Summary (Malgorzata Schonder: Coping capacities in a German-Polish cultural comparison): Comparative cultural research reveals interesting differences in coping strategies between collectivist and individualistic cultures. However, there is no study in a German-Polish comparison so far. Therefore, the question of whether and to what extent coping capacities of young people from a more individualistic culture (such… Read More »
Summary: Lifelong learning has been recognized by many internationally renowned organizations which claim that people should possess certain life skills or competences to live in a world full of complex uncertainties. In this study, we propose A phaslised, thematic and socialised (PTS) pedagogy as a teaching approach to address the issues concerning how to equip… Read More »
The authors of the contributions to this issue are from Israel, China, the USA, Russia, Taiwan, Poland and Germany, and they represent different disciplines in the Humanities. Correspondingly, this issue adheres to one of the fundamental concepts of the journal – to promote the international dialogue on problems in education, where not only educationalists and… Read More »
Summary (Henrike Genzel & Anja Franz: Decision Making for a Long Term International Voluntary Service – Which Role Do Social and Educational Background Play?): The article attempts to reveal differences in the decision process for a long term international voluntary service. Those differences are analyzed with regards to the social, as well as the educational… Read More »
Summary (Herbert Asselmeyer: The Commune as a True „ Learning Place“ – a New Perspective for Educational Regions? On the Special Supplementary Relationship of Significant Learning Places: School and Commune): This contribution deals with the explication of the idea and concept of learning regions, to which school networks make an important contribution, because they are… Read More »
Summary (Malgorzata Schonder: Sense of Coherence and Religious Beliefs of Polish and German Students): This empirical study contributes to the question of whether there is a difference in the influence of religious beliefs and affiliation on the sense of coherence between young people from a secular country (such as Germany) and a Catholic country (such… Read More »
Summary (Renate Girmes: Living Through the Spirit or: Why Educational Institutions Should Be Considered „Communities“ for Human Development): The following text explores existing arguments for a new view on the tasks of the education system from a tradition of Christian thought. It takes up what can be considered the sense and promise of baptism in… Read More »
Summary (Gerd Biegel: Braunschweig and the Reformation – Regional Historical Aspects): This essay looks at the early Reformation movement in a small Guelphic principality from a regional historical perspective, with a view to the independent development in the city of Braunschweig. The cities were the actual locations where the spiritiual-clerical impulses which originated from Wittenberg… Read More »
Summary (Anja Franz & Dietrich-Eckhard Franz: Significant Social Utopias in the Context of the German Peasants’ War and the Lutherian Reformation: Thomas Müntzer, Michael Gaismair and Johann Hergot): Social-utopian thinking has a long tradition in Germany. Upon closer examination of social-utopian history, it is evident that many society- and utopia-focused critiques point far beyond the… Read More »
Summary (Gottfried Orth: “An Oven Full of Love” – Luther’s Speech on God in the Context of (Early) Capitalist Civilization): Martin Luther’s writings contain a waelth of economic analyses and perspectives on the beginning capitalist changes in the economy and society of his time. In this case, his economic considerations did not pertain to areas… Read More »