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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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Busher, Hugh – Management in Education, 2012
Student voice is a key component in constructing discourses of respect, empowerment and citizenship in schools. It can help schools to become learning communities, rather than knowledge factories, that serve the needs of the majority of their members, the students, as successfully as possible and prepare them for future lives in a wide variety of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Student Empowerment, Educational Practices
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Busher, Hugh – Management in Education, 2008
In leading the construction of knowledge in educational organisations, what is in the mix? "People . . . Power . . . Culture/Curriculum" all of which are located in particular contexts which lead, through people's interactions with them, to the construction of knowledge. In this article, the author outlines and deconstructs each of these factors.…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Social Environment, Power Structure, Decision Making
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Busher, Hugh; McKeown, Penny – Management in Education, 2005
Leaders at all levels in schools try to implement particular policies and practices. These arise in response to pressures in the policy, social and economic contexts in which they work and from their own social and educational values. As part of the process of implementation, leaders try to modify existing organisational cultures to bind their…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Social Values, Political Attitudes, Social Justice