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 mini-conference was held on 3 - 5 September 2009 in Santiago De Compostela, Spain.

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.
 

Miniconference 22 - 24 August 2010 in Montreal, Quebec Canada 'Constructions of conflict and peace in/by textbooks and educational media.' Limited places avaliable. Please contact Susanne Knudsen: susanne.knudsen@hive.no Go to conferences for further information and call for propals.   New scientific volume: 'Peace, Democratisation and reconciliation in textbooks and educational media.' This volume presents papers which were presented during the 9th IARTEM conference on learning and educational media, held at Vestfold College, Norway in September 2007, “Peace, democratisation and reconciliation in textbooks and educational media”. More than eighty participants attended the conference, coming from five continents and thirty different countries. Please pay attention: You may print it as a book, but this may not be for sale or profit.