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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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Higher Education Research and…1
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Tight, Malcolm1
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Research into Higher Education: An A-Theoretical Community of Practice?
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Tight, Malcolm – Higher Education Research and Development, 2004
A database of 406 articles published in 2000 in 17 specialist higher education journals, based outside North America, is analysed in terms of whether a theoretical perspective is adopted. In the majority of cases, any theoretical perspective is only implicit, and broader engagement with theory is absent. Where theory is explicit, the authors…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Periodicals, Databases, Educational Research