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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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Davies, Bronwyn; Bansel, Peter – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2007
The discourses and practices of neoliberalism, including government policies for education and training, public debates regarding standards and changed funding regimes, have been at work on and in schools in capitalist societies since at least the 1980s. Yet we have been hard pressed to say what neoliberalism is, where it comes from and how it…
Descriptors: Political Attitudes, Moral Values, Social Values, Social Influences
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Laws, Cath; Davies, Bronwyn – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 2000
Argues against a definition of poststructural theory as generating inaction and as antithetical to concepts such as "agency" and "choice." Suggests that poststructuralist theory may have implications for practice by examining the practices in regular schools and a school for "behaviorally disturbed" children. (CMK)
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Disabilities, Educational Practices, Elementary Education