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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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Green, Bill – Australian Educational Researcher, 2010
In this address, the author engages both with the possibility "and" the impossibility of the educational project--and suggests something of what it means to say this. His presentation is specifically addressed to the theme of the (im)possibility of the educational project. He draws from philosophy, literature, psychoanalysis and history, as well…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research Projects, Educational Research, Teacher Education
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Rex, Lesley A. – Australian Educational Researcher, 2010
In this paper, the author addresses the circumstances of education research knowledge at this time in history. She begins by referring to the keynote talks by Erika McWilliams and Bill Green, who take up the issue of knowledge-building through research in education and how to regard it productively and hopefully as researchers move forward. She…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Researchers, Information Dissemination, Innovation
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Baker, Bernadette – Australian Educational Researcher, 2009
In this article, the author revisits the interlinked conceptualizations of globe, of an unconscious, and of the child, which subtly shape repetitively appearing issues that educational research now entails, confronts, and works through. By looking exclusively at institutional structures, educational policy, or classroom-based interactions, the…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Politics of Education, Educational Policy, Educational Strategies
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Rizvi, Fazal – Australian Educational Researcher, 2008
Cosmopolitanism is a worthy educational goal, perhaps more important now than ever before. Its possibilities, however, cannot be adequately realised unless people develop a different way of thinking about issues of global interconnectivity and develop in students a set of epistemic virtues with which they can critically explore the ways in which…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Educational Objectives, Global Approach, Social Influences