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 and learning laboratory on teacher training students’ subjective theories. Development and testing of a setting designed to promote reflection 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 accessed on 14 April 2020.

Saathoff, Menke and Röben, Peter (2020): Promoting processes of self-reflection among student teachers of the technology subject. Repertory Grid interviews as a reflection tool in the context of the teaching and learning laboratory. In: Burkhard Priemer and Jürgen Roth (eds.): Teaching and Learning Laboratories. Concepts and their effectiveness in STEM teacher training. 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 accessed on 26 August 2019.

Röben, Peter (2019): The history of the electric motor from a didactic perspective. In: tu – Journal for Technology in Education ( 172), pp. 5–15.

Röben, Peter (2019): Repair in Technology and the Classroom. In: Röben, Peter/Dutz, Katharina/Wegner, Helmer (eds.): Repair in Education for Sustainable Development. Proceedings of the RETIBNE Closing Conference. Technical Education Working Group, University of Oldenburg. Oldenburg, pp. 44–63.

Röben, Peter (2019): Industry 4.0: A Revolution That Was Long in the Making. In: Spöttl, Georg/Windelband, Lars/Jenewein, Klaus/Friese, Marianne/Seeber, Susan (eds.): Industry 4.0. Risks and Opportunities for Vocational Education and Training. 2nd revised edition. 2nd edition, expanded edition. Bielefeld: wbv Media (Vocational Education and Training, Work and Innovation, 52), pp. 27–48.

Röben, Peter/Dutz, Katharina/Wegner, Helmer (eds.) (2019): Repair in Education for Sustainable Development. Proceedings of the RETIBNE Closing Conference. Technical Education Working Group, University of Oldenburg. Oldenburg.

Bünning, Frank/Haverkamp, Henrike/Lang, Martin/Pohl, Marion/Röben, Peter (2018): Teacher training students specialising in technology. A cross-institution analysis. 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 accessed on 4 January 2019.

Dutz, Katharina/Röben, Peter/Wegner, Helmer (2018): Repair in technology lessons – the revival of a forgotten method. In: tu – Journal of Technology in Education 43 (169), pp. 14–23.

Komorek, Michael/Röben, Peter (2018): The GINT doctoral programme. Research into processes at out-of-school learning venues. In: Gautschi, Peter/Rempfler, Armin/Sommer Häller, Barbara/Wilhelm, Markus (eds.): Practices of Learning in Non-School Learning Environments. Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Out-of-School Learning Environments organised by the Lucerne University of Teacher Education on 9 and 10 June 2017. Vienna, Zurich: Lit (Out-of-School Learning Environments – Contributions to Didactics, Vol. 5), pp. 229–240.

Pohl, Marion/Fetz, Viola/Bünning, Frank/Röben, Peter (2018): Comparison of training institutions: Teacher training students specialising in technology. An exemplary study of first-year student cohorts at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg and the University of Oldenburg. In: tu – Journal for Technology in Education 43 (169), pp. 38–45.

Röben, Peter (2018): Analysis of vocational tasks. In: Rauner, Felix/Grollmann, Philipp (eds.): Handbook of Vocational Education Research. 3rd, updated and expanded edition. Bielefeld: wbv Media GmbH et Co. KG (UTB, 5078), pp. 735–739.

Röben, Peter (2018): Informal learning in non-school-based technical learning environments. In: Binder, Martin/Wiesmüller, Christian (eds.): Learning Environments in Technical Education. 19th DGTB Conference in Frankfurt, 15–16 September 2017, and 5th Young Researchers’ Forum, 16 September 2017. 1st edition. [Karlsruhe], Offenbach am Main: German Society for Technical Education e.V.; BE.ER Concept (… DGTB conference, 19), pp. 55–75.

Röben, Peter (2018): Competence and Expertise Research. In: Rauner, Felix/Grollmann, Philipp (eds.): Handbook of Vocational Education and Training Research. 3rd, updated and expanded edition. Bielefeld: wbv Media GmbH et Co. KG (UTB, 5078), pp. 384–392.

