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Religious Education, Catechetics and Subject Didactics Religion!
Research Project
A constructivist didactics of church history as an approach to in-depth learning in denominational-cooperative religious education. A subject-didactic development research.
Prof. Dr. Werner Simon
Prof. Dr. Günter Stachel (†)
Andreas Menne
Holger Wies
Where do voluntary and full-time employees see catechesis in Germany in ten years’ time? What are their visions of catechesis in 2025?
We investigated these questions as part of a research project and present initial insights into the quantitative and qualitative study.
Corpus linguistics is currently one of the most important branches of empirical linguistics. Its subject matter is authentic language. Strictly speaking, it is concerned with a scientifically based description of the elements and structures of a particular language use. At the same time, language is also an elementary component of religious practice and religious education, in a double sense: as the already spoken language of tradition and lore, which provides an interpretative framework for contemporary religious perception and action, and as the currently spoken language that confronts tradition and lore. The aim of my research is to bring both approaches to language into connection with each other. It is about the task of linking empirical-linguistic language description with theological language reflection and interpretation.
The digitalization of university didactics is currently on everyone’s lips. Terms such as open educational resources, blended learning or digital badging promise to provide a digital answer to the ‘technology deficit in Education’. As sensible as this concern is, it is initially limited to the question of how contemporary learning with digital items can be implemented in university didactics.
The master’s seminar ‘Religious Learning on the Web 2.0’ presented here approached digital items from a different perspective.
Is “Remembrance of the Holocaust / the Shoah” a topic for religious education teachers in their lessons?
We invite religion teachers to take part in an online survey on this question.
The project, which is funded by the German Research Foundation, focuses on historical Religious Education. In a first, fundamental step, it aims to update the existing “Religious Education Bibliography”, which covers the period from 1900 to 1960, for the years 1750-1900.
Secondly, the transition of catechetics or Religious Education from its preliminary and early forms (such as “catechetical Theology / theologia catechetica”) to scientific theory formation will be reconstructed.
- EKD project: http://www.rpi-virtuell.de/
- DBK project: http://www.rpp-katholisch.de/
- At federal level:
- Working Group for Catholic Religious Education and Catechetics (AKRK): http: //www.akrk.eu
- German Catechists’ Association (DKV): http://www.katecheten-verein.de/
- Society for Scientific Religious Education (GwR): http: //www.afrp.de/
- Comenius Institute Münster: http://www.comenius.de/
- Religious Education Institute Loccum: http: //www.rpi-loccum.de/
- At the level of the federal states or dioceses:
- Religious Education Center in Bavaria (RPZ): http: //www.rpz-bayern.de/
- Institute for Teacher Training and Further Education Mainz (ILF): http://www.ilf.bildung-rp.de/
- Religious Education Center of the Dioceses in the State of Hesse (PZ): http: //www.pz-hessen.de/
- Center for Religious Education, Mainz Head Office: https://bistummainz.de/schule/religionsunterricht/arbeitsstellen-fuer-religionspaedagogik/mainz/
- Media portal of the Protestant and Catholic media centers: http://www.medienzentralen.de
- Federal Association of Catholic Religious Education Teachers at Gymnasiums in the Federal Republic of Germany (BKRG): http: //www.bkrg.de/
- Association of Catholic Religious Education Teachers at Vocational Schools (VKR): http: //www.v-k-r.de/
- The Arbeitsgemeinschaft Evangelischer Erzieher in Deutschland e.V. (with numerous member associations throughout Germany): http://www.aeed.de/index.php
- German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF): http: //www.bmbf.de
- Ministry of Education, Science, Youth and Culture of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate: https://bm.rlp.de/de/startseite/
- German Education Server: https://www.bildungsserver.de/
- European Education Server: http://ec.europa.eu/ploteus/
- Vatican: http://www.vatican.va/phome_ge.htm
- German Bishops’ Conference: http://www.dbk.de/
- Central Committee of German Catholics: http://www.zdk.de
- Catholic News: http://www.katholisch.de/
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Faculty 01
Faculty of Catholic Theology
Seminar for Religious Education, Catechetics and Subject Didactics Religion
Wallstraße 7-7a, Room 01-105 (1st floor)
D-55122 Mainz
E-mail: religionspaedagogik@uni-mainz.de
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Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Faculty 01
Faculty of Catholic Theology
Seminar for Religious Education, Catechetics and Subject Didactics Religion
D-55099 Mainz
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Faculty 01: Catholic Theology and Protestant Theology
Catholic Theology
Seminar for Religious Education, Catechetics and Subject Didactics Religion
Saarstraße 21
D-55128 Mainz
Tuesday and Thursday from 8:30 am – 4:00 pm.
Wallstraße 7-7a, Room 02-127 (2nd floor)
D-55122 Mainz
Tel: +49 (0)6131 39-22458
E-mail: religionspaedagogik@uni-mainz.de
