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Dissertation prize for Kassel religious education teacher Katharina Gaida
The dissertation is entitled: "Promoting the ability to empathize and change perspectives in interreligious encounters in primary school children. A qualitative-empirical study of the university education program 'Kinderakademie - Weltreligionen im Dialog'".
In her work, Katharina Gaida explores the question of how the ability to empathize and change perspectives can be promoted through interreligious encounters in children of primary school age. The so-called FEPIB model, which Gaida developed in her dissertation, can help to clarify this. The FEPIB model identifies support options for teachers of religion and ethics at elementary school in the context of interreligious learning. In her qualitative-empirical study, she examines the concerns of the specially designed and threefold implemented university education program "Kinderakademie - Weltreligionen im Dialog". Her dissertation thus offers a comprehensive theoretical foundation, an empirical qualitative analysis of the data material and a concluding summary and discussion of the results as well as the need for further research.
Katharina Gaida is a research assistant in religious education at the Institute for Protestant Theology at the University of Kassel. She studied to become an elementary school teacher. In 2018, she founded the educational program "Kinderakademie - Weltreligionen im Dialog" at the University of Kassel.
The dissertation will be published (in spring) 2025 in the series "Pädagogische Diskurse" (Brill/Schöningh) edited by Erik Ode and Michael Obermaier.
Further information:
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Contact:
Dr. Katharina Gaida
Research assistant at the Institute for Protestant Theology, Department of Religious Education at the University of Kassel
Tel.: 0561 804-3489
Email: katharina.gaida[at]uni-kassel.de