Catholic Youth Associations' Activities in All-Day Schools. Developing a qualitative empirically-based theory of religious education with regard to Catholic youth associations' activities at all-day schools.

由于宗教传统的大规模衰落，伴随着传统宗教教育环境（如家庭和教区）的弱化，学校似乎取代了这些社会机构，发展成为宗教教育和社会化的主要场所。由于全日制学校的扩大，这一发展变得更加重要。作为副作用，学校行政部门与教区和青年协会等课外伙伴加强合作的案例正在激增。该项目旨在检验这样一个基本假设，即与全日制学校合作的这种情况会导致青年协会组织的活动以及这些组织的结构背景发生巨大变化。关于宗教问题，这些发展要求在宗教教育和实践神学的学术领域内提出新的和修订的概念。此外，目前迫切需要研究青年协会作为教育行动者对非正式和非正规教育进程的影响，因为以前关于全日制学校的研究严重忽视了宗教活动。基于上述假设，并考虑到目前的研究状况，包括我们自己的调查，计划中的项目将有助于在该领域专注于宗教方面的全日制学校教育领域的创新概况。由于这个项目，我们将提出一个全日制学校的概念，特别关注宗教教育和实践神学的学术学科。这个概念将根据四个子目标来构建。首先，我们将通过对天主教青年协会在全日制学校制度中的概念设计及其在青年协会活动中的实际实施的调查来分析天主教青年协会的承诺。第二，在项目第一部分成果的基础上，发展出一套青少年协会在学校工作的教育理论，项目中考虑的全日制学校将根据其具体的教育实践进行分类，同样以宗教方面为重点。第三，我们收集的数据将面对关于全日制学校的更一般研究的结果，研究学校非正式教育的相关性以及学校牧养活动的理论。第四，我们的项目将有助于其他几个领域的理论发展（例如学校简介的发展），而不仅仅是它自己的具体目标。该项目是根据定性的实证分析来设计的。它将与青年协会BDKJ osnabr<e:1> ck和Paderborn密切合作，这种联系将使研究能够在高度不同的社会情况下以及在不同学校的青年协会的各种活动的背景下进行。

Due to a massive decline of religious traditions accompanied by a weakening of traditional settings of religious education like family and parish, the school seems to substitute for these social institutions developing into the predominant place of religious education and socialization. Because of the expansion of all-day schooling, this development gains in importance even more rapidly. As a side-effect, cases of enhanced cooperation between school administrations and extracurricular partners such as parishes and youth associations are proliferating. The project is designed to test the basic hypothesis that such cases of cooperation with all-day schools cause massive changes in the activities organized by youth associations as well as the structural background of those organizations. Regarding religious matters, these developments call for new and revised concepts within the academic fields of Religious Education and Practical Theology. Furthermore, a study concerning the influence of youth associations as educational actors on informal and non-formal educational processes is urgently required at present, because religious activities are badly neglected in previous studies about all-day schools. Based on this hypothesis mentioned above and taking into account the current state of research including our own investigations, the planned project will contribute to an innovative profile for the educational field of all-day schools focusing on religious aspects within this field. As a result of this project, we shall propose a concept for all-day schools with a special focus on the academic disciplines of Religious Education and Practical Theology. This concept will be structured according to four subgoals. First, we shall analyze the Catholic youth associations' commitment in the system of all-day schools in an investigation of the conceptional designs and their practical implementation within the youth associations' activities. Second, an educational theory of the youth associations' work at schools will be developed on the basis of the results of the first part of the project and all-day school under consideration in the project shall be classified according to their specific educational practice, again focusing on religious aspects. Third, our collection of data will be confronted with results of more general research about all-day schools studying also the relevance of informal education in schools as well as theories about pastoral activities at schools. And fourth, our project will contribute to the development of theories in several other fields (e. g. the development of school profiles) beyond its own specific objectives. The project is designed in terms of a qualitative, empirical analysis. It will cooperate closely with the youth associations BDKJ Osnabrück and Paderborn which connections will enable research in highly different social situations and in the context of multifarious activities of the youth associations in various schools.