Steffen-Peter Ballstaedt

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Steffen-Peter Ballstaedt (born September 11, 1946 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German psychologist and communication scientist . His main concern is the implementation of cognitive psychological findings in the practice of communication and teaching and learning (didactics). One focus is technical communication.

Life

Ballstaedt studied psychology and philosophy at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and at the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen . He received his diploma in psychology in 1974. He then worked as a research assistant at the German seminar at the University of Tübingen and from 1975 to 1977 he participated in the project "Communication language and the relationship between text and image" (headed by Erich Straßner ). From 1978 to 1987 Ballstaedt was a research assistant in the main research department at the German Institute for Distance Learning at the University of Tübingen and worked on the “Learning with Texts” project (headed by Heinz Mandl ). From 1987 to 1994 he worked as a research assistant in the learning research department at the German Institute for Distance Learning for the project “Knowledge acquisition with text and images” (headed by Heinz Mandl). From 1994 to 2000 Ballstaedt was a research assistant in the Applied Cognitive Science department at the German Institute for Distance Learning Research and worked on the project "Visualizations in multimedia learning environments" (headed by Friedrich Wilhelm Hesse ).

On September 1, 2000, he became professor for technical documentation in the journalism & technical communication course at the Gelsenkirchen University of Applied Sciences (now the Westfälische Hochschule Gelsenkirchen Bocholt Recklinghausen ). In the winter semester 2005/2006 he became professor for applied communication science in the journalism and public relations course at the Gelsenkirchen University of Applied Sciences, where he worked until August 2012.

He has been a freelance lecturer since September 1, 2012.

More functions

Since 1990 Ballstaedt has been an industrial lecturer for topics such as understandable writing, impressive visualization, multimedia design and individual knowledge management at numerous institutions of further education.

Memberships

  • Gesellschaft für Technische Kommunikation eV (tekom) (member of the conference advisory board; qualification advisor of tekom in the training program for technical editors, member of the advisory board of the specialist journal for technical documentation and information management)
  • Society for Applied Linguistics eV (GAL)
  • Virtual Institute for Image Science (VIB)

Research priorities

Publications (selection)

  • Together with Heinz Mandl, Wolfgang Schnotz and Sigmar-Olaf Tergan: Understand texts, create texts. Munich, Urban and Schwarzenberg 1981, ISBN 978-3621099011
  • Together with Heinz Mandl: "The assessment of comprehensibility." In: U. Ammon, N. Dittmar & KJ Mattheier (Eds.): Sociolinguistics. An international handbook of the science of language and society. Berlin / New York, Walter de Gruyter 1988, ISBN 978-3110116458
  • Learning texts and participant documents. Weinheim, Beltz 1991, ISBN 978-3407360021
  • Knowledge transfer: the design of learning material. Weinheim, Beltz Psychologie-Verlags-Union 1997, ISBN 978-3621273817
  • "Cognition and perception in the information and knowledge society. Consequences of social changes for the psyche." In: Hans-Dieter Kübler & Elmar Elling (eds.): Knowledge society. New media and their consequences. Bonn, Federal Agency for Civic Education 2004, ISBN 978-3893315529
  • "Text and image: a didactic dream couple." In: Karsten Heck (ed.): Image worlds of knowledge. Art history yearbook for visual criticism. Volume 7.1 Visual vision. Berlin, Akademie Verlag 2009, ISSN  1611-2512
  • Visualize: Images in scientific texts. Stuttgart, UTB Verlag 2012, ISBN 978-3825235086
  • Linguistic communication: Understanding and comprehensibility.UTB Verlag 2019 ISBN 978-3-8252-5115-4

Web links

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Ballstaedt, Steffen-Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German communication scientist
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau