Practical Theology with a focus on Religious Education
As a theological-pedagogical discipline, religious education has the task of identifying connections and intersections between individual realities of life and academic content at eye level. Religious education thus occupies a certain key position within the theological canon of subjects: it enters the theological discourse as an advocate of the factual reality of life, so to speak, and is assigned the critical-empirical task of analyzing the effects, identifying problems and examining the historical and social relevance of theology as a whole. On the one hand, this suggests a comprehensive reference to the lifeworld as a pedagogical-didactic principle for the content and didactic design of teaching and, on the other hand, the interweaving of all theological disciplines.
At the Chair, this concern is put into practice for the teacher training courses in Protestant Religion for vocational schools, grammar schools, secondary schools and elementary school as well as for the Bachelor's degree course in Protestant Theology.
Staff at the Institute of Protestant Theology working in the field of Practical Theology with a focus on religious education:
Prof. Dr. Birte Platow
Martin Kutz (Research Assistant, ScaDS.AI)
Sarah Marie Neumann (Research Assistant)
Laura Christina Buchheim (Research Assistant)
Maja Ebert (lecturer)
Former employees:
Judith Wegener