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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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Cultural Hierarchies in the Discursive Representations of China in the "Chronicle of Higher Education"
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Suspitsyna, Tatiana – Critical Studies in Education, 2015
This paper presents the results of a discourse analysis of the "Chronicle of Higher Education" publications about China in 2011 and 2012. Drawing on postcolonial appropriations of governmentality to frame the discussion of globalization as the context of the study, the author analyzes the stylistic, rhetorical, and semantic strategies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Newspapers, Higher Education, Discourse Analysis
The Production of Scholarly Knowledge in the Global Market Arena: University Ranking Systems, Prestige and Power
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Collyer, Fran – Critical Studies in Education, 2013
The relationships between disciplines and the institutions within which they are situated is a fertile area for researching the shaping of sociological knowledge. Applying theoretical insights from the sociology of knowledge, this article draws on an empirical study of research publications in the sociology of health and medicine to show which…
Descriptors: Reputation, Higher Education, Intellectual Disciplines, Correlation
North American Adult Literacy Programs and Latin American Immigrants: How Critical Pedagogy Can Help Nonprofit Literacy Programming in the United States
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Straubhaar, Rolf – Critical Studies in Education, 2013
As nonprofit adult literacy programs are often the only options for low-income Latin American immigrants in North America, problems accompanying these programs affect the ability of immigrants to benefit from them. North American nonprofit adult literacy programs often struggle due to the difficulties inherent in using volunteer instructors (often…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Hispanic Americans, Low Income, Literacy Education