Dr Ben Bachmair Was Until His Recently Professor of Pedagogy, Media

Prof. Dr. Ben Bachmair Alpenstr. 47 D-86159 Augsburg Tel: 0049 821 58 64 52 Fax: 0049 821 58 91 663 Email: [email protected] [email protected]

Dr Ben Bachmair was until his retirement in 2008 Professor of pedagogy, media education and instructional technology at the University of Kassel, Germany. He is a member of the London Mobile Learning Group and an Associate of the WLE Centre for Excellence at the Institute of Education, London. Her teaches as visiting professor at the State University of St. Petersburg, Russia and is member of the German public regulation board for television and the internet. His specialisms include: mass communication and education, media and learning, media socialization and media reception, media within the cultural development. He led the German association of media education for some years and has published widely. He is currently scientific adviser of the MyMobile project (medien+bildung, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany).

Curriculum Vitae Born in 1943

1963 to 1969: Studies in Teaching at University of München, Studies in Pedagogy, Psychology and Physiology at University of Erlangen. Doctorate 1969 from the University of Erlangen. 1969 to 1978: Planning and research for the production of educational films at the Institut für Film und Bild (München); Curriculum development for preschool education at the Deutsches Jugendinstitut (München); Scholarship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft; Teaching and research at the universities of Erlangen, Kiel and Siegen. Since 1978 until 2008 Professor of Pedagogy, Media Education and Instructional Technology at the University Kassel.

Academic Activities at times Dean of the Faculty of Erziehungswissenschaft/ Humanwissenschaften (Humanities) at the University of Kassel, Visiting Professor at the Universities of Klagenfurt, Florence and St.Petersburg State University; Research Fellow at the Institute of Education, University of London, Head of media research department of Deutsches Jugendinstitut, Munich.

Selected List of Membership to Academic Committees, Counseling and European Research Chair of the Kommission Medienpädagogik der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Erziehungswissenschaft, Member of the Executive Board of Gesellschaft für Medienpädagogik und Kommunikationskultur, Member of the German Erziehungswissenschaftlicher Fakultätentag, Board Member of Consulting Board for programme and protection of minors (Programm- und Jugendschutzausschusses) of the TV channel RTL2 Board Member of the media education training campaign Medienerziehung im Kindergarten, Nordrhein Westfalen Member of the Advisory Board for the Internet platform Kidstation, Bochum Member of the Research Project for the European Science Foundation: Changing Media, Changing Europe. Member of the Federal Commission for the Protection of Minors in the Media (Kommission Jugendmedienschutz) Founding Chair of the Erasmus university consortium International Programme in Media, Communication and Cultural Studies and the CoMundus European Master of Arts in Media, Communication and Cultural Studies. Evaluation of mobile learning in regular schools, project of medien+bildung, Rhineland- Palatinate

Areas of Concentration - Theory of education and mass communication, - Media in everyday life of families, children and teenager, - Media, life styles, everyday life aesthetics and the formation of social groups, - Cultural history, formation of subjectivity and mass communication, media socialization - Methods for practical media education with special reference to the processing of media experiences - Teacher training with special emphasis on media education and media didactics - Children's TV in transition and empirical TV programme analysis, - Mobility and media, cultural historical sources and the development of mobile communication, mobile learning - Protection of minors from harmful media content. - At-risk learners / NEETs and their learning options, context aware learning, informal learning