Collegial Counseling 2025

EFTRE Conference 2025
Collegial Counseling

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I wonder…

Collegial counseling

Friday 15:15-16:30

Is there a question or issue in Religious Education you’re struggling with? Wondering how colleagues in other countries are handling it? Then this session is for you! Bring your challenge and get fresh ideas from peers across Europe. Whether it’s about curriculum, methods, teacher training, or big-picture changes like integrating AI or decolonising the curriculum, everyone contributes, everyone learns.

The session runs in a friendly World Café format:

  • Each table hosts a different challenge.
  • The person raising the issue explains it briefly.
  • A group discussion follows.
  • Then, you switch tables to explore another topic.

Come share, listen, and discover new perspectives and practical solutions from the European RE community!


Friday 15:15-16:30

More ‘I wonder..’ challenges can be submitted on site during the conference.

‘I wonder… whether and in which sense confessionality could be a viable category of individualized religious didactics’
Christian Kahrs (Germany)

Protestant University of Applied Sciences Dresden, Germany

My leading idea is, that freedom within the process of being educated is based on the difference of person and subject matter. But what matter the person should encounter?

I wonder whether and in which sense confessionality could be a viable category of individualized religious didactics. What could be the benefit for learners to encounter not only the private religion of their learning colleagues but a higher generated shape of religion?

My question put into a thesis: Religion (Christianity, Islam, Buddhism …) never encounters as a macro-system, but in a special meso-level confessional shape. And no private religiosity is totally constructed only from micro-level inputs, but it is shaped in perception of meso-level confessional expression of macro-level religion as a cultural high generated structure of semantics and pragmatics. Therefore “confessionality” – as a matter to be encountered with – can be looked upon as a didactic link between “religiosity” an “religion”.


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