Facing climate and societal change
Concepts for designing, sharing, and using educational resources in traditional and new subjects in compulsory and higher education
29–31 May 2024, Paris

29 May: Siège de l'université,  rue de l'école de médecine, métro Odéon

30 & 31 May: 45 rue des saints pères,métro Saint Germain, Paris 6e

IARTEM (The International Association for Research on Textbooks and Educational Media), EDA research unit and University Paris-Cité are pleased to announce that the 17th International Conference on Textbooks and Educational Media will take place in Paris 29–31 May 2024.

Venue: Paris, Université Paris Cité, 45 rue des Saints-Pères, Paris | The conference will also be open for online participation.

The conference will be open to professionals from all over the world who work in the field of textbooks and educational media research, design, and production. The programme includes an intensive doctoral session for PhD students on 28 May 2024.

Specific conference themes

• Textbooks and educational resources linked to climate change
• Educational resources in higher and adult education and in connected learning
• Fostering critical thinking from textbooks and educational media

General conference themes

The following themes are not restrictive, and you can propose any contribution in the scope of IARTEM; i.e. research on textbook and educational media:

• Educational resources as objects: textbooks as books, identity issues in textbooks and educational media, disciplinary knowledge in and through educational media, linguistics analysis etc.
• Design and production process: textbook selection and approval; educational publishing – potential, challenges, regulation, and market, special education and educational media, equity, access and funding of textbooks and educational media, local culture in educational media, educational resources including artificial intelligence techniques etc.
• Uses and impacts: efficient practices in educational media usage; teacher education for using educational media and textbooks in the classroom, (digital) resources and student differentiation; uses in different contexts (school, home), scaffolding through educational media, impact on student learning etc.
• Research methods and interdisciplinary themes: methodology and design in research of learning resources; history of educational media and textbook development, usage, and production.

Deadlines and important dates

It is no longer possible to submit or to modify a contribution for the conference, the next deadlines are the following:

• Registration and payment: 16 February–24 April 2024
• Publication of programme: 15 March 2024

Local Organising Committee

Catherine Aymé (Université Paris Nord, LABSIC), Charlotte Barbier, Georges-Louis Baron, Eric Bruillard, Mehdi Khaneboubi, Pascale Kummer, Magali Loffreda, Martina Ronci, Patricia Von Münchow, Julie Wasilewski (Université Paris cité, EDA), Florence Colin, Magali Roumy (Université Paris Est Créteil), Solène Zablot (Université de Caen Normandie)

Scientific committee 

The IARTEM Board