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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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Vanobbergen, Bruno; Grosvenor, Ian; Simon, Frank – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2014
In this article we will contribute to the contemporary theoretical debate about film by considering, from a history-of-education perspective, the film "Zéro de conduite" by Jean Vigo (1905--1934). This film is classified under the umbrella of "poetic realism": a product of "cinéma de gauche" and an avant-gardist,…
Descriptors: Films, Educational History, Biographies, Audience Response
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De Coster, Tom; Simon, Frank; Depaepe, Marc – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2009
The founding of "alternative" schools, mainly by parents or other individuals, has made New Education in Flanders tangible today for the general public. In this article, the authors set out to study the knowledge of the "emancipatory" starting points of the post-1968 movements and "alternative" schools in the neo-liberal Flemish educational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nontraditional Education, Political Attitudes, Educational Change
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Devlieger, Patrick; Grosvenor, Ian; Simon, Frank; Van Hove, Geert; Vanobbergen, Bruno – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2008
In recent years there has been a growth in interdisciplinary work which has argued that disability is not an isolated, individual medical pathology but instead a key defining social category like "race", class and gender. Seen in this way disability provides researchers with another analytic tool for exploring the nature of power. Running almost…
Descriptors: Photography, Educational History, Workshops, Disabilities
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Van Gorp, Angelo; Depaepe, Marc; Simon, Frank – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2004
The works of the Belgian neurologist and educationist Ovide Decroly (1871-1932) extended over the medical and pedagogical fields as well as both the practical-professional and the theoretical-disciplinary fields. For this reason, Decroly seemed to be a suitable starting point for a contribution to the problem outlined by Hofstetter and Schneuwly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Organizations (Groups), Sciences, Intellectual Disciplines