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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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In Memory of Dorothy Heathcote, MBE (29 August 1926 to 8 October 2011)
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Saxton, Juliana; Miller, Carole – Research in Drama Education, 2012
In this article, the authors aim to provide a multifaceted lens on to Dorothy Heathcote's enormous influence on the field of drama education. They choose to order the reminiscences historically, focusing on Heathcote's consistency of passion and purpose. The anecdotes, lesson descriptions, and reminiscences capture her voice, her energy, and her…
Descriptors: Drama, Theater Arts, Profiles, Women Faculty
"A Complicated Tangle of Circumstances"
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Miller, Carole; Saxton, Juