The planned research project aims to evaluate Islamic religious education in Central Java based on results obtained through quantitative research. For this purpose, a comparison of the knowledge about and attitudes towards Islam (and other religions) of 12th grade students attending Islamic religious education classes with the knowledge and attitudes of students attending Islamic religious education classes in a non-Muslim country, using Austria as an example (website of the project "The Effects of Islamic Religious Education in Austria"), will be conducted.
The following research questions arise for a broad and representative study on the effects of Islamic religious education:
- What do students who attend Islamic religious education classes in Central Java know about Islam (and other religions) and what are their attitudes toward Islam (and other religions)?
- How are this knowledge and these attitudes conditioned by, on the one hand, what happens in class and, on the other hand, factors external to the class, namely
- the personal resources of the students,
- their social resources,
- their religiosity, and
- their subjective assessment of their life situation?
- How do students who attend Islamic religious education classes in Central Java differ in their religious knowledge and attitudes from the religious knowledge and attitudes of students who attend Islamic religious education classes in the context of a non-Islamic country?
Further information can be found on the website of the project.