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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Allsup, Randall Everett; Westerlund, Heidi – Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, 2012
In this article the authors examine the history of a basic logic in educational thought, that of "teaching method," with the hope of relocating the teacher as a vital and ethical agent in the educational process. They use as a starting point John Dewey's view that when predictability or certainty are pursued as ends-in-themselves or as "a priori"…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Music Education, Ethics, Music
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Allsup, Randall Everett – Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, 2009
People live, unarguably, in a violent world: in hard times, of dark days and nights. In this essay, the author asks the questions, what does it mean to live in an age of perpetual war? How do people make sense of everyday violence? How is it symbolically enacted? How is it sublimated and transcended? This essay also looks broadly at the meaning of…
Descriptors: Violence, War, Quality of Life, Social Problems