Thomas Bals

Thomas Bals (born April 10, 1957 in Recklinghausen ) is a German professional and business educator and graduate psychologist.

biography

After completing the general university entrance qualification at the Freiherr-vom-Stein-Gymnasium Hamm in 1975, Bals first completed an apprenticeship as a financial candidate at the tax office in Hamm. He then completed a degree in teaching for the upper secondary level / vocational specialization in economics and special education and rehabilitation for the learning disabled as well as a degree in psychology at the University of Cologne . After passing the first state examination, he was initially a research assistant at the local institute for vocational, economic and social education and a part-time teacher at a technical school.

From 1985 to 1989 Bals worked as a research assistant in the field of vocational and business education at the University of Osnabrück . In 1989 he received his doctorate in the field of education and cultural studies at the University of Osnabrück on the subject of "Professionalization of teaching in the occupational field of health". Until his habilitation in 1995 for the subject of vocational and business education with the title "Vocational training for health professions: Classification - structural change - reform approaches", he worked as an academic councilor and senior academic councilor at the University of Osnabrück. In 1998, Bals was awarded the title of "Extraordinary Professor" by the President of the University of Osnabrück.

In 2002, Bals received a call to the C2 university professorship "Medical and Nursing Education / Vocational Didactics" in the Faculty of Education at the Technical University of Dresden . Since 2009 he has held the W3 professorship in “ Vocational Education ” in the Faculty of Culture and Education at the University of Osnabrück. From 2011 to 2015 he headed the Institute for Educational Science here. Since April 2015 Bals has been dean of the Faculty of Education and Cultural Studies at the University of Osnabrück.

From April to September 2012 Bals was a visiting scholar at the Blinken European Institute at Columbia University in New York.

Main focus of work and research

Thomas Bals is concerned with the further development of vocational training as part of the education and employment system. Of particular research interest are questions of educational professionalism and professionalization in various institutional contexts as well as the promotion of permeability between academic and vocational education.

His research focus is design and development oriented u. a. including systematic, quality-assuring and (international) comparative procedures.

Fonts (selection)

• Using study paths and formats for a master's degree in teaching - a comment on Lipsmeier's “Bachelor teacher” concept. In: DbSch 7/8 2014, pp. 259–262
• On the complexity and empiricism of the transition system. Paderborn 2012 (with M. Koch)
• Making transitions in vocational training sustainable: recognizing potential - seizing opportunities. Paderborn 2011 (Ed. With H. Hinrichs, M. Ebbinghaus, R. Tenberg)
• Quality development in health care schools. A theoretical and practical guide. Paderborn 2011 (Ed. With J. Grunau, A. Unger)
• Paths to the quality of training - status and prospects in the health professions. Paderborn 2009 (Ed.)
• Feasibility Study VET-LSA. A comparative analysis of occupational profiles and VET programs in 8 European countries. International report. Göttingen 2009 (M. Baethge, L. Arends in cooperation with A. Schelten, M. Müller, R. Nickolaus, B. Geißel, K. Breuer, S. Hillen, E. Winther, T. Bals, E. Wittmann, A . Bark)
• Quality in schools and companies. Research results and good practice. Aachen 2009 (Ed. With K. Hegmann, K. Wilbers)
• Health promotion in educational settings. Weinheim and Munich 2008 (Ed. With A. Hanses, W. Melzer)
• Professionalization of teaching in the occupational field of health. Economic, vocational and socio-educational texts, ed. by M. Twardy, Vol. 16. 3., unchanged edition, Cologne 1995
• Vocational training for health professions. Classification - structural change - reform approaches. University and Vocational Education, ed. by H. Biermann, W.-D. Greinert, M. Kipp, H. Linke, G. Wiemann. Alsbach / Bergstr. 1993

literature

• Dorit Petschel : 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 3: The professors of the TU Dresden 1828–2003. Edited on behalf of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the TU Dresden e. V. von Reiner Pommerin , Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-412-02503-8 , pp. 56f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Thomas Bals in the catalog of the German National Library
• Personal homepage at the University of Osnabrück