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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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Lamb, Roberta – Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, 2014
This article presents a meta-analysis of one area of sociological literature in music education: Where are the women and "others"? Where do we raise concerns about social values? Institutional Ethnography provides the basis for the meta-analysis, presented in two historical periods, pre-1960 and 2007-2012. A short story of an actual…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Music Education, Social Values, Ethnography
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Stark, Jody – Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, 2014
This paper is a reflection on the stance, concerns, and rhetorical style of the MayDay Group (MDG) and its journal, "Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education." The theoretical assumption is that MDG constitutes a community of practice (Wenger 1998) with collective histories, agendas, and discursive practices. After discussing…
Descriptors: Periodicals, Music Education, Rhetoric, Communities of Practice
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Bladh, Stephan; Heimonen, Marja – Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, 2007
In this paper, the authors discuss the influence of democracy and law on music education in Sweden and Finland, and the potential for music education as training in democracy. The latter consideration can be instructive regardless of the nation, or its laws and paradigms of music education. The theoretical background is based on Jurgen Habermas'…
Descriptors: Music Education, Democratic Values, Educational Legislation, Democracy