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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 Challenge of Developing Civic Engagement in Higher Education in England
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Annette, John – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2010
This paper explores how civic engagement as an important dimension of public engagement in higher education has been slow to develop in the UK, despite an important history dating from the "civic universities" in the nineteenth century. I specifically consider the development of "service learning" as an important way in which the values and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Democracy, Service Learning, Foreign Countries
Character, Civic Renewal and Service Learning for Democratic Citizenship in Higher Education
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Annette, John – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2005
This article explores the civic republican conception of citizenship underlying the Labour government's programme of civil renewal and the introduction of education for democratic citizenship. It considers the importance of the cultivation of civic virtue through political participation for such developments and it reviews the research into how…
Descriptors: Personality, Values Education, Service Learning, Social Responsibility