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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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"We Must Look at Both Sides"--But a Denial of Genocide Too?: Difficult Moments on Controversial Issues in the Classroom
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Kubota, Ryuko – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2014
In language education, controversial issues sometimes emerge in either planned or spontaneous ways. Based on a classroom episode, this article illuminates dilemmas of approaching controversial issues for teachers who embrace critical pedagogy. A review of interdisciplinary literature demonstrates a general agreement on presenting balanced views…
Descriptors: Death, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Critical Theory, Teaching Methods
The Politics of Cultural Difference in Second Language Education
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Kubota, Ryuko – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2004
Cultural difference is an important topic of discussion in second language education. Yet cultural difference is often conceptualized as fixed, objective, and apolitical based on an essentialist and normative understanding of culture. This article challenges such conceptualizations by examining and politicizing multiple and conflicting meanings of…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Second Languages, National Standards, Second Language Learning