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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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Pemberton, Jon; Mavin, Sharon; Stalker, Brenda – Learning Organization, 2007
Purpose: This paper seeks to surface less positive aspects of communities of practice (CoPs), regardless of emergent or organisationally managed, grounded in political-power interactions. Examples are provided from the authors' experiences of a research-based CoP within UK higher education. Design/methodology/approach: The paper is primarily…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Political Issues, Politics of Education, Researchers
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Turner, Jane; Mavin, Sharon; Minocha, Sonal – Learning Organization, 2006
Purpose: To critique individual learning experiences in organization, explore the role people play in inhibiting learning in organization and explore theories of individual learning as "theories in use", drawing on a metaphor of steps and dance. Design/methodology/approach: Based on a subjective qualitative approach engaging in semi-structured…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Dance, Figurative Language, Data Analysis
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Mavin, Sharon; Cavaleri, Steven – Learning Organization, 2004
Offers the view that learning in organizations is mainly a social activity because work is most often done by people in the context of communicating with others. Briefly assesses how learning can be managed in organizations.
Descriptors: Organizational Culture, Learning Processes, Socialization, Social Behavior