Georg Eckert Institute - Leibniz Institute for International Textbook Research

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Georg Eckert Institute - Leibniz Institute for International Textbook Research
Category: Research institute
Carrier: Institute of public right
Membership: Leibniz Association
Facility location: Braunschweig
Type of research: Basic research
Subjects: Educational media research
Management: Since 2015 Eckhardt Fuchs
Employee: approx. 120 (as of March 2019)
Homepage: www.leibniz-gei.de
Villa von Bülow , seat of the Georg Eckert Institute for international textbook research

The Georg Eckert Institute - Leibniz Institute for International Textbook Research (GEI) is a non-university academic institution for researching educational media in schools. It is a public law institution and acts as the Council of Europe's textbook center . The research library of the Georg Eckert Institute claims to offer the world's largest collection of textbooks. Since 2009 the Georg Eckert Institute has been part of the Leibniz Association - an associated institution since November 27, 2009 and a member from June 2013 - and within this framework within the joint research funding of the federal and state governments.

history

The institute is named after the pedagogue and historian Georg Eckert (1912–1974). The Georg Eckert Institute emerged from the International Institute for Textbook Improvement, founded by Eckert in 1951 . From 1953 onwards, with the support of the Lower Saxony government , the institute became the International Textbook Institute and was affiliated with the Kant University .

The Georg Eckert Institute was founded on June 26, 1975 following a unanimous decision by the members of the Lower Saxony state parliament as a legal institution under public law.

On January 1, 2011, the institute joined the Leibniz Research Association and has been part of Section A "Humanities and educational research" ever since.

The institute has been headed by historian Eckhardt Fuchs since October 2015 .

tasks

According to the law of June 19, 2013, the institute has to carry out the tasks of "application-oriented, international and multidisciplinary research on textbooks and educational media with a focus on cultural studies and history". It is also intended to "promote textbook and educational media research by providing scientific infrastructures", "maintain a public research library with an internationally oriented textbook collection [...]" and "network textbook and educational media research at home and abroad as well as the scientific exchange about textbooks - and promote educational media research [...] ". The GEI should also act as a consultant and mediator. The work results of the institute should be made available to the public.

The institute conducts school educational media research with a focus on the production, content and appropriation of school educational media in their sociocultural, political, economic and historical contexts. The research is application-oriented and historically oriented in terms of cultural studies. Online as well as in the Research Library in Braunschweig which textbooks in the subjects of History, Social Studies / collects politics, geography and values education / religion are research infrastructure provided.

The institute's publications are published in a repository with an open access license .

The GEI coordinates the work of the German-Israeli , German-Polish and German-Czech textbook commissions .

For its work the institute u. a. 1985 awarded the UNESCO Prize for Peace Education.

Since 2012, the Georg Eckert Institute, together with the Federal Agency for Civic Education and the didacta Association, has been awarding the textbook of the year prize . Every three years, works from primary school , secondary level I and secondary level II are awarded.

Mission statement

In its mission statement, the Georg Eckert Institute has defined itself as a scientific institute for the education of the future generation to be open to the world , self-reflection, responsibility and democracy . This is intended to promote international understanding . In its medium-term research program until 2022, the institute has defined the terms diversity , digitality and globality for its three concepts.

The scientific work of the institute aims to promote an understanding of the past, present and future. School books and other materials used in the classroom are analyzed from a wide variety of disciplinary perspectives and with a view to different regions and time periods. The Institute for Politics and Educational Practice issues recommendations so that stereotypes and images of the enemy can be overcome in materials for teaching and thus advocates cultural diversity in educational media. This includes the guideline “Make textbook content inclusive: religion, gender and culture in focus”, which was developed jointly with UNESCO .

Seat

The institute has been based in the Villa von Bülow since 1982 , a late classicist building designed by Carl Theodor Ottmer for the Braunschweig Chamber President von Bülow as a summer house, which was built in 1839 and, in the late 19th century, was given a curved flight of stairs leading to the park as a baroque addition . 1979–1981 the internal spatial structure of the building was largely redesigned for future use by the institute.

In September 2017 the administrative committee of the city of Braunschweig decided that the main building should be extended by an auxiliary building. The foundation stone was laid in August 2018.

Institute management

Departments

The Georg Eckert Institute has five departments. This includes the research library, the departments of digital information and research infrastructures, knowledge in transition, media transformations and administration.

Within the departments, but also across departments, the employees work in teams on common priorities.

Digital information and research infrastructures

In the Department of Digital Information and Research Infrastructures, or DIFI for short, digital infrastructures and tools for international educational media research are researched and developed. The department is also responsible for the institute's data management and IT infrastructures.

Securing the institute's research results, thereby ensuring their transfer and subsequent scientific use, is also a focus of the department. She also does project-related research in the field of digital humanities .

Knowledge in transition

The Department of Knowledge in Transition, WiU for short, analyzes the knowledge represented in educational media as well as the omissions about continuities and breaks in social orders in historical and international comparison. School books and other educational media are seen as a central instrument in which socially relevant knowledge of the time is passed on to the next generation. Knowledge is considered in the state, educational policy and economic context.

Media transformations

The Media Transformations Department, MeTra, examines the changes in societies that are triggered by the change in the media. The focus is on educational media, with a particular focus on the socio-political impact of these media. MeTra conducts research from a national, international and transnational as well as historical and current perspective.

Research library

With textbooks from over 175 countries, the textbook collection of the Georg Eckert Institute is by its own account the most extensive collection of its kind in the world. It includes textbooks from the subjects of history, social studies / politics, geography and values ​​education / religion as well as corresponding curricula , German-language reading books and international ones Brooches collected. The oldest school books in the collection date back to the 17th century.

