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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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The War against People: Adult Education Practice for Critical Democracy
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Connolly, Brid; Hussey, Peter – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2013
The purpose of this article is to explore the role of adult education for critical democracy, in order to address the social suffering that these authors have encountered in their work as critical adult community educators. Brid Connolly and Peter Hussey explored this through dialogue, as a process of education and research. Dialogue is the moment…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational Practices, Community Education, Social Control
Beyond Redemption? Locating the Experience of Adult Learners and Educators
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Ryan, Anne B.; Connolly, Brid; Grummell, Bernie; Finnegan, Fergal – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2009
This article aims to continue the conversation initiated by Denis O'Sullivan in the 2008 issue of the "Adult Learner". O'Sullivan raises several important points about the nature of Irish adult education and the need to develop a rigorous theoretical basis for the authors' work. The authors wish to engage with O'Sullivan's observations of the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Integrity, Adult Learning