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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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Mills, Kathy; Comber, Barbara; Kelly, Pippa – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2013
This article is a call to literacy teachers and researchers to embrace the possibility of attending more consciously to the senses in digital media production. Literacy practices do not occur only in the mind, but involve the sensoriality, embodiment, co-presence, and movement of bodies. This paper theorises the sensorial and embodied dimension of…
Descriptors: Photography, Language Arts, Foreign Countries, Films
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Comber, Barbara – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2011
School-age populations in many nations are becoming increasingly diverse (in terms of languages, countries of origin, ethnicity, faith traditions and so on) especially in low socio-economic communities where recent arrivals tend to be accommodated. In Australian classrooms, it is not unusual for a single classroom to include children who speak…
Descriptors: English Teachers, Academic Standards, Foreign Countries, Student Diversity
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Nixon, Helen; Comber, Barbara; Cormack, Phil – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2007
The educational research and policy scene in Australia over the past decade has featured a number of contradictory developments. National policy has sponsored more interdisciplinary and applied research, while moving down a Research Quality Framework pathway which prioritises measurable quality and impact measures. At the same time, recent…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Educational Research, Foreign Countries, Research Projects