Religious education and subject didactics


Subject didactic research at the Institute is carried out with the aim of recognising fundamental challenges to contemporary religious education, critically reflecting on them and introducing them into the training of future teachers of religious education. The cooperation with other subjects of theology and other subject didactics makes the interdisciplinary approach of the institute to subject didactic questions clear. Empirical work on the ideas and learning processes of pupils contributes to the development of a subject didactics that is oriented towards the pupils and enables future teachers of religion to gain insights into the life worlds of pupils.

  • Pupils' conceptual research (Karin Peter)