05-11-2022

Our Partnership with JWL

With Pope Francis' 2017 encyclical "Veritatis Gaudium", Catholic colleges and universities are faced with a reformed educational mission that opens up and also demands a certain new understanding of education for academic work. The realization of this expanded mission of Catholic universities through the principles of a globalized solidarity, a new dialogicity, a more decisive inter- and transdisciplinarity as well as a new network work, should show "solutions on a higher level", which brings a "mysticism of the we" in the divided global world on the way for a humanization of the one world.

In a new cooperation with the "Jesuit Worldwide Learning" project, the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt dares to implement this mission in an international educational offensive for people in marginalized contexts in refugee camps. The Faculty of Religious Education and Church Education is taking the lead in this pilot function for several educational formats via digitally controlled learning programs and in cooperation with "on-site teachers".

The article by Prof. Dr. Uto Meier and Dr. Marina Tsoi outlines the theological legitimization, presents the pedagogical concept and describes the concrete implementation in the "Learning Facilitator" certificate course presented as an example.

You can read the full article here.