Project Global Ecumenical Learning in Church Education

Scenario Globalization

On the one hand: a feeling of insecurity and uncertain future perspectives; on the other hand: the fascination of unlimited possibilities. Applicable to everyone: Human relationships are incorporated into a global context which confronts and challenges the shaping of social life in encounters with others as well as in the horizon of a just existence for all forms of life.

The Project takes up this scenario as a basis for the religious mandate of teachers as well as deacons and social workers in social, religious and communal sciences. Confrontations and challenges are the points of departure for processes of learning in the tension between threatening poverty and enriching multiple possibilities.

Targets

• Developing, extending and supporting global education in teaching, events and initiatives
• Profiling organization and culture of the church education institutions with elements of global and ecumenical education
• Establishing networks of fields of experience and ecumenical institutions with the work of church education institutions

Tasks - Actions - Possibilities

• Defining the competences of students in view of future work
• Developing and testing educational modules for seminars and practice as well as joint training programs with national and international partners (materials, excursions, research and exchange of experiences)
• Encouraging cooperation between Protestant Universities of Applied Sciences (Evangelische Fachhochschulen), training institutions and partners in the area of ecumenism and development politics
• Establishing advisory projects and teams
• Documentation and distribution of the results by means of publications, conferences and networks

Direct Target Groups

• Protestant Universities of Applied Sciences
• Training institutions for deacons
• Teachers of social and religious education, deacons in the training process
• Initiatives and organizations in the area of developmental politics and ecumenism

Indirect Target Groups

• Churches, parishes
• Youth groups
• One-World-Groups
• Persons engaged in social activities
• Schools
• Missionary institutions

Comenius Institut
Dr. Dirk Oesselmann
Schreiberstrasse 12
48149 Münster
Tel.: 0251 / 98101 34
oesselmann@comenius.de

Supported by:

Evangelischer Entwicklungsdienst - EED
Frau Barbara Riek
Ulrich-von-Hassell Str. 76
53123 Bonn

Beginning: 1. September 2004