Thomas Ruoss, Dr.

Work experience

Since 2021: Head of the bachelor degree programme in vocational education and training VET/senior researcher, Swiss Federal University for Vocational Education and Training SFUVET, Zollikofen
2020-2021: Postdoc/senior assistant at the Chair of Vocational Education and Training, Institute of Education, University of Zurich
2018-2020: Postdoctoral visiting scholar (SNSF early postdoc mobility) KU Leuven & GHI Washington DC
2011-2018: Lecturer at the universities of Zurich and Wuppertal
2010-2018: Research project assistant at the Institute of Education, University of Zurich

Education

2011-2016: Doctorate in Educational Science, University of Zurich
2010: University degree
2002-2010: Degree in General History, General Pedagogics and Economic and Social History

Teaching experience

Bachelor degree programme (partly higher lectureship):

2021: Introduction to occupational and business educational theory (University of Zurich)
2020: Introduction to academic work (University of Zurich)
2020: Introduction to occupational and business educational theory (University of Zurich)
2013-2018: Historical/text analysis research methods (University of Zurich)
2017: Child welfare: a pedagogic category in transformation (University of Zurich)
2015: State, family, education: past and present (University of Zurich)
2011: History and theory of education (University of Zurich)

Master’s degree programme (partly higher lectureship):

2021: Employability and entrepreneurship (University of Zurich)
2021: Research colloquium on occupational and business educational theory (University of Zurich)
2020: Education, careers and business (University of Zurich)
2019: Educational policy (KU Leuven)
2018: History of modern educational systems (KU Leuven)
2015-2016: Education systems in federalism (University of Wuppertal)
2011: Educational institutions, educational reform, educational policy (University of Zurich)

Doctoral degree programme:

2020: Educating entrepreneurs for postcapitalism (University of Zurich)
2015: Data and experts in education policy (University of Zurich)
2013+2015: Zurich workshop on historical educational research (University of Zurich)

Area of expertise

(Occupational) educational history
Economic education
Education policy research
Digital humanities

Publications

Transfer into practice

Presentations

Awards

2020: Winner of the annual fellowship of the History of Knowledge @Lund University Research Group
2019: Winner of the Savings and Retail Banking History Award for the article: When Banking met Education
2013: Winner of the ISCHE Conference Paper Prize Award together with Flavian Imlig for the article: Evidence as a Source of Power in Education Policy

Mandates/Memberships

Since 2022: Reviewer for the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Berufsbildungsforschungsnetz (ABFFN)
Since 2022: Reviewer for Education Sciences (MDPI)
Since 2021: Reviewer for the Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Bildungswissenschaften SZBW (Swiss Journal of Educational Sciences)
Since 2019: Reviewer for the European Educational Research Association (EERA)
Since 2019: Reviewer for the Jahrbuch Historische Bildungsforschung (Yearbook of Historical Educational Research) of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Erziehungswissenschaft (German Educational Research Association)
Since 2018: Reviewer for Paedagogica Historicaof the International Standing Conference for the History of Education
Since 2015: Member of the editorial team of Der Almanach
Since 2014: Member of the Historische Bildungsforschung (Historical Educational Research) office of the Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Bildungsforschung SGBF (Swiss Educational Research Association)
2017-2018: Co-publisher of the HistorischeBildungsforschung und Bildungspolitikanalyse (Historical Education Research and Education Policy Analysis) series (Institute of Education, University of Zurich)

Thomas Ruoss, Dr.

Eigenmann, P., & Ruoss, T. (2022). Schüler*innen in der historischen Bildungsforschung. In H. Bennewitz, H. de Boer & S. Thiersch (Hrsg.), Handbuch der Forschung zu Schülerinnen und Schülern (S. 23–32). Münster: Waxmann.

Ruoss, T., Ackermann, N., & Stadelmann, T. (2022). Cultures of Economic Education: Grammar School Curricula in a Multilingual Comparison. European Educational Research Journal, 1-17.

Ruoss, T. (2020). When Banking met Education. The International Savings Banks Institute as a Hub for the Dissemination of Economic Knowledge in the 20th Century. Brussels: WSBI-ESBG.