Röben, Peter (2018): Technology Education: 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 DLR Pupils’ Laboratory, an Extracurricular Learning Venue. In: Gautschi, Peter/Rempfler, Armin/Sommer Häller, Barbara/Wilhelm, Markus (eds.): Learning Practices at Extracurricular Learning Venues. Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Extracurricular Learning Environments organised by the Lucerne University of Teacher Education on 9 and 10 June 2017. Vienna, Zurich: Lit (Extracurricular Learning Environments – Contributions to Didactics, Vol. 5), pp. 241–248.

Fischer, Martin; Röben, Peter; Sandal, Cüneyt (2017): Assessment of informally acquired skills and continuing education planning for the low-skilled based on AiKomPass. In: Britta Matthes and Eckart Severing (eds.): Vocational Training for the Low-Skilled: Barriers and Benefits. Bielefeld: W. Bertelsmann, pp. 111–130.

Komorek, Michael; Röben, Peter (2017): The GINT doctoral programme – learning in informal settings. In: Christian Maurer (ed.): High-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 accessed on 29 November 2018.

Röben, Peter (2017): Industry 4.0 and Vocational Education and Training 4.0: Two Projects, One Issue? In: Matthias Becker, Christian Dittmann, Julia Gillen, Stefanie Hiestand and Rita Meyer (eds.): Unity and Difference in the Industrial and Technical Sciences. Vocational Pedagogy, Subject Didactics and Specialised Subject Sciences. Berlin, Münster: LIT Verlag (Education and the World of Work, Volume 33), pp. 246–267.

Röben, Peter (2017): Industry 4.0: A Revolution That Was Foretold. In: Georg Spöttl and Lars Windelband (eds.): Industry 4.0. Risks and Opportunities for Vocational Education and Training. Bielefeld: wbv (Vocational Education and Training, Work and Innovation, 44), pp. 23–47.

Röben, Peter; Haverkamp, Henrike; Stiefs, Dirk (2017): Teaching technical knowledge in the school laboratory – Technical education at the DLR School Laboratory, an out-of-school learning venue. In: Christian Maurer (ed.): High-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 – A tool for identifying and documenting informal competences. In: Stefan F. Dietl, Hermann Schmidt, Reinhold Weiß and Wolfgang Wittwer (eds.): Trainer’s Handbook. Update No. 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 industries. 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 – a tool for identifying and documenting informally acquired competences. In: Trainer’s Handbook: Tasks, Concepts, Practical Examples. Cologne: Dt. Wirtschaftsdienst.

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 Skilled Labour Pool through Upskilling: 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 development of solar and wind energy technology as an example. In: Wolf Bienhaus and Christian Wiesmüller (eds.): Technical Education and STEM: Opportunity or Risk. Karlsruhe, pp. 55–72.

Röben, Peter (2015): The Relationship between Technology and Physics: The Case of Renewable Energy from a Didactic Perspective. In: Technical Education and STEM: Opportunity or Risk? : 16th Conference of the DGTB in Oldenburg, 26–27 September 2014. [Germany]: German Society for Technical Education e.V., pp. 55–72.

Röben, Peter (2015): Didactic simplification. In: Encyclopaedia of Vocational Education and Training: A reference work for the non-academic and academic sectors. Bielefeld: Bertelsmann, pp. 319–321.

Röben, Peter (2015): Development and testing of new concepts for integrating sustainability aspects into technical environmental education programmes at selected out-of-school environmental education centres and in technology lessons at general secondary schools, AZ 30100. In collaboration with Katharina Dutz, Jan Landherr, Reinhard Meiners, Herena Torio and Helmer Wegner. Osnabrück: German Federal Environmental Foundation.

Röben, Peter (2015): Oldenburg on the Web – the Web in Oldenburg. In: A Life in Networks: Why We Cannot Do Without Them; catalogue accompanying 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 about the relationship between technology and physics from the history of semiconductor and wind power technology. In: Journal of Technology in Education: TU; Primary Level, Secondary Level 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: Journal of Technology in Education: TU; Primary Level, Lower 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’s perspective. Results of a project on the recognition of informally acquired competences in Baden-Württemberg. In: Vocational and 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 use – from Mouchot to Quarzazate. In: tu – Journal of Technology in Education 39 (152), pp. 11–19.

