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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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Hammond, Cathie; Feinstein, Leon – London Review of Education, 2005
We use quantitative and qualitative methods to investigate the links between participation in adult learning and self-efficacy, particularly for the subgroup of adults who had low levels of achievement at school. We focus on self-efficacy because it translates into a range of wider benefits and because it may afford protection from depression and…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Adult Education, Learning Motivation, Adult Learning
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Preston, John; Feinstein, Leon; Anderson, T. Marion – London Review of Education, 2005
Although adult education leads to a moderation of racist or authoritarian attitudes amongst the general population, little is known concerning the impact of adult education on individuals with extremist racist-authoritarian views. In this paper we group individuals from the NCDS (National Child Development Study) into various racist-authoritarian…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Multivariate Analysis, Attitude Change, Child Development