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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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22-Oct-2025

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Gold Standard Internship Host 2025

Oxford University has certified the GEI as a Gold Standard Internship Host 2025 in recognition of our commitment to its Summer Internship Programme and support of the students taking part.

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25-Sep-2025

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Georg Arnhold Senior Fellowship 2027

The GEI would like to announce that applications are now being accepted for the 2027 Georg-Arnhold-Senior-Fellowship ‘Education for Sustainable Peace’.

25-Sep-2025

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Student Assistant Required

Our academic communication and transfer teams have a vacancy for a student assistant. Applications for the part-time position (19 hrs/week) should be submitted by 24 October 2025.

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Events

Georg Eckert PhD-Programme - Theory and methods seminar

08. - 12. 12. 2025

09:00 - 17:00

Margarete-Rothbarth-Gebäude (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

Educational Ecosystems

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Academic Publications

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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