On the formative role of religious education teachers in the memories of former pupils: Partial results of the oral history project 'Religiöse Vielfalt an Wiener Schulen der Zwischenkriegszeit'

On the formative role of religious education teachers in the memories of former pupils

Partial results of the oral history project 'Religiöse Vielfalt an Wiener Schulen der Zwischenkriegszeit'

Authors

  • Karsten Bernhard Konstantin Lehmann Kirchlich Pädagogische Hochschule Wien/Krems
  • Alexandra Katzian University of Salzburg

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25364/10.31:2023.1.13

Keywords:

teacher, school, Austria, Vienna, interwar period, recognitions, oral history

Abstract

The article looks at a dimension of the teacher-student interaction that has repeatedly been discussed in the wake of John Hattie. Based on a total of 24 detailed oral history interviews, it focuses on the longue durée of memories of (religion) teachers. The article analyses how contemporary witnesses, who attended Viennese
schools in the interwar period, remember their teachers in the present. The analyses show on the one hand that teachers who were generally remembered positively can still be present as personalities decades after their pupils attended school. Teachers characterized as negative, on the other hand, are very rarely remembered in the long run. The same applies to the concrete content of lessons. Even in their memories of a clearly defined subject such as religious education, the eyewitnesses in the interviews hardly ever refer to concrete subject content.

Author Biographies

Karsten Bernhard Konstantin Lehmann, Kirchlich Pädagogische Hochschule Wien/Krems

HS-Prof. Dr. Karsten Lehmann, Hochschulprofessor für ‘Interreligiosität‘ an der KPH - Kirchlichen Pädagogischen Hochschule Wien / Krems sowie Leiter des SIR – Spezialforschungsbereichs ‚Interreligiosität‘ ebendort.

 

HS-Prof. Dr. Karsten Lehmann

Kirchlichen Pädagogischen Hochschule Wien/Krems

Spezialforschungsbereichs ‚Interreligiosität‘

Mayerweckstraße 1

A - 1210 Wien

e-mail: karsten.lehmann(at)kphvie.ac.at

Alexandra Katzian, University of Salzburg

Alexandra Katzian, MA, ehemalige Studienassistentin am SIR - Spezialfoschungsbereich Interreligiosität, Dissertantin am Zentrum Theologie Interkulturell und Studium der Religionen der Universität Salzburg sowie Projektmanagerin LEADER Region Südliches Waldviertel-Nibelungengau.

 

Alexandra Katzian, MA

LEADER Region Südliches Waldvierte-Nibelungengau

Unterer Markt 10

A-3631 Ottenschlag

e-mail: a.katzian(at)leaderregion.at

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Published

2023-05-15

How to Cite

Lehmann, K. B. K. and Katzian, A. (2023) “On the formative role of religious education teachers in the memories of former pupils: Partial results of the oral history project ’Religiöse Vielfalt an Wiener Schulen der Zwischenkriegszeit’”, Austrian Journal of Religious Education, 31(1), pp. 232–250. doi: 10.25364/10.31:2023.1.13.
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