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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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Millei, Zsuzsa; Sumsion, Jennifer – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2011
This article articulates the appeal of different conceptualisations of community to the curriculum writers of Belonging, Being and Becoming: the Early Years Learning Framework for Australia and to the Council of Australian Governments that commissioned the Framework, and the tensions within and between those respective conceptualisations. It then…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Politics of Education, Democracy
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Millei, Zsuzsa; Imre, Robert – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2009
Early years policy increasingly uses the concept of "citizenship" in relation to children in Australia and worldwide. This concept is used as a taken-for-granted idea; however, there is no singularly agreed-upon answer to the question of what "citizenship" means when used in relation to children, and what practical considerations it carries both…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Foreign Countries, Educational Practices, Educational Policy
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Millei, Zsuzsa; Lee, Libby – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2007
This article critiques the Smart Population Foundation Initiative (SPFI), which was established to "bring parenting information and the science of child development to Australian parents and carers" (Smart Population Foundation, 2006) and to satisfy the need for a credible and easily accessible source of information for parents. The article draws…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Child Rearing, Parents, Foreign Countries