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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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Agger, Ben – Paradigm Publishers, 2006
Praised for its clarity and accessibility, this fully updated edition of "Critical Social Theories" presents a comprehensive analysis of leading social and cultural theories today. Diverse perspectives are addressed from feminism and cultural studies to postmodernism and critical theory. Written accessibly for students and faculty, the second…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Postmodernism, Social Theories, Sociology
Kahn, Madeleine – Paradigm Publishers, 2005
"Why Are We Reading Ovid?s Handbook on Rape?" raises feminist issues in a way that reminds people why they matter. We eavesdrop on the vivid student characters in their hilarious, frustrating, and thought-provoking efforts to create strong and flexible selves against the background of representations of women in contemporary and classical Western…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Equal Education, Feminism, Females
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