Internationalization

The professionalization of students in Theological Conversations with Children and Adolescents at the University of Kassel is attracting international attention. Visitors from Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Belgium have already sat in on research workshops.

International publications bear witness to the work done in Kassel:

• "Dieux? La Parole aux enfants," produced by Guy Rainotte and Gabriela Radermacher at meromedia, Paris 2010. (DVD; documentation of teaching sequences, interview excerpts and sequences from the Kassel research workshop). A dubbing of the entire DVD into German took place in June 2012 by staff of the University of Kassel. The German language DVD is published by Calwer Verlag under the title "Theologisieren mit Kindern. Basics, impulses and examples from practice".

• Together with Kraft, Friedhelm: Theologising with Children in Classrooms in Germany. In: Schreiner, Peter/Kraft, Friedhelm/Wright, Andrew (Eds.), Good Practice in Religious Education in Europe. Examples and Perspectives of Primary Schools. Schriften aus dem Comenius-Institut, edited by Volker Elsenbast, Vol. 15. Berlin 2007, 87-100.

The International Congress for Child and Youth Theology held in Trondheim/Norway in April 2013 was introduced by a lecture of Prof. Dr. Petra Freudenberger-Lötz. Here she located the Kassel theology of children and youth in the international discourse and presented impulses for the implementation of the approach.

The contributions of this congress are published in the series "Beiträge zur Kinder- und Jugendtheologie" edited by Mrs. Freudenberger-Lötz at kassel university press. Cf. Freudenberger-Lötz, Petra/Büttner, Gerhard (eds.), Children's voices. Theological, philosophical and spiritual perspectives. Beiträge zur Kinder- und Jugendtheologie, vol. 32. Kassel 2015.

In February and March 2015, Ms. Freudenberger-Lötz conducted a research trip to New Zealand. She worked on the question of the teacher-student relationship and the feedback culture in New Zealand schools. On site, she was supported in documenting her research by Morgan Fowler, an arts student at the University of Canterbury (Christchurch) majoring in Media and Communication and Cinema Studies. A film and print publication is in the works. The diverse experiences were extremely motivating and stimulating for the further development of the approach of Theological Conversations in the classroom.