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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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Lundahl, Lisbeth – European Educational Research Journal, 2011
This article discusses young people's transitions from school to work at a time when educational systems have become more closely connected to the economy than ever before. The serious situation of high unemployment, unstable employment conditions and poverty among young people and young adults in Europe is highlighted. Using Sweden as an…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Education Work Relationship, Foreign Countries, Unemployment
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Lindgren, Joakim; Lundahl, Lisbeth – European Educational Research Journal, 2010
This article explores youth mobilities in three geographic and socio-economically diverse Swedish contexts. The concept of mobility has become an important feature of individualistic discourses of responsibility relating to inclusion, lifelong learning and self-regulating entrepreneurial behaviour. This article draws attention to the fact that…
Descriptors: Biographies, Foreign Countries, Social Mobility, Social Influences
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Nyroos, Mikaela; Ronnberg, Linda; Lundahl, Lisbeth – European Educational Research Journal, 2004
A weakening of central time regulation has constituted one aspect of the process of decentralisation and deregulation of Swedish education in the last two decades. In 1999 the Parliament decided on an experiment period permitting schools in 79 municipalities to allocate school hours more freely. The article aims at exploring and analysing pupils'…
Descriptors: Freedom, Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Time Factors (Learning)