2013

Academic appointment as W3 professor at the University of Oldenburg, Department of Technology and Technology Didactics

2005

Academic appointment as W3 professor at the Heidelberg University of Applied Sciences, Department of Technology Didactics and Didactics of Electrical Engineering/Information Technology

2005

Habilitation at the Technical University of Dresden (Dr. phil.habil.). Venia Legendi: "Didactics of industrial-technical specialisations"

2002 - 2004

Deputy Professor of Technology Didactics and Vocational Education at the University of Karlsruhe (TH)

1995

Research associate and research assistant at the Institute of Technology and Education (Prof. Rauner)

1994

Doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.) at the University of Bremen in the field of physical chemistry

1987

Graduated in physics, biology and philosophy from the University of Oldenburg with a degree in physics

Empirical teaching-learning research and teacher education research:

• Research network "Schülerlabor als Lehr-Lern-Labore" with the universities FU and HU Berlin, IPN at the University of Kiel, University of Münster, University of Koblenz-Landau
• Co-operation with the University of Kagoshima, Japan, on the topic of learning in student laboratories
• Work and education research network of the universities in Karlsruhe, Bremen and Oldenburg, together with the PH Weingarten: A+B research reports (online)

Professional societies:

• Society for Labour Sciences, Working Group for Industrial-Technical Sciences and their Didactics
• Association of German Engineers (VDI)
• Lernort Labor e.V.
• German Society for Educational Sciences (DGfE)

• Student labs as teaching-learning labs (Telekom Foundation 04.2014-03.2017).
• Doctoral programme LÜP - Learning processes in the transitional space of practical phases (State of Lower Saxony; 4.2013-3.2017)
• Development of new pedagogical concepts for the integration of sustainability aspects into technical environmental education programmes for use in technology lessons in schools and at extracurricular learning locations funded by the DBU (2011-2014)
• Cooperation between schools and the TECHNOSEUM - Learning from the history of technology for the energy technology of the future. Co-operation project between the Heidelberg University of Applied Sciences and the TECHNOSEUM 2010 - 2014, State Museum of Labour and Technology, Mannheim, funded by the DBU
• Recognition of informally acquired skills in the metal and electrical industry in Baden-Württemberg (2012-2015) funded by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Economic Affairs

Saathoff, Menke/Röben, Peter (2020): The influence of the practical phase in a technical teaching-learning laboratory on the subjective theories of student teachers. Development and testing of a reflection-promoting setting using the repertory grid method. In: Journal of Technical Education 8 (1), pp. 99-126. Available online at www.journal-of-technical-education.de/index.php/joted/article/view/192/176, last checked on 14.04.2020.

Saathoff, Menke/Röben, Peter (2020): Promoting processes of self-reflection in student teachers of the subject of technology. Repertory grid interviews as a reflection tool in the context of the teaching-learning lab. In: Burkhard Priemer and Jürgen Roth (eds.): Lehr-Lern-Labore. Concepts and their effectiveness in STEM teacher education. 1st edition 2020. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 209-222. Available online at link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-662-58913-7, last checked on 26.08.2019.

Röben, Peter (2019): The history of the electric motor from a didactic perspective. In: tu - Zeitschrift für Technik im Unterricht (172), pp. 5-15.

Röben, Peter (2019): Repair in technology and teaching. In: Röben, Peter/Dutz, Katharina/Wegner, Helmer (eds.): Repair in education for sustainable development. Proceedings of the RETIBNE final conference. Technical Education Working Group, University of Oldenburg. Oldenburg, pp. 44-63.

Röben, Peter (2019): Industry 4.0: A revolution with an announcement. In: Spöttl, Georg/Windelband, Lars/Jenewein, Klaus/Friese, Marianne/Seeber, Susan (eds.): Industrie 4.0. Risiken und Chancen für die Berufsbildung 2nd revised edition. 2nd edition, expanded edition. Bielefeld: wbv Media (Vocational education, labour and innovation, 52), pp. 27-48.

