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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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Bartolome, Lilia I.; Macedo, Donaldo P. – Harvard Educational Review, 1997
Analysis of issues and messages in the mass media and news events demonstrates the dynamics of ethnic and racial relations in the United States. The politics of racism are an unacknowledged part of mainstream ideology, thought, and action. (SK)
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Ideology, Mass Media Effects, Politics
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Freire, Paulo; Macedo, Donaldo P. – Harvard Educational Review, 1995
A dialogue between Paulo Freire and Donaldo Macedo addresses current criticisms of Freire along gender and race lines, challenges misinterpretations of his ideas, and discusses what it means to educate for critical citizenry in a multiracial and multicultural world. (SK)
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Multicultural Education, Race, Sex
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Macedo, Donaldo P. – Harvard Educational Review, 1993
This critique of the current educational system challenges educators to examine potentially dangerous educational practices that foster specialization while ignoring the need to develop critical thinking. Examples demonstrate that, without the ability to interpret the world critically, people are subject to political manipulation, a state…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Critical Thinking, Educational Practices, Literacy