DARWIN Digitale Dissertationen German Version Strich

FU Berlin
Digitale Dissertation

Karin Borck :
The Micha from Prenzlauer Berg
Depictions of the prophets in secondary school religious textbooks. A textbook analysis from an exegetical perspektive
"Der Micha vom Prenzlauer Berg"

 FU Logo

|Abstract| |Table of Contents| |More Information|

Abstract

This dissertation investigates the ways in which schoolbooks incorporate scientific research and upon which biblical interpretation they are based. Using the texts of the Old Testament prophets, subject matter which is designated part of the compulsory timetable in Grade I of German secondary schools [Sekundarstufe I], this work analyses and evaluates protestant religious textbooks, and compares and contrasts specialist knowledge and schoolbook depictions in order to examine the often one-sided manner in which their form and motifs are incorporated. There is a justified suspicion that an interest which is primarily oriented to the conditions under which texts were produced, such as that pursued by scientific research, runs contrary to the religious textbooks' more reception-oriented evaluation. In the form of a series of reviews, the study analyses six individual units from religious textbooks and evaluates them from the perspective of educational aims, subject teaching methods, scientific interpretation and specialist knowledge/prophet depiction.
The results of the analysis demonstrate - as is the case with almost all analyses of schoolbooks - clear deficiencies. These can be seen above all in the text perception. The religious textbooks do not understand the traditions as evolved, recorded literary and theological testimonials, but more often evaluates them prematurely in the light of a particular - mostly socially oriented - educational aim. This leads to a two-dimensional manner of reading the historically diachronic texts. The biblical records are reduced to characteristics which are structural equals, and the sense of equivocalness is lost. Central here is the wish to retain a sense of continuity and to demonstrate the continuing relevance of the ancient records for the present. The schoolbooks call for pupils to show more commitment to the socially underprivileged and to involve themselves in ecology and conservation. The texts of the Old Testament prophets (above all Amos, Isaiah and Jeremiah) as well as their current "opposite numbers" from history and from the present (Martin Luther King, Mother Theresa, Desmond Tutu, etc.) are stylised here as examples to be imitated.
Jugdement which is particularly characteristic for pre-exile prophecy, is scarcely taken up by the religious textbooks. The idea of God's intervention in history, of which there is much evidence in the biblical texts, cannot simply be transposed into the present. Does God intervene in history if injustice becomes rife? The religious textbooks evade this question through their selective choice of texts: words of threat are not central here, but rather exhortations and admotions. Thus the religious textbooks favour a clearly deuteronomic and conservative image of the prophets.

Table of Contents

Download the whole PhDthesis as a zip-tar file or as zip-File

For download in PDF format click the chapter title

Vorwort 3
I Einleitung6
II Das Medium "Schulbuch": Aufgaben, Wirkung, Zulassungen, Analysen und Methoden. Arbeitsansatz der vorliegenden Untersuchung 10
1.Schulbuch - Religionsbuch10
1.1. Was ist ein Schul- bzw. Religionsbuch? 11
EXKURS: Genehmigungsverfahren bei Religionsbüchern in Nordrhein-Westfalen 15
1. Biblische Grundsätze bei der Genehmigung 15
2. Fachwissenschaftliche Kriterien für die Genehmigung 17
1.2. Biblische Texte in Religionsbüchern 18
2. Schulbuchanalysen - Religionsbuchanalysen 21
2.1. Forschungsstand 22
2.2. Geschichtlicher Rückblick 23
2.3. Wissenschaftliche Religionsbuchanalysen: Forschungsstand 26
2.4. Zusammenfassung 32
3. Methodenprobleme 34
4. Arbeitsansatz der vorliegenden Untersuchung 48
4.1. Die Wahl des Themas 48
4.2. Die Auswahl der Religionsbücher 49
4.3. Methodisches Vorgehen 51
4.3.1. Multiperspektivität 51
4.3.2. Sachanalyse 52
4.3.3. Analyseform, Analyseraster und Untersuchungsablauf 53
III Sachanalyse: Positionen zum Prophetenverständnis in der deutschsprachigen Forschung 58
1. Methodische Vorüberlegungen 58
2. Positionen zum Verständnis von Prophetie 60
2.1. Heinrich Ewald 60
2.2. Bernhard Duhm 61
2.3. Julius Wellhausen 64
2.4. Hermann Gunkel 66
2.5. Max Weber 69
2.6. Zwischen Max Weber und Gerhard von Rad 72
2.7. Gerhard von Rad 75
2.8. Siegfried Herrmann 78
2.9. Hans Walter Wolff 81
2.10. Walter Zimmerli 85
2.11. Werner H. Schmidt 87
2.12. Klaus Koch 90
2.13. Odil Hannes Steck 94
2.14. Auswertung 98
IV Analysen107
1. Curriculare Vorgaben 107
1.1. Lehrpläne 107
1.2. Richtlinien und Lehrpläne Nordrhein-Westfalen 109
1.3. Prophetie im Lehrplan von Nordrhein-Westfalen 111
2. Religionsbücher 119
2.1. Kurzcharakterisierung des Materials 119
2.2. Das neue Kursbuch Religion 7/8 (1986) 125
2.3. Das neue Kursbuch Religion 9/10 (1988) 136
2.4. LebensZeichen 7/8 (1990) 150
2.5. Das Leben suchen 7/8 (1993) 166
2.6. Hoffnung lernen. Religion 5/6 (1995) - 2.7. Gerechtigkeit lernen. Religion 7/8 (1996) 179
EXKURS: Ingo Baldermann: Einführung in die Biblische Didaktik 180
2.6. Hoffnung lernen. Religion 5/6 (1995) 189
2.7. Gerechtigkeit lernen. Religion 7/8 (1996) 206
V Zusammenfassung der Ergebnisse und Ausblick 228
1. Grundsätzliche Ergebnisse 228
2. Präsentation des Themas Prophetie im Religionsbuch 229
3. Rezeption biblischer Texte und Aktualisierung der prophetischen Botschaft in Religionsbüchern 231
4. Das Verhältnis von Fachwissenschaft und Religionsbüchern 234
5. Ausblick 237
VI Literaturverzeichnis242
1. Schulbücher, Lehrerhandbücher, Unterrichtsmaterialien, Lehr- pläne und andere rechtliche Grundlagen des Religionsunterrichts 242
2. Wissenschaftliche Literatur aus den Bereichen Religions- pädagogik, Schulbuchforschung und empirische Sozialforschung 244
3. Exegetische Literatur und angrenzende Gebiete 253

More Information:

Online available: http://www.diss.fu-berlin.de/2001/34/indexe.html
Language of PhDThesis: german
Keywords: Prophecy, textbook analysis, religious education, hermeneutic
DNB-Sachgruppe: 12 Christliche Religion
Date of disputation: 29-Apr-1999
PhDThesis from: Fachbereich Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften, Freie Universität Berlin
First Referee: Prof. Dr. Michael Weinrich
Second Referee: Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Liwak
Contact (Author): kborck@gmx.de
Contact (Advisor): Ruediger=liwak@rz.hu-berlin.de
Date created:15-Mar-2001
Date available:16-Mar-2001

 

|| DARWIN|| Digitale Dissertationen || Dissertation|| German Version|| FU Berlin|| Seitenanfang ||

Mail-Icon Fragen und Kommentare an:
darwin@inf.fu-berlin.de

© Freie Universität Berlin 1999