The textbook collection currently comprises around 180,000 print and online media (as of 2019). In addition to the textbook collection, there is also a scientific collection with literature and specialist journals. This collection currently comprises around 80,000 print and online media (as of 2019). The expansion of the digital collections and online access to school books and curricula is a focus of the library's work. Digital research tools developed for this purpose are intended to support users and library staff.

The institute's collection is fully electronically indexed and freely accessible.

Archaeological finds

The grave with eight male skeletons found in early 2019.

While building the new research library on the institute's property, workers came across human bones in early 2019. They lay in a grave on the edge of the former cemetery of the nearby Kreuzkloster , which was destroyed in the air raid of October 15, 1944 during the Second World War . The site was archaeologically examined by an excavation company in consultation with the Lower Saxony State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and the Lower Monument Protection Authority of the City of Braunschweig , which delays the construction work. The finds are well-preserved skeletons of eight young men and the skullcap of an older man with a fatal blow from a saber. According to historians and archaeologists, a connection with the battle at Ölper on August 1, 1809 is obvious. In the nights before and after the battle, the soldiers of the " Black Band " of Duke Friedrich-Wilhelm of Brunswick set up their bivouac near the place where they were found today and the " Friedrich-Wilhelm-Eiche " , while the officers at the " Weißes Roß " inn lodged. According to the Braunschweig district archaeologist Michael Geschwinde , the common burial of the dead indicates a previous military event.

literature

  • Ursula AJ Becher , Rainer Riemenschneider (Ed.): International understanding. 25 years of the Georg Eckert Institute for international textbook research in Braunschweig. Hahn, Hannover 2000, ISBN 3-88304-300-1 ( Studies on international textbook research. Vol. 100).
  • Eckhardt Fuchs , Kathrin Henne, Steffen Collector: School books as a mission. The history of the Georg Eckert Institute. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna, Cologne, Weimar 2018, ISBN 978-3-412-50737-4 .
  • Norman-Mathias Pingel: Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research. In: Luitgard Camerer , Manfred Garzmann , Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (eds.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon . Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1992, ISBN 3-926701-14-5 , p. 84 .
  • Eckert. Das Bulletin , Braunschweig 2008 ff., ISSN  1865-7907 .
  • Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society (JEMMS); The Journal of the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research , Berghahn, Biggleswade 2009ff., ISSN  2041-6938 .
  • Eckert. The series / studies of the Georg Eckert Institute for international educational media research , V & R Unipress, Göttingen 2008 ff., ZDB -ID 2467234-8 .
  • International textbook research. Journal of the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research , Hanover (formerly Braunschweig and Frankfurt / M.) 1979–2008, ISSN  0172-8237 .
  • Studies in International Textbook Research / Studies in International Textbook Research. Series of publications by the Georg Eckert Institute , 121 vol., Hanover (formerly Braunschweig) 1979-2008, ZDB -ID 984130-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Library flyer of the institute. Georg Eckert Institute - Leibniz Institute for International Textbook Research, accessed on June 24, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Press release: "The GEI is an associated member of the Leibniz Association". Retrieved October 29, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Press release: "08/05/2013:" A new name and a new corporate design for the Georg Eckert Institute - 'We're changing perspectives' ". Accessed on October 29, 2018 .
  4. ↑ a b c d Eckhardt Fuchs, Steffen Collector, Kathrin Henne: School books between tradition and innovation . Böhlau-Verlag, Cologne 2018, ISBN 978-3-412-50737-4 , pp. 4-11 .
  5. ↑ Law on the Georg Eckert Institute - Leibniz Institute for International Textbook Research of June 19, 2013, GEISchulBFGrG ND .
  6. ^ Textbook of the year. In: Homepage GEI. Georg Eckert Institute - Leibniz Institute for International Textbook Research, accessed on August 31, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Mission statement. In: Homepage GEI. Georg Eckert Institute - Leibniz Institute for International Textbook Research, accessed on June 24, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Homepage GEI. Retrieved June 24, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Commissioner for Migration Germany, Inga Niehaus, Rosa Hoppe, Marcus Otto: Textbook Study Migration and Integration . 2015 ( gei.de [accessed June 24, 2019]).
  10. ↑ How do Germany's textbooks depict “Migration and Integration”? Retrieved June 24, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Riem Spielhaus in an interview. Retrieved June 24, 2019 .
  12. ↑ UNESCO, Georg Eckert Institute Leibniz Institute for International Textbook Research: Making textbook content inclusive: religion, gender and culture in focus . Paris: UNESCO, 2018, ISBN 978-92-3000062-2 ( gei.de [accessed June 24, 2019]).
  13. ^ Villa von Bülow. In: BLIK - Braunschweig guidance and information system for culture. City of Braunschweig, archived from the original on September 26, 2010 ; Retrieved January 22, 2010 .
  14. ↑ news38.de/bk: New extension for old villa: Georg Eckert Institute is growing. September 19, 2017. Retrieved June 24, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Jörn Stachura: Georg Eckert conversion is gaining momentum. In: Braunschweiger Zeitung. August 29, 2018, accessed June 24, 2019 .
  16. ↑ a b research library. Retrieved June 24, 2019 .
  17. ^ Bones found in the new building for textbook researchers in the Braunschweiger Zeitung on February 9, 2019
  18. ↑ Archaeologists: Bones come from Napoleon's time at ndr.de on March 1, 2019
  19. ^ Michael Geschwinde: An enigmatic mass grave in Braunschweig at the Lower Saxony State Office for Monument Preservation
  20. ↑ Another grave find at the Braunschweiger Schulbuch-Institut in Braunschweiger Zeitung from February 26, 2019
  21. ↑ After construction stop at the Georg Eckert Institute in Braunschweig: Archaeologists present this sensational find! at news 38 from February 26, 2019

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