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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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Comparing Teacher Roles in Denmark and England
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Kelly, Peter; Dorf, Hans; Pratt, Nick; Hohmann, Ulrike – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2014
This article reports the findings of a comparative study of teaching in Denmark and England. Its broader aim is to help develop an approach for comparing pedagogy. Lesson observations and interviews identified the range of goals towards which teachers in each country worked and the actions these prompted. These were clustered using the lens of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Role, Comparative Education, Comparative Analysis
Disenchantment and Participatory Limits of Compulsory Education: Lessons from Southwest China
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Wu, Jinting – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2012
Despite the state's unrelenting efforts to enforce compulsory basic education, schooling in rural ethnic China remains an elusive ideal that leads to massive dropout and prepares many only for factory sweatshops. Based on 16 months of ethnographic research, this article examines the disjuncture between the official education policy known as the…
Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Ethnography, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy