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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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Community in Cyberspace: Gender, Social Movement Learning, and the Internet
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Irving, Catherine J.; English, Leona M. – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2011
Feminist nonprofit organizations are sites of informal and nonformal learning where citizens learn advocacy, literacy, and the practices of social democracy. With the growing use of information and communication technologies in the nonprofit sector, there are questions as to how well organizations are able to make use of this technology to further…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Feminism, Nonprofit Organizations, Informal Education
Reflexive Texts: Issues of Knowledge, Power, and Discourse in Researching Gender and Learning
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English, Leona M.; Irving, Catherine J. – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2008
This article provides a feminist poststructural analysis of the authors' academic labor during a State of the Field Literature Review of Gender and Adult Learning for a government-funded educational body. Drawing on Foucault and feminist theorists, the authors pay particular attention to how power seeps down through the system to our bodies in our…
Descriptors: Feminism, Adult Learning, Researchers, Gender Issues