Röben, Peter/Dutz, Katharina/Wegner, Helmer (eds.) (2019): Repair in education for sustainable development. Proceedings of the RETIBNE final conference. Technical Education Working Group, University of Oldenburg. Oldenburg.

Bünning, Frank/Haverkamp, Henrike/Lang, Martin/Pohl, Marion/Röben, Peter (2018): Student teachers with technology as a teaching subject. An analysis across training locations. In: Journal of Technical Education (6), pp. 53-66. Available online at www.journal-of-technical-education.de/index.php/joted/article/viewFile/153/162, last checked on 04.01.2019.

Dutz, Katharina/Röben, Peter/Wegner, Helmer (2018): Repair in technology lessons - the renaissance of a forgotten method. In: tu - Zeitschrift für Technik im Unterricht 43 (169), pp. 14-23.

Komorek, Michael/Röben, Peter (2018): The GINT doctoral programme. Researching processes at extracurricular learning centres. In: Gautschi, Peter/ Rempfler, Armin/Sommer Häller, Barbara/Wilhelm, Markus (eds.): Aneignungspraktiken an ausserschulischen Lernorten. Proceedings of the 5th conference Ausserschulische Lernorte of the PH Lucerne, 9 and 10 June 2017, Vienna, Zurich: Lit (Ausserschulische Lernorte - Beiträge zur Didaktik, Vol. 5), pp. 229-240.

Pohl, Marion/Fetz, Viola/Bünning, Frank/Röben, Peter (2018): Comparison of training locations: student teachers with technology as a teaching subject. An exemplary study of the cohorts of first-year students at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg and the University of Oldenburg. In: tu - Zeitschrift für Technik im Unterricht 43 (169), pp. 38-45.

Röben, Peter (2018): Vocational task analysis. In: Rauner, Felix/Grollmann, Philipp (ed.): Handbuch Berufsbildungsforschung. 3rd, updated and expanded edition. Bielefeld: wbv Media GmbH et Co KG (UTB, 5078), pp. 735-739.

Röben, Peter (2018): Informal learning at extracurricular learning centres for technology. In: Binder, Martin/Wiesmüller, Christian (eds.): Lernorte Technischer Bildung. 19th conference of the DGTB in Frankfurt 15.09. - 16.09.2017 and 5th Young Researchers' Forum 16.09.2017. 1st edition. [Karlsruhe], Offenbach am Main: German Society for Technical Education; BE.ER concept (... Conference of the DGTB, 19), pp. 55-75.

Röben, Peter (2018): Competence and expertise research. In: Rauner, Fellix/Grollmann, Philipp (ed.): Handbuch Berufsbildungsforschung. 3rd, updated and expanded edition. Bielefeld: wbv Media GmbH et Co KG (UTB, 5078), pp. 384-392.

Röben, Peter (2018): Technology didactics: opportunities and risks in a small subject with great potential. In: Geißel, Bernd/Gschwendtner, Tobias (Eds.): Effective technology teaching. 1st edition. Baltmannsweiler: Schneider Hohengehren (Teaching practice: Perspectives from experts, 10), pp. 96-108.

Röben, Peter (2018): Technical education at the extracurricular learning location DLR student laboratory. In: Gautschi, Peter/Rempfler, Armin/Sommer Häller, Barbara/Wilhelm, Markus (eds.): Aneignungspraktiken an ausserschulischen Lernorten. Proceedings of the 5th conference Ausserschulische Lernorte der PH Luzern, 9 and 10 June 2017, Vienna, Zurich: Lit (Ausserschulische Lernorte - Beiträge zur Didaktik, Vol. 5), pp. 241-248.

Fischer, Martin; Röben, Peter; Sandal, Cüneyt (2017): Recording informally acquired competences and further training planning for low-skilled workers on the basis of AiKomPass. In: Britta Matthes and Eckart Severing (eds.): Vocational education and training for the low-skilled: Barriers and returns. Bielefeld: W. Bertelsmann, pp. 111-130.

Komorek, Michael; Röben, Peter (2017): The doctoral programme GINT - Learning in informal spaces. In: Christian Maurer (ed.): Quality chemistry and physics teaching - normative and empirical dimensions. Regensburg: GDCP, pp. 632-635. Available online at www.gdcp.de/images/tagungsbaende/GDCP_Band38.pdf, last checked on 29 November 2018.

