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07-Nov-2024

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Leibniz im Landtag 2024

This year’s ‘Leibniz im Landtag’ event took place on 6 and 7 November. The format of the event provides space for sustainable and continuous dialogue and consultation within the Lower Saxony regional government.

30-Oct-2024

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Combating racist content in textbooks: Recommendations from experts

In an article in the magazine 'Campus Schulmanagement', Eckhardt Fuchs, director of the GEI, and researcher Simiao Yu, discuss findings from the 'Unmasking Racism' project, published in cooperation with UNESCO.

30-Oct-2024

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Georg Arnhold Senior Fellowship 2026: Apply now!

Applications for the 2026 Georg Arnhold Senior Fellowship 'Education for Sustainable Peace' are now being accepted. The fellowship programme offers a 6-month stay at the GEI and access to a large research network.

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Events

Multimedia Exhibition: More than a Textbook

05.12.2024

10:00 - 16:00

Villa von Bülow (GEI)

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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

AI in Classrooms

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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€

17-May-2024

Eckert. Dossiers

Johannes Barth: Vibrant Memory Production: Eine neomaterialistische Analyse der Produktionsweisen interaktiver 3D-Zeugnisse von Überlebenden der NS Verbrechen

Few terms are so closely associated with the Holocaust than that of contemporary witness. Whether as speakers at commemorative events or involved in (extracurricular) democracy and human rights education, contemporary witnesses fulfil a specific role: they make history more tangible and enable empathy with their stories. Those stories convey the significance of the suffering experienced and lend a personal character to the historiography of Nazi crimes, which is often perceived as abstract. Any…

Eckert.Dossiers 1 (2024) urn:nbn:de:0220-2024-003

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