
Mission Textbook
The History of the Georg Eckert Institute
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Published on 8. December 2025
184 pages
978-3-412-53299-4 (ISBN)
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The Georg Eckert Institute was established by the federal state of Lower Saxony in 1975 with a mandate to carry out international research into textbooks and to develop recommendations for education policy-makers and publishing houses. The history of the Institute, however, can be traced back to 1951, when Georg Eckert founded the International Institute for Textbook Improvement at the Kant Teacher Training College in Braunschweig, with the aim of strengthening international understanding. The textbook library was at the core of this work from the outset. The research library at the GEI today contains the world's largest international collection of textbooks and teaching materials for humanities and social studies subjects.
The book, now in its second, revised edition, illustrates the contributions made by the GEI to textbook revision and how it has contributed fundamentally to the development of textbook and educational media research. This is an academic field that not only focusses on textbooks but also on digital educational media and the methods used to research them.
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Eckhardt Fuchs | Kathrin Henne | Steffen Sammler
Mission Textbook
The History of the Georg Eckert Institute
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12/2025
2nd Edition
Böhlau
€49.00
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Eckhardt Fuchs | Kathrin Henne | Steffen Sammler
Mission Textbook
The History of the Georg Eckert Institute
E-Book
04/2022
1st Edition
Böhlau
€40.00
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Eckhardt Fuchs ist Direktor des Leibniz-Instituts für Bildungsmedien | Georg-Eckert-Institut und Professor für Historische und Vergleichende Bildungsforschung an der TU Braunschweig.Kathrin Henne studierte Geographie und Öffentliches Recht in Hamburg sowie »Kultur der technisch-wissenschaftlichen Welt« mit dem Schwerpunkt Geschichte in Braunschweig und Chester. Das Masterstudium schloss sie mit einer Arbeit über »Die internationale Diskussion über geographische Namensgebung und deren Einfluss auf deutsche Schulatlanten nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg« ab. Sie ist wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Georg-Eckert-Institut. Leibniz-Institut für internationale Schulbuchforschung und arbeitet dort vorwiegend zur historischen Bildungs- und insbesondere Schulbuchforschung sowie zum gegenwärtigen Stand der Bildung über den Holocaust und andere Genozide in Europa.Steffen Sammler ist Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Georg-Eckert-Institut | Leibniz Institut für internationale Schulbuchforschung und Lehrbeauftragter an der Universität Leipzig.
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