Georg Hilger

Georg Hilger (* 1939 ) is a German Catholic religion teacher and emeritus professors .

Life

After studying to be a teacher in Aachen and passing the two state examinations, elementary school teacher and head of religious education at a state district seminar (1965–1970). As a lecturer for Catholic religious education and school education 1970–1972, collaboration in the establishment of the Institute for Teacher Training, an institution of the five (arch) dioceses in North Rhine-Westphalia . 1972–1975 assistant professor at the Pedagogical University of Rhineland , there doctorate in educational science with a focus on religious education. Subsequently, until 1984 again lecturer at the institute for teacher training in Essen-Werden, besides teaching positions at various universities and substitute professor for Catholic theology and its didactics at the University of Duisburg, here habilitation and later professor. 1984–1994 Director of the Catechetical Institute of the Diocese of Aachen - Institute for Religious Education and Catechetics . From April 1, 1994 until his retirement on April 1, 2005 full professor for practical theology (religious education and didactics of religious instruction) at the Catholic-Theological Faculty of the University of Regensburg . Visiting professor at the Catholic Theological Faculty Vienna in the winter semester 2011/12.

Georg Hilger is married. He has three children.

Research priorities

Contributions to research in religious education concentrate largely on questions of religious didactics in curriculum research and development in religious education in schools on fundamental issues as well as in the context of innovative curricula and textbook projects, the assessment and further development of research in religious didactics through comprehensive standard works and numerous publications on current challenges in religious education and training. The content-related profile includes consistently taking sides for a theologically and pedagogically justified subject orientation as well as for the consideration of the aesthetic dimension of religious learning.

Publications (a selection)

• Religious instruction as an open learning process , Kösel-Verlag Munich 1975. ISBN 3-46630-141-6
• Access to Biblical Texts . A Bible reading aid for primary schools. Old Testament (together with Hans Zirker et al.), Patmos, Düsseldorf 1981, ISBN 3-49178-013-6
• Religious instruction on the sidelines? The tension between youth - school - religion (together with George Reilly), Munich 1993.
• Perceiving and shaping: aesthetic learning . In: Münchener Theologische Zeitschrift 51 (2000) 201–210.
• Reli. Teaching work for Catholic religious instruction in lower secondary level (together with Elisabeth Reil), Munich 2001ff.
• Religious Didactics (together with Stephan Leimgruber and Hans-Georg Ziebertz), Munich 2010, new edition, fully revised. 6th edition of 1st edition 2001.
• Religious didactics primary school. Handbook for the practice of Protestant and Catholic religious instruction (together with Werner H. Ritter, Konstantin Lindner, Henrik Simojoki, Eva Stögbauer), Munich 2014, revised and expanded new edition.

Web links

• Georg Hilger at the University of Regensburg