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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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Ho, Susanna – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2014
This paper discusses the purposes that outdoor education does, could and should serve in Singapore. Gert Biesta's conceptualisation of three functions of education is adapted to frame deliberations on the purposes of outdoor education in Singapore's socio-political and educational milieu. The author suggests that outdoor education in…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Foreign Countries, Resilience (Psychology), Attachment Behavior
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Martin, Peter; Ho, Susanna – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2009
Outdoor education is not a universal value. Rather, outdoor education's contributions need to be grounded in time, place and culture. In this paper we describe the historical and cultural milieu that has enabled the emergence of outdoor education in Singapore and report on exploratory survey research into Singaporean teachers' conceptions of…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Religious Cultural Groups, Focus Groups, Foreign Countries