Röben, Peter (2017): Industry 4.0 and VET 4.0: Two projects, one number? In: Matthias Becker, Christian Dittmann, Julia Gillen, Stefanie Hiestand and Rita Meyer (eds.): Einheit und Differenz in den gewerblich-technischen Wissenschaften. Vocational education, subject didactics and specialised sciences. Berlin, Münster: LIT Verlag (Bildung und Arbeitswelt, Band/Volume 33), pp. 246-267.

Röben, Peter (2017): Industry 4.0: A revolution with an announcement. In: Georg Spöttl and Lars Windelband (eds.): Industry 4.0. Risks and opportunities for vocational education and training. Bielefeld: wbv (Vocational education, labour and innovation, 44), pp. 23-47.

Röben, Peter; Haverkamp, Henrike; Stiefs, Dirk (2017): Teaching technical knowledge in the school laboratory - technical education at the extracurricular learning location DLR school laboratory. In: Christian Maurer (ed.): Quality chemistry and physics teaching - normative and empirical dimensions. Regensburg: GDCP, pp. 659-662.

Fischer, Martin; Huber, Kerstin; Sandal, Cüneyt; Schreiber, Anne; Röben, Peter (2016): AiKomPass - An instrument for visualising and documenting informal competences. In: Stefan F. Dietl, Hermann Schmidt, Reinhold Weiß and Wolfgang Wittwer (eds.): Ausbilder-Handbuch. Update delivery 183. Cologne: Wolters Kluwer (183).

Fischer, M.; Huber, K.; Röben, Peter; Sandal, C.; Stöwe, K. (2015): Development of a task inventory for the recognition of informally acquired competences in the metal and electrical industry. In: Responsibility for the work of the future: 61st GfA Spring Congress, 25 - 27 February 2015, Karlsruhe. Dortmund: GfA-Press.

Fischer, M.; Huber, K.; Sandal, C.; Schreiber, Anne Vanessa; Röben, Peter (2015): AiKomPass - an instrument for visualising and documenting informal competences. In: Trainer handbook: tasks, concepts, practical examples. Cologne: German Economic Service.

Fischer, Martin; Huber, Kerstin; Mann, Eva; Röben, Peter (2015): Recognition of informally acquired competences in the metal and electrical industry in Baden-Württemberg. In: Securing the potential of skilled labour through post-qualification: findings - concepts - research needs. Bielefeld: W. Bertelsmann Verlag GmbH & Co KG, pp. 93-116.

Röben, Peter (2015): The relationship between technology and physics using the example of the development of solar and wind energy technology. In: Wolf Bienhaus and Christian Wiesmüller (eds.): Technische Bildung und MINT: Chance oder Risiko. Karlsruhe, pp. 55-72.

Röben, Peter (2015): The relationship between technology and physics using the example of renewable energy from the perspective of didactics. In: Technical education and MINT: Opportunity or risk? : 16th conference of the DGTB in Oldenburg from 26-27 September 2014 [Germany]: German Society for Technical Education e.V., pp. 55-72.

Röben, Peter (2015): Didactic simplification. In: Lexikon Berufsbildung : ein Nachschlagewerk für die nicht-akademischen und akademischen Bereiche. Bielefeld: Bertelsmann, pp. 319-321.

Röben, Peter (2015): Development and testing of new concepts for the integration of sustainability aspects in technical environmental education programmes of selected extracurricular environmental education institutions and in technology lessons in general education schools, AZ 30100. In collaboration with Katharina Dutz, Jan Landherr, Reinhard Meiners, Herena Torio, Helmer Wegner. Osnabrück: German Federal Environmental Foundation.

Röben, Peter (2015): Oldenburg on the Net - the Net in Oldenburg. In: Ein Leben in Netzen : warum wir ohne wir nicht sein können ; catalogue of the special exhibition of the same name at the Landesmuseum Natur und Mensch Oldenburg from 9 May to 25 October 2015. Oldenburg: Isensee, pp. 71-85(PDF).

