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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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Zipin, Lew; Sellar, Sam; Hattam, Robert – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2012
This article discusses how the "funds of knowledge" approach (FoK) offers a socially just alternative to the logics of capital, by drawing on knowledge assets from students' family and community lifeworlds to build engaging and rigorous learning, supporting school-community interactions that build capacities. We explain how we applied FoK in an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Capital, Social Capital, Human Capital
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Zipin, Lew – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2009
Among social justice efforts to make curriculum more engaging and achieving for "less advantaged" learners, the Funds of Knowledge (FoK) approach, as developed by Moll, Gonzalez and associates (Gonzalez, Moll, & Amanti, 2005; Moll, Amanti, Neff, & Gonzalez, 1992), offers sound conception and a track-record. The Redesigning Pedagogies in the North…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Academic Education, Student Diversity, Cultural Influences
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Hattam, Robert; Brennan, Marie; Zipin, Lew; Comber, Barbara – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2009
Reforming schooling to enable engagement and success for those typically marginalised and failed by schools is a necessary task for educational researchers and activists concerned with injustice. However, it is a difficult pursuit, with a long history of failed attempts. This paper outlines the rationale of an Australian partnership research…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Popular Culture, Action Research, Educational Change