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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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Comfort Radicalism and NEETs: A Conservative Praxis
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Avis, James – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2014
Young people who are not in education, employment or training (NEET) are construed by policy-makers as a pressing problem about which something should be done. Such young people's lack of employment is thought to pose difficulties for wider society in relation to social cohesion and inclusion, and it is feared that they will become a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Adults, Unemployment, Alienation
Post-Compulsory Education and Training: Transformism and the Struggle for Change
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Avis, James – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2007
The paper addresses a number of issues concerning policy and curriculum in post-compulsory education and training (PCET). Firstly, it seeks to locate PCET within its socio-economic context as it is this that frames curricula within the learning and skills sector and serves to legitimate its particular form. Secondly, the paper addresses the manner…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Higher Education, Educational Change, Socioeconomic Influences