Harry Noormann

Harry Noormann (born January 14, 1948 in Holterfehn , East Frisia ) is a German Protestant religious educator and retired professor for Protestant theology and religious education at the Institute for Theology and Religious Education of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University in Hanover .

Life

From 1967 Norrmann studied Protestant theology and social sciences in Wuppertal, Heidelberg and Göttingen. As an academic tutor at the Evangelical Theological Faculty of Göttingen, he was responsible for the conception and implementation of the first integrated introductory phase in 1971. In 1973 he was the Evangelical Theological Faculty of the University of Göttingen Dr. theol. PhD. In 1974 he became a research assistant in the field of Protestant theology and religious education at the Lower Saxony University of Education , Braunschweig department, and in 1981 he became a university assistant there. From the summer semester 1984 to the winter semester 1985/86 he administered the second chair at the seminar for evang. Theology and religious education in the educational sciences department of the TU Braunschweig , to which the Braunschweig department of the PH Lower Saxony had been transferred. There he completed his habilitation in 1986. In 1987 he became a research assistant in the Ev. Theology and religious education at the Faculty of Education I at the University of Hanover . In 1993/94 he was a professor for religious education at the Ev.-theol. Faculty of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main . From March 1, 1996 he was full professor for Protestant theology and didactics of the Ev. Religion at the Faculty of Education at the University of Hanover (today the Philosophical Faculty ). There he worked from 2003 to 2012 as managing director of the intercultural pedagogy working group, from 2008 to 2011 as research dean and from 2011 until his retirement on April 1st, 2017 as dean .

Noormann is married and has three children.

Memberships and functions

• Member of the Society for Scientific Religious Education (formerly the working group for Protestant religious education in Germany [board member 1995–1998])
• Managing Director of the Intercultural Education and Developmental Education working group at the Philosophical Faculty of Leibniz University Hannover - Interpäd - (2003–2011)
• Member of the "DIVERSITY MIGRATION EDUCATION ( DiversitAS )" at the Philosophical Faculty of Leibniz University (until 2016)
• Member of the Advisory Board for the Church Development Service of the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Churches in Braunschweig and Hanover (KED) (since 2010)
• "Action Committee of Lower Saxony Religious Teachers" - Member of the Standing Committee (since 2007)
• Member of the board of the research initiative "Relations of Difference - Dynamics of Conflict" at the Philosophical Faculty of Leibniz Universität Hannover (2008–2012)
• Member of the research forum "Religion in a Cultural Context" at the Philosophical Faculty of Leibniz University Hannover (since 2008)
• Member of the Faculty Council of the Philosophical Faculty of Leibniz University 2007–2009
• Member of the Council of the Graduate Academy of Leibniz University Hannover (2010/11)

Fonts (selection)

• Protestantism and the political mandate 1945–1949. Two volumes. Gütersloh publishing house Mohn, Gütersloh 1985.
• Poverty in Germany. Christians before the new social question. Calwer Verlag, Stuttgart 1991.
• Church history (= compact theology). Calwer Verlag, Stuttgart 2006.

Editorships

• Co-editor (since 1985) and (2000–2003) chief editor of the journal ru - Ecumenical Journal for Religious Education (discontinued at the end of 2003).
• Editor of the religious pedagogical contexts and concepts series, LIT-Verlag Münster (11 volumes so far).
• Co-editor of the series (with Asit Datta): Education in the world society , Frankfurt / Main: Brandes & Apsel.
• with Ulrich Becker , Friedrich Johannsen : New Testament workbook for religious educators. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1993; 4th revised and expanded edition 2013.
• with Ulrich Becker, Bernd Trocholepczy: Ecumenical workbook religious education. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2000; 3rd updated edition 2007.
• Workbook Religion and History. Christianity in intercultural memory. Two volumes. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2009/2013.
• with Christine Lehmann, Heiko Lamprecht, Martin Schmidt-Kortenbusch: Sustainable School - Sustainable Religious Education. Challenges to schools, politics and the church. Jena 2011.

Web links

• https://www.ithrw.uni-hannover.de/lhnlehreforschung0.html