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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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Dunne, Mairead; Ananga, Eric Daniel – International Journal of Educational Development, 2013
This paper explores geographies of identity of Ghanaian school dropouts. In particular, we investigate how school dropouts in rural communities construct narratives of identity within and outside school. In our analysis we trace how space, power and identity intersect in accounts of dropping out. Focusing on the narratives of four school…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Rural Areas, Foreign Countries, Self Concept
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Westbrook, Jo; Shah, Nazneen; Durrani, Naureen; Tikly, Clare; Khan, Wazim; Dunne, Mairead – International Journal of Educational Development, 2009
This paper addresses issues related to the effectiveness of teacher education in Pakistan in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), through a small scale collaborative research study in two state secondary schools, one girls' and one boys'. The aim was to explore how newly qualified teachers manage their transition from student teachers to…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Teacher Education
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Dunne, Mairead – International Journal of Educational Development, 2007
In this paper, the focus is upon daily school practices in Junior Secondary Schools in Ghana and Botswana. The data from 12 ethnographic case studies have been used to explore how the institution of schooling is gendered. The analysis focuses predominantly on the informal practices of the hidden curriculum through a theoretical perspective that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sexuality, Hidden Curriculum, Gender Differences