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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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Taking Teaching Seriously: How Liberal Arts Colleges Prepare Teachers to Meet Today's Educational Challenges in Schools
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Bjork Christopher; Johnston, D. Kay; Ross, Heidi – Paradigm Publishers, 2007
Taking Teaching Seriously expands and enriches discussions about teacher preparation in the United States. Its authors describe the unique contexts for teacher preparation offered by liberal arts institutions and analyze the effects of these programs on their graduates and on K-12 schools. They emphasize that the goals and conditions for teacher…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Liberal Arts, Teacher Education, Student Teacher Supervisors
Humanizing Pedagogy through HIV and AIDS Prevention: Transforming Teacher Knowledge. Series in Critical Narrative
Paradigm Publishers, 2006
This book explores the power of educators to serve as HIV and AIDS prevention agents. The definitive text represents the work of a distinguished panel of teacher educators and health scientists who identify core information and skills effective educators of HIV and AIDS prevention should learn as they prepare to attend to the academic and human…
Descriptors: Health Behavior, Risk, Prevention, Teacher Role
Learning and Social Difference
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Borg, Carmel; Mayo, Peter – Paradigm Publishers, 2006
Exploring how global changes affect education today, in the classroom and in local, national, and international contexts, this book explores the future of education's capacity for effectiveness in multicultural and multilingual contexts. The chapters deal with lifelong learning (a critique), immigration, anti-racist education, parental involvement…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Educational Trends, Futures (of Society), Cultural Pluralism
How Children Learn: Getting Beyond the Deficit Myth
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Fayden, Terese – Paradigm Publishers, 2005
The inspirational stories of young learners in this book discredit assumptions behind recent educational reforms, including high stakes testing and No Child Left Behind policies. The experiences of the American Indian children and the author, a kindergarten teacher, challenge the widely held assumption that minority children enter school "at…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Preschool Teachers, Kindergarten, Minority Group Children
Education, Globalization, and the State in the Age of Terrorism
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Peters, Michael A. – Paradigm Publishers, 2004
Education plays an important role in challenging, combating and in understanding terrorism in its different forms, whether as counter-terrorism or as a form of human rights education. Just as education has played a significant role in the process of nation-building, so education also plays a strong role in the process of empire, globalization and…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Educational Change, Feminism, Foreign Countries
The "Illustrated" Souls of Black Folk
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Du Bois, W. E. B. – Paradigm Publishers, 2004
Richly illustrated, this special edition of Du Bois's seminal work includes historical woodcuts and engravings, photos and documents. Most of the photos, engravings, and documents are from the 19th and early 20th century and depict American slavery and its legacy, African-American life, and the prominent figures and events associated with the…
Descriptors: Slavery, Popular Culture, African Americans, African Americans