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27-Mar-2025

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[Translate to English:] Leibniz-Forschungsverbund „Wert der Vergangenheit“ erhält weitere Förderung

The Senate of the Leibniz Association has approved a further four year’s funding for the alliance. The GEI is one of 20 institutions that research the values of the past in a number of different academic disciplines.

25-Mar-2025

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Vacancies for two student assistants

The two vacancies are in Management/Transfer and Management/Academic Organisation (publications)

12-Mar-2025

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Visit to Jinhua

In February, Eckhardt Fuchs, director of the GEI, visited the Zhejiang Normal University in Jinhua. As well as giving lectures, he discussed opportunities for cooperation. A memorandum of understanding is planned.

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German history, European future? The value of a controversial past for non-university research after 1949 and 1989

02. - 04. 04. 2025

10:00 - 17:00

Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte

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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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Stories of Diversity

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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

PSEM

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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