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.
Current Issue:
Volume 3, Issue 2, Autumn 2011
Russian Christ: The Struggle of the Russian Orthodox Church to Introduce Religion into the Curriculum in the First Decade of the Twenty-first Century
Victor A. Shnirelman
Justifying Citizen Political Participation in Norwegian Political Education
Kjetil Børhaug
Change and Continuity in British Columbian Perspectives as Illustrated in Social Studies Textbooks from 1885 to 2006
Catherine Broom
Balancing Victimhood and Complicity in Austrian History Textbooks: Visual and Verbal Strategies of Representing the Past in Post-Waldheim Austria
Ina Markova
“Mandela, the Terrorist”: Intended and Hidden History Curriculum in South Africa
Henning Hues
Writing Syrian History while Propagating Arab Nationalism: Textbooks about Modern Arab History under Hafiz and Bashar al-Asad
Monika Bolliger
Im Spannungsfeld von Regionalismus und nationaler Identität: Zur Deutung und Vermittlung von Geschichte in katalanischen Schulbüchern
Martina Clemen
Forum: Museums
Educating Educators of Memory: Reflections on an InSite Teaching Programme
Joanne Sayner
Learning to Remember Slavery: School Field Trips and the Representation of Difficult Histories in English Museums
Nikki Spalding
Subjects: Education, Media, Social Sciences