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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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Vakeva, Lauri; Westerlund, Heidi – Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, 2007
The winning of an artist representing the lowest level of Finnish musical taste during the 2006 Eurovision song contest marks not only the rebellious attitude towards the over-sanitized contest, but it was the result of a new practice--voting by text message. Recently, music-biased schools that were once selective of the music they teach are now…
Descriptors: Music Education, Democracy, Democratic Values, Foreign Countries