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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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Guided by a Red Star: The Cuban Literacy Campaign and the Challenge of History
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McLaren, Peter – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2009
This article features the book "Rebel Literacy: Cuba's National Literacy Campaign and Critical Global Citizenship," by Mark Abendroth, a step-child of the Critical Pedagogy Program at the University of Saint Thomas. As a scholar-activist, Abendroth has produced a courageous and prescient volume that will impact the field of critical pedagogy for…
Descriptors: Popular Education, Critical Theory, Literacy Education, Citizenship
Revolutionary Peacemaking: Using a Critical Pedagogy Approach for Peacemaking with "Terrorists"
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Best, Steven; McLaren, Peter; Nocella, Anthony J., II – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2007
In this article, the authors note that peacemaking is based on working and dialoguing with radicals and militants, a point which many academics, government, and law enforcement agencies so easily forget. They aim to show that revolutionaries often have legitimate goals, needs, and demands which, if not addressed and respected, can prompt them to…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Violence, Terrorism, Conflict