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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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Fyhn, Anne Birgitte – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2013
Norway ratified the ILO convention 169 concerning indigenous and tribal people in independent countries in 1990. In accordance with the convention the education programs for the Sami shall address their value systems and their cultural aspirations. Our aim is to investigate the implementation of this convention. The focus is on how Sami values are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Tests, Indigenous Populations, Values
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Fyhn, Anne Birgitte; Eira, Ellen J. Sara; Sriraman, Bharath – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2011
The Sami are an indigenous people of the Arctic, and through a resolution of the United Nations, Norway is bound to take care of the Sami culture and language. Since 1987 the Sami have had their own curriculum, but they have no mathematics syllabus. In this paper we summarize the legal acts that take care of the Sami culture within the Norwegian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Education, Measurement, Indigenous Populations