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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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Kumashiro, Kevin K. – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2014
This reflective essay draws on the personal experiences of the author in negotiating various tensions of engaged research and raises several troubling questions about research with immigrant populations, particularly concerning engagement, ethics, and educational contexts. Three "lenses" (or, three theoretical framings) serve as…
Descriptors: Ethics, Educational Research, Immigrants, Educational Environment
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Milligan, Jeffrey Ayala – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2009
This essay critically examines the relevance of Cornel West's (1989) conception of "prophetic pragmatism" as a theoretical framework for educational development in post-conflict settings torn by religious, socioeconomic, and cultural tensions. It examines the concept through the conflict and post-conflict experiences of the Indonesian province of…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Educational Philosophy, Conflict, Foreign Countries
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Howard, Patrick – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2008
Education is central to two recent international efforts to address an impending ecological global crisis. "The Earth Charter" and the UN document "Decade for Education for Sustainable Development 2005-2014" challenge all people to consider the socio-ecological, ethical, local and global dimensions of human life. These documents state clearly the…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Consciousness Raising, Educational Principles, Global Approach
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Godbole-Chaudhuri, Pragati; Srikantaiah, Deepa; van Fleet, Justin – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2008
The global proliferation of intellectual property rights (IPRs), most recently through the World Trade Organization's Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement, poses a grave threat for Indigenous knowledge systems. There is an increasing amount of "piracy" of Indigenous knowledge, whereby corporations and scientists…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, Ecology, Foreign Countries, Corporations
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Tsering, Tashi – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2008
In environmentalist discourse, there is often an assumption that certain non-industrial peoples, usually called "traditional" or "indigenous" live in more "harmonious" relations with nature. The general argument is that instead of treating these communities as "backward" or "uncivilized," the modern world has much to learn from them in terms of…
Descriptors: Buddhism, Cultural Context, Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Populations
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Wright, Handel Kashope – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2007
In this speech, the author uses five moments of his own existence to speak to how he thinks the West conceptualizes and depicts Africa and Africans. This involves autobiography in a sense because he used his own life, but the discussion is not about him. It is about western conceptions and representations of Africans as reflected in the following…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Autobiographies, Foreign Countries, Ethnic Groups