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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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Brock, Sabra E. – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2010
Transformative learning has been important in the development of adult education since Jack Mezirow proposed it more than 35 years ago as a theoretical description of the steps learners undergo in changing their worldviews. However, despite much qualitative research, little quantitative study has been made of the incidence of transformative…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Incidence, Transformative Learning, Undergraduate Students
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Clark, Mavis A. – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2006
Disability studies is an emerging field of inquiry that investigates the disability experience as a socially constructed phenomenon similar to issues of race, gender, and class. However, the literature of adult education shows that we are not making these same connections. Nor are we conducting a thorough investigation of how the manifestations of…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Education, Disabilities, Interdisciplinary Approach