Jan Woppowa
Didactics of Religion
University of Paderborn
Germany
Biography
10/2013 - today Professor of Religious Didactics at the Institute for Catholic Theology at the Faculty of Cultural Sciences of the University of Paderborn 2013 - today advisory board member of the working group Catholic Religious Education and Catechetics (AKRK) 2013 - 2015 elected Federal Executive Member of the German Catechists Association 2009 - 2013 Referent for Religious Education and Teacher Training in the departments of the Episcopal Münster Official Council in Vechta and the Episcopal Vicariate in the Diocese of Osnabrück (www.schulabteilung-os.de) 2008 - 2009 Lecturer for Practical Theology / Religious Education at the University of Paderborn 2007 - 2009 Study Council for Mathematics and Catholic Religion at the Marienschule der Ursulinen in Bielefeld 2005 - 2007 Legal traineeship for teaching at grammar schools; Second state examination 2005 Doctorate to Dr. theol. 2005 Teaching assignment for Religious Education at the University of Siegen 2001 - 2005 Research Assistant / Assistant Professor at the Department of Religious Education and Homiletics at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Bonn 2003 Research stay at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem 2000 - 2002 Researcher at the Collaborative Research Center "Judaism - Christianity" at the University of Bonn Subproject B5 "Language and Education: German-Jewish Authors in Conversation with Christian Religious Education", headed by: Prof. Dr. med. G. Bitter 2001 Research stay at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem 1994 - 2000 Study of Catholic Theology, Mathematics and Educational Sciences for the Lehramt SI / II at the University of Bonn; First state examination 1993 - 1994 Civil service at the Kath. Jugendbildungsreferat in the northern region of the Diocese of Fulda, Kassel 1993 General University Entrance Qualification 05/22/1974 born in Kassel, married
Research Interest
Spiritual Education
Publications
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Inter- and intraleligious learning. A fundamental didactic and learning-related development of the learning of testimonies of the religions, in: C. Gärtner / N. Bettin (ed.), Inter-religious learning in extra-curricular places of learning. Empirical exploration of didactically staged encounters with Judaism (Empirical Theology / Empirical Theology 28), Münster 2016, 27-44.
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Hard, fluid, fleeting? Some observations on the current aggregate state of confessional religious instruction, in: L. Rendle (ed.), Observation and Participation. Change of Perspective in Religious Education, Munich 2016, 63-72.
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Learning to be sensitive to differences and confessional. Multiperspectivity and Perspective Convergence as Doctrinal Didactic Principles, in: ÖRF 24 (2016) 2, 41-49.
