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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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Ebersohn, Liesel; Ferreira, Ronel – Perspectives in Education, 2012
In an ongoing longitudinal intervention study (STAR) we found that, although similarities existed in the way teachers promoted resilience, rural schools (in comparison to other STAR case schools) took longer to implement strategies to buoy support and found it difficult to sustain such support. Using rurality we wanted to understand how forces,…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Resilience (Psychology), Secondary School Teachers, Elementary School Teachers
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Ebersohn, Liesel; Bender, C. J. Gerda; Carvalho-Malekane, Wendy M. – Perspectives in Education, 2010
The purpose of this article was to describe students' experiences of community engagement in an Educational Psychology practicum in order to inform relevant educational psychology training literature with experiences of students' community engagement. Experiential learning served as our theoretical framework and we employed an instrumental case…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Student Experience, Practicums, Experiential Learning
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Maree, Kobus; Ebersohn, Liesel; Vermaak, Bianca – Perspectives in Education, 2008
This article describes the ways in which postmodern career facilitation was applied to enhance achievement motivation in a male adolescent from a community with a high unemployment rate. A case study following a mixed-method approach was conducted with a purposefully selected youth and a postmodern career facilitation intervention was developed…
Descriptors: Unemployment, Intervention, Achievement Need, Postmodernism