Textbooks and Beyond: Educational Media in Global Contexts
23.08.10-28.08.10
Georg-Eckert-Institute, Braunschweig, Germany
Deadline for abstracts: 25.01.2010
This international Summer School invites applications from doctoral
candidates and post-doctoral scholars from the social sciences and
humanities who are conducting research on textbooks or other media
used in school contexts.
While globalisation can be defined in a variety of ways, global
dimensions have clearly altered the contents, availability,
production and distribution of educational media. National forms of
reference are changing, political boundaries are shifting, and an
increased awareness of socio-cultural differences within nation
states are drawing attention to the multiple, contingent and
situated nature of identity.
The contents and pedagogical approaches of educational media, which
have traditionally depicted canonical knowledge, societal norms,
regional/national identities and culturally legitimate values, have
long been a subject of conflict and negotiation among curriculum
authorities, politicians, textbook authors, teachers and publishing
houses. A central question is now to what extent globalisation is
affecting media used in school contexts, such as museums, memorials,
commercial films, posters, advertisements, social network websites
and other online resources. These are increasingly drawing on
sources far beyond those produced for their particular local or
national settings.
The Summer School thus pursues three interrelated aims. Firstly, it
seeks to broaden participants' understanding of current theories and
methodologies and to explore new directions in educational media
research in the light of globalisation trends. Secondly, it provides
an interdisciplinary and international forum to discuss and develop
new topics and globalised frames of reference within specific
research contexts. Finally, it aims to consolidate and develop
further an expanding network of young scholars working in this
field, also with a view to future collaboration.
Methods and approaches will be presented and discussed in five
panels and corresponding workshops on the following topics:
*Historical development* of educational media used in schools,
looking at the transnational processes involved.
*Media theory* and the global dimensions of intermediality, as
educational media inform and refer to other global media.
*Diversity* in school learning and teaching materials, and of the
users of these materials.
*Reception studies*, which must now take into consideration the
global relevancy of spaces influencing media use and the
multiplicity of receiving positions.
*Contemporary production processes* and the changes resulting from
the global context of contemporary media production, e.g. the rapid
and global circulation of ideas given today's technology.
The working language of the Summer School will be English.
Reimbursement of accommodation and travel costs for participants is
subject to funding.
Application deadline: 25 January 2010
Doctoral candidates and post-doctoral scholars are invited to submit
abstracts to present their research related to one of these topics
and their research interests. Please send abstracts (of no more than
one page) together with a cv and, if applicable, publication list to
Dr. Inga Niehaus at the Georg Eckert Institute ((niehaus /at/ gei.de)).
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