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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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Pearsall, Hamil; Hawthorne, Timothy; Block, Daniel; Walker, Barbara Louise EndemaƱo; Masucci, Michele – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2015
Previous research on broadening participation in higher education and Science Technology Engineering and Math has inadequately examined the role of place. This article explores the socio-spatial perceptions of youth of a college campus and changes in perceptions youth experience during their transition from being a university neighbor to becoming…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Geographic Information Systems, Student Attitudes, Adolescent Attitudes
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Basu, Pratyusha; Pawson, Eric; Akhter, Majed; Palmer, David; Mervine, Valerie M. – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2014
This paper focuses on the Center for Global Geography Education teaching workshop held in Bangalore, India, in March 2012 which served as a collaborative forum linking geography teachers in secondary and higher education in the USA and India. It considers the inclusion of the Advanced Placement Human Geography teachers from the USA and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College School Cooperation, Geography, Geography Instruction
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Hopwood, Nick – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2004
Three techniques were used in a multiple-method case study to explore students' conceptions of geography within a qualitative framework, employing aspects of phenomenology, ethnography and grounded theory. The context of the research is briefly outlined, and then the methodological framework and nature of the data yielded are discussed in more…
Descriptors: Research Design, Phenomenology, Ethnography, Geography