TY  - JOUR
A1  - Civitillo, Sauro
A1  - Schachner, Maja Katharina
A1  - Juang, Linda P.
A1  - van de Vijver, Fons J. R.
A1  - Handrick, Anna
A1  - Noack, Peter
T1  - Towards a better understanding of cultural diversity approaches at school
BT  - a multi-informant and mixed-methods study
JF  - Learning, Culture and Social Interaction
N2  - The current study investigates two types of cultural diversity approaches at school, namely (1) fostering equality and (2) promoting cultural pluralism. Adopting a mixed-methods design, this study assesses teachers' (n = 207) and students' (n = 1,644) self-reported perceptions of descriptive norms and evaluates school practices and artefacts in the physical and virtual environment of 22 secondary schools in south-west Germany. Results showed that in all schools under investigation teachers and students perceived descriptive norms fostering mostly equality. A wide variety of practices and artefacts was found, revealing a third distinct cultural approach leaning towards endorsing the majority culture. Different practices and artefacts were linked to an emphasis on equality, cultural pluralism, and endorsing the majority culture. Implications for educational policy, as well as applied diversity research, are discussed.
KW  - Cultural diversity
KW  - School
KW  - Equality
KW  - Pluralism
KW  - Mixed-methods
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lcsi.2016.09.002
SN  - 2210-6561
VL  - 12
SP  - 1
EP  - 14
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Oxford
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Homolka, Walter
T1  - Jewish theology in Germany
BT  - the co-existence of secular and religious discourse
JF  - Society
N2  - How often do secular and religious discourses communicate and interrelate at points where they intersect in society? When the Science of Judaism (Wissenschaft des Judentums) evolved at the beginning of the nineteenth century, it intended, through both theological and secular studies, to demonstrate the general value of Jewish culture and civilization. Although denied a place in the public university system until after the Shoah, Jewish Studies departments have since been established at various German universities, and, in 2013, the School of Jewish Theology of the University of Potsdam was opened as the first Jewish divinity school in the history of the German university system. With this, what was once a utopian dream became a reality, and both branches of the Science of Judaism, religious and secular, became undisputed parts of the German academic scene, using similar tools for differing aims. Two prime examples of the intersection of the secular and religious in Germany today are the proliferation of divinity schools at state universities, on the one hand, and the development of military chaplaincy in the armed forces, on the other. Both of these, through contractual agreements, aim to regulate and facilitate religious pluralism within a secular state. While the one has already begun to take place, the other is currently under discussion.
KW  - Christian state
KW  - Abraham Geiger
KW  - Germany
KW  - Jewish theology
KW  - Military chaplaincy
KW  - Ludwig Philippson
KW  - Pluralism
KW  - Science of Judaism
KW  - Secularism
KW  - Wissenschaft des Judentums
KW  - Leopold Zunz
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-017-0164-3
SN  - 0147-2011
SN  - 1936-4725
VL  - 54
SP  - 426
EP  - 431
PB  - Springer
CY  - New York
ER  -