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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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Preparing Teachers for the 21st Century Using PBL as an Integrating Strategy in Science and Technology Education
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Brears, Lindsay; MacIntyre, Bill; O'Sullivan, Gary – Design and Technology Education, 2011
This paper explores the foundational principles of Problem-Based Learning (PBL) as an integrative teaching strategy designed deliberately to cross discipline boundaries in order to make meaningful and lasting connections. The authors suggest that while PBL has in recent times has largely manifested towards a method of inquiry within a single…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Interdisciplinary Approach, Problem Based Learning, Reflective Teaching
Technology Education in New Zealand: The Connected Curriculum
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O'Sullivan, Gary – Design and Technology Education, 2010
This paper aims to identify what actually takes place when policy directives bring together Technology Education, Enterprise Education, and the wider Community Partnerships. Since the introduction of a national technology curriculum to New Zealand schools in 1999 there has been little critique as to the intentions of the curriculum. In late 2005…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Ideology, Foreign Countries, Professional Development