Diethelm Wahl

Diethelm Wahl (born January 31, 1945 ) is a German psychologist at the Weingarten University of Education and mental trainer for top athletes.

Life

After a double degree (teaching post 1964–1966 at the University of Education Schwäbisch Gmünd with subsequent 1st and 2nd state examinations and 1969–1973 at the University of Tübingen Educational Psychology, Educational Science and Sociology) Diethelm Wahl received his doctorate in educational psychology from the University of Tübingen in 1973 Topic "Over- and Underachievement" and in 1989 there in educational psychology habilitation on the topic "acting under pressure". In 1974 he was offered a professorship in psychology at the Weingarten University of Education. In addition to his work in teacher training, for 25 years he was in charge of the “contact study in adult education” based on his ideas. In 2001 he received the state teaching award for his academic didactic work. Together with Franz E. Weinert and Günter L. Huber he developed and moderated the television college "Teacher Problems - Student Problems". Parallel to his scientific work, he looks after top athletes in sports such as table tennis, tennis, karate, wrestling and shooting. He has been married to Ruth Wahl since 1984 and has two children.

Research and work focus

Diethelm Wahl and his research group have empirically investigated the “gap between knowledge and action” among teachers, university teachers and adult educators, and designed and evaluated effective concepts for bridging these over the long term. These include a. learning arrangements developed by himself, such as the sandwich principle, the learning tempo module and the multi-interview as well as the WeLL methods (WeLL = reciprocal teaching and learning) systematically examined in his research group. Together with Norbert Groeben, Brigitte Scheele and Jörg Schlee, he founded the “Research Program Subjective Theories FST”. For the field of top-class sport, he has developed stop codes for the trained focus of attention and for the regulation of emotions that impair performance. He is active in the further training of teachers, the long-term support of schools and in the further training of university teachers, multipliers and adult educators.

Publications (selection)

Design learning environments successfully. Klinkhardt, Bad Heilbrunn 2013, ISBN 978-3781519077 .
Acting under pressure. Habilitation thesis. Deutscher Studien-Verlag, Weinheim 1991, ISBN 978-3892712497 .
With Wolfgang Mutzeck , Sigrid Eckert: How teachers and learners deal with each other: Problems of social interaction. German Institute for Distance Learning, Tübingen 1990.
With FE Weinert, GLHuber: Psychology for School Practice. Kösel, Munich 1984 and 2006, ISBN 978-3935431088 .
With PF Schlottke: Stress and relaxation in class: training aids for teachers with audio cassette. Hueber, Munich 1983, ISBN 978-3-19-006939-2 .

Web links

Literature by and about Diethelm Wahl in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ Groeben, Norbert: The research program Subjective Theories: an introduction to the psychology of the reflexive subject . A. Francke Verlag , Tübingen 1988, ISBN 3-7720-1821-1 .

personal data
SURNAME	Wahl, Diethelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German psychologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	January 31, 1945

[1] Groeben, Norbert: The research program Subjective Theories: an introduction to the psychology of the reflexive subject . A. Francke Verlag , Tübingen 1988, ISBN 3-7720-1821-1 .