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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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Craig, Cheryl J.; Zou, Yali; Poimbeauf, Rita P. – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2015
This narrative inquiry exploring contemporary Chinese schooling involved three researchers who worked collaboratively as a team. Each researcher resonated with a different image of the principalship embedded in the storied account proffered by Xu Xiaozhang ??, leader of Hexie Elementary School in Tianjin, China. (1) Principal as the lead teacher;…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Personal Narratives
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Craig, Cheryl J. – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2014
This narrative inquiry traces a beginning teacher's unfolding career over a six-year period in a diverse middle school in the fourth largest city in the USA. The work revolves around two conceptualizations: "stories to live by" and "stories to leave by." How these identity-related phenomena surface and play out in an…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Middle Schools, Middle School Teachers, Urban Schools
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Craig, Cheryl J.; You, JeongAe; Oh, Suhak – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2014
In this article, tensions in teacher community arose when the school's "rainy day" policy was invoked in the middle of a class period, disturbing instruction on the athletic field and subsequently in the gymnasium. The narrative inquiry takes a multiperspectival stance towards competing commitments to educational policy, on one…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Knowledge Base for Teaching, School Policy, Middle School Teachers
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Craig, Cheryl J. – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2009
This self-study of my role in teacher education examines events in my career, using Schwab's deliberations on "the practical" as an interpretive tool with which to broaden, burrow, and re-story my personal experiences. Through reflecting inward and outward, backward and forward, I connect specific episodes I encountered in my career with Schwab's…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Career Development, Preservice Teachers, Alternative Teacher Certification