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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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Manathunga, Catherine; Peseta, Tai; McCormack, Coralie – International Journal for Academic Development, 2010
The development of research higher degree supervisors is a relatively recent phenomenon. In most cases, supervisor development continues within the traditional workshop mode and remains firmly located within what Bob Smith calls the "administrative framing" of supervision. This framing ensures that a liberal and policy-orientated discourse retains…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Supervisors, Supervisory Training, Writing (Composition)
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Kandlbinder, Peter; Peseta, Tai – International Journal for Academic Development, 2009
Since the first postgraduate certificate in higher education teaching and learning was offered in Australia in the late 1970s, similar courses have become a major part of academic development in universities in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. This paper describes the outcomes of a survey designed to determine the key higher…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Graduate Study, Teacher Education
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Peseta, Tai – International Journal for Academic Development, 2007
In this paper, I speculate on the work "usefulness" does to regulate the research and writing of the scholarship of academic development project. My argument is not that academic developers ought to repudiate a fidelity to usefulness; rather, I want to expand our ideas for the possibilities of research and writing beyond purposes of institutional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Writing Research
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Peseta, Tai – International Journal for Academic Development, 2005
This article discusses the Challenging Academic Development (CAD) Collective and describes how it came out of a symposium called "Liminality, identity, and hybridity: On the promise of new conceptual frameworks for theorising academic/faculty development." The CAD Collective is and represents a space where people can open up their contexts and…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), English Literature, Anthropology, Foreign Countries