Praxissemester (Religion) in NRW: Bilanz und Perspektiven

Das Praxissemester ist seit dem Wintersemester 2014 / 2015 integraler Bestandteil des zweiten Mastersemesters an Hochschulen Nordrhein-Westfalens. Dieser Band bietet eine Zusammenführung von Perspektiven auf das Praxissemester in Nordrhein-Westfalen. Ein besonderer Blick fällt dabei auf das Praxissemester Religionslehre. In diesem Band stellen Bardo Herzig und Christoph Wiethoff einleitend vor, wie das Praxissemester an der Universität Paderborn konzeptionell, strukturell und inhaltlich gestaltet ist. Petra Herzmann und Anke B. Liegmann geben einen umfassenden Überblick zu qualitativen Forschungsbefunden zum Praxissemester und stellen Überlegungen zu einem qualitativen Forschungsprogramm dar. Carina Caruso und Andreas Seifert fokussieren die Entwicklung pädagogischen Wissens bei angehenden Religionslehrkräften. Malte Kling fasst Befunde zusammen, die sich auf den Rollenwechsel angehender evangelischer Religionslehrkräfte beziehen. In besonderem Maße richtet sich der Band auf das Praxissemester Religionslehre, indem Guido Hunze und Gudrun Lohkemper das Theorie-Praxis-Verständnis als Gelingensbedingung von Professionalisierung thematisieren, Norbert Brieden und Monika Tautz die Praxissemesterbegleitung an den Studienorten Köln und Wuppertal vergleichen und hochschuldidaktische Impulse formulieren, Mirjam Zimmermann Spiritualität als Gegenstand religiöser Bildung betrachtet und Guido Meyer und Carsten Misera Heterogenität im Religionsunterricht als einen Ausgangspunkt für die Entwicklung eines Lehrerhabitus im Praxissemester definieren. Weitere Perspektiven bieten Christoph Vogelsang (Didaktik der Physik) und Ulrich Feeser-Lichterfeld (Pastoralpsychologie). Carina Caruso und Jan Woppowa ziehen ein abschließendes Resümee unter besonderer Beachtung zukünftiger Aufgaben zur Gestaltung des Praxissemesters Religionslehre.Since the winter semester 2014 / 2015 long-term internships have become an integral part of the second master semester at universities in North Rhine-Westphalia. One aim is to improve the development of competencies of prospective teachers. This anthology provides an insight into perspectives of long-term internships in North Rhine-Westphalia referring especially to internships of those prospective teachers, who are going to be teachers for religious education. First Bardo Herzig and Christoph Wiethoff present the plan, the structure and the content of long-term internship at Paderborn University. They take pedagogy as their example. Petra Herzmann and Anke B. Liegmann provide a comprehensive survey of qualitative research on long-term internships and present ideas of a qualitative research programme. Carina Caruso and Andreas Seifert focus on the development of pedagogical knowledge of prospective teachers of religious education during the practice phase. Malte Kling gives a summary of his thesis referring to the change of roles of prospective teachers of religious education. Guido Hunze und Gudrun Lohkemper have a look at the relation between theory and practice for a successful professionalization. Norbert Brieden and Monika Tautz compare the accompaniment of students at Cologne and Wuppertal University and put forward an impetus for teaching at university. Mirjam Zimmermann looks at spirituality in internships. Guido Meyer and Carsten Misera give a definition of heterogeneity as a starting point of the development of the teacher habitus. Christoph Vogelsang and Ulrich Feeser-Lichterfeld contribute to a further combination of perspectives on internships. Carina Caruso and Jan Woppowa give a final summary looking especially at future tasks of the design of long-term internships in theology.Carina Caruso, Jan Woppowa (Hg.

Searching for long-lived particles beyond the Standard Model at the Large Hadron Collider

International audienceParticles beyond the Standard Model (SM) can generically have lifetimes that are long compared to SM particles at the weak scale. When produced at experiments such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, these long-lived particles (LLPs) can decay far from the interaction vertex of the primary proton–proton collision. Such LLP signatures are distinct from those of promptly decaying particles that are targeted by the majority of searches for new physics at the LHC, often requiring customized techniques to identify, for example, significantly displaced decay vertices, tracks with atypical properties, and short track segments. Given their non-standard nature, a comprehensive overview of LLP signatures at the LHC is beneficial to ensure that possible avenues of the discovery of new physics are not overlooked. Here we report on the joint work of a community of theorists and experimentalists with the ATLAS, CMS, and LHCb experiments—as well as those working on dedicated experiments such as MoEDAL, milliQan, MATHUSLA, CODEX-b, and FASER—to survey the current state of LLP searches at the LHC, and to chart a path for the development of LLP searches into the future, both in the upcoming Run 3 and at the high-luminosity LHC. The work is organized around the current and future potential capabilities of LHC experiments to generally discover new LLPs, and takes a signature-based approach to surveying classes of models that give rise to LLPs rather than emphasizing any particular theory motivation. We develop a set of simplified models; assess the coverage of current searches; document known, often unexpected backgrounds; explore the capabilities of proposed detector upgrades; provide recommendations for the presentation of search results; and look towards the newest frontiers, namely high-multiplicity ‘dark showers’, highlighting opportunities for expanding the LHC reach for these signals