Professional career
| 1993 | Doctorate, Inorganic Chemistry, Prof. F. Preuss; TU Kaiserslautern |
| 2000 | Research assistant at the Department of Chemistry |
| 2006 | Managing Director at the Department of Chemistry Qualification for teaching in chemistry didactics (80%) |
| 2007 | Study visits at the Center for Chemistry Didactics, University of Kiel, at the Chair of Chemistry Didactics, University of Dortmund and at the Chair of Chemistry Didactics |
| 2008 | Head of the area of study Didactics of Chemistry |
| 2009 | Visiting Fellow, College of Education & Health Professions, Department of C & I / PEAH 127, University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, USA |
| 2010 | Visiting scholar, Annette Caldwell Simmons School of Education and Human Development, Southern Methodist University, Texas, USA |
| 2012 | Appointment as adjunct professor and head of the area of study Didactics of Chemistry |
| 2012 | Visiting scholar at the University of Colorado, Boulder, (July-August) to Valerie K. Otero Associate Professor of Science EducationCo-Director, Learning Assistant/Noyce Fellows Program |
Main research areas
- Accompanying research on video-based reflective teaching and learning support for students based on the KMK standards for teacher training. The focus is on the development and testing of tools that accompany the development of teacher-specific skills (such as the ability to make judgments through observation and evaluation skills, the ability to reflect, and communication skills, etc.). Reflective teaching and learning support is provided by means of online questionnaires, video sequences and e-portfolios.
- EVA3PLUS: Evaluation of attitudes, behavior and intentions towards experiments, experiments & working methods in cross-phase teacher training at university and school. The proportion of experiments in chemistry and biology lessons is too low compared to the high goals of subject didactics. The aim of the project is to identify reasons and influencing factors for this fact in a behavioral model structurally based on an extended theory of planned behavior by Ajzen and Fishbein (1991). To this end, the attitudes, behavioral intentions, competence levels of trainee teachers and the use of experiments in lessons in the experiment-oriented subjects of biology and chemistry will be investigated. The data are collected computer-assisted at teacher training colleges and schools in a 3-wave longitudinal panel design. The results are related to factors of university education as well as to social and individual explanatory factors, the influence strengths are statistically estimated and interpreted in the behavioral model.
- Accompanying research for the development, testing and evaluation of teaching concepts and materials for chemistry lessons at secondary levels I and II. The didactic focus here is on cooperative lesson development.
Selected publications/project reports
- C. Gomez-Tutor, G. Hornung, H.-J. Wiegerling; Workshop: "DIDAGMA- Vernetzung Allgemeiner Didaktik und Fachdidaktik im Studium", Conference "Kompetenzdiagnose und Kompetenzentwicklung in der Lehrerbildung", University of Paderborn 2008.
- Eimer S., Hornung G., Kuhn N., Thiel W.: Modern detergent analysis. MNU 62 (2009) No. 4, 231 - 236
- Hornung G.: "Proposal for teaching competence in the university teacher training program: Formation of mixed learning and teaching groups with staggered competencies through vertical interlocking of practical school courses.", Zeitschrift für Didaktik der Naturwissenschaft (2010) 16
- Hornung G.; "Evaluation of attitudes, behavior and intentions towards experiments in teacher training"; submitted in July 2014 (Zeitschrift für Didaktik der Naturwissenschaft)
- Hornung G.; Mayerl J.; Thyssen Christoph; "EVA3PLUS", GDCP annual volume (2014) 378
- "Lehre Plus" Workshop: "EvaSchlau" - Evaluation of school-oriented teacher training in Kaiserslautern (2014)
- Poster contribution: "EVA3PLUS" at the "Annual Conference of the Chemistry Education Section of the GDCh" in Kiel, (2014)
- Workshop: "EVA3PLUS" at the GDCP conference in Bremen (2014)
- Hornung, G., Mayerl, J. & Thyssen, C. (2015): In: S. Bernholt (Ed.), Heterogeneity and diversity - diversity of prerequisites in science education. Society for Didactics of Chemistry and Physics, Annual Conference in Bremen 2014 (pp. 43-45). Kiel: IPN.
- Conference proceedings: "Lehrer.Bildung.Medien"; contribution (2014) submitted (long accepted).
- Hornung G., K. Kern: Die Chemie des Fußballs - Eine fächerübergreifende Unterrichtsreihe über Natur- und Kunststoffe in Trikots und Fußbällen. Chemkon (2015) submitted and positively reviewed.
Academic self-administration
- Participation in the working group "Curricular standards for the subject of chemistry" of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, 2006-2007
- Active involvement in the accreditation and introduction of the Bachelor's and Master's degree courses in Chemistry, 2007;
- Member of the University Council of TU Kaiserslautern since 2008.
- Member of the Senate Committee for Equal Opportunities since 2000.
- Member of the Center for Teacher Training
- Member of the Center for Didactics
- Member of the Forum for Academic Staff
- Member of the Senate Committee for Studies and Teaching
- Steering Committee for Studies and Teaching
- Accreditation Committee
Completed projects
- Vertical integration of practical teaching components of teacher training: "Staggered competencies in teaching and learning groups"
- Vacation internship for pupils "Chexdays"
- DIDAGMA (networking of general didactics with subject-specific didactics)
- "Chemobil"
- Further training for educators
- "Learning and teaching in practice groups"
- "Innolec" guest lectureship
- "ChemLab TU KL"
- EVASCHLAU
- "EVA3PLUS"; Evaluation of attitudes, behavior and intentions towards experiments, experiments & working methods in cross-phase teacher training at university and school" (100 T€)
- SFB/TRR88; Project Ö - Public Relations within 3MET;Communicate 3MET Research and inspire future young academics
- "Research workshop"
- "Museum of local history 3.0"
- "ScienceLab 3.0 - Getting to the bottom of the soil"
- "Soil as a foundation" (for study and teaching)