German-Israeli Textbook Commission

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A German-Israeli Textbook Commission (DISBK) ( Hebrew הוועדה הישראלית-גרמנית לחקר ספרי לימוד, English German-Israeli Textbook Commission ) is composed of Israeli and German experts and usually pursues the goal of analyzing representations in educational media in Germany and Israel and encouraging corrections by making joint recommendations. Other joint projects such as the production of (online) educational media can also be pursued by a DISBK.

history

Several binational textbook commissions were historically or are currently located on the German side at the Georg Eckert Institute (GEI). The first German-Israeli textbook commission anchored at the GEI was founded in 1981 and in 1985 presented its recommendations in both German and Hebrew for the improvement of depictions of Jewish history and Israel in German textbooks, as well as depictions of Germany in Israeli textbooks. As a result, in the following two and a half decades, former commission members published their own studies or organized conferences on the subject without a formal DISBK having continued.

Encouraged by the envoy of the State of Israel in Germany, Ilan Mor , in 2009, exploratory talks took place between the two countries and so the GEI on the German side and the MOFET Institute on the Israeli side, with the coordination of a newly constituted from 2010 onwards DISBK commissioned. For the first time, the subjects of social studies and politics, as well as school books for higher grades, were included in the analysis. The working groups on the Israeli side were led by specialist inspectors from the Jerusalem Ministry of Education, Dalia Fenig, Michael Yaron, Orna Katz-Atar, Adar Cohen and Yael Goron. On the German side, the history didactician Alfons Kenkmann , the geographer Ute Wardenga and the didactic specialist for social sciences Wolfgang Sander took over the lead . Historian Dan Diner , director of the Simon Dubnow Institute in Leipzig and professor of history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem , was hired as a scientific advisor. The directors of the two participating institutes in Braunschweig and Tel Aviv , historian Simone Lässig and educational scientist Michal Golan, took over the overall management of the DISBK, while the educational scientist Arie Kizel and the historian and Israel scientist Dirk Sadowski carried out the scientific coordination. The joint German-Israeli textbook recommendations were published in 2015, the second revised edition of which appeared in 2017 and can also be accessed online as an open access publication.

After 2015, the work of the DISBK continued with a focus on the creation of joint digital learning modules , whereby the cooperation with the MOFET Institute expired at the end of 2015. A new cooperation partner was then won in the form of the Matach Center , while the Federal Foreign Office finances this second phase of the DISBK project. Since Simone Lässig left the DHI Washington , the historian Eckhardt Fuchs has taken over the management of the DISBK on the German side.

literature

  • German-Israeli Textbook Commission (ed.): German-Israeli Textbook Recommendations 2. alter. Edition, (= Eckert. Expertise . Vol. 5). V & R Unipress , Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-8471-0700-2 .
  • German-Israeli school book recommendations. For the representation of Jewish history as well as the history and geography of Israel in school books of the Federal Republic of Germany. For the representation of German history and the geography of the Federal Republic of Germany in Israeli school books. Braunschweig: Georg Eckert Institute for international textbook research, 1985 ( Studies on international textbook research. Series of publications by the Georg Eckert Institute , Vol. 44), ISBN 3-88304-245-5 .

Edited by individual members of the commission:

  • Martin Liepach ; Dirk Sadowski (ed.): Jewish history in school books. An inventory based on current textbooks (= Eckert. Expertise . Vol. 3). V & R Unipress, Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-8471-0371-4 .

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  1. ↑ a b German-Israeli Textbook Commission website of the GEI, accessed on January 31, 2020
  2. ^ German-Israeli school book recommendations. For the representation of Jewish history as well as the history and geography of Israel in school books of the Federal Republic of Germany. For the representation of German history and the geography of the Federal Republic of Germany in Israeli school books. Braunschweig: Georg Eckert Institute for international textbook research, 1985 ( studies on international textbook research. Series of publications by the Georg Eckert Institute , vol. 44).
  3. ↑ a b c German-Israeli textbook commission (ed.): German-Israeli textbook recommendations 2. alter. Edition, (= Eckert. Expertise . Vol. 5). V & R Unipress, Göttingen 2017, accessed on January 30, 2020