Prof. Dr. Alexander Wettstein
Leiter Schwerpunktprogramm Soziale Interaktion in pädagogischen Settings
Schwerpunktprogramm Soziale Interaktion in pädagogischen SettingsInstitut für Forschung, Entwicklung und Evaluation
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Telefon
+41 31 309 22 72
Focus of work
Head of the Research Programme "Social Interaction in Educational Settings"
Professional interests
- Social interaction in upbringing and teaching
- Classroom disruptions
- Aggression
- Bullying
- The health of teachers
- Stress among teachers
- Teacher/student relations
- Peer relations
Education
Education
- 2011 Habilitation at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Bern. Aggressive behaviour of students in institutional contexts. Venia docendi for educational science.
- 2006 Doctorate in Psychology at the Faculty of Human Sciences, University of Bern, Dissertation supervised by Prof. Dr G. Fassnacht and Prof. Dr F. Petermann
- 2004 Diploma in School of Special Education in the Canton of Bern
- 2002 Licentiate of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Bern. Major: Personality Psychology, Differential Psychology and Diagnostics. Minors: General Psychology and General Linguistics
- 1992 Teaching Diploma for Bern Primary Schools Seminar Marzili Bern
Further Education
- 2011 Visiting Researcher Group de recherche sur l'inadaptation psychosociale chez l'enfant GRIP, Université de Montréal bei Prof. Ph.D. F. Vitaro und Prof. Dr M. Brendgen (Sep.- Oct. 2011)
- 2010 Research residence at the Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology, University of Magdeburg, with Prof. Dr U. Fuhrer (June 2010)
- 2007 Research residence at Leibniz Institute for the Education of Natural Sciences at Kiel University, Department of Education (Aug. 2007)
- 2007 Research residence at the Department of Education and Psychology, Free University of Berlin, PD Dr W. Vogd (Sept. 2007)
- 2006 Research residence at the Department of Psychology, Clark University, Worcester, MA with Prof. J. Valsiner (Sept.- Oct. 2006)
Professional experience
- 2016–present Head of the Research Programme "Social Interaction in Educational Settings" at the Institute for Research, Development and Evaluation, Bern University of Teacher Education Link
- 2004–present Head of research projects at Bern University of Teacher Education
- 2011–2016 Private Lecturer at the Institute of Education, University of Bern
- 2006–2010 Lectureships at the University of Bern and the University of Freiburg in the Departments of Psychology and Educational Psychology
- 1992–2004 Teaching at regular and special schools
Commissions, mandates and memberships
- Reviewer for various peer-reviewed journals (Educational Research and Reviews, Psychology in Education and Teaching, Practice of Child Psychology and Child Psychiatry, Psicogente)
- Reviewer for the Diagnostics and Test Board (DTK) of the Federation of German Psychologists Associations
- Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (DGPs)
- European Association Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI)
- The Swiss Society for Research in Education (SGBF)
Research projects outside of Bern University of Teacher Education
- 2011 Visiting Researcher with Frank Vitaro and Mara Brendgen at the Research Unit on Children's Psychosocial Maladjustment GRIP Montreal. Exploring aggressive and prosocial resource control strategies in the Movie Viewer Task using Quebec Study of Newborn Twins data (QSNT)
- 2006–2007 Collaboration in the submission of Staub, F. (2007). Subject-Specific Coaching in Teaching Practices – Project No. 100014-117891 "Subject-Specific Coaching in Teaching Practices: Effects on Student Learning, Teaching Quality and Student Performance", SNSF
Publications