Reflections on the Question of "Non-Denominationalism" in the East German Context of Community Work with Children

Inspired by the EKD basic text on non-denominationalism (2020) and its call to use "contact areas", the problem area indicated by this statement is related to the congregational pedagogical context of work with children in the Christian teaching tradition in East Germany. With the help of quantitative and qualitative research results the indicated problem area will be liquefied processually, contextually and didactically. This makes it possible to systemically classify the concrete potentials of both a recreational pedagogical and a content- and experience-oriented way of working with children and to interpret them as "contact reliefs" and to point out design opportunities that are ultimately no longer limited to the specifically East German situation.

Gemeindepädagogik, Konfessionslosigkeit, Christenlehre, Ostdeutschland, Arbeit mit Kindern in Kirchgemeinden