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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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On Structure and Agency in Ethnographies of Education: Examples from This Special Issue and More Generally
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Beach, Dennis – European Educational Research Journal, 2011
The articles in this collection are about the development, possibility, exercise and possible frustration of human agency within educational exchanges. They are also all based on ethnography, which is now a common approach to educational research. Ethnography is not a seamless, neutral observational practice but is instead variable in relation to…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Ethnography, Empowerment, Conflict
The Changing Relations between Education Professionals, the State and Citizen Consumers in Europe: Rethinking Restructuring as Capitalisation
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Beach, Dennis – European Educational Research Journal, 2008
This article focuses on research about welfare state restructuring in education and its implications for the teaching profession. Several things are described and discussed. However, amongst the most important are pan-European developments in the social relations of production in education over the past 50 years with respect to the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Public Education, Outcomes of Education
Adult Education Goes to Market: An Ethnographic Case Study of the Restructuring and Reculturing of Adult Education
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Beach, Dennis; Carlson, Marie – European Educational Research Journal, 2004
The restructuring of adult education in Goteborg was first initiated experimentally with respect only to SFI education (an education in beginning Swedish for ethnic minorities living in Sweden). This was done on the basis of decisions in the Goteborg Municipal Council in 1999. But restructuring came into full force for all municipal adult…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Foreign Countries, Public Service, Public Sector