Röben, Peter (2015): What we can learn from the history of semiconductor and wind power technology about the relationship between technology and physics. In: Zeitschrift für Technik im Unterricht : TU ; Primärstufe, Sekundarstufe 1 156 (2015), pp. 30-41. Available online at uol.de/fileadmin/physik/ag/tebi/aus_tu156.pdf.

Wiemer, Tobias; Röben, Peter (2015): Technical knowledge. Definition and its limits. In: Zeitschrift für Technik im Unterricht : TU ; primary level, secondary level 1 157 (3), pp. 5-11.

Fischer, Martin; Huber, Kerstin; Mann, Eva; Röben, Peter (2014): Informal learning and its recognition from the learner perspective. Results of a project on the recognition of informally acquired competences in Baden-Württemberg. In: Berufs- und Business Education Online : bwp_372 26 (2014), pp. 1-21. Available online at www.bwpat.de/ausgabe26/fischer_etal_bwpat26.pdf.

Röben, Peter (2014): History of solar energy utilisation - from Mouchot to Quarzazate. In: tu - Zeitschrift für Technik im Unterricht 39 (152), pp. 11-19.

Röben, Peter (ed.) (2014): History of solar energy utilisation from Mouchot to Quarzazate.

Röben, Peter (2014): Cooperation between schools and the TECHNOSEUM. Osnabrück: German Federal Environmental Foundation.

Röben, Peter (2014): Solar thermal power plants. In: Lernortkooperation Schule-TECHNOSEUM : aus der Technikgeschichte für die Energietechnik der Zukunft lernen ; Unterrichtsmaterialien für weiterführende Schulen zur Sonnenenergie ; [funded by the German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU)], pp. 19-22.

Röben, Peter (2013): Technical competence and technical education. In: Zeitschrift für Technik im Unterricht : TU ; primary level, secondary level 1 39 (149), pp. 5-11.

Röben, Peter (2013): On the pitfalls of didactic reduction and the necessity of differentiating technical knowledge. In: Zeitschrift für Technik im Unterricht : TU ; primary level, secondary level 1 39 (150), pp. 38-43.

Röben, Peter; Biena, D.; Lepold, F. (2013): Exploring the energy technology of the future with the history of technology. In: Technical education in relation to science education : 13th conference of the DGTB in Basel from 16 - 17 September 2011 ; [international conference]. Offenbach am Main: BE.ER concept (production).

Röben, Peter (2012): Technical environmental education and the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. In: Wolf Bienhaus (ed.): Inhalte zeitgemäßen Technikunterrichts. Strukturierung und Präzisierung ; in Potsdam from 23 - 24 September 2010. 1st ed. Freiburg, Br: DGTB (Conference of the DGTB, 12. 2010). Available online at www.phhd-forschung.de/upload/dateien/299_139.pdf, last checked on 22 November 2019.

Röben, Peter (2011): On the connection between work process knowledge and specialised knowledge. Munich: GRIN Verlag.

Bauer, Waldemar; Koring, Claudia; Röben, Peter; Schnitger, Meike (2007): Further training needs analyses. Results from the project "Further education in the process of work" (WAP). Bremen: Univ. Inst. Technik und Bildung (ITB) (ITB research reports, 27). Available online at www.itb.uni-bremen.de/fileadmin/Download/publikationen/forschungsberichte/fb_27_07.pdf.

Röben, Peter (2006): Trainers in the learning company - results from an international research project. In: bwp@ (9). Available online at www.bwpat.de/ausgabe9/roeben_bwpat9.pdf, last checked on 14.12.2017.

Röben, Peter (2006): Vocational task analysis. In: Handbook of vocational training research. Bielefeld: Bertelsmann, pp. 606-611.

Röben, Peter (2006): In-company further education and simple work. In: Production systems and skills acquisition: on the changes in modern work organisation and their effects on academic appointments. Stuttgart: Steiner, pp. 157-180.

Röben, Peter (2006): Competence and expertise research. In: Handbook of vocational training research. Bielefeld: Bertelsmann, pp. 247-255.

