Bible Didactics and Social Inequality? Critical Considerations on the Interconnection of Religious Education and Heterogeneous Settings

Bibliographic Data

ID4314017
AuthorsKathrin Winkler (0000-0002-3561-7284, Lutheran University of Applied Sciences Nuremberg, corresponding author), Stefan Scholz (0009-0004-9810-8331, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume13
Issue5
Pages423
Publication date2022-05-06
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueReligions (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/rel13050423
OpenAlexW4229365373
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited38

This paper deals with the question, to what extent, in the German context, have biblical didactic implications and systemic requirements in religious education led to social inequality in heterogeneous classrooms. Based on four different case studies in elementary, middle, and vocational schools, an empirical insight is provided that sheds exploratory and descriptive light on the construction of reality in the context of biblical learning. The analysis clearly shows that physical as well as socialization-related limitations, structural and systemic conditions in the German school system, and also strangeness and existential irrelevance, are obvious barriers that prevent students in heterogeneous settings from accessing biblical learning. In the synopsis, with theological-pedagogical implications as well as didactical challenges, it becomes clear how necessary difference-sensitive Bible didactics in the context of heterogeneity and social inequality is. Finally, based on the empirical evidence of the analyzed case studies and the theoretical framings, concrete expectations for biblical learning in religious education, in relation to heterogeneity and social inequality, are highlighted

Educational inequality · Empirical research · Epistemology · Existentialism · German · Inequality · Linguistics · Pedagogy · Social inequality · Social science · Socialization · Sociology · Vocational education · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion, Society, and Development · Religion, Theology, and Education · Religious Education and Schools · Social Psychology

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