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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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Gregory, Eve; Ruby, Mahera – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2011
In this article we unravel the difficulty of being researchers in the homes and classrooms of children and their families whose origins are, for one of us, very different and, for the other, very similar to our own. We first situate our work within theories of early socialization and literacy teaching which underpin our understanding of how young…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Young Children, Cultural Context, Family (Sociological Unit)
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Kenner, Charmian; Ruby, Mahera; Jessel, John; Gregory, Eve; Arju, Tahera – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2007
This study investigates the learning exchange between three- to six-year-old children and their grandparents, in Sylheti/Bengali-speaking families of Bangladeshi origin and monolingual English-speaking families living in east London. The following concepts from sociocultural theory are applied to this new area of intergenerational learning:…
Descriptors: Intergenerational Programs, Grandparents, Monolingualism, Sociocultural Patterns