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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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Fink, Dean – Journal of Invitational Theory and Practice, 2013
Invitational theory presents the concept of invitations as related to five factors: people, places, policies, programs, and processes (Purkey & Schmidt, 1990). In this article, the author proposes the addition of a sixth "P," politics. The assumption is that without addressing the political aspect of schools and school systems,…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Educational Change, Politics of Education, Change Strategies
Thompson, Franklin – Journal of Invitational Theory and Practice, 2009
The purpose of this study was to examine teacher dispositions within an undergraduate and graduate education course aimed at helping students gain a better appreciation for lifelong multicultural education. Education majors (N = 202) from a Midwestern metropolitan university were asked to rate the viability of 13 dispositions as a training and…
Descriptors: Education Majors, Graduate Study, Education Courses, Multicultural Education
Steyn, G. M. – Journal of Invitational Theory and Practice, 2006
Professional development (PD) for the improvement of educational practice has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years. Although experts acknowledge the importance of PD, many PD programmes have little effect on educational practice. This article identifies influences on the effective implementation of Invitational Education (IE) within…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Professional Development, Educational Change, Research Methodology
Zeeman, Roger D. – Journal of Invitational Theory and Practice, 2006
This article presents and compares the similar views of William Glasser, M.D., founder and president of the William Glasser Institute in Los Angeles, and author of scores of best selling books; and William Watson Purkey, Ed.D, co-founder of the International Association for Invitational Education (IAIE), Professor Emeritus at the University of…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Psychiatry, Counselor Training, Educational Change
Egley, Robert – Journal of Invitational Theory and Practice, 2003
This study investigated the relationship between professionally and personally inviting behaviors of high school principals in the state of Mississippi and: (a) Teacher Job Satisfaction, (b) Principal Effectiveness, (c) Principal as an Agent of School Improvement, and (d) Principal's Invitational Quotient, and (e) The Computed Accreditation…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Job Satisfaction, Principals, Administrator Effectiveness
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Brinson, Kenneth H., Jr. – Journal of Invitational Theory and Practice, 1996
Describes invitational education and its person-centered approach. Explores the framework of invitational education, its four elements (trust, respect, intentionality, optimism), the perceptual tradition and self-concept theory, and other elements of invitational education. Suggests that invitational education's democratic tenets should be applied…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Democratic Values, Educational Change