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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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King, Alyson E. – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2015
In a first-year, university-level communication course that examined issues of race, ethnicity, postcolonialism, diaspora, and coming-of-age using different points of view and modes of communication, students created graphic novel-style auto-ethnographies to reflect on their experiences with diaspora and identity creation. The assignment was an…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Multiple Literacies, Race, Ethnicity
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Aleixo, Marina; Hansen, Sarah; Horii, Sachiko; Un, Silvy – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2014
This article illuminates instances in which four graduate students have struggled with issues of representation--of themselves and of immigrant participants--at their research sites and in their writing. These dilemmas are situated within the literature on the politics of representation in qualitative research. Although these dilemmas are not…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Immigrants, Political Influences, Qualitative Research
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Veintie, Tuija – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2013
This article examines the incorporation of Indigenous knowledge into an intercultural bilingual teacher education program in the Ecuadorian Amazon. The article focuses on student teachers' and teacher educators' views on the ways in which Indigenous knowledge can guide educational practices. An ethnographic study was conducted in one…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Knowledge, Intercultural Programs, Bilingual Education
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Agbaria, Ayman K.; Pinson, Halleli – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2013
This article explores the nexus between pre-service teacher education polices and the supply and demand of minority teachers. It problematizes the recent reports on teacher shortages in Israel, which tend to focus on the shortage of Jewish teachers while dealing with the surplus of Arab teachers only tangentially. Specifically, this article…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Minority Group Teachers, Teacher Shortage, Jews
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Despagne, Colette – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2013
The purpose of this article is to investigate whether, despite a shift in political and educational discourses over the last decades that suggests that Indigenous cultures and languages are recognized, any real change has occurred in terms of Indigenous education in Mexico. It is possible that official bilingual intercultural education is still…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Cultural Pluralism, Foreign Countries, Multicultural Education
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Araujo, Blanca E. – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2012
Migrant farmworker students bring with them to schools a significant knowledge base that they acquire working in the fields alongside their families. These experiences can be valuable influences in their enrollment and completion of college. Using "community cultural wealth", this article examines how a Latino migrant farmworker student used his…
Descriptors: Migrant Workers, Migrants, College Attendance, Graduation
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Cole, Wade M. – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2012
Recent studies have analyzed the diffusion of ethnic studies programs at colleges and universities in the United States. This article explores a different trend: the infusion of "ethnocentric" content--perspectives that explicitly and exclusively focus on one ethnic group--throughout the curriculum at tribal, historically Black, and mainstream…
Descriptors: Politics of Education, Social Influences, Culturally Relevant Education, Black Colleges
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Zhang, Jianxin; Verhoeven, Jef C. – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2012
In this article we focus on answering the question "Is there equal access to different types of higher education institutions (HEIs) for ethnic minority (EM) students in Yunnan Province (China), and what explanation might be found for any differences?" In order to answer this question, we rely on the education attainment theory, and a sample of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Attainment, Minority Groups, Minority Group Students
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Saunders, Anne – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2012
Worldwide there are critical shortfalls of teachers, particularly in Indigenous communities. This article considers the use of nonformal education (NFE) in the form of community-based adult education (CBAE) for Indigenous teacher training to meet this need. Drawing on a literature search of Indigenous CBAE initiatives, some of the challenges and…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Adult Education, Empowerment, Nonformal Education
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De Wet, Priscilla – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2011
As we search for a new paradigm in post-apartheid South Africa, the knowledge base and worldview of the KhoeSan first Indigenous peoples is largely missing. The South African government has established various mechanisms as agents for social change. Institutions of higher learning have implemented transformation programs. KhoeSan peoples, however,…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Racial Segregation, Pilot Projects, Social Change
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Hager, Tamar; Saba, Tuffaha – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2009
This article recounts an attempt by administration and faculty to create a multinational and multicultural vision for Tel Hai Academic College in the Galilee in Israel. This uncommon initiative in the Israeli academia intends to transform the campus into a unique academic institution allowing equality and visibility for all cultural and national…
Descriptors: Conflict, Arabs, Foreign Countries, Inferences
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Santamaria, Lorri J.; Santamaria, Cristina C.; Fletcher, Todd V. – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2009
This study investigated pre-service and credentialed teachers at 2 universities in the Southwestern United States (N = 24), who participated in education-abroad programs in Mexico over 1 summer. This study examined the literature within a framework for developing cultural competence to describe and understand students' experiences. Following a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Second Language Learning, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
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Feuer, Avital – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2008
An ethnographic study of a Canadian, undergraduate, advanced Hebrew course composed of heritage language learners of diverse backgrounds examined the fluctuating notion of nation and shifting national membership affiliations. Data collection techniques included participant observation and in-depth, semistructured, focus group and individual…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Ethnicity, Jews, Nationalism
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Affolter, Friedrich W. – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2007
This article explores the motivational causes for learning and community service of students, faculty, and volunteer supporters of the Baha'i Institute of Higher Education (BIHE) in Iran. BIHE is a grassroots initiative launched by Baha'i academics, who--after having been expelled from public universities as a result of their allegiance to the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Universities, Foreign Countries, College Faculty
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Reisman, Arnold; Capar, Ismail – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2007
This article discusses a little-known aspect of higher education history. The Republic of Turkey was established in 1923. The system of higher education Turkey inherited from the Ottomans totaled some 300+ Islamic "madrasas", one of which was converted into a fledgling university at the turn of the century; and three military academies, one of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Refugees, Higher Education, Educational History