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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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Saito, Naoko – Ethics and Education, 2011
Contemporary scenes of democracy and education exemplify a real scepticism about the point of political participation, and by implication about one's place in society in relation to others. What is called for is a recovery of desire "per se"--of people's desire to say what they "want" to say and their desire to participate in the creation of the…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Democracy, Citizen Participation, Political Attitudes
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Saito, Naoko – Ethics and Education, 2009
Beyond a monolingual mentality and beyond the language that is typically observed in the prevalent discourse of education for understanding other cultures, this article tries to present another approach: Stanley Cavell's idea of "philosophy as translation." This Cavellian approach shows that understanding foreign cultures involves a relation to…
Descriptors: Translation, Cultural Awareness, Monolingualism, Philosophy