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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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Kenway, Jane; Hickey-Moody, Anna – Critical Studies in Education, 2011
The notion of raising the aspirations of socially disadvantaged students is a key policy strategy in for enhancing such students' participation in higher education. However, this strategy runs the risk of being simplistic and ineffective unless it is informed by research on the links between aspirations and such students' changing life experiences…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Disadvantaged, Student Participation
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Savage, Glenn C.; Hickey-Moody, Anna – Critical Studies in Education, 2010
This article theorizes empirical data from an ethnographic project conducted in and around the economically disadvantaged suburb of Noble Park in southeast suburban Melbourne (Victoria, Australia). Exploring the politics around gendered identities of young people involved in the research, particularly Australian-Sudanese men, the authors theorize…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economically Disadvantaged, Suburbs, Global Approach