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1 E ACADEMIC CV GEERT THYSSEN PERSONAL DATA Position: Address: Phone / Fax: address: Date of birth: Place of birth: Nationality: Assistant-Researcher Campus Walferdange Route de Diekirch (B.P.2) L-7201 Walferdange / geert.thyssen@uni.lu 25 November 1977 Antwerp Belgian PREVIOUS WORK EXPERIENCE Maastricht University, TIER Top Institute of Evidence-Based Education Research Maastricht Research on school dropout and policy measures aimed at preventing it Conducting research, reporting results to policy makers Developing intellectual, academic, technical, relational and self management skills, leadership and change management Doctorate in educational sciences, research on open-air schools Doing research, teaching bachelors, and coordinating fellow PhD-students/teaching assistants (academic year ) Developing intellectual, academic, technical, relational and self management skills, leadership and change management Coordination of the Master of Educational Studies (M.E.S.) Supporting the M.E.S. administratively & teaching Developing administrative and relational skills, and leadership Cooperativa Agricola Mogliazze S.R.L. Mogliazze Voluntary work (gap year) on an organic-ecological farm in Northern Italy Developing, promoting, and selling organic (vegetable, animal, and medicinal) products, attending to agricultural tourism, etc.

2 EDUCATION Doctorate in Educational Sciences Result: Unknown Doctoral studies Doctoral dissertation on Open-Air Schools in Belgium, France, Germany and Italy ( ) Licentiate (Master) in Educational Sciences Result: Cum laude Major: Remedial Education Specialisation: Children and Youth with Behavioural Problems, People with Special Needs Dissertation on School Colony Diesterweg in Antwerp ( ) Hagelstein Instituut Latin - Modern Languages (Secondary education) Sint-Katelijne-Waver Result: Cum laude ADDITIONAL TRAINING English Academic Writing Course (ILT Institute for Modern Languages, Doctoral School, ) German Language Course (3L Life Long Learning, Doctoral School, ) AWARDS/PRIZES (100 ) Maurits de Vroede Prize (Belgian-Dutch Hist. of Ed. Society) Essay Prize (British Hist. of Ed. Society) KNOWLEDGE OF LANGUAGES AND COMPUTING SKILLS Excellent command of Dutch and English (oral and written) Good fluency and reading skills in French, German and Italian Excellent command of Microsoft Office, the Internet, etc. INTERESTS / VOLUNTARY WORK 2002-present Swimming, playing squash, organizing activities with disabled people and ex-psychiatric patients (Oikonde / Pastya, ), supporting fair-trade (Oxfam Wereldwinkel Wilsele) Organizing camps, activities, training, etc. for youths (WJNH) Entertaining children during holidays (Lentekind / Kinderland)

3 PUBLICATION LIST GEERT THYSSEN PUBLICATIONS / ARTICLES IN PRESS * Articles or chapters in international journals or books with peer review 1) Thyssen, G., Herman, F., Kusters, W., Van Ruyskensvelde, S. & Depaepe, M. (in press). - -, Roubaix (1921-5, 2. 2) Thyssen G. & Depaepe, M. (2010). World: Another Paradox in the History of Education? An Exploration of the Problem on the Basis of the Open-Air School Diesterweg in Heide- Pollefeyt (Eds.), Religious Education, /Paris/Warpole, MA: Peeters, pp ) Thyssen, G. (2009). -Air School, Milan ( ): a City of Paedagogica Historica 45, 1-2, pp ) Thyssen, G. (2 New Education Within an Architectural Icon? A Case Study of a Milanese Open-Air School ( ) 4, 1, pp ) Thyssen, G. (2007 Visualizing Discipline of the Body in a German Open-Air School (1923- History of Education Journal 36, 2, pp * Other articles or chapters in journals or books 6) Thyssen, G. (2007). Cartografie van Vakan - In: Nelleke Bakker et al. (Red.), Kinderen in Gevaar. De Geschiedenis van Pedagogische Zorg voor Risicojeugd. Jaarboek van de Belgisch Nederlandse Vereniging voor Opvoeding en Onderwijs, Assen: Van Gorcum, pp ) Depaepe, M., Simon, F. & Thyssen, G. (2005). In M. Depaepe, F. Simon & A. Van Gorp (Eds.), Paradoxen van Pedagogisering. Handboek Pedagogische Historiografie, : Acco, pp ) - Pedagogisch Onderzoek en de Waarde van het Internet. Over de Concrete Zoektocht naar (Eds.), Paradoxen van Pedagogisering. Handboek Pedagogische Historiografie, : Acco, s.p. [CDrom] 9)

4 Depaepe, F. Simon & A. Van Gorp (Eds.), Paradoxen van Pedagogisering. Handboek Pedagogische Historiografie, : Acco, s.p. [CD-rom] 10) Verstraete, P., Van Hooste, A., Thyssen G. & Catteeuw, K. (2004). Het is maar hoe je het Bekijkt. Een Experiment met Filmseminaries voor Orthopedagogiek en Historische Pedagogiek. s Bulletin LAPP 53, pp * Papers presented at international conferences/symposia, fully published in proceedings 11) Thyssen G. & Depaepe, M., (2006). The Sacralization of Childhood in a Secularized world: another Paradox in the History of Education? An Exposition of the Problem on the Basis of the Open-Air School Diesterweg in Heide-Kalmthout. In: A. Dillen en D. Pollefeyt, Education. Expert Seminar, January 2007 (: K.U., Faculty of Theology, 2007), pp * Papers presented at national conferences or symposia, fully published in proceedings 12) Thyssen, G. (2007). c In: Actes du VII e et e Congrès de la Fédération des Cercles ire de Belgique. Congrès d'ottignies Louvain-la-Neuve, août 2004, Bruxelles, Éditions Safran, 2007, pp * Book reviews 13) Thyssen, G. (2006). History of School Medicine in Geneva: Paedagogica Historica 42, 6, pp ) -Air Schools: a Fruitful Failure to Dis- Zeitschrift für pädagogische Historiographie 10, 2, pp * Miscellaneous documents 15) Thyssen, G., De Witte, K., Groot, W. & Maassen van den Brink (2010). The Effectiveness and Meaningfulness of Policy Measures Aimed at Preventing School Dropout: an Explorative Literature review Evidence Based Education Research, Maastricht University] 16) De Witte, K., Groot, W., Maassen van den Brink, H., Cabus, S. & Thyssen, G. (2010). Evaluatie van Maatregelen ter Preventie van Voortijdig Schoolverlaten in Nederland. [Internal Report, Universiteit Maastricht, Top Institute for Evidence Based Education Research (TIER)] 17) De Witte, K., Groot, W., Maassen van den Brink, H., Cabus, S. & Thyssen, G. (2010). Dropout Prevention Measures in the Netherlands: a Quantitative Assesment. [Internal Report, Maastricht University, Top Institute for Evidence Based Education Research (TIER)]

5 18) Between Utopia and Dystopia? Case Studies of Open-Air Schools in Belgium, France, Germany and Italy (1904- [Doctoral Dissertation, Katholieke Universiteit ] 19) Surmont, M., Herman, F. & Thyssen, G. (2007). Eerste Hulp bij Historisch- Pedagogisch Onderzoek. [Internal Report, website Katholieke Universiteit, History of Education Center] SUBMITTED ARTICLES 20) Thyssen G. & Depaepe, M. (submitted) - Rouge x: une Ecole de Plein Air, Contextualisée Historiquement (vers ) 21) Thyssen, G., (submitted) Stratification through the Sint-Ludgardis Schools of Schoten, Brasschaat, and Schilde ( ). A Paradox of Inequality? 22) Thyssen, G., (submitted) Karl Triebold Sr. and the Wald of Senne I- Bielefeld. A Geography of the Early Life and Work of an Open-Air School Figurehead (ca )