Since the 2022/23 winter semester, Alban Peters has been teaching as part of his role as a research assistant at the University of Oldenburg. A particular focus of his university teaching is the deliberate interweaving of music education research and teaching practice, whether based on musical concepts (such as ‘programme music’), research discourses (such as the concept of ‘action’) or specific teaching situations (e.g. ‘composing with pupils’). Accordingly, his courses focus equally on both contemporary and historical concepts and theories, as well as their practical application.

In his doctoral project, Alban Peters investigates and develops interactions between music and philosophy in music education research and in music lessons. Although philosophy has long been anchored in the discourse as a related science of music education, it is still very little systematised with regard to the content and methods of a possible 'philosophy of music education', even if the North American tradition of the 'Philosophy of Music Education' seems to suggest it. Practical points of contact between music and philosophy in the classroom are also repeatedly suggested from a music and philosophy didactic perspective, but only rarely as equal encounters in which one discipline does not become the "auxiliary science" of the other. The various references to Hannah Arendt in the research literature on music education and music didactics are the occasion to make her often interdisciplinary thinking as well as her differentiated (and sometimes idiosyncratic) illumination of the central concepts of her own thinking the starting point of a music education-philosophical reflection.

Current PhD topic: Music for reflection: thinking, acting, speaking - music pedagogical-philosophical interactions

Alban Peters studied music and philosophy in Cologne as part of a teaching degree programme and completed his artistic training and concert exam in the main subject of oboe. His academic appointments include working as an oboist in orchestras and various chamber music ensembles as well as a concert pedagogue, and he has been teaching music and philosophy at a grammar school near Hanover since 2010. He has been a research assistant at the Institute of Music at the University of Oldenburg since 2022 and is doing his doctorate on musical-philosophical interactions in teaching and pedagogical research.