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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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Hurt, Andrew C.; Callahan, Jamie L. – New Horizons in Adult Education & Human Resource Development, 2013
Paradigms aid organizational researchers in their quest to find the "truth" of a particular event, phenomenon, activity, or topic and by providing them a framework with which to make assumptions about the nature of society and reality. According to Burrell and Morgan (1978), organizational researchers use one of four paradigms:…
Descriptors: Human Resources, Labor Force Development, Popular Culture, Fairy Tales
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Callahan, Jamie L. – New Horizons in Adult Education & Human Resource Development, 2009
In his article, "Intimacy and Ethical Action in Adult Education," Donovan Plumb (2009) suggests a pathway for adult educators to achieve the type of world that Gunter (1996) envisions. Plumb argues that the personal qualities that enable people to have fulfilling (sexually) intimate relationships are also those that enable ethical action on the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Intimacy, Learning Experience, Adult Educators
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Callahan, Jamie L.; Sandlin, Jennifer A. – New Horizons in Adult Education & Human Resource Development, 2007
Educators and learners in adult education have been sentenced to online learning before we have truly explored the verdict of whether online learning is all it is touted to be. The vast majority of online learning dialogue has extolled the virtues of cybereducation as not only the future but the salvation of education (Brabazon, 2002; Menchik,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Higher Education, Electronic Learning, Social Theories