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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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Cheng, Doris Pui-Wah – Frontiers of Education in China, 2012
For centuries, educators and psychologists have advocated "play" as the ideal activity for the development of young children. Actually, play has been found currently to be the central pedagogy in the learning of young children in 21 countries in the world. However, the quality of play-based pedagogy is becoming a key concern across countries.…
Descriptors: Teaching Styles, Play, Teacher Characteristics, Early Childhood Education
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Du, Ping; Lai, Manhong; Lo, Leslie N. K. – Frontiers of Education in China, 2010
Research on work life and job satisfaction of university professors is becoming an important research issue in the field of higher education. This study used questionnaires administered to 1 770 teachers from different levels, types, and academic fields of Chinese universities to investigate job satisfaction among university professors and the…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Organizational Climate, Career Development, Teacher Salaries
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Feng, Li – Frontiers of Education in China, 2007
Developing a professional ethics is crucial towards amassing the ranks of high-quality teachers, which contributes to the improvement of national education. This study bases its analysis on the survey of humanistic qualities of Chinese citizens. 3348 teachers at three different levels from 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Moral Values, Ethics, Teacher Behavior
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Tian, Huisheng – Frontiers of Education in China, 2007
Currently, there is lack of educational wisdom in classroom teaching. Educational wisdom is a kind of quality of good education, representing a free, harmonious, open and creative status of education. The educational wisdom of intellectual teachers is the outcome of the close integration of educational science and art. It is also the result of…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Change, Educational Quality, Classroom Techniques
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Xia, Xiaogang; Lu, Chuanhan; Wang, Bingyi; Song, Yunming – Frontiers of Education in China, 2007
This research tends to make the experimental study on the mathematics teaching model of "situated creation and problem-based instruction" (SCPBI), namely, the teaching process of "creating situations--posing problems--solving problems--applying mathematics". It is aimed at changing the situation where students generally lack problem-based learning…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Teaching Models, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries