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Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research

  • Type: INGO
  • Field: Education
  • Region: Europe
  • Location: Braunschweig, Germany
  • Internship Title: Project Assistant
  • Duration: 3-9 months
  • Number of Interns: 3-5
  • Special Requirement: N/A
  • Application Status: Available
  • Remote Internship: Acceptable
OUR VISION
The Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research, member of the Leibniz Association contributes to improving education in schools around the world. Education is the cornerstone of our future in the societies we live in. As an academic institute, we are dedicated to ensuring that future generations are brought up with open minds, able to reflect on their attitudes and beliefs and embrace responsibility and democracy. In this way we hope to promote peace and international understanding.

OUR MISSION
At the GEI we work to develop a better understanding of the past, the present and the future through our research activities. We are able to analyse textbooks and other teaching materials from diverse geographical regions and time periods from the perspective of a range of academic disciplines. We make recommendations to policymakers and educational practitioners on how textbooks might be used to transcend difficulties in communication and understanding within or between societies. Our research infrastructure enables research into textbooks and allows us to support international partners working towards similar aims.

OUR PRINCIPLES AND VALUES
We approach others with open minds. We cultivate an atmosphere of respectful cooperation both within the institute and with our external partners. This means respecting other cultures and traditions, acknowledging people’s achievements and commitment, accepting responsibility, displaying sensitivity in our interactions with one another, being open and interested. We do what we do because we believe in it and we are dedicated to continuing the work begun by Georg Eckert. Our research embodies excellence as well as inter- and transdisciplinarity. We critically assess our field in collaboration with our many national and international partners. We take pride in our library and its unique and extensive collection of international textbooks. Our library is open to researchers and the interested public from around the world.
Internship Tasks
Support with general activities, such as document sorting, data collection, translation, basic website maintenance, social media, project management, communication and event help, etc. 
The specific content of the internship depends on the needs at that time.

Requirements
● Complete the Bachelor’s Degree 
● Good command of English or German (reading/speaking/writing) 
● Strong interpersonal and communicative skills 
● Should be familiar with the use of common office products. Knowledge of computer-based programs for qualitative data and text analysis could (e.g. MaxQDA) or digital tools (e.g. Voyant or others)
2005-11-17 | Braunschweig, Germany – Das Lesebuch 1800-1945 – ein Medium zwischen literarischer Kultur und pädagogischem Diskurs2005-11-13 | Berlin, Germany – Konferenz über Historisch-politische bildung in der Einwanderungsgesellschaft2005-09-22 | Braunschweig, Germany – Die Muslime in europäischen Schulbüchern,
2004-06-10 | Braunschweig, Germany – Learn to read in dictatorships of the 1930s and 1940s conference
2004-06-01 | Szczecin, Poland – German-Polish textbook conference
2004-02-17 | Braunschweig, Germany – Workshop on minorities in history textbooks
2004-02-06 | Braunschweig, Germany – Remembering, discussing, teaching
2003-10-24 | Braunschweig, Germany – Conference on Europe unification in German and French history and geography school textbooks
2003-09-21 | Braunschweig, Germany – Within the project remembering communism
2003-09-14 | Podebrady, Czech Rep – Dealing with the socialist past in school textbooks conference
2003-06-25 | Braunschweig, Germany – History textbooks and history curriculum in the republic of Moldova
1997-10-25 | Braunschweig, Germany – Meeting
1997-05-26 | Puebla, Mexico – International workshop on identity in the national imaginery, rewriting and teaching of history
1997-05-04 | St Andreasberg, Germany – Meeting on the image of people with deficiencies in Europe
1990-09-11 | Braunschweig, Germany FR – Educational research workshop on history and social studies – Methodologies of textbook analysis
1988-11-07 | Braunschweig, Germany FR – International meeting
Relations with Non-Governmental Organizations
● Member of: 
   F-XF4598 – CIVITAS International. 
● Associate member of:
   F-XF2601 – European Association of History Educators (EUROCLIO). 
● Instrumental in setting up: 
   G-XF6103 – UNESCO International Research Network on Educational Resources.
● Links with: 
   F-XF1798 – European Association of Geographers (EUROGEO).

Members
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