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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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Lunneblad, Johannes; Dance, L. Janelle – Ethnography and Education, 2014
This article reveals how test-based performativity pressures interfere with the pedagogical approaches preferred by teachers of second-language learners. Our findings derive from ethnographic research conducted in two non-mainstream high schools: one in a US city and other one in a Swedish city. Both schools serve immigrant students who speak…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, High Schools, Foreign Countries, Low Income
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Lunneblad, Johannes; Carlsson, Maj Asplund – Ethnography and Education, 2012
Our aim in this article is to analyse the impact of the standardised test on classroom practices in grade 5 in a compulsory school in western Sweden. In our analysis, the use of the concept of the pedagogical device (Bernstein 1996) provides a framework for understanding how high-stakes, standardised testing regulates classroom discourse and…
Descriptors: Testing, Foreign Countries, Grade 5, Standardized Tests
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Beach, Dennis; Lunneblad, Johannes – Ethnography and Education, 2011
In this article we aim to present an overview of some of the ways in which issues of race and ethnicity are represented and researched in educational ethnography in Scandinavia. Several things are suggested. Amongst them is that educational ethnographers in Scandinavia rarely use the concept of race. The term (im)migrant(s) is used instead and the…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Race, Educational Research, Ethnography