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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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Fettes, Mark – Democracy & Education, 2013
Three variations of experience identified in the educational literature entail different ways of thinking about and developing learners' imaginations. The relationship between these different imaginative modes resembles shifts between different kinds of understanding in Kieran Egan's theory of imaginative development. From this theoretical…
Descriptors: Experience, Value Judgment, Imagination, Development
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Mueller, Michael P.; Tippins, Deborah; Bryan, Lynn A. – Democracy & Education, 2012
There is an emerging trend of democratizing science and schooling within science education that can be characterized as citizen science. We explore the roots of this movement and some current projects to underscore the meaning of citizen science in science and schooling. We show that citizen science, as it is currently conceptualized, does not go…
Descriptors: Holistic Approach, Science and Society, Science Education, Science Education History