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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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Russell, Lisa; Thomson, Pat – Ethnography and Education, 2011
UK Government policy states that all young people aged 14-19 are entitled to a broad and balanced curriculum, with access to "personalised" education and training pathways. With boys currently leading the statistics on exclusion, girls' educational and social needs are often sidelined in alternative education provision, as the majority of…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Education, Females, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy
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Bailey, Simon; Thomson, Pat – Ethnography and Education, 2009
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is popularly understood to be a condition which resides in the person. In this scenario, the school is an innocent bystander, a container for the "maladjusted child". Drawing on an ethnographic case study of one classroom, the first stage of doctoral research into the production of the diagnosis of…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Disability Identification, Student Behavior, Clinical Diagnosis
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Thomson, Pat; Hall, Christine; Russell, Lisa – Ethnography and Education, 2007
The first thing a visitor notices when entering Hollytree primary school is the art-work displayed on every wall. This paper, based on a three-year ethnographic study of the school, mobilizes field notes and interview and photographic data to probe the meanings of this visual "display". We argue that the walls (re)produce and promote normative…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Art Activities, Ethnography, Elementary School Students