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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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A "Globalised" Curriculum--International Comparative Practices and the Preschool Child as a Site of Economic Optimisation
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Plum, Maja – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2014
Globalisation is often referred to as being external to education--a state of affairs presenting the modern curriculum with numerous challenges. In this article, "globalisation" is examined as something that is internal to curriculum and analysed as a "problematisation" in a Foucaultian sense, that is, as a complex of…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Foreign Countries, Preschool Curriculum, Preschool Children
"Needle and Stick" Save the World: Sustainable Development and the Universal Child
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Dahlbeck, Johan; De Lucia Dahlbeck, Moa – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2012
This text deals with a problem concerning processes of the productive power of knowledge. We draw on the so-called poststructural theories challenging the classical image of thought--as hinged upon a representational logic identifying entities in a rigid sense--when formulating a problem concerning the gap between knowledge and the object of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Educational Television, Role
Rendering (Gender) Invisible: Early Childhood Education and Care in Ontario as a Biopolitical Social Investment Apparatus
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Bundy, Jessica – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2012
Shifts are occurring in discourses regarding childcare, creating changes in the development of early childhood education programmes. Childcare, as an important "investment" for the future success of nation-states, is a discourse recently developed across a variety of political arenas, both globally and in local governing bodies and institutions.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Care, Early Childhood Education, Program Development
Risk Anxiety, Policy, and the Spectre of Sexual Abuse in Early Childhood Education
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Jones, Alison – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2004
How did early childhood education become "risky" for children and teachers? This paper takes a series of booklets written in the 1990s as a case study of the entry of official anxiety about sexual abuse in early childhood centres in New Zealand. I argue that these documents provided a basis for policy development which reflects risk anxiety rather…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Foreign Countries