"Effectiveness of interreligious learning through perspective-taking with different forms of pupil-oriented Religious Education (RE): a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial“

在当今以文化和宗教多样化为标志的社会形势下，宗教间的竞争变得越来越重要。由于欧洲的难民局势加速了移徙，社会冲突的可能性越来越明显。为了和平共处，个人和群体的适当取向和态度是不可或缺的。越来越多的人同意学校和宗教教育应该支持宗教间的能力。宗教间主题和对能力的要求牢牢地植根于学校课程，与这一主题有关的宗教教育文献的发展与这些发展相对应。然而，缺乏经验基础也是显而易见的。现有的研究没有阐明宗教间学习的有效性，对于在这方面评估宗教教育中使用的不同教学方法就更没有用处了。特别是在宗教教育领域，缺乏真实教学背景下的群组随机控制干预研究，这将使人们能够得出关于这种方法的可能性和有效性的结论。在这方面，研究项目--与经验性教育研究以及其他学科(历史、体育)的经验性教学研究密切合作--在这一领域实现了新的方法质量。同样，这项研究考察了教育学和基于能力的教育研究之间的有争议的联系。与在图宾根进行的其他研究项目一起，拟议的项目特别纳入了DFG资助的关于宗教间能力的研究项目的准备工作。这项研究(干预研究)的中心目标涉及高中教育中宗教间学习的有效性问题(Berufliches Gymnasium)。治疗包括一个教学单元“与陌生人一起生活”(低-中-高瞳孔取向)的三倍变化。预计与对照组相比，这种治疗将使学生获得更多的能力，这些单元的有效性将因其学生取向而有所不同。在这一方法的帮助下，将有可能对中心教学概念进行比较评估。为了衡量与宗教有关的知识、与宗教有关的观点和与宗教有关的态度作为宗教间能力的核心组成部分，可以使用上一个项目中开发的工具。同时，仪器还需要进一步完善。鉴于前一个项目中关于态度变化的发人深省的结果，引入了额外的教学元素以及额外的措施。

In today’s social situation, which is marked by cultural and religious diversity, inter-religious competence has become more and more important. The potential for social conflicts is increasingly visible since migration has been accelerated due to the refugee situation in Europe. For peaceful coexistence, appropriate orientations and attitudes of individuals and groups are indispensable. There is more and more agreement that schools and religious education should support inter-religious competences. Inter-religious topics and demands for competences are firmly anchored in school curricula.The growth of religious education literature with respect to this topic corresponds to these developments. However, the lack of an empirical basis is also evident. The studies available do not shed light on the effectiveness of inter-religious learning, and they are even less useful for evaluating the different didactical approaches used in religious education in this context. Especially cluster randomized controlled intervention studies in real teaching contexts are lacking in the field of religious education, which would permit conclusions about the possibilities and the effectiveness of such approaches. In this respect, the research project – in close cooperation with empirical educational research as well as empirical didactical research in other disciplines (history, physical education) – realizes a new methodological quality in this area. Likewise, the study examines the controversial connection between didactics and competence-based research in education.Together with other research projects conducted at Tübingen the proposed project incorporates in particular the preparatory work from a DFG-funded research project on inter-religious competence. The central objective of the study (intervention study) relates to the question of the effectiveness of inter-religious learning in upper secondary education (Berufliches Gymnasium). The treatment consists of a threefold variation of a teaching unit “Living with Strangers” (low – middle – high pupil orientation). It is expected that the treatment will lead to increased acquisition of competences compared to the control group and that the effectiveness of the units will differ depending on their pupil orientation. With the help of this methodology comparative assessments of a central didactical concept will be possible.For measuring religion-related knowledge, religion-related perspective-taking and religion-related attitudes as central components of inter-religious competence the instruments developed in the previous project can be used. At the same time, the instruments need to be further improved. Given the sobering results concerning attitudinal change in the previous project, additional teaching elements are introduced as well as additional measurements.