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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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Youdell, Deborah – Critical Studies in Education, 2010
In this paper I draw on ethnographic data generated inside an English "special" school for boys designate as having "social, emotional and behavioural difficulties". I offer a detailed analysis of one teacher's pedagogic practices inside her ICT classroom and the boys' responses to this. I suggest that the teacher's pedagogy, and the classroom,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Males, Special Schools, Teaching Methods
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Connell, Raewyn – Critical Studies in Education, 2009
Ideas about what makes a good teacher are important in thinking about educational reform, and have come into focus recently. These ideas are contested and open to change. The first part of this paper traces models of the good teacher in Australia from the colonial-era good servant, through an ideal of the autonomous scholar-teacher, to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching (Occupation), Teacher Competencies, Educational Change
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Mills, Carmen – Critical Studies in Education, 2009
Given Australia's diverse student population, the need for pre-service teacher education to prepare what is a predominantly Anglo-Australian and middle-class profession to be effective teachers of diverse students is critical. In Lortie's (1975) classic study, however, he argues that the predispositions of teacher education students are a much…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Cultural Differences, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes