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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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Literacy, Text, Practice, and Culture: Major Trends in the Umea History of Education Research Group, 1972-2002
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Lindmark, Daniel – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2003
This article presents some major research themes and findings of the leading Swedish research group in the field of literacy in history. The informal and encouraging leadership of Professor Egil Johansson was of vital importance to the creativity and productivity of the group. Prior to 1985, a few large projects on Swedish alphabetization were…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational History, Literacy, Foreign Countries
Reading Cultures, Christianization, and Secularization: Universalism and Particularism in the Swedish History of Literacy
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Lindmark, Daniel – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2003
In the organization and ideology of the Lutheran state churches, Tim Knudsen has identified the roots of universalism in the Nordic welfare states. This article applies a similar perspective to the aims and contents of early modern Nordic popular education. Historiographically, universalism was emphasized by Egil Johansson, who recognized the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Popular Education, Educational Policy, Reading Instruction