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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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Allodi, Mara Westling; Fischbein, Siv – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2012
The aims of this study were to explore the organisational characteristics of junior high schools, to identify typologies of work environments and to explore the relationships between the type of work environment and how schools function. The educational profession and the role of teachers have been influenced by policies inspired by the principles…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Junior High Schools, Secondary School Teachers, Classification
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Muskin, Joshua A.; Kamime, Abdelhak; Adlaoui, Abdellah – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2011
The empowerment literature has tended to focus on reinforcing the capacity of local populations to act effectively in promoting change on their own behalf. Borrowing from the social capital literature, achieving greater empowerment might be linked also to the actions and aims of the already powerful. A group might endeavor to exert its ability to…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Females, Dormitories, Foreign Countries