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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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Developing an Inclusive Democratic Classroom "in Action" through Cooperative Learning
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Ferguson-Patrick, Kate – Australian Association for Research in Education (NJ1), 2012
This paper examines how Cooperative learning (CL) and democracy can be examined in relation to one another. CL supports a social constructivist view of students learning together to form knowledge through direct interaction. The overriding benefits of CL are that that it is an effective strategy for maximising both social and academic learning…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Classroom Environment, Case Method (Teaching Technique), Constructivism (Learning)
Global Education in Teacher Education Programs: Views from Pre-Service Teachers
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Ferguson-Patrick, Kate; Macqueen, Suzanne; Reynolds, Ruth – Australian Association for Research in Education (NJ1), 2012
National government education policies in Australia and elsewhere are concerned with preparing citizens who can engage with a global economy and be internationally competitive. For example, the preamble to The Melbourne Declaration (Ministerial Council on Education Employment Training & Youth Affairs [MCEETYA], 2008) focuses on the need for young…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Teaching Methods, Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs