Community education

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Christian Education refers to the educational actions within the Christian community and this practice reflecting scientific theory.

Congregational education as a field of religious education aims to convey Christian or theological content and values in everyday life. The fields of work of community education are child and youth work , adult education and work with families and senior citizens , but also pastoral care , charitable activities, advice centers and leisure and school-related offers. Congregational pedagogy is not understood as a derivative action from theology or pedagogy, but as an independent church field of theory and practice.

Community educator is a job title for people who are qualified for these fields of work. The qualification to become a community educator is obtained

  • by studying community education, religious education or church community practice (under this name only at Protestant universities), possibly also social education
  • training to become a deacon , or
  • through further qualification after corresponding activity and recognition by the respective regional church or the bishop .

Parish educators work in church or parish communities, church districts, regional churches and dioceses (e.g. school authorities), charitable organizations ( Diakonie , Caritas , missio etc.), schools and educational institutions , or rarely as a freelancer.

“Community educator” is only used as a job title in the Protestant Church. In the Catholic Church, the related terms religious pedagogue (religion teacher), deacon and pastoral assistant are used. A significant part of the above-mentioned activities in parishes and care facilities is, however, also performed by volunteer workers.

In the East German Protestant regional churches EKBO , EKM , and ELLM there is also the job description of the ordained community educator . After eight semesters of study at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences Berlin and a vicariate (together with theologians), community educators can be ordained into the church service. There they also perform parish services and are allowed to administer the casuals .

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literature

  • Perspectives for diaconal and parish pedagogical training and occupational profiles. Activities - competency model - studies (EKD texts 118), ed. from the Church Office of the EKD, Hanover 2014.
  • Gottfried Adam , Rainer Lachmann (Ed.): New community pedagogical compendium . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 3-899-71524-1 .
  • Ferdinand H. Barth (Ed.): Unfinished Reformation. Paths to community education . Bogen, Darmstadt 1995, ISBN 3-920606-10-8 .
  • Ferdinand H. Barth: Church and parish education or: The parish educational question about the structural heresy of the pastor church . Bogen, Darmstadt 1998, ISBN 3-920606-21-3 .
  • Peter Bubmann , Hildrun Keßler, Christian Mulia, Dirk Oesselmann, Nicole Piroth , Martin Steinhäuser (eds.), Community Education, 2nd revised, expanded and bibliographically supplemented edition, Berlin / Boston 2019, ISBN 978-3-11-055105-1 .
  • Peter Bubmann, Tensions and Challenges of Congregational Education, in: Practical Theology (PrTh) 48 (2013), 43–50.
  • Christian GRETHLEIN : Christian Education . de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1994, ISBN 3-11-013766-6 .
  • Hanna Kasparick, Hildrun Keßler (eds.), Breaking up and thinking ahead. Congregational pedagogical impulses on a theory of professionalism and volunteering in the church , Leipzig 2019, ISBN 978-3374060597 .
  • Bernhard Mutschler, Gerhard Hess (ed.): Community education. Basics, challenges and fields of action of the present , Leipzig 2014, ISBN 978-3374040551 .
  • Markus Printz : Basic lines of a Bible-oriented church education. Pedagogical and practical-theological considerations , SCM R. Brockhaus , Witten 1996, ISBN 978-3-4172-9414-9 .

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  1. ↑ Martina Blasberg-Kuhnke, Peter Bubmann: Community / Community Education . In: WiReLex. February 2016, accessed April 2, 2020 .