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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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A Sociology "of" or a Sociology "for" Education? The New Zealand Experience of the Dilemma
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Rata, Elizabeth – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2010
The sociology of education in New Zealand, as in other countries, is affected by the dilemma inherent to the discipline, namely: is it a sociology "of" education or a sociology "for" education? In this article I analyse three factors in which the dilemma is played out: "cultural oppositionism" in the indigenous (kaupapa Maori) approach, critical…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Sociology, Foreign Countries, Indigenous Knowledge
The Weight of Inquiry: Conflicting Cultures in New Zealand's Tertiary Institutions
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Openshaw, Roger; Rata, Elizabeth – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2007
Considerable problems have arisen in New Zealand universities as a consequence of the conflict between the statutory role of the university as the "critic and conscience of society" and the dominant intellectual orthodoxy of cultural essentialism. A number of examples are used to show the extent to which culturalist ideological conformity…
Descriptors: Educational History, Criticism, Cultural Pluralism, Foreign Countries