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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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Ho, Wai-Chung – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2013
This study explores how the government of mainland China values Chinese nationalism as a component of its historical memory and traces its relationship with music education from the twentieth century to the global age within broader social contexts. In a rapidly commercializing and modernizing China, nationalism remains the main driving force…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Education, Government Role, Nationalism
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Ho, Wai-Chung – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2009
This paper explores two current issues in the educational policies and practices of Hong Kong that have been shaped by the emergence of the nation-state and the return of Hong Kong's sovereignty from the UK to the People's Republic of China on 1 July 1997. Since this time there have been two great challenges facing music education. The first…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Educational Practices, Government School Relationship
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Ho, Wai-Chung – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2007
The purpose of this paper is to describe the Hong Kong (HK) school curriculum, especially the general curriculum for civic education and other social subjects, in relation to the political events of the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration, the 1989 Tiananmen Square Incident, and the return of HK's sovereignty from the United Kingdom (UK) to the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Political Attitudes, Government School Relationship, School Culture