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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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Zhao, Kang; Biesta, Gert J. J. – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2011
Current theory, policy, and practice of lifelong learning are strongly influenced by ideas about the transformations that are taking place in contemporary societies. One influential set of ideas emphasizes that because of the rapid changes that are taking place in the (late-) modern world and because of the erosion of traditions, there is a…
Descriptors: Confucianism, Lifelong Learning, Self Concept, Moral Values
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Osberg, Deborah; Biesta, Gert J. J. – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2007
In this paper we argue that the notion of strong emergence offers a challenge to the idea, currently dominant in schooling, that knowledge somehow relates to a pre-existing world, present in itself. We do this first by providing an account of strong emergence, showing how it brings into question the assumption of determinism. Following this we…
Descriptors: Epistemology
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Biesta, Gert J. J.; Osberg, Deborah – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2007
In this paper we wish to argue that despite strong challenges to representational epistemology in the last two centuries, modern schooling is still organised around a representational view of knowledge. This is the case despite teaching practices being modified to accommodate different views of knowledge that have emerged in the last two…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Epistemology