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25-Jul-2025

Research Fellowships in 2026

The Leibniz Institute for Educational Media | Georg Eckert Institute is pleased to invite applications for Research Fellowships in 2026. The deadline for submission of applications is 30th September 2025.

21-Jul-2025

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Starting out in Academia

To mark its 30th anniversary, the Leibniz Association is featuring interviews with 30 early career scholars – among them our colleague Alin Bernuzo.

15-Jul-2025

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Digitisation of Historical Textbooks

In an interview with the broadcaster rbb/radioeins, Anke Hertling, head of the Research Library, discusses the digitisation of GDR textbooks - a project aiming to research and preserve educational media for schools.

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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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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.

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.

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