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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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Sherwood, Elizabeth A.; Freshwater, Amy – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2009
This article examines the pervasive influence of progressive education and travel on a public school kindergarten teacher's professional life. In a statement included in her handwritten list of goals for the children in her classroom, she echoed John Dewey, noting that a kindergarten child should "....live life fully and well because this is a…
Descriptors: Travel, Dramatic Play, Creative Teaching, Creativity
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Cohen, Lynn E. – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2008
Foucault's notion of "regimes of truth" (MacNaughton 2005, 30) provides an understanding of how some discourses operate and network together to reinforce a particular powerful view of the world. These can be in oral or written forms. Early childhood education practices are drawn on the discourse of a document developed by the National Association…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Educational Philosophy