GEI in the Media

In spring, UNESCO published ‘Unmasking Racism: Guidelines for Educational Materials’. But what will the guidelines achieve? Simiao Yu, one of the authors and a researcher at the GEI, was interviewed by taz.

Riem Spielhaus, head of the ‘Knowledge in Transition’ department, spoke to Deutschlandfunk about how educational media influence how Islam is perceived. A conversation about presentation and contextualisation.

Simiao Yu, a research fellow at the GEI and co-author of the guidelines, spoke to Deutschlandfunk about the UNESCO guidelines ‘Unmasking Racism: Guidelines for Educational Materials’.

The way Sinti and Roma are portrayed in schools continues to be criticised. Members of this minority group have joined with experts to call for new narratives and measures to combat antiziganism.

The International Day to Combat Islamophobia on 15 March was the ideal opportunity to present a study examining the transfer of knowledge on Islam and images of Islam in the classroom.