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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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Envisioning Interdisciplinary Culture Studies for the 21st Century: A Modest Proposal.
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Brooks, Daniel J. – Journal of General Education, 1997
Asserts the need for new undergraduate culture studies textbooks that maintain broad historical scope and shed the Western humanistic model. Proposes a "postmodern textbook" less concerned with covering canonical facts than with issues to be discussed and situations to be analyzed. (21 citations) (VWC)
Descriptors: Area Studies, Course Content, Cultural Education, Curriculum Development
Evacuating the Center: Global Perspectivism and the Study of Culture.
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Brooks, Daniel J. – Journal of General Education, 1995
Discusses the role of the humanities as an element of cultural analysis. Suggests that the mark of attaining cultural maturity is the willingness of individuals to explore the way other cultures live, value, and behave. Recommends building a program of cultural studies based on global perspectivism. (12 citations) (MAB)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Values, Cultural Literacy, Cultural Pluralism, General Education