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50 Years of Educational Media Research

In 2025 the Leibniz Institute for Educational Media | Georg Eckert Institute looks back upon half a century of dedicated research. We are celebrating our anniversary with a broad programme of events to which scholars, policy-makers and politicians, as well as the general public, are invited to join us as we discuss, think and help shape the future.

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19-Nov-2025

Policy Brief on Heritage-Language Teaching

This Policy Brief discusses the current shape of teaching materials, identifies systematic deficits and provides recommendations for ways to improve quality, sustainability and effectiveness.

12-Nov-2025

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UNESCO Report on Anti-Semitism Now Online

The GEI examined curricula and textbooks from 8 EU countries on behalf of UNESCO, to see whether they featured stereotypical depictions of Jews and Judaism.

04-Nov-2025

Leibniz Research Network - China

This new research network intends to collate existing knowledge about China, develop consultation packages for the field of politics and support academic and scientific cooperation whilst ensuring research security.

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Events

Lecture in the Foyer: „Nachkrieg – Über Sinn und Bedeutung historischer Periodisierung“ von Prof. Dr. Dan Diner

04. 12. 2025

18:00 - 20:00

Villa von Bülow (GEI)

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Annual theme 2025: #EndingTheWar

Ending the War and Establishing the Post-1945 World Order: Comparing Textbook Narratives across Time and Space.

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Annual theme 2023: #PERSPECTIVES

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

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Stories of Diversity

AI in Classrooms

Educational Ecosystems

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Academic Publications

20-Nov-2025

Publications

02/2025 Heritage-Language Teaching and Educational Materials

This Policy Brief discusses the current state of teaching materials, identifies systematic deficits and provides recommendations for ways to improve to quality, sustainability and effectiveness

02-May-2025

JEMMS

VOLUME 16 (2024), ISSUE 2

In this issue, the authors examine US world´s fair expositions, analyses of school textbooks in Afghanistan and Albania and a case study of the use of ChatGPT in the history classroom.

28-Apr-2025

JEMMS

VOLUME 16 (2024), ISSUE 1: Nature and Society in Spanish and Portuguese Textbooks in the New Democratic Scenario from 1970 to 1995

This thematic issue addresses nature and society as categories of analysis in Portuguese and Spanish textbooks.

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