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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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Bringing the Game into Disrepute": The Ben Cousins Saga, Sports Entertainment, Player Welfare and Surveillance in the Australian Football League
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Kelly, Peter; Hickey, Christopher – Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education, 2012
In 2007 the elite Australian Rules footballer Ben Cousins was suspended by the Australian Football League for 12 months for "bringing the game into disrepute". Cousins was the first, and at the time of writing, the only player to be suspended by the AFL for actions and behaviors that were claimed to be damaging to the reputation of the game and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reputation, Audiences, Industry
"I Think It's a Good Idea, I Just Don't Know How to Do It": The Struggle for PE Reform in China
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Hickey, Christopher; Jin, Aijing – Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education, 2010
Among the many changes occurring across Chinese society in the early phase of Y2K is the construction and implementation of a new physical education (PE) curriculum. Not unlike recent changes in Australia, New Zealand and the UK, this process has seen a heightening of the emphasis on health. Presented within a wider framework for making the school…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Health Education, Educational Change, Foreign Countries