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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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Additional Language Teaching within the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme: A Comparative Study
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Lebreton, Marlène – Journal of Research in International Education, 2014
The International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme supports the learning of languages and cultures, but the role of the additional language within this programme is often unclear. There remains a great variability in schools regarding the frequency of lessons and the way that the additional language is taught within the Primary Years…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Cultural Awareness
Immigrant Children from Latin America at Japanese Schools: Homogeneity, Ethnicity, Gender and Language in Education
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Castro-Vazquez, Genaro – Journal of Research in International Education, 2009
An ethnographic study conducted between 2003 and 2006 followed three children from Latin America attending three different public Japanese primary schools. The investigation concerned a Japanese-language tutoring programme for foreign children, which was evaluated by participant observation and a set of in-depth interviews with officials, school…
Descriptors: Participant Observation, Acculturation, Ethnography, Foreign Countries
Developing a Peace Education Curriculum for Vietnamese Primary Schools: A Case Study of Participatory Action Research in Cross-Cultural Design
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Conley Tyler, Melissa H.; Bretherton, Diane; Halafoff, Anna; Nietschke, Yung – Journal of Research in International Education, 2008
In 2003, the International Conflict Resolution Centre at the University of Melbourne, Australia, produced a primary school teaching manual for UNESCO Vietnam. The finished manual included lesson plans and materials for a five year, 50 lesson peace education course. The manual is one of the first examples of a systematic core national curriculum in…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Design, Action Research
Variations on a Theme: Implementation of the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme
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Kauffman, Nils – Journal of Research in International Education, 2005
This article compares the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme (IBPYP) as implemented at three schools in the USA. The author hypothesizes that the schools each offer a unique form of the program based on the respective context and capacity to implement the IBPYP. The author found consistency among the faculties in their explanation…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Futures (of Society), Advanced Placement Programs, Elementary Education
The Perceived Effectiveness of Simultaneous Team-Teaching in a Dual Language Programme
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Pardy, Donna – Journal of Research in International Education, 2004
Many international schools include a host country programme as part of their curriculum. Such programmes range from the study of local culture through to local language instruction. The administration and teachers of an international school (ISXX) felt they wanted to move beyond the traditional approaches to host country integration as well as…
Descriptors: International Schools, Instructional Effectiveness, German, Team Teaching