NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
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.

Learn more about the history of ERIC here. PDF icon

Showing all 3 results
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Kershner, Ruth; Warwick, Paul; Mercer, Neil; Kleine Staarman, Judith – Education 3-13, 2014
We focus on children's approaches to managing group work in classrooms where collaborative learning principles are explicit. Small groups of 8-10 year olds worked on collaborative science activities using an interactive whiteboard. Insubsequent interviews, they spoke of learning to "be patient" and "wait", for multiple…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Cooperative Learning, Bulletin Boards
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Warwick, Paul – Education 3-13, 2007
Citizenship education (CE) is a recent innovation within the National Curriculum in England, key aspects of which have a clear relevance to the "Every Child Matters" (ECM) agenda. Both CE and ECM strongly articulate a commitment to democratic principles and express a concern over children's perspectives being taken into account in order to help…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Citizenship, Action Research, Citizenship Education
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Warwick, Paul; Cunningham, Peter – Education 3-13, 2006
This paper considers the experiences of teachers in a "progressive" English independent school, in particular with respect to what might loosely be termed job satisfaction. The paper suggests that these teachers have ideals and aspirations in common with many of their colleagues who teach in the state sector. The writers suggest that teachers in…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Job Satisfaction, Accountability, Teacher Attitudes