule Erfurt

January 2014finished a doctorate with the Technische Universität Dortmund. The topic of her thesis was: “ADHD caught between the professions – an empirical study of structures of interdisciplinary collaboration”
since 2011trained as a psychotherapist with a childhood and adolescence focus (during training, she worked in childhood and adolescence psychiatry at the University of Tubingen; also in the walk-in practice set up for students of that university and run by the Institute of Psychology)
2007-2015research assistant with the Fakultät für Sonderpädagogik of the Pädagogischen Hochschule Ludwigsburg (see below for an explanation of Sonderpädagogik). Focus: fostering social and emotional development in children and adolescents
2004-2007contributed pedagogical and therapeutic expertise to a project targeting children and adolescents; helped out in a rehab clinic and in a practice with a childhood and adolescence focus
1998-2004studied educational science at the Martin-Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, as well as in Valence (France). Among her interests from that time are what in Germany is known as “special pedagogy” [i.e. a branch of pedagogy devoted to fostering the development of children and adolescents with special needs]. She also studied sociology and psychology. She graduated Diplom-Pädagogin with a thesis on the possibilities opened up by the Internet as a support system for families with a handicapped child.