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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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Vaina, Maria; Katidioti, Evaggelia; Ktitikos, Antonis – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2013
The main objective of the current paper is to establish the deficiencies of teaching Economics in the Greek educational system. It also proposes critical education as a way of partially overcoming these issues and the way it can contribute to the protection of the everyday man and woman against the rising and current existential threats of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economics Education, Banking, Textbooks
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Brown, Amy – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2013
The narrative of gendered White savior in urban classrooms is ubiquitous not only in film (Smith, 1995, LaGravenese, 2007), but also in popular and academic literature. White female teachers are at the front of the majority of increasingly privatized U.S. classrooms (Pickower, 2009, Cochran-Smith, 2004). This article ethnographically critiques the…
Descriptors: Public School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Whites, Females
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Short, Donn – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2010
The paper is a critique of discourse focused on at-risk behaviour and homophobic bullying. The paper argues that conversations around homophobic bullying must include discussions of doing equity and achieving social justice,in which the ultimate goal of constructing safe schools is achieved through the utter transformation of school culture.…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Speech Communication, School Culture, Bullying
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Bulut, Ergin – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2010
This article scrutinizes the transformation of vocational training in Turkey. Entertaining the question, "Why did the vocational high schools become an issue in the country all of a sudden?", it aims to cover the social and economic dynamics behind this transformation. Establishing the link between Turkey's integration with the global economy and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Vocational Education, Vocational High Schools
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Senese, Guy; Wood, Gerald – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2009
Public education discourse is dominated by nostalgia for an idea of humanity, which has existed more strongly in high culture discourse than it has in public schools. Political liberal and conservative discourses agree that the process of compulsory public education is an expression of the state as it works to justly distribute "life chances"…
Descriptors: Credentials, Equal Education, Tribal Sovereignty, Public Education
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Park, Hyu-Yong – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2007
This paper criticizes the neoliberal shift in Korean education toward educational consumerism by analyzing the boom in Specialized High schools (SHs). For its theoretical background, this paper discusses the issues of freedom, equal opportunity, and choice in education, and investigates how neoliberal consumerism has been encouraging the boom in…
Descriptors: Private Education, High Schools, Equal Education, Foreign Countries