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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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Searching for Excellence in Education: Knowledge, Virtue and Presence?
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MacAllister, James; Macleod, Gale; Pirrie, Anne – Ethics and Education, 2013
This article addresses two main questions: (1) what is excellence and (2) should epistemic excellence be the main purpose of education? Though references to excellence have become increasingly frequent in the UK education policy, these questions are perhaps especially important in Scotland where the curriculum is explicitly "for"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Objectives, Educational Policy, National Curriculum
Taking Flight: Trust, Ethics and the Comfort of Strangers
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Pirrie, Anne; MacAllister, James; Macleod, Gale – Ethics and Education, 2012
This article explores the themes of trust and ethical conduct in social research, with particular attention to the trust that can develop between the members of a research team as well as between researchers and the researched. The authors draw upon a three-year empirical study of destinations and outcomes for young people excluded from…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Ethics, Social Science Research, Researchers