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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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Cavicchi, Elizabeth; Chiu, Son-Mey; Hughes-McDonnell, Fiona – New Educator, 2009
The authors of the three papers in this issue discuss and analyze the practice underlying "critical exploration," a research pedagogy applied in common within their separate art, science, and teacher education classrooms. Eleanor Duckworth developed critical exploration as a method of teaching by involving students so actively and reflectively…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Piagetian Theory, Teaching Methods, Discovery Learning
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Chiu, Son-Mey – New Educator, 2009
By following their wonderful ideas or critical exploration, three eighth graders learned how to do traditional Chinese painting, which is taught by copying old masters' work from the Ming Dynasty in the 17th century. The standard manual, which most learners have been using for these three hundred years, is the "Mustard Seed Garden Manual of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Painting (Visual Arts), Plants (Botany), Cultural Context