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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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Mark, Rob; Nakabugo, Mary Goretti – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2011
The Irish-African Partnership for Research Capacity Building (IAP) is a research consortium involving all of the nine universities on the island of Ireland together with four African universities, with the overall aim of building research capacity for poverty reduction. The project was supported by a three-year grant from Irish Aid. This article…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Lifelong Learning, Foreign Countries, Partnerships in Education
Mark, Rob – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2008
The Literacy and Equality in Irish Society (LEIS) Project is an example of a project which used alternative non-text methodologies to help literacy and basic education learners explore and understand how inequalities in society have impacted on their lives. The project focused on inequalities, shifting the emphasis in literacy and basic skills…
Descriptors: Creativity, Foreign Countries, Adult Literacy, Teaching Methods
Mark, Rob – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2007
This article traces the development of adult literacy as a field of practice in Ireland. It examines how literacy is understood and looks at key moments in the recent development of policy showing how adult literacy has become a central focus of Government policy in both the Republic and in Northern Ireland. It concludes that while the development…
Descriptors: Social Change, Foreign Countries, Adult Literacy, Public Policy