Katechese mit Jugendlichen und jungen Erwachsenen

Katechese ist keine isolierte Aktivität, sondern ist eingebettet in alle kirchlichen Vollzüge, die den Rahmen für ihr Gelingen bilden. „Was fängt die Kirche mit der Jugend an?“ ist die entscheidende Frage der Katechese mit Jugendlichen und jungen Erwachsenen. Angesichts der tiefgreifenden Krise der Kirche erweist sie sich als ekklesiologisches Anliegen, denn sie verlangt von der Kirche den glaubwürdigen Nachweis, die erneuernde Kraft der Jugend, wie im Dokument der Jugendsynode beschworen, wirklich in einen partizipativen Erneuerungsprozess umzusetzen. Die Vielfalt innerhalb der jungen Menschen und zwischen den Generationen erfordert den Aufbau einer konstruktiven, konfliktfähigen Streitkultur, die eine Kommunikation auf Augenhöhe und ohne Besserwisserei ermöglicht. Catechesis has always to be considered an activity inherently embedded in all church activities, providing a framework for the success of catechesis. „What does church have to offer the younger generation?“ is the crucial question when it comes to involving adolescents and young adults in catechesis. This is an ecclesiological issue the Catholic Church faces in its present deep crisis. It must prove the credibility of its will to achieve renewal and participation through the energy of youth, on which the youth synod has set high hopes to truly lead to substantial change. In addition, diversity among the young people as well as between the generations requires a new culture of communication that allows disagreement, conflict and communication on an equal level

Representations and concepts of professional ethos among Swiss religious education teacher trainers

Over the past two decades, the organisation of religious education classes in Switzerland has undergone profound reforms. Amid the increasing secularisation and pluralisation of the religious landscape, many cantons have introduced a compulsory course that falls under the responsibility of the state and is aimed at teaching basic knowledge about a variety of religions. These reforms have enabled a harmonisation of the syllabi for religious education across the country and have prompted the adaptation of teacher training programmes. Because of the many diverse social expectations surrounding these new courses and the diverse academic tra- ditions in the field of religious education, however, a unified conception of these courses is still absent. In this article, we discuss the ongoing construction of religious education teachers’ professional ethos within this fluid context. In particular, we discuss the perspective of teacher trainers on pragmatic questions concerning religious plurality and the place of teachers’ and pupils’ personal (religious) experiences in the classroom, and pay attention to different representations of ‘religion’ and distinct ideas regarding the purpose of these courses as they have a major impact on the professional attitudes expected from teachers. Keywords: professional ethos; teacher trainers; Switzerland; concepts of religion; impartialit

Search for dark matter produced in association with bottom or top quarks in √s = 13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

A search for weakly interacting massive particle dark matter produced in association with bottom or top quarks is presented. Final states containing third-generation quarks and miss- ing transverse momentum are considered. The analysis uses 36.1 fb−1 of proton–proton collision data recorded by the ATLAS experiment at √s = 13 TeV in 2015 and 2016. No significant excess of events above the estimated backgrounds is observed. The results are in- terpreted in the framework of simplified models of spin-0 dark-matter mediators. For colour- neutral spin-0 mediators produced in association with top quarks and decaying into a pair of dark-matter particles, mediator masses below 50 GeV are excluded assuming a dark-matter candidate mass of 1 GeV and unitary couplings. For scalar and pseudoscalar mediators produced in association with bottom quarks, the search sets limits on the production cross- section of 300 times the predicted rate for mediators with masses between 10 and 50 GeV and assuming a dark-matter mass of 1 GeV and unitary coupling. Constraints on colour- charged scalar simplified models are also presented. Assuming a dark-matter particle mass of 35 GeV, mediator particles with mass below 1.1 TeV are excluded for couplings yielding a dark-matter relic density consistent with measurements