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19-Dec-2024

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Depiction of Judaism in Educational Media

GEI research fellow Dirk Sadowski contributed his expertise to a statement on the depiction of Judaism in educational media released by the Central Council of Jews in Germany, the Verband Bildungsmedien and the KMK.

17-Dec-2024

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How Queer Diversity is Depicted in Textbooks

In an interview with the ‘Campus Schulmanagement’ magazine, the research team for the GEI project ‘Queer Life’ explain how queer diversity is depicted in textbooks and curricula and what the project’s aims are.

17-Dec-2024

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Rise and Fall of a National History

In this blog entry, former GEI Fellow Yasamin Alkhansa describes how the dominant values in Iranian textbooks have changed over time, using a section that has been revised many times by the Iranian education ministry.

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Events

Encourage media literacy: Encouraging media literacy in everyday school life in Lower Saxony

Learning in virtual reality: the didactic potential of VR products

What to do (with) media? A method for reflecting on and designing the utilisation of media in the classroom

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Annual theme 2023: #PERSPECTIVES

Considering Perspectives in Educational Media. Conditions – Negotation Processes – Opportunities

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Annual theme 2021: #PERFORMANCE

Achievement is one of the central categories in the self-description of modern societies, whose individual and societal dimensions are reflected upon critically time and again.

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29-Jan-2025

Publications

01/2025 Ambivalences of generative AI in schools and lessons

Generative AI is increasingly being used by students and teachers alike, yet it has proved a contentious topic in many areas. Research by the GEI reveals ambivalences with regards to its use in the classroom.

07-Oct-2024

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Diagrams in Civic Education: Visuospatial Models of Society in Textbooks and Teaching

Janne Holmén, Ann-Sofie Jägerskog, Daniel Schumann & Malin Tväråna

Palgrave Macmillan, 2024

06-Aug-2024

Educational media research

Katharina Poltze, Birte Schröder (eds.): Putting knowledge(s) into perspective? Wissen, Reflexivität und (Multi-)Perspektivität in Bildungsmedien

The fact that textbooks and other educational media should reflect different perspectives and enable learners to form their own opinions is widely accepted by academics, schools and publishers.

Göttingen: V&R unipress, 2024, 250 pages. ISBN Print 978-3-8471-1760-5, ISBN E-Lib 978-3-7370-1760-2, 50,00€

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