Matthias Hofmann

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Matthias Hofmann (* 1974 in Mainz ) is a German alternative school educator , mediator and author .

Life

In 1995 Hofmann graduated from high school and, after doing community service, studied education at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz . During and after his studies he worked as a social worker , tutor, special education teacher and as a youth carer. From 2004 to 2014 he worked as a teacher in free alternative schools. From 2011 to 2013 Matthias Hofmann was on the board of the Federal Association of Free Alternative Schools (BFAS). He accompanies start-up initiatives of alternative schools in conceptual questions. From 2013 to 2018 he was a lecturer at the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences in Berlin in the field of education and training.

Matthias Hofmann writes books and specialist articles on alternative schools and Kurdistan . He is co-founder of the initiative 'Eine Schule für Kobane ', which aims to support the reconstruction of the educational sector in the northern Syrian city of Kobanê in western Kurdistan / Rojava.

Fonts (selection)

  • Learning as an educational experience - What is math in: Freie Schule Marburg eV (Hrsg.): 20 years of free school in motion. Marburg 2006
  • Mauerquark in: Questions and Experiments 127/33. Year 2009. Journal of the Freinet Cooperative (Ed.), Pp. 51–55
  • Free alternative schools - a little time travel in: Free learning Berlin eV (Ed.): From the idea to reality. A school project in 34 contributions. Berlin, 2011, ISBN 978-3-936697-10-0
  • Breve storia delle scuole libere . In: Gli asini No. 10. Rome 2012
  • Past and present of independent alternative schools. An introduction. Ulm 2013, ISBN 978-3-86281-057-4
  • The Wedding Citizens School in: Heim- und Erzieher-Zeitschrift HEZ Issue 1–2 / 2015 P. 38ff.
  • Free Alternative Schools in: Other Education: The Journal of Educational Alternatives ISSN  2049-2162 Volume 4 (2015), Issue 2 pp. 107-118
  • Alternative schools - alternatives to school. Ulm 2015, ISBN 978-3-86281-086-4
  • Pubblica, non statale. Le “scuole civiche” in Germania. In: Gli asini No. 26. Rome 2015, ISBN 978-88-6357-153-0
  • Alexander S. Neill's educational reform impulse and the alternative schools of the present in: Handbuch Bildungsreform und Reformpädagogik (Ed. Heiner Barz). Wiesbaden 2018, ISBN 978-3-658-07490-6 , pp. 217–228
  • Kurdistan from the start. Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-947765-00-3

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personal data
SURNAME Hofmann, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German alternative school educator and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz