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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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Edwards, Richard – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2010
This article represents four emergences through which to explore the significance of lifelong learning. Drawing in particular on complexity theory and actor-network theory, it seeks to develop an understanding of the reductions and emergences, and purifications and translations to which lifelong learning is subject. To do this, the article also…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Social Theories, Systems Approach, Responsibility
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Edwards, Richard; Miller, Kate – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2007
The article explores the conceptualization of learning and context from a number of perspectives and some of the theoretical and methodological issues raised when context is no longer considered as a container, but as a relational effect. It provides an introduction for the articles that follow, insofar as they take up lines of flight from the…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Context Effect, Foreign Countries, Correlation
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Edwards, Richard – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2004
Lifelong learning and a learning society are important planks of European Union (EU) policy. Drawing upon the work of Foucault and Rose, this article examines some of the intellectual technologies that are deployed in the ordering of these policy goals. It argues that research is one such technology and examines EU Framework Projects to explore…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Lifelong Learning, Public Policy, Research