Taking Position - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3830935765 ISBN 13: 9783830935766

Synopsis

Religious Education is on trial in Germany and other European countries. The focal questions are whether teachers should communicate essential issues about religion and religions to their pupils in a neutral way or whether they should convey personal and individual convictions as well. How should public schools in civil societies deal with positions of truth in the context of cultural and lifeworld conditions? Are there pedagogical concerns about professional teachers expressing an individual commitment in class? What is the significance of denomination in RE? The articles of this volume offer new perspectives by means of empirical studies and theoretical consideration.

The articles come from different national contexts and they have been edited bilingually.


Der Religionsunterricht in Deutschland und anderen Ländern Europas steht auf dem Prüfstand. Im Zentrum stehen dabei die Fragen, ob Lehrkräfte junge Menschen eher Kenntnisse über Religion und Religionen aus neutralem Abstand vermitteln oder ob sie auch eine religiöse Position eröffnen sollen. Wie soll die öffentliche Schule der säkularen Zivilgesellschaft insgesamt mit Wahrheitspositionen umgehen? Gibt es pädagogische Gründe für das Unterbringen eines persönlichen Committments im Unterricht? Welchen Stellenwert hat das konfessorische Element im Religionsunterricht? Dieser Thematik sind die Beiträge des Bandes gewidmet, die mit Hilfe empirischer Studien und theoretischen Überlegungen zu neuen Perspektiven kommen.

Die Beiträge stammen aus unterschiedlichen nationalen Kontexten und sind zweisprachig angelegt.

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About the Author

Cok Bakker (1963) is professor of Religious Education at Utrecht University, the Netherlands.

Bernhard Dressler is Professor em. in Practical Theology and Religious Education at the Department of Protestant Theology, Philipps-University Marburg, Germany. He is coeditor of the bookseries Practical Theology in the Discourse of the Humanities (Walter de Gruyter, Berlin/München/Boston).

Hans-Günter Heimbrock is Professor em. in Practical Theology and Religious Education at the Department of Protestant Theology, Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main, Germany. He is coeditor of the bookseries Religious Diversity and Education in Europe (Waxmann publishers, Hamburg) as well as co-editor of the series Research in Contemporary Religion RCR (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen).

Felix Kerntke is currently teacher in training for secondary schools in Frankfurt am Main (Germany) and former research assistant in Religious Education at the Department of Protestant Theology, Goethe-University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany.

Klaus Kießling is Professor of Practical Theology, director of the Seminar of Religious Pedagogics, Catechetics and Didactics, as well as director of the Institute of Pastoral Psychology and Spirituality, at Sankt Georgen Graduate School of Philosophy and Theology in Frankfurt, Germany. He is President of the International Diaconate Centre (IDC), editor of the journal Diaconia Christi and coeditor of the international bookseries Diakonia and Ecumenics and Pastoral Care and Spiritual Healing .

Jacomijn van der Kooij is former PhD-student at the Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences (Department Education) Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands. Title of her PhD-thesis (finalized end 2016) is Worldview and moral education: on conceptual clarity and consistency in use. Nowadays Van der Kooij works as identity advisor for Verus, Association for Catholic and Christian schools in the Netherlands (Woerden, the Netherlands).

Silke Leonhard is Rector of the Loccum Institute of Religious Education and Privatdozentin in Practical Theology/Religious Education at the Department of Protestant Theology, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany. She did her PhD at Leibniz University, Hannover, in 2005. Her research focuses on phenomenology, RE teachers professionalism, theories of RE, and performative didactics.

Siebren Miedema is Professor em. in Religious Education in the Faculty of Theology (Department Beliefs and Practices) and Professor Emeritus in Educational Foundations in the Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences (Department of Pedagogy), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Inger van Nes participated in the project on teachers in Christian secondary education as a junior-researcher. She holds a BcS Psychology, a BA Theology and a MA Theology, all obtained at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Manfred l. Pirner is Professor of Religious Education at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg and Director of the Research Unit for Public Religion and Education (RUPRE).

Prof. Dr. Martin Rothgangel ist Vorstand des Instituts für Religionspädagogik der Evangelisch-Theologischen Fakultät der Universität Wien und seit 2014 Dekan. Seine Arbeitsschwerpunkte sind religionspädagogische Lehr-/Lernforschung (v. a. hinsichtlich der Themen Judenfeindschaft, interreligiöser Dialog, Verhältnis von Theologie und Naturwissenschaft), Wissenschaftstheorie Religionspädagogik / Theologie sowie empirische Forschung im Bereich der ReligionslehrerInnenbildung.

Inge Versteegt is former post doc at Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences (Department Education) Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Daniela Wamser is Research Fellow at th

Edition details

• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3830935765
• ISBN 13: 9783830935766
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 244
• Editor: Hans-Günter Heimbrock