Chair
From the summer semester 2025, PD Dr. Jan-Hendrik Herbst will take over as Deputy Chair of Religious Education.
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Mr PD Dr. Jan-Hendrik Herbst
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Visiting address:
Weberbau (WEB), Raum 25a Weberplatz 5
01217 Dresden
Office hours:
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Vita/Academic career
- 2024 Habilitation in the subject "Religious Education / Practical Theology"
- 2024/2025 Deputy Head of Chair "Religious Education and Catechetics", University of Freiburg (winter semester 2024/2025)
- 2023/2024 Deputy Head of Chair "Religious Education and Catechetics", RU Bochum (winter semester 2023/2024)
- 2023 DFG approval of the project "Spanish-German knowledge transfer on the political dimension of religious education" (development of an international cooperation)
- 2023 DFG approval of the grant "Controversial topics in denominational religious education" (KoTheRU)
- 2023 DAAD funding for congress trip to Amsterdam
- 2023 Funding for the TU Dortmund Young Academy
- 2023 Dissertation awarded the Becker-Staritz Prize
- since 2022 Dr. theol.
- since 2017 Research Associate at the Institute of Catholic Theology, Chair of Practical Theology/Religious Education at TU Dortmund University
- 2017 Degree: Master of Arts Christianity in Culture and Society, WWU Münster
- 2015 - 2017 Trainee teacher at the Märkisches Gymnasium Hamm, completed with the second state examination
- 2015
- Degree: Master of Education, WWU Münster
- Degree: Diploma in Christian Social Sciences, WWU Münster
- 2014 Student Assistant in the project "Critique from within" at the Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics" in Münster
- 2010 - 2014 Student Assistant, Head of tutorials at various chairs
- 2009 - 2015 Studied Teacher Training - Secondary Schools and Comprehensive Schools with the subjects Catholic Theology and Mathematics at the WWU Münster
- 2008 - 2009 Voluntary service in a daycare center and homework support in Quito, Ecuador
Former holder Prof. Monika Scheidler until March 31, 2025:
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Prof. Dr. Monika Scheidler
Chair of Religious Education
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Institute of Catholic Theology
Institute of Catholic Theology
Visiting address:
Weberplatz (WEB), Room 25a Weberplatz 5
01217 Dresden
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Vita:
| since 2006 | Foundation and coordination of the section "Extracurricular Religious Education and Catechesis" of the Working Group for Catholic Religious Education and Catechetics |
| since 2006 | Advisor to the Migration Commission of the German Bishops' Conference |
| since 2006 | Board member of the German Catechists' Association |
| since 2005 | Head of university didactic training for post-doctoral and doctoral students in theology together with Dr. Oliver Reis |
| Jan/Feb 2005 | Visiting professor at St Augustine College of South Africa |
| since 2002 | Member of the ecumenical commission of the diocese of Dresden-Meißen and the regional church of Saxony on denominational cooperation in teaching - including the scientific monitoring of trials in schools |
| since 2002 | Member of the scientific advisory board of the Forum Hochschule und Kirche e.V. |
| July 2002 | Appointment as Chair of Religious Education (Catholic) at the TUD Dresden University of Technology |
| 2001 - 2004 | Scientific advisor to the curriculum commissions for Catholic religion for elementary school, secondary schools and grammar schools in the Free State of Saxony |
| 2001 | Habilitation at the Faculty of Catholic Theology in Tübingen with a teaching qualification in religious education and catechetics |
| 2000 - 2002 | Deputy Head of Chair of Religious Education at the Institute of Catholic Theology at Dresden University of Technology |
| 1998 - 2003 | Member of the sponsoring commission for further education in theology at universities |
| 1998 - 2001 | Second representative of the Tübingen faculty at the Catholic Theological Faculty Association |
| 1997 - 2001 | Member of the Interdisciplinary Didactics Working Group of the University of Tübingen |
| 1997 - 2001 | Collaboration in the DFG research project "Confessional-cooperative (Protestant-Catholic) religious education" |
| 1996 - 2000 | University assistant at the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the University of Tübingen, Department of Religious Education, Kerygmatics and Church Adult Education |
| 1996 | 2nd state examination for the teaching profession (Sek. II and I) |
| 1994 - 1996 | Trainee teacher at the Studienseminar Hamm, NRW |
| 1993 | Doctorate (Dr. theol.) in Münster |
| 1988 | 1st state examination for the teaching profession (secondary II and I) |
| 1985 -1988 | Continued studies at the University of Münster |
| 1984 -1985 | Foreign language assistant at Calday Grange Grammar School in West Kirby, England |
| 1981-1984 | Studies: Catholic theology, English language and literature and educational science at the University of Münster |
| 1981 | A-levels |
| 04.03. 1962 | Born in Hamburg |