Röben, Peter; Adolph, Gottfried (eds.) (2005): Focus topic. Business Process Orientation. Wolfenbüttel: Heckner (Lernen & lehren, 20.2005,80).

Fischer, Martin; Boreham, Nicholas; Röben, Peter (2004): Organisational learning in the European chemical industry: concept and cases. In: Martin Fischer, Nicholas Boreham and Barry Nyhan (eds.): European perspectives on learning at work. The acquisition of work process knowledge. Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities (Cedefop reference series, 56), pp. 115-129.

Fischer, Martin; Röben, Peter (2004): Work process knowledge in the focus of individual and organisational learning. Results from large companies in four European countries. In: Zeitschrift für Pädagogik 50 (2), pp. 182-201. Available online at www.pedocs.de/volltexte/2011/4806; nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0111-opus-48066.

Jenewein, Klaus; Knauth, Peter; Röben, Peter; Zülch, Gert (eds.) (2004): Competence development in work processes. Contributions to the conference of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft gewerblich-technische Wissenschaften und ihre Didaktiken in der Gesellschaft für Arbeitswissenschaft on 23/24 September 2002 in Karlsruhe. Gesellschaft für Arbeitswissenschaft; Conference of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Gewerblich-Technische Wissenschaften und ihre Didaktiken in der Gesellschaft für Arbeitswissenschaft. 1st ed. Baden-Baden: Nomos-Verl.-Ges (Bildung und Arbeitswelt, 9).

Röben, Peter (ed.) (2004): Domain-specific competence development for mastering and designing computerised work systems. Bielefeld: Bertelsmann (Vocational training in the global network society, vol. 15).

Röben, Peter; Rauner, Felix (eds.) (2004): Domain-specific competence development for mastering and designing computerised work systems. University Days on Vocational Education and Training. Bielefeld: Bertelsmann (Vocational education and training in the global network society, quantity - quality - responsibility; 13th University Conference on Vocational Education and Training 2004 ; 15).

Röben, Peter (2003): Die Integration von Arbeitsprozesswissen in das Curriculum eines betrieblichen Qualifizierungssystems. Bremen: Institute Technik und Bildung.

Röben, Peter (2003): The integration of work process knowledge into the curriculum of a company qualification system. Bremen: Univ (ITB research reports, 8). Available online at www.itb.uni-bremen.de/fileadmin/Download/publikationen/forschungsberichte/fb_08_03.pdf.

Kleiner, Michael; Rauner, Felix; Reinhold, Michael; Röben, Peter (2002): Work tasks for a modern academic appointment. Identifying and describing academic appointments. 1st ed. Constance: Christiani (Vocational training and innovation, ; 1).

Röben, Peter (2002): Work process knowledge and characteristic academic appointments. Participative work analysis through expert skilled worker workshops (EFWs). In: Lernfeld: Arbeitsprozess : ein Studienbuch zur Kompetenzentwicklung von Fachkräften in gewerblich-technischen Aufgabenbereichen. Baden-Baden: Nomos-Verl.-Ges, pp. 477-497.

Röben, Peter; Siebeck, Frank (2002): Technology, organisation and work in the chemical laboratory. The work process knowledge of chemical laboratory technicians. In: Lernfeld: Arbeitsprozess : ein Studienbuch zur Kompetenzentwicklung von Fachkräften in gewerblich-technischen Aufgabenbereichen. Baden-Baden: Nomos-Verl.-Ges, pp. 147-174.

Fischer, Martin; Boreham, Nicholas; Röben, Peter: Organisational learning in the European chemical industry. Concepts and cases. In: European perspectives on learning at work : the acquisition of work process knowledge. Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities.

Röben, Peter: Identifying work process knowledge in accordance with characteristic occupational tasks. In: European perspectives on learning at work : the acquisition of work process knowledge. Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities.

Röben, Peter: Testing the universality hypothesis at the liquid-liquid phase transition in the nitroethane-isooctane system using light scattering spectroscopy. Bremen, Univ., Diss., 1994.