Eckhardt Fuchs

Eckhardt Fuchs (* 1961 ) is a German historian and educationalist and has been the director of the Georg Eckert Institute - Leibniz Institute for International Textbook Research in Braunschweig, since October 2015 .

Life

Fuchs studied history at the University of Leipzig from 1983 to 1988 and received his doctorate in 1992. From 2001 to 2007 he worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Educational Science I at the University of Mannheim , where he qualified as a professor in 2004 and became a professor in 2007. He became research coordinator at the Georg Eckert Institute in 2007 and deputy director from June 2009 to September 2015.

Since 2011 he has been a full professor for historical and comparative educational research at the TU Braunschweig . As a historian, he previously worked at the Historical Commission in Berlin , the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies , the German Historical Institute in Washington and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.

His main research interests include the global history of modern education, international educational policy, curriculum and textbook development, and the history of science and historiography.

Fuchs is part of the editorial team of the magazine " Comparativ ". From 2012 to 2015 he was President of the International Standing Conference for the History of Education, the international professional association for historical educational research (ISCHE).

Functions and memberships (selection)

Eckhardt Fuchs is a member of numerous specialist societies as well as committees, working groups and advisory boards. These include u. a .:

• Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe : Member of the Scientific Advisory Board
• Youth and Education Foundation: Member of the Board of Trustees
• The Japan Society for Historical Studies of Education: Special Overseas Member
• Center for Educational Integration at the University of Hildesheim : Member of the Scientific Advisory Board
• German UNESCO Commission : Member of the Education Committee
• Leibniz Research Association "Historical Authenticity": Deputy Speaker
• Research Center for Comparative History Education at East China Normal University : Advisory Professor
• Radio38 GmbH & Co.KG : Member of the program advisory board
• Textbook of the year: chairing the jury

Publications (selection)

• (Ed.): A new modern history of East Asia , ed. v. Trilateral China-Japan-Korea History Textbook Editorial Committee, 2 vol., Göttingen 2018 ISBN 978-3-84710708-8
• (Ed.): School books as a mission: the history of the Georg Eckert Institute, Böhlau, Vienna a. a. 2018 ISBN 978-3-41250737-4
• (Ed.): The textbook in research: analyzes and recommendations for educational practice, Göttingen 2014 ISBN 978-3-84700385-4
• The international organization of the educational movement. Studies on transfer and exchange relationships in the dawn of modernity, habilitation thesis Mannheim 2007
• History and positivism: on the conception of society and history by Henry Thomas Buckle , Diss. Leipzig 1992 (as book Leipzig 1994)
• Ed. With Steffen Collector, Dieter Dowe and Heike Mätzing: Georg Eckert: Grenzgänger between science and politics . Göttingen: V&R unipress 2017. ISBN 978-3-8471-0761-3
• Edited with Eugenia Roldán Vera: Textbooks and War: Historical and Multinational Perspectives . Cham: Palgrave Macmillan 2018. ISBN 978-3-319-98802-3
• Ed. With Peter Carrier and Torben Messinger: The International Status of Education about the Holocaust . (Paris: UNESCO 2015)
• Ed. With Inga Niehaus and Almut Stoletzki: The textbook in research. Analyzes and recommendations for educational practice . (Göttingen: V&R unipress (Eckert. Expertise 4) 2014)

Web links

• GEI employees
• Bayern2: Conversation with Prof. Eckhardt Fuchs, Director of the Georg Eckert Institute, about good school books
• Deutschlandfunk Kultur: Education researcher Fuchs on good school books - "Correct knowledge in the age of fake news"