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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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Rogers, Rebecca; Wetzel, Melissa Mosley – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2013
Critically oriented forms of discourse analysis have focused largely on oppression and injustice. Signaling a new turn in the field, scholars have called for an analytic focus on moments of liberation and agency, referring to this orientation as "positive discourse analysis" (PDA). In this research, we turn our attention to a case study of agency…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Discourse Analysis, Educational Change, Preservice Teachers
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Rogers, Rebecca – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2011
Discourse analysts are concerned with how language both reflects and constructs the social world. As a field of study, there are scores of books, journals, and conferences devoted to the theoretical and methodological issues among the varieties of discourse analysis. Less discussed in the field of discourse studies is how one learns to become a…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Language Usage, Social Influences, Researchers