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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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Sunal, Cynthia Szymanski; Kelley, Lynn Allison; Minear, Andrea K.; Sunal, Dennis W. – Journal of Social Studies Research, 2011
Students in 80 kindergarten to grade six classrooms photographed and captioned experiences in class which they identified as examples of democratic citizenship education. With the assistance of a teacher candidate placed in their classroom for a semester, students chose and captioned five of the photographs they considered to best represent…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Democracy, Citizenship Education, Photography
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Sunal, Cynthia Szymanski; Kelley, Lynn A.; Sunal, Dennis W. – Journal of Social Studies Research, 2009
How elementary pre-service teacher candidates with considerable experience in clinical field placements identified, photographed, discussed, and categorized samples of what they construed as democratic citizenship education occurring within elementary classrooms was explored in this study. Candidates discussed an initial set of captioned photos…
Descriptors: Methods Courses, Photography, Teacher Education Curriculum, Citizenship
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Sunal, Cynthia Szymanski; McCormick, Theresa; Sunal, Dennis W.; Shwery, Craig – Journal of Social Studies Research, 2005
Elementary education teacher candidates identified four criteria they used to identify a "best" lesson plan they had developed and taught for posting to their electronic portfolio. Criteria include a lesson that students: liked, learned from, actively participated in, and were involved in carrying out research. Scoring with rubric focusing on…
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), Elementary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Teacher Education