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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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Radical Democratic Education as Response to Two World Wars and a Contribution to World Peace: The Inspirational Work of Alex Bloom
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Fielding, Michael – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2014
A key contributor to the 1948 New Education Fellowship "The Teacher and World Peace" submission to UNESCO, Alex Bloom is one of the most remarkable pioneers of radical democratic education of the twentieth century. In many important respects, Bloom's internationally renowned work from 1945-55 at St George-in-the-East Secondary…
Descriptors: Democratic Values, Democracy, Educational Change, War
Still "Learning to Be Human": The Radical Educational Legacy of John Macmurray
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Fielding, Michael – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2013
This article explores some of the key themes of John Macmurray's recently published lecture, "Learning to be Human". It focuses initially on three elements of his argument: relationships in education; education and the economy; and our corrosive obsession with technique. It then utilises Macmurray's views to develop a typology…
Descriptors: Educational Principles, Educational Philosophy, Humanistic Education, Human Relations
Alex Bloom, Pioneer of Radical State Education
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Fielding, Michael – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2005
Alex Bloom is one of the greatest figures of radical state education in England. His approach to "personalised learning" and the development of a negotiated curriculum was immeasurably more profound and more inspiring than anything to emerge thus far from the current DfES. His approach to student voice was much more radical than anything presently…
Descriptors: Competition, Foreign Countries, Learning, Curriculum