Project description

For the development of Islamic religious education and subject didactics, it is essential to explore the underlying educational theory. Until now, such discussions have primarily taken place within a socio-political context, but not in terms of religious education/didactics.

To this end, the planned project workshop (PW) aims to provide a framework – in the form of a consultation platform – to facilitate academic exchange with and amongst those involved in religious education at schools and mosques to address the following questions: how is Islamic religious education theoretically understood and practically implemented at these places of learning, which ideas and objectives does it pursue, and what obstacles arise in teaching and learning processes.

The focus is on questions of religious education and didactics from an Islamic theological perspective directly related to the requirements of religious learning within the context of religious education at public schools and in teaching lessons in mosque communities.   The German federal states Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia and Baden-Württemberg will be the focus of these consultations because numerous schools in these federal states currently offer the subject in accordance with Article 7.3.

The planned project workshop focuses on two questions central to the development of Islamic religious education and its didactics:

• What is the relationship between schools and mosques as places of learning when it comes to Islamic-religious education?
• What tasks and goals of religious learning do they see themselves committed to at the respective places of learning?

 

 

Outcomes

The aim of this negotiation process is a position paper formulating statements on the tasks and goals of religious learning as well as the relationship between schools and mosques as places of learning. It will serve as the basis for a discussion on the educational theory of Islamic-religious education with reference to religious learning in the respective places of learning.

In order to make the different positions and reasons underlying them visible, the perspectives of all actors involved, including selected perspectives from Jewish and Christian religious education, will be compiled in a collection of commentaries.

 

Project management

Prof Dr Annett Abdel-Rahman, Assistant Professor of Specialised Didactics of Islamic Education, Institute for Islamic Theology (IIT), Osnabrück,

Prof Dr Naciye Kamcili- Yildiz, Assistant Professor of Islamic Education/Didactics, Paderborn Institute for Islamic Theology (PIIT), Paderborn

 

Staff members

Ayse Beyza Candan, Paderborn Institute for Islamic Theology (PIIT), Paderborn

Yasemin Bas, Paderborn Institute for Islamic Theology (PIIT), Paderborn

Dr Kathrin Klausing, Institute for Islamic Theology (IIT), Osnabrück