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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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Documenting Development and Pedagogy in the Swedish Preschool: The Portfolio as a Vehicle for Reflection, Learning, and Democracy
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McKenna, Devon E. – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2005
In Sweden, governmental decision-making is based on a social-democratic ideology and a system of representative democracy. In citizens' meetings, the democratic values and norms, that are both a requirement and goal, at are formed. This concept of democracy, and the value system behind it, permeates Swedish culture, and its institutions and…
Descriptors: Portfolio Assessment, Early Childhood Education, Democracy, Young Children
"Holding Culture in Her Hand:" Immersion and Understanding
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Ross-Bernstein, Judith – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2005
Coming upon Devon McKenna's entry one might ask two questions. First, why send undergraduates, specifically potential early childhood professionals, abroad? Second, why send them to Sweden? To both, the answer drawn from a comprehensive worldwide review of early childhood program provision provides an elegant recognition: "It is said that the…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Well Being, Young Children, Foreign Countries