Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
Aims & Scope
Editor: Simone Lässig, Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research
Published on behalf of the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research
JEMMS 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.
Subjects: Education, Media, Social Sciences
Current Issue
Volume 5, Issue 1, Spring 2013
Special Issue: Postcolonial Memory Politics in Educational Media
Guest editors: Eckhardt Fuchs and Marcus Otto
Introduction: Educational Media, Textbooks, and Postcolonial Relocations of Memory Politics in Europe
Eckhardt Fuchs and Marcus Otto
The Challenge of Decolonization: School History Textbooks as Media and Objects of the Postcolonial Politics of Memory in France since the 1960s
Marcus Otto
The End of Empire: Colonial Heritage and the Politics of Memory in Britain
Susanne Grindel
“We Need to Get away from a Culture of Denial”? The German-Herero War in Politics and Textbooks
Lars Müller
The Image of Italian Colonialism in Italian History Textbooks for Secondary Schools
Luigi Cajani
Constructing Aboriginal Australians, 1930-1960: Projecting False Memories
Keith Crawford
The Ottoman Age in South-Central Europe as Represented in Secondary School History Textbooks in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia
Gabriel Pirický
De/Colonizing Pictures? German Television and Colonialism – An Essay
Wolfgang Struck