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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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Introductory Paper on Critical Explorations in Teaching Art, Science, and Teacher Education
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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
""I Wonder How This Little Seed Can Have so Much Potential"": Critical Exploration Supports Preservice Teachers' Development as Science Researchers and Teachers
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Hughes-McDonnell, Fiona – New Educator, 2009
A teacher educator and student of Duckworth's critical exploration approach to teaching shares three episodes taken from science methods courses she teaches for preservice teachers in graduate and undergraduate programs in elementary education. The episodes reveal the pedagogy of critical exploration to be particularly well suited to the…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Methods Courses, Student Journals, Teacher Educators