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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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Klymenko, Lina – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2014
The main objective of this paper is to illustrate the conceptualisation of a textbook as a site of memory, a discourse and a genre. This paper investigates the semantic and linguistic elements of the discourse of World War II in Ukrainian school history textbooks for the 11th grade, centring on the following distinct key themes: the…
Descriptors: War, History Instruction, Victims, Foreign Countries
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Del Franco, Nicoletta – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2010
This study focuses on girl college students in a rural area of South West Bangladesh exploring the meaning and value they give to higher secondary education. By listening to their voices, the ethnography shows that unlike their younger counterparts, who stop studying in order to get married, girls who enrol at college develop more complex and…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Attitudes, Secondary Education, Females
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Corbett, Michael J. – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2010
With the rise of network society, consumerism, individualization, globalization and contemporary change forces, students are pressured to both perform well in standardized academic assessments while at the same time constructing a non-standard, unique project of the self. I argue that this generates a particular set of place-based tensions for…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Rural Education, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries
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Jabr, Dua – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2009
This paper presents a collaborative educational experiment "The Death of the Dead Sea: A Problem Based Learning" that was applied in two governmental high schools in Ramallah, Palestine in the school year 2006-2007. The students' role was to raise awareness to the phenomenon of the saltiest lake that shrinks towards extinction. In spite of the…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Foreign Countries, Educational Experiments, Teaching Methods