Wilfried Aigner

• PhD MMag. art
• Professor (Associate) at University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna

This Open Acess research report presents selected findings from an online survey executed in summer 2020 among Austrian music educators in public Secondary schools and in music schools. A total of 1158 music teachers answered all of the questions concerning their experiences and the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on music teaching in Austria as well...

Angesichts des Lehrendenmangels im deutschsprachigen Raum sind Quer- und Seiteneinstiegsmodelle in den Lehrberuf hochaktuell, Musik zählt zu den betroffenen Mangelfächern. Vorbedingungen, Ausbildungs- und Qualifizierungsmodelle und Beschäftigungssituationen sind von großer Heterogenität geprägt, die Forschung zu alternativen Wegen in den Lehrberuf...

The research report "MUDIL 2.0 - Music Distance & Digital Learning: Experiences, Effects, Perspectives" concludes the cooperative study MUDIL (see https://www.mdw.ac.at/imp/mudil). MUDIL was started in 2020 to explore the working fields of music teachers at schools and music schools under the conditions of Distance Learning during and after the Cov...

Das Zentrum für LehrerInnenbildung (ZLB) der Universität Wien in Kooperation mit dem Institut für Bildungswissenschaften der Universität Basel (IBW) und der Pädagogischen Hochschule FHNW unterstützen mit einer gemeinsamen Summer School Nachwuchswissenschaftler*innen bei ihrer Arbeit sowie bei der Auswahl und Anwendung von fachdidaktischen und bildu...

Looking back on 25 years of use of technology in music education in Austria, this text discusses the concepts concerning media and digitization in (music) education and traces the historically difficult relationship between Austrian music educators and technology issues, against the background of developments in Austria’s educational system. The up...

The simultaneous and dual focus on aims of research and aims of pratice is an acknowledged key element of educational design-based research (DBR). This means that people who are rooted in quite different contexts (e.g. a school vs. an academic research context) are due to cooperate as equals. Despite the fact that this is a crucial characteristic o...

The following chapter introduces the "dual pearl model for DBR" and shows concrete application examples. The dual pearl model for DBR is designed to emphasize in particular the dual focus in DBR: theoretical understanding with simultaneous maturing intervention. It contains 11 indicators on four levels: assignment, process design, pedagogical conte...

The first lockdown in spring 2020 was an incisive event. For music lessons in schools and music schools, it felt like jumping in at the deep end: online lessons were previously hardly an issue in the music education community. What worked in this new situation, how did music teachers experience this time and which experiences and aspects may remain...

Austria’s teacher education system faces a long-term transformation process. The transition to one comprehensive teacher training for all types of schools represents a major paradigm change in the educational system. A former traineeship year has been cancelled in favour of a straighter start into the job, which now is preceded by an intense “mast...

Im öffentlichen Diskurs rund um den Lehrberuf im deutschsprachigen Raum sind die Begriffe Quer- und Seiteneinstieg allgegenwärtig, Medienberichte und Informationsinitiativen boomen. Der vorliegende Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über die musikpädagogischen Bemühungen, dem deutlichen Mangel an qualifizierten Musiklehrpersonen in der Sekundarstufe im O...

One of the currently most prevailing educational problems in Austria and Germany is the lack of qualified teachers in schools. The notions of “Quereinsteiger” or “Seiteneinsteiger”, meaning persons making a lateral career move to become school teachers, are omnipresent in political and medial discussions, though the public focus is more on how to r...

Künstlerische Auseinandersetzungen nehmen in der Geschichte der Menschheit, vor allem in ihrer Kulturgeschichte eine ganz zentrale Stellung ein. Mit den Unterrichtsfächern Lesen, Schreiben und Rechnen gehört Musik zu den ältesten Schulfächern und blickt auf eine lange Geschichte und Tradition zurück. Musik ist aus den Schulen auch deshalb nicht weg...

Dieser Beitrag stellt das "Masterstudium Quereinstieg Lehramt Musikerziehung" vor und zwar mit Blick auf die besondere Zielgruppe der Studierenden. Entwickelt wurde dieses Studium im Umfang von 120 ECTS von der Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien (mdw) in Kooperation mit der Pädagogischen Hochschule Niederösterreich, der Pädagogischen...

This book outlines the status quo of the combination of composition and digital technology as activities in music classes in schools internationally. Design-based research methodology is used to develop an educational design research project with a dual objective: putting innovative solutions into practice and generating theoretical understanding t...

The presentation summarizes the results of a design-based research (DBR) study focused on the interrelations among creating music, the use of web-based technology and communication in a classroom context. Twin objective of a DBR study is to implement innovative solutions into teaching practice and to simultaneously generate theoretical understandin...

Design-based Research in Music Education

This article elaborates on the challenge of dealing with manifold data resources when action research methods are used in music education. The online composition project ecompose Austria is described as a case that shows the duality of being designed as a school project and as action research. Various data were collected throughout the course of th...