Edtech 4.0?

What role does 'the economy' play in schooling, and how has this changed over time? The EdTech 4.0? (Bildungsmedien 4.0?) project takes a double look at this question. We look at the knowledges that are circulated in educational media for economic education, and we explore the processes of developing and producing these textbooks. The project is conducted in cooperation with the Helmut-Schmidt University in Hamburg, which focuses on complementary learning materials.

The GEI's project investigates economics textbooks. Taking a diachronic approach, we analyse textbooks from 1995 to 2020. How have the priorities changed? Which discourses are constructed in the textbooks? How are economic theories and controversies presented to students? Which digital sources are included in more recent textbooks, and how do these intermedial relations affect the economics made available to students?

  • Approach

    Taking a discourse analytical approach, the project focuses on the different kinds of discourses which are predominant, how these shift and which lines of flight become visible in the corpus of textbooks. We also plan to conduct interviews with the producers and developers of textbooks, to explore, firstly, the understandings of economics, but also, secondly, how the process of developing textbooks has changed over recent years, alongside technological changes in the publishing industry. As textbooks are increasingly available in digital formats,or 'born digital', how does this affect the production of economics textbooks?


  • Publications

    Accepted/at press

    • Karcher, Martin; Ntonti, Antigoni; Trupp, Johann; Voss, Christin (2023) „Die ambivalente Pluralisierung ‚ökonomischer Bildung‘ im Kontext der Digitalisierung“ In: DGfE 2022 Kongressband Open Access Publikation Verlag Barbara Budrich

  • Presentations
    • Kolloquium - Historische Bildungsforschung und Steuerung des Bildungssystems, Universität Zürich, 10.05.2023 (Online)
      "Schulbücher und digitale Bildungsmedien: Produktionsweisen und Wissenspraktiken" Felicitas Macgilchrist, Johann Trupp.
    • GfM Jahrestagung 2022 „Arbeit“ 29.09.2022 Halle-Wittenberg, Halle/Saale „Multimodale Darstellung von Arbeit in digitalen Schulbüchern für ökonomische Bildung“ Johann Trupp
    • 28. DGfE-Kongress „ENT | GRENZ | UNGEN“ 16.03.2022 Bremen (Online) „Digitalisierung von Bildungsmedien - Ambivalente Pluralisierung im Feld der ökonomischen Bildung“ Martin Karcher, Christin Voss , Antigoni Ntonti, Johann Trupp

Project Team

  • Felicitas Macgilchrist | Project Head
  • Johann Trupp
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