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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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Diazgranados, Silvia; Noonan, James – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2015
In Colombia, reducing levels of interpersonal and community violence is a key component of the country's approach to citizenship education. In this study, we use data collected during the 2005 Saber test of Citizenship Competencies to examine the relationship of school environments and individual students' supportive attitudes toward…
Descriptors: Correlation, School Safety, Violence, Classification
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Ethier, Marc-Andre; Lefrancois, David; Demers, Stephanie – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2013
In the 1980s, in Quebec history textbooks, authors presented history through linear, monocausal designs and attributed most social, political or economic changes favourable to democracy to unstable external causes or to stable external causes. They seldom attributed the evolution of democracy to "unstable internal causes". These…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Textbook Content, Content Analysis, Foreign Countries
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Doppen, Frans H. – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2010
As a result of dramatic demographic changes during the last half century as well as a series of recent events surrounding prominent personas, the Dutch have been engaged in an intense debate about their national identity and how citizenship education can contribute to the integration of Muslim immigrants in particular. This article analyses the…
Descriptors: Nationalism, Citizenship, Citizenship Education, Immigrants