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Dass Zwei- oder Mehrsprachigkeit ein erstrebenswertes Ziel schulischer Bildung ist, gilt gemeinhin als unstrittig. Von den positiven Effekten und Möglichkeiten vor allem im schulischen Kontext ist viel zu hören. Für Eltern und Bildungseinrichtungen erscheint in Anbetracht der wachsenden internationalen Verflechtungen und beruflichen Möglichkeiten der Erwerb zusätzlicher Sprachen eine sinnvolle Investition. Bilinguale Kindergärten oder Schulen stehen bei Eltern deshalb hoch im Kurs. Der Fokus liegt dabei im Besonderen auf den sozial anerkannten Sprachen Englisch, Spanisch, Französisch als erworbener Zweitsprache oder Fremdsprache neben dem Deutschen.
Religion, Migration and Educational Practice – Empirical, Postcolonial and Theological Perspectives
(2018)
Germany currently has the largest number of immigrants in Europe. This immigrant population represents a vast variety of ethnic and religious traditions. German society therefore, is currently facing urgent challenges presented by this very large, new, and diverse population. Issues such as enculturation, integration and participation into the “host”
communities are at the forefront of the public debates.
The Relevance of Religion in the Public Sphere - Religion and Migration in Educational Systems
(2019)
Current Social and Educational Situation in Germany
Schools in German immigration society must struggle with a lot of challenges. About one third of the refugees are school-age children and youth. At least 300,000 of them have entered the German educational system. Every third child has a migration biography and teachers are often hardly prepared to deal with these conditions.
Many of the refugee and displaced children and youth come from Arabic countries. They bring along their Muslim religion and culture into a secular society formerly moulded by Christianity. This situation requires a lot of special accommodations. Besides language barriers and being mindful of their traumatic experiences, teachers need to be sensitive in particular with intercultural and interreligious conflict situations.
According to the survey “Teacher Training in an Immigrant Society” 2016 , it is expected that they provide individual aid to the increasing number of young refugees and children who need assistance. The expectations are high, but the teachers receive very little support.
The authors of the study, the Mercator Institute at Cologne University and the Expert Council of German Foundations on Integration and Migration, asserts that despite the normal case of diversity in classrooms, apprenticeship and in-service learning concepts for teachers are not modified accordingly. The survey revealed that deficits are evident in teacher education in German states and the lacks are responsible for this situation.
This paper deals with the disclosure of subaltern thinking in current German-language textbooks for religious education. For the hermeneutical framing of this analysis, the approach of a postcolonial reading is particularly profitable. Obvious hierarchical relationships from clearly up and down can consequently be made visible and their presumed self-evidence unmasked. Even hidden hegemonic forms of expression can be uncovered in this way. With regard to current theology and religious education racism and misogyny, environmental degradation and sexual exploitation are attitudes that have already and almost as amatter of course been taken up critically. They are pedagogically reflected and attempted to overcome by using counter-models such as cultural diversity, equal rights, sustainability and sexual self-determination.In exciting contrast to this there are still nowadays textbooks used with remnants of exactly such formats of colonial thoughts. We argue that decolonising schoolbooks can be a useful part of decolonising the religious education curriculum. The schoolbook analysis carried out for this purpose is structured by four leading categories: Anthropological assumptions (1), religious classifications and interpretations (2), conceptions of culture and its hybridity (3) and finally the relationship to creation and environment (4). Textbooks from primary, secondary and vocational schools were examined.
Das Selbstverständnis gegenwärtiger Christentümer im deutschsprachigen Raum und darüber hinaus bezieht sich in großer Übereinstimmung auf soziale Gerechtigkeit und fordert zur Parteinahme für die Unterdrückten und Ausgebeuteten auf. Dies korrespondiert mit der Pointierung des Evangeliums als social gospel, konkret: der theologischen und kirchlichen Selbstverpflichtung, die Nachfolge Christi in Verantwortung für das Wohl aller Menschen zu leben.
In diesem Zusammenhang gelten naheliegend Rassismus und Frauenfeindlichkeit sowie sexuelle Ausbeutung und darüber hinaus ebenso lebensfeindliche Umweltzerstörung als Einstellungen und Praktiken, welche auch die deutsch-sprachige Religionsdidaktik längst und nahezu selbstverständlich ablehnt, pädagogisch bekämpft und durch Gegenmodelle wie kulturelle Vielfalt, Gleichberechtigung, sexuelle Selbstbestimmung und Nachhaltigkeit zu überwinden versucht.
Post-migrant societies in Europe are characterized by political, cultural, religious, and social changes. Where people meet under the conditions of migration and globalization, new places and spaces of negotiating are arising. They are formed by provocative questions, dynamic reorientation, and social transformation, in particular regarding religious affiliations, contexts and experiences. This article will consider challenges and resources of religion in terms of coping with ambiguity and building up post-migrant community relations. In this context, the concept of the ‘contact zone’ as a post-migrant place or space provides an insight to social spaces where cultures and religions meet, clash and grapple with each other, often in emotionally charged contexts of highly asymmetrical relations of power, like displacement and their aftermaths. These contact zones offer a place of discussing power, oppression, and religious diversities, but also find innovative perspectives for post-migrant identities. With reference to this, three case studies based on experiences of refugees in Europa with contact zones in refugee centers, schools and educational institutions allow an understanding of the significance of places, the feeling of rootlessness and the findings of new places of religious identity, of ‘embodied’ habitation and participation. Finally this article emphasize the meaning of public speech in post-migrant societies from a Christian perspective.