Ruoss, T., & Heinzer, L. (2020). Schülerinnen im Gymnasium: ein interkantonaler Vergleich der ungleichen Beteiligung von Mädchen in der Schweiz im 20. Jahrhundert. Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Bildungswissenschaften, 42(3).

Ruoss, T. (2020). Bildungsgeschichte als quantifizierende Sozialgeschichte: Bringing a dead man back to life? Bildungsgeschichte.de, 15 September 2020.

Ruoss, T. (2020): Rezension zu M. Caruso (2019). Geschichte der Bildung und Erziehung. Medienentwicklung und Medienwandel. utb. Grundstudium der Erziehungswissenschaft. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh. In Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Bildungswissenschaften, (42)1.

Giudici, A., Ruoss, T., & van Ruyskensvelde, S. (2020). Editorial: Educating the Volksgemeinschaft. Authoritarian Ideals and School Reforms in Europe’s Fascist era. Paedagogica Historica (Special Issue), 56(5), 569-571.

Ruoss, T. (2020). The Critical Potential in Learning about Money. Comment on Donald Gillies. On Education. Journal for Research and Debate, 2(6).

Ruoss, T. (2022-2023, August-Januar). Digitalität didaktisch integrieren: Konzepte, Systeme und Technologien. Moduldurchführung im BSc in Berufsbildung an der Eidgenössischen Hochschule für Berufsbildung EHB, Zollikofen, Schweiz.

Ruoss, T. (2022, Februar). Wie viel Wirtschaft gehört in die Schule? Historische Reflexionen zu einer aktuellen Debatte. Gastreferat in der Ringvorlesung "Allgemeine Pädagogik" der Pädagogischen Hochschule Schwyz, Goldau, Schweiz.

Ruoss, T. (2022, Februar-Juli). Interaktive Lerninhalte und Lernvideos erstellen. Moduldurchführung im BSc in Berufsbildung an der Eidgenössischen Hochschule für Berufsbildung EHB, Zollikofen, Schweiz.

Ruoss, T. (2019, September). The International Savings Banks Institute as a Hub for the Dissemination of Economic Knowledge in the 20th Century. Presentation at the Workshop “Financial History”. Erste Group, Vienna, Austria.

Ruoss, T., & Ackermann, N. (2022, September). Cultures of Economic Education: a Comparison of Grammar School Curricula in Federal, Multilingual Switzerland. Paper presented at the Swiss Society for Research in Education (SSRE) Conference, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Ruoss, T., & Ackermann, N. (2022, September). Facing Societal Problems by Economic Education? Findings of a Curriculum Study in Switzerland. Paper presented at the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), Yerevan, Armenia. (online)

Ruoss, T., Giudici, A., Darvai, T., Groves, T., Somogyvari, L., & van Ruyskensvelde, S. (2022, September). Contested Views on Citizenship Education – Actors and Networks from Local to Transnational. Workshop at the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), Yerevan, Armenia. (online)

Kessler, S., & Ruoss, T. (2022, February). Educational Expansion as Expansion of Vocational Education and Training. Paper presented at the 7th Congress of the Swiss Federal University for Vocational Education and Training SFUVET, Zollikofen, Switzerland. (online)

Ruoss, T., & Giudici, A. (2021, September). Contested Community Ideals: Heterodox Conceptions of Citizenship Education and their Democratic Implications. Paper presented at the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), Geneva, Switzerland. (online)

Ruoss, T. (2021, September). Re-shaping Citizens as Consumers: Education Policy by Financial Business Associations on the Example of West Germany. Paper presented at the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), Geneva, Switzerland. (online)

Ruoss, T., & Ackermann, N. (2021, September). Cultures of Economic Education: an Intercultural Comparison of Curricula in Federal, Multilingual Switzerland. Paper presented at the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), Geneva, Switzerland. (online)

Ruoss, T., & Ackermann, N. (2021, März). Ökonomische Bildung im Föderalismus. Eine Analyse der gymnasialen Lehrpläne in der Schweiz. Beitrag präsentiert amr Kolloquium Berufs- und Wirtschaftspädagogik, Universität Zürich, Zürich, Schweiz.