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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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English, Literacy and Neoliberal Policies: Mapping a Contested Moment in the United States
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Brass, Jory – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2014
This essay maps some of the ways in which the professional knowledge of English teaching has been defined and positioned in the present moment in the United States. The first part of the essay traces multidisciplinary shifts in English education/literacy research that have expanded and shifted the discursive boundaries of teacher education and…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Educational Research, Teacher Education, Language Arts
Constituting a Sense of "American" Identity and Place through Language and Literary Study: A Curriculum History, 1898-1912
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Brass, Jory – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2013
This article examines constructions of "American" identity and place in the first influential guides for English teaching published in the United States at the cusp of the 20th Century. It recovers how English teaching was to weaken youths' ties to more immediate people and places and to reorient their sense of self, others and the…
Descriptors: Educational History, English Instruction, Nationalism, United States History