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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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Biesta, Gert; Allan, Julie; Edwards, Richard – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2011
The question of capacity building in education has predominantly been approached with regard to the methods and methodologies of educational research. Far less attention has been given to capacity building in relation to theory. In many ways the latter is as pressing an issue as the former, given that good research depends on a combination of high…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Change, Research and Development, Theory Practice Relationship
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Lawy, Robert; Biesta, Gert – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2006
Over the last few years there has been a renewed interest in questions of citizenship and in particular its relation to young people. This has been allied to an educational discourse where the emphasis has been upon questions concerned with "outcome" rather than with "process"--with the curriculum and methods of teaching rather than questions of…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Civil Rights, Citizenship Responsibility, National Curriculum
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Vanderstraeten, Raf; Biesta, Gert – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2006
Education cannot mean that the young are the product of the activities of their teachers. At the same time, we do not speak of education if students would simply learn something irrespective of the activities of their teachers. In this paper we focus on the question: How is education possible? Our aim is to contribute to a social theory of…
Descriptors: Social Theories, Educational Practices, Educational Philosophy, Communication (Thought Transfer)
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Lawy, Robert; Biesta, Gert – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2006
Over the last few years there has been a renewed interest in questions of citizenship and in particular its relation to young people. This has been allied to an educational discourse where the emphasis has been upon questions concerned with outcome rather than with process with the curriculum and methods of teaching rather than questions of…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Citizenship Education, Academic Discourse, Teaching Methods