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Selderslagh, Guy – International Studies in Catholic Education, 2023
In the long history of the Catholic school in Europe, it has taken various forms, linked to local cultures and to the history, particularly religious but also political, of each state. While it is possible to account for this diversity, it is also important to highlight common features and challenges, such as secularisation and globalisation,…
Descriptors: Catholics, Catholic Schools, Religious Education, Foreign Countries
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Andreas Oberdorf – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2023
The American College of St Maurice at Münster in Westphalia was founded in 1867 to train priests for the Catholic missions in the United States. This paper outlines the history of this short-lived educational institutions (1867-1879), with particular focus on the 68 seminarians, who attended this theological seminary for their pastoral formation,…
Descriptors: Clergy, Foreign Countries, Theological Education, Alumni
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Alexander Unser – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2024
This article draws on the ongoing discussion in some European countries about whether and how non-religious worldviews and pupils should be included in religious education (RE). This discussion lacks empirical knowledge about the specific learning conditions of these pupils in RE -- a desideratum that this article addresses. Building on a…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Beliefs, World Views, Classification
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Stern, Julian; Buchanan, Michael T. – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2021
The relationships between RE leaders in Catholic education and their schools and their religious communities may be ambiguous. RE leaders often appear disconnected from both 'ordinary' teacher issues and 'ordinary' leadership issues because of their religious responsibilities. In this innovative research project, the authors have explored RE…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Catholic Schools, Catholic Educators, Cross Cultural Studies
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Fischer, Luise; Withers, Charles W. J. – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2023
This paper examines debates over the nature, purpose, and reform of geographical education in schools in the eighteenth-century German-speaking territories. Attention is paid to contemporaries' concerns over the cognitive content of geography -- what geography was -- and, in greater detail, to their views concerning how the subject might be…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Educational History, Course Content, Teaching Methods
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Waterkamp, Dietmar – International Dialogues on Education: Past and Present, 2020
Three fundamental scientific works on the pedagogy of Comenius will be considered from new perspectives. These are the works of the East German comeniologist Franz Hofmann and the two West German comeniologists, Klaus Schaller and Andreas Lischewski. Germany has produced numerous scientific analyses of Comenius since 1945, but these three…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Protestants, Catholics, Teaching Methods
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Riegel, Ulrich; Delling, Sarah – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2019
The primary goal of religious education (RE) in Germany is to enable students to develop a personal worldview. According to the literature, this goal can best be achieved when RE a) presents material from various worldviews and b) relates this material to the student's daily life. Denominational RE, which is the organisational format of this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, World Views, Religious Education, Student Development
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Mitterle, Alexander – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2022
Today, the term 'global' has become a pervasive description of universities that aim to alleviate their importance and reach. The global looks inherently big. By relating to a spherical shape it attributes size in two distinct ways: it signifies the comprehensive and extensive reach of a theme or issue as well as the spherical centrality of an…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Universities, Educational History, Institutional Characteristics
Arold, Benjamin W.; Woessmann, Ludger; Zierow, Larissa – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2022
We study whether compulsory religious education in schools affects students' religiosity as adults. We exploit the staggered termination of compulsory religious education across German states in models with state and cohort fixed effects. Using three different datasets, we find that abolishing compulsory religious education significantly reduced…
Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Religious Education, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
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Mamadaliev, Anvar M.; Ludwig, Sergey D.; Miku, Natal'ya V.; Médico, Aude – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2019
This paper explores the origins of the German public education system. This part of the work provides an analysis of the formation process of the German primary education system between the 15th and 18th centuries. Also, this paper explores the use of philosophical approaches in German education, and examines the impact of Protestantism on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Education, Educational History, Educational Philosophy
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Hill, Michael – Teaching History, 2020
Mike Hill was concerned that his students were unable to genuinely inhabit the historical places they encountered in his lessons. Drawing on fields as varied as history-teacher research, philosophy, and literary and media theory, Hill identified ways to curate his students' constructions of 'secondary worlds' in the historical past, including…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Teaching Methods, Curriculum Design, European History
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Dolowy-Rybinska, Nicole; Ratajczak, Cordula – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2021
The article studies minority language policy in the situation of an internal division within a speech community. It is based on the example of the Upper Sorbs -- a Slavic minority in Germany. The division within this community is based on language use, the level of assimilation and religion. The Catholic Upper Sorbs have maintained…
Descriptors: German, Bilingual Education, Language Planning, Slavic Languages
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Retter, Hein – International Dialogues on Education: Past and Present, 2018
A tiny section on the agenda of the National Assembly of the Weimar Republic from February to July, 1919 was entitled "Religious instruction and the public elementary school," part of the preparation for the new Constitution of the German Reich, the so-called Weimar Constitution [Weimarer Reichsverfassung; abbr. WRV], of August 11th,…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Elementary School Students, Catholics, Educational History
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Marx, Reinhard – International Studies in Catholic Education, 2017
The article addresses the special mission of Catholic schools within the educational system in Germany. The considerations centre on the fundamental mission of the Church to announce the Good News of Jesus Christ as light of nations, and hence to be itself light of the world. Consequently, the essential distinctive characteristic of Catholic…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Foreign Countries, Institutional Mission, Religious Education
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Winkler, Kathrin; Scholz, Stefan – British Journal of Religious Education, 2021
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…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Racial Bias, Civil Rights, Cultural Pluralism
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