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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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Heikkinen, Hannu L. T.; Huttunen, Rauno; Syrjala, Leena; Pesonen, Jyri – Educational Action Research, 2012
The article continues the discussion of the five quality principles proposed by Heikkinen, Huttunen, and Syrjala, published in 2007 in "Educational Action Research". In the present article, the authors reconsider the five principles: historical continuity; reflexivity; dialectics; workability; and evocativeness. These five principles are…
Descriptors: Action Research, Inquiry, Educational Research, Educational Principles
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Niemi, Reetta; Heikkinen, Hannu L. T.; Kannas, Lasse – Educational Action Research, 2010
In this article we will present a reflexive way of producing a narrative analysis on teaching and learning that involves all participants of the pedagogical process. Our theoretical contribution rests on the concept "lived pedagogy", adapted from Max van Manen's term "lived experience". Like van Manen, we start by asking the key question of…
Descriptors: Action Research, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Interaction
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Heikkinen, Hannu L. T.; Kakkori, Leena; Huttunen, Rauno – Educational Action Research, 2001
Introduces various aspects of truth theories in the context of action research, focusing on truth as correspondence, truth as successful practice, and truth as coherence and paradigmatic truth. The paper describes how action research uncovers the truth, discusses pen discourse as a validity criterion (the truth as consensus), and looks at the…
Descriptors: Action Research, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education