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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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Polak, Sharon; van der Stap, Anita – Intercultural Education, 2009
This article discusses the practice "Welcome to My Neighborhood," an exchange program for students attending primary schools. The practice targets younger students in providing positive experiences of learning and playing together with children from different backgrounds. Children interact with children outside their own school, neighborhood, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Migrant Children, Elementary School Students, Neighborhoods
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Bezemer, Jeff; Wold, Astri Heen; de Wal Pastoor, Lutine; Kroon, Sjaak; Ryen, Else – Intercultural Education, 2005
In this paper, multicultural primary school classes in Norway and the Netherlands are compared in terms of language teaching and learning. Drawing on observations, interviews, and school and policy documents, four dimensions of comparison are discussed. First, we deal with the different ways in which separate language classes for language minority…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Teaching Methods, Multicultural Education
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Igarashi, Kazuyo – Intercultural Education, 2005
This article critically examines current education programmes for Roma primary school students in the Czech Republic and the impact of these programmes. The research described here, based on in?depth case studies, challenges popular beliefs in the "success" of Roma oriented programmes, as well as the stereotypical negative images of Roma parents.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnic Stereotypes, Culturally Relevant Education, Minority Group Children