Dieser Beitrag macht auf die gesellschaftlichen wie globalen Folgen, aber auch auf die tiefgreifenden emotionalen Auswirkungen der ökologischen Krisen aus theologischer Perspektive aufmerksam. Das Phänomen der Solastalgie, aber auch der Verlust ganzheitlichen Denkens zeigt sich als emotionale oder existenzielle Not, die durch die Umweltveränderungen hervorgerufen wird und die den Verlust von Heimat, Identität und Kultur hervorruft. Um eine Antwort auf diese drängenden theologischen wie religionspädagogischen Herausforderungen zu geben, wird in diesem Artikel ein doppelter Versuch unternommen: Zum einen werden die Verstrickungen der christlichen Missionsgesellschaften in die kolonialen Herrschaftsstrukturen Europas dekonstruiert, die die Ausbeutung der natürlichen Ressourcen mit legitimierten. Dazu gehört auch die Erkenntnis, dass im Namen des Christentums die Unterdrückung indigener Wissens- und Erkenntnisformen, die einen Schatz an Sorge um die Natur und Formen nachhaltigen Lebens beinhalten, legitimiert wurde. Andererseits eröffnet die Auseinandersetzung mit diesen historischen Entwicklungslinien aber auch die Chance, indigene Hoffnungsnarrative wieder in religionspädagogische Prozesse einzubringen und ihre alternativen Weltbezüge konstruktiv zu machen, die sich aus einem Dialog mit indigener Erkenntnistheorie und Spiritualität speisen. Ziel des Beitrags ist es, herauszufinden, welche neuen Einsichten sich aus diesem Dialog der Kontexte zwischen Pazifik und Europa ergeben und welche neuen Horizonte sie für den Religionsunterricht bieten können.
Education institutions in European immigration societies must struggle with a lot of challenges. About one-third of the refugees are school-age children and youth. Every third child has a migration biography and many of the refugee and displaced children and youth come from Arabic countries. They bring along their various religious affiliation and culture into secular societies formerly molded by Christianity. This situation requires a lot of special accommodations for educational institutions like schools, kindergarten, and religious communities. Besides language barriers and being mindful of their traumatic experiences, educational actors need to be sensitive in particular with intercultural and interreligious conflict situations, anti-Semitic or Islamophobic positions and radicalization tendencies of cultural and/or religious identity.
The background for this topic is provided by the experiences of children and youth, who give us an insight into the clash of different religions and cultures in immigrant educational systems, into the significance of faith, the complexity of hybrid identities, but also the experience of being subaltern. That there is the importance of religious literacy for coping with the impacts of migration in educational work in schools, churches and religious communities will finally be discussed.
This paper deals with the question, to what extent, in the German context, have biblical didactic implications and systemic requirements in religious education led to social inequality in heterogeneous classrooms. Based on four different case studies in elementary, middle, and vocational schools, an empirical insight is provided that sheds exploratory and descriptive light on the construction of reality in the context of biblical learning. The analysis clearly shows that physical as well as socialization-related limitations, structural and systemic conditions in the German school system, and also strangeness and existential irrelevance, are obvious barriers that prevent students in heterogeneous settings from accessing biblical learning. In the synopsis, with theological–pedagogical implications as well as didactical challenges, it becomes clear how necessary difference-sensitive Bible didactics in the context of heterogeneity and social inequality is. Finally, based on the empirical evidence of the analyzed case studies and the theoretical framings, concrete expectations for biblical learning in religious education, in relation to heterogeneity and social inequality, are highlighted.
Post-migrant societies in Europe are characterized by political, cultural, religious, and social changes. Where people meet under the conditions of migration and globalization, new places and spaces of negotiating are arising. They are formed by provocative questions, dynamic reorientation, and social transformation, in particular regarding religious affiliations, contexts and experiences. This article will consider challenges and the resources of religion in terms of coping with ambiguity and building up post-migrant community relations. In this context, the concept of the ‘contact zone’ as a post-migrant place or space provides an insight to social spaces where cultures and religions meet, clash and grapple with each other, often in emotionally charged contexts of highly asymmetrical relations of power, like displacement and their aftermaths. These contact zones offer a place of discussing power, oppression, and religious diversities, but also find innovative perspectives for post-migrant identities. With reference to this, three case studies based on experiences of refugees in Europe with contact zones in refugee centers, schools and educational institutions allow for an understanding of the significance of places, the feeling of rootlessness and the findings of new places of religious identity, of ‘embodied’ habitation and participation. Finally, this article emphasizes the meaning of public speech in post-migrant societies from a Christian perspective.
Religious Literacy in Early Childhood Education as a Societal Resource in Immigrant Societies
(2022)
Western immigration societies are struggling with numerous of educational challenges. Every third, sometimes every second child has an immigration biography and teachers working in early childhood education are often minimally prepared to deal with the resulting diverse and complex conditions of cultural and religious diversity. Children and Childhood studies show that religion is an essential reference point for migrant families and their children. How could these empirical settings be transformed into intercultural and inter-religious competences and spiritual well-being in early childhood education? In which ways religious education in pre-schools provides a “safe place” or space of negotiating (religious) identity, value building, resilience, and the capacity to deal with pluralism and otherness? On the basis of empirical and theoretical results, the opportunities of religious education in early childhood education for developing an attitude of global citizenship should be taken into serious consideration