Prof. Dr. Thomas Hoffmann

Prof. Dr. Thomas Hoffmann is Honorary Professor of Education for Sustainable Development at Leuphana University Lüneburg.

His academic interest lies in global challenges and how they can be addressed didactically and methodologically in the classroom. Education for sustainable development and the solution-oriented teaching approach he developed are at the centre of his work, which he has discussed in numerous articles on geography didactics and incorporated into geography textbooks.

Thomas Hoffmann is head of department at the Karlsruhe Studienseminar, where he trains secondary school teacher trainees in geography, and a lecturer in geography didactics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). He teaches geography, history, politics and economics at Windeck-Gymnasium in Bühl and takes on special tasks for the Baden-Württemberg ministries of education and of the environment, such as work on the education plan and on teaching materials. He is a founding member of the ESD Expert Net, an intercultural ESD think tank, where he headed the working group on learning and teaching materials, and cooperates with partners in India, Mexico and Japan.