Ingrid Hemmer
Ingrid Hemmer (born April 23, 1954 ) is a German geographer and has been professor for geography didactics at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt since 1991 .
Career
After studying geography, German and Nordic studies at the University of Münster , Hemmer passed the first state examination in 1978 and completed the legal clerkship for high school teaching from 1979 to 1981. The second state examination followed in 1981.
Hemmer first worked as a teacher at a grammar school from 1981 to 1982 and in the same year took up a position as a research assistant / university assistant at the University of Münster at the Institute for Didactics of Geography. Her doctorate followed in 1984 at the University of Bamberg with a dissertation on the development and structure of the reindeer industry in Finnmark and Troms / Northern Norway.Hemmer then took up a position at the University of Augsburg as a temporary academic adviser and taught part-time from 1988 to 1990 at Lessing high school in Neu-Ulm . In 1990 she qualified as a professor on the subject of studies on research propaedeutic work in geography lessons at the upper level and in 1991 accepted a position at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (KU). From 1996 to 1997 she taught part-time at the Lessing-Gymnasium in Neu-Ulm.
Functions
Ingrid Hemmer clothes a. a. the following offices:
- Vice President of the German Society for Geography (DGfG)
- Honorary Chairwoman of the University Association for Geography and its Didactics (HGD) ; Chair from 1997 to 2013
- Deputy Chairwoman of the Center for Teacher Training and Educational Research at the KU
- Editor of the Journal for Geography Didactics (ZGD)
- KU sustainability officer
- Spokeswoman for the University and Sustainability Network Bavaria
- Member of the Round Table of ESD of the UN Decade (2010 - 2014)
- Member of the National Committee for the German Global Geoparks of UNESCO
Honors
In June 2018, Hemmer received the Bavarian State Medal for special services to the environment for her services .
Publications (selection)
- Hemmer, I., Hemmer, M., Kruschel, K., Neidhardt, E., Obermaier, G. and R. Iphues (2013): Which children can find a way through a strange town using a streetmap? - results of an empirical study on children's orientation competence . In: International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2013, Vol. 22, No. 1, 23-40
- Hemmer, I. (2012): Standards and Competencies . In: Haversath M. (Mod.): Geographiedidaktik. Theory - Topics - Research (= The Geographical Seminar). Braunschweig, pp. 90-106
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Laudation for Prof. Dr. Ingrid Hemmer , Bavarian State Ministry for the Environment and Consumer Protection, June 12, 2018, www.stmuv.bayern.de, accessed on June 14, 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hemmer, Ingrid |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German geographer and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 23, 1954 |