Röben, Peter (ed.) (2014): History of Solar Energy Use from Mouchot to Quarzazate.

Röben, Peter (2014): School–TECHNOSEUM Learning Partnership. Osnabrück: German Federal Environmental Foundation.

Röben, Peter (2014): Solar thermal power stations. In: School–TECHNOSEUM Learning Partnership: Learning from the history of technology for the energy technology of the future; Teaching materials on solar energy for secondary schools; [funded by the German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU)], pp. 19–22.

Röben, Peter (2013): Technical Competence and Technical Education. In: Journal of Technology in Education: TU; Primary Level, Secondary Level 1 39 (149), pp. 5–11.

Röben, Peter (2013): On the pitfalls of didactic simplification and the need to differentiate technical knowledge. In: Journal of Technology in Education: 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 through the history of technology. In: Technical Education in Relation to Science Education: 13th Conference of the DGTB in Basel, 16–17 September 2011; [international conference]. Offenbach am Main: BE.ER-Konzept (publisher).

Röben, Peter (2012): Technical environmental education and the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. In: Wolf Bienhaus (ed.): Content of contemporary technology education. Structuring and Clarification; held in Potsdam on 23–24 September 2010. 1st ed. Freiburg, Br: DGTB (DGTB conference, 12th 2010). Available online at www.phhd-research.de/upload/dateien/299_139.pdf, last accessed on 22 November 2019.

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

Bauer, Waldemar; Koring, Claudia; Röben, Peter; Schnitger, Meike (2007): Analyses of further education needs. Findings from the ‘Further Education in the Workplace’ (WAP) project. Bremen: University Institute for Technology and Education (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 organisation – findings from an international research project. In: bwp@ ( 9). Available online at www.bwpat.de/ausgabe9/roeben_bwpat9.pdf, last accessed on 14 December 2017.

Röben, Peter (2006): Occupational task analysis. In: Handbook of Vocational Education and Training Research. Bielefeld: Bertelsmann, pp. 606–611.

Röben, Peter (2006): In-company further education and unskilled work. In: Production Systems and Competence Acquisition: On the Changes in Modern Work Organisation and Their Impact on Vocational Education and Training. Stuttgart: Steiner, pp. 157–180.

Röben, Peter (2006): Competence and Expertise Research. In: Handbook of Vocational Education and Training Research. Bielefeld: Bertelsmann, pp. 247–255.

Röben, Peter; Adolph, Gottfried (eds.) (2005): Special Topic: Business Process Orientation. Wolfenbüttel: Heckner (Learning & Teaching, 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 at the heart of individual and organisational learning. Findings from large enterprises 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. Papers from the conference of the Working Group on Industrial and Technical Sciences and their Didactics within the Society for Ergonomics, held on 23–24 September 2002 in Karlsruhe. Society for Ergonomics; Conference of the Working Group on Industrial and Technical Sciences and their Didactics within the Society for Ergonomics. 1st ed. Baden-Baden: Nomos-Verl.-Ges (Education and the World of Work, 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 Shaping 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 Days on Vocational Education and Training 2004; 15).

Röben, Peter (2003): The integration of work process knowledge into the curriculum of a company-based qualification system. Bremen: Institute for Technology and Education.

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

Kleiner, Michael; Rauner, Felix; Reinhold, Michael; Röben, Peter (2002): Work tasks for a modern professional life. Identifying and describing professional work tasks. 1st ed. Konstanz: Christiani (Vocational Training and Innovation, ; 1).

Röben, Peter (2002): Knowledge of work processes and characteristic vocational work tasks. Participatory work analysis through expert-skilled worker workshops (EFWs). In: Learning Field: Work Process: A Study Book on Competence Development for Skilled Workers in Industrial and Technical Fields. 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: Learning Field: Work Process: A Study Book on Competence Development for Skilled Workers in Industrial and Technical Fields. 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 scattered light spectroscopy. Bremen, Univ., PhD thesis, 1994.