Aims & Scope

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New from Berghahn Journals

Published on behalf of the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research

The Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society explores perceptions of society as constituted and conveyed in processes of learning and educational media. The focus is on various types of texts (such as textbooks, museums, memorials, films) and their institutional, political, social, economic, and cultural contexts. The construction of collective memory and conceptions of space, the production of meaning, image formation, forms of representation, and perceptions of the "self" and the "other", as well as processes of identity construction (ethnic, national, regional, religious, institutional, gender) are of particular interest. Special importance is given to the significance of educational media for social cohesion and conflict. The journal is international and interdisciplinary and welcomes empirically-based contributions from the humanities and the social sciences as well as theoretical and methodological studies.

Volume 1, Issue 1, Spring 2009

Editorial

Textbooks and Beyond: Educational Media in Context(s), Simone Lässig

Special Issue: Teaching and Learning in a Globalizing World

Introduction, Hanna Schissler

Can National History Be De-Provincialized? U.S. History Textbook Controversies in the 1940s and 1990s, Thomas Bender

Visualizing the Former Cold War "Other": Images of Eastern Europe in World Regional Geography Textbooks in the United States, Dmitrii Sidorov

The Perpetuation of War in U.S. History Textbooks, Seth. B. Scott

In a World of Migration: Rethinking Literacy, Language, and Learning Texts, Elizabeth P. Quintero

The Riddle of a Common History: The United States in Mexican Textbook Controversies, Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo

Historical Memory, International Conflict and Japanese Textbook Controversies in Three Epochs, Yoshiko Nozaki and Mark Selden

Contending "Historical" Identities in India, Deepa Nair

History and Interethnic Conflicts in Putin’s Russia, Dmitry Shlapentokh

Weapons of Mass Instruction: Schoolbooks and Democratization in Multiethnic Central Europe, Charles Ingrao

Migration in German Textbooks: Is Multiperspectivity an Adequate Response? Barbara Christophe

Navigating a Globalizing World: Thoughts on Textbook Analysis, Teaching, and Learning, Hanna Schissler

Subjects: Education, Media, Social Sciences