IARTEM works to:

• promote research on - and understanding of - textbooks and educational media
• establish contacts between all parties interested in educational media and textbook issues
  
• strengthen the focus on educational media and textbook issues in teacher education and teacher training.

IARTEM organizes bi-annual international research conferences and publishes conference reports. The most recent conference was held 'in Bratislava, Slovakia, in September 2003

IARTEM is a non-profit organization independent of any institutional or commercial interest. Membership is individual, and can be given to professionals working in all fields related to textbook issues and educational media.

Latest:   Informal learning and digital media: constructions, contexts, consequences 21-23 September 2006 University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS New eJournal and Call for Papers    THE EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TEXTBOOKS AND EDUCATIONAL MEDIA NEW! Web-site for the Conference Caen , France , October 26 th – 29 th , 2005 Textbook conference in Germany The annual meeting 2005 of the "International Society for Historical and Systematic Research on School-Books" The annual meeting will take place from 30.09.- 02.10 2005 in the Bavarian School Museum in Ichenhausen (near Augsburg). The subject will be: "The presentation of the family in schoolbooks". Papers for lectures are welcome. Soon the program can be found here! Further information: [email protected] Web-site