Research in religious education
Staff:
Team:
Office:
Research staff:
- Ariane Dihle
- Silke Polewka
- Sascha Wilts
- Jördis Drees-Bajorat
- Rebecca Hedenkamp
- Kim König
Student assistants:
Emeritus staff:
Research in religious education
Ongoing research projects
- Religious education that challenges discrimination and is sensitive to differences (with a focus on anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim racism)
- Martin Luther King in religious education (Ute Beyer-Henneberger)
PhD projects
- The portrayal of the Shoah in school textbooks for religious education as a factor in the culture of remembrance (Rebecca Hedenkamp)
- The ambivalent image of God in the Flood narrative in children’s Bibles – new theological interpretations for children in a multidimensional balancing act between specialised disciplines and reception (Nina Lissner)
- The pedagogy of tolerance – A critical examination of ‘tolerance’ as a discursive figure and concept in religious education, and a further development of existing approaches to fostering pluralism in religious education (Friederike Schulze-Marmeling)
- "Images of Islam and their reception in religious education – Analyses and reflections on different framings by textbook authors and pupils" (Sascha Wilts)
Completed research projects
- Religious education and related subjects in Russia (Joachim Willems), 2003-2006.
- Interreligious competence (Joachim Willems), 2003-2010.
- How Christian, Muslim and non-religious young people deal with religious diversity (DFG-funded research project; application and management: Joachim Willems; collaboration: Friederike Schulze-Marmeling), 2012-2019.
Dissertations
- Ute Beyer-Henneberger: Supervision and burnout prevention in pastoral and school-based professional fields (published in 2016).