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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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"I Want to Get a Piece of Paper That Says I Can Do Stuff": Youth Narratives of Educational Opportunities and Constraints in Low Socio-Economic Neighbourhoods
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McInerney, Peter; Smyth, John – Ethnography and Education, 2014
The persistent failure of contemporary policies to improve school retention rates and close the achievement gap between students from low and high socio-economic (SES) backgrounds should be a matter of grave concern. In this article, we set out to show what it means to be educated in a context of disadvantage from the perspectives of young people…
Descriptors: Low Income, Neighborhoods, Educational Opportunities, Educationally Disadvantaged
Researching Teachers Working with Young Adolescents: Implications for Ethnographic Research
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Smyth, John – Ethnography and Education, 2006
Ethnography has the capacity to interrogate and unravel what Geertz called "webs of significance" in respect of difficult and perplexing cultural issues. One arena that is especially troubling at the moment lies in the need to pose questions and explore more robust explanations as to how it is that some teachers of young adolescents seem to be…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Ethnography, Early Adolescents, Cultural Influences