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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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Uncovering Pre-Service Teacher Beliefs about Young Children: A Photographic Elicitation Methodology
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Stockall, Nancy; Davis, Sara – Issues in Educational Research, 2011
This illustrative paper provides an introduction to using mixed qualitative methods of photo-elicitation, face to face interviews and semiotic analysis to uncover pre-service students' beliefs about young children. The researchers share their experience on conducting a study using photo-elicitation and engaging pre-service teachers in a discussion…
Descriptors: Young Children, Reflective Teaching, Researchers, Semiotics
A Case Study of Teachers' Professional Learning: Becoming a Community of Professional Learning or Not?
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Maloney, Carmel; Konza, Deslea – Issues in Educational Research, 2011
This paper describes a school's participation in a project designed to support critical reflection of teachers' beliefs about best practice in early childhood education, and how these beliefs and practices intersected with shifting policies and trends in the broader early childhood field. The "Professional Learning" Project (PL project), was…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Cooperation, Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs