Completed projects

Digitality and Normativity in Informal and Formal Learning Contexts (DigiNorm:iL)

Research group at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU); proposal for an RTG submitted to the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG)

Status: RTG proposal submitted Sept 2021
Funding: German Research Foundatoin (DFG)
Designated speaker: Professor Manfred Pirner
Designated second speaker: Professor Michaela Gläser-Zikuda
Collaborating colleagues:
1. Berges, Marc-Pascal, Prof. Dr.
3. Frederking, Volker, Prof. Dr.
5. Händel, Marion, PD Dr.
7. Kramer, Michaela, Dr.
9. Kudlich, Hans, Prof. Dr.
11. Müller, Jane, Dr.
13. Schicha, Christian, Prof. Dr.
14. Schubert, Jan C., Prof. Dr.
12. Pirner, Manfred L., Prof. Dr.
10. Martschinke, Sabine, Prof. Dr.
8. Kretschmann, Tabea, Dr.
6. Kammerl, Rudolf, Prof. Dr.
4. Gläser-Zikuda, Michaela, Prof. Dr.
2. Ertl, Sonja, Jun.-Prof. Dr.
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Religion as Resource and Risk (ReReRi). Empirical Studies on the Religiosity of Young Refugees

Status: 2016-2018 (completed)
Funding: Staedtler-Stiftung
Project lead: Prof. Dr. Manfred Pirner
Collaboration partner: Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories, Bamberg
Project staff: Julia Bradtke
Publications:Pirner, M. L., & Bradtke, J. (2020, in press). Religion and Education as Resources for Young Refugees. Preliminary Results from an Empirical Mixed-Methods Study. In E. Aslan (Ed.), Religion(s) @ school. Münster: Waxmann.

Consolidation of ‚Perception and Value Centered School Evaluation“ (WWSE) – in the context of our Competence Unit for School Devolopment and Evaluation (KSE)

Status: 2017 – 2020 (completed)
Funding: Bosch Foundation
Project lead: Prof. Michaela Gläser-Zikuda (School Pedagogy, FAU), Prof. Manfred Pirner (Religious Education, FAU), em. Prof. Dieter Spanhel (General Education, FAU), Dr. Klaus Wild (School Pedagogy, FAU)
Project staff: Susanne Wild

Focus patterns of internal school evaluation. A secondary analysis of data from the evaluation of schools – in collaboration with our Competence Unit for School Devolopment and Evaluation (KSE)

Status: 2015 – 2018 (completed)
Funding: Bosch Foundation
Project lead: Prof. Michaela Gläser-Zikuda (School Pedagogy, FAU), Prof. Manfred Pirner (Religious Education, FAU), em. Prof. Dieter Spanhel (General Education, FAU), Dr. Klaus Wild (School Pedagogy, FAU)
Project staff: Stephanie Simmeth
Publication: Pirner, M. L., Spanhel, D., Wild, K., & Gläser-Zikuda, M. (unter Mitarbeit von Simmeth, S.) (2019). Fokusmuster interner Schulevaluation – eine Sekundäranalyse empirischer Schulevaluationsdaten (Schulpädagogische Untersuchungen Nürnberg, Forschungsbericht Nr. 42). Nürnberg: Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.

Religious educators in Bavaria. A representative survey on Protestant Religious Education at mainstream schools

Status: 2014 – 2017 (completed)
Funding: Lutheran Church of Bavaria
Project lead: Prof. Manfred Pirner (religious education, FAU)
Project staff: Daniela Wamser
Project results (Power Point Presentation in German)
Book publication: Pirner, M. L., unter Mitarbeit von Kertes, D. (2021, in Press). Wie Religionslehrkräfte ticken. Eine empirisch-quantitative Studie. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer. Mit Beiträgen von Hans-Günter Heimbrock, Christhard Lück & Martin Rothgangel, Uta Pohl-Patalong, Ulrich Riegel, Peter Schreiner und Friedrich Schweitzer.
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Public theology – religion – education. Interreligious perspectives. (12th International Nuremberg Forum – Academic Conference)

Status: 3-6 Oct. 2017 (completed)
Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG), City of Nuremberg, Protestant Church of Germany (EKD), Lutheran Church of Bavaria
Project lead: Prof. Manfred Pirner, Dr. Werner Haussmann, Prof. em. Johannes Lähnemann and team
Project partners: EKD, Global Network of Public Theology (GNPT), Prof. Peter Bubmann (Practical Theology, FAU), Dr. Florian Höhne (Systematic Theology, Humboldt-Univ. Berlin), Prof. Andreas Nehring (Religious Studies, FAU), Prof. Henrik Simojoki (Religious Education, Univ. of Bamberg), Prof. Thomas Wabel (Systematic Theology, Univ. of Bamberg)
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