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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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Redesigning Pedagogies in Middle-Years Classrooms: Challenges for Teachers Working with Disadvantaged Students
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Sellar, Sam; Cormack, Phil – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2009
This paper describes a heuristic framework developed to provide a common vocabulary with which to discuss pedagogy within a collaborative university-school research team studying pedagogical redesign in middle-years classrooms (Years 6-9) serving disadvantaged students. The framework was developed in response to discussions about teaching in such…
Descriptors: Instruction, Educational Change, Disadvantaged, Middle School Students
Can the Literacy Practices in an After-School Programme Be Practised in School? A Study of Literacies from a Spatial Perspective
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Sheehy, Margaret – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2009
This research examines whether non-school literacies can be used to teach school content. Debates around this question have hinged on two arguments: (1) that the structure of school literacy is not compatible with the structure of non-school literacies and (2) that literacies are so hybrid that their use across different domains is not an issue.…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Strategies, Educational Practices, Literacy