Eckhardt Fuchs

Leibniz Institute for Educational Media | Georg Eckert Institute

Eckhardt Fuchs is Director of the Leibniz Institute for Educational Media | Georg Eckert Institute and Professor for History of Education/Comparative Education at the Technical University Braunschweig. He has worked in a variety of academic institutions and served as a visiting professor in Sydney, Umeå, Tokyo, and Seoul. He has been serving as a textbook expert for many international organizations and has been leading bi- and multilateral textbook commissions in Europe. His research interests include the global history of modern education, international education policies, curriculum studies and textbook development. He has published about ten books and 200 articles and chapters on these issues including The Palgrave Handbook of Textbook Studies (2018). He served as president of ISCHE from 2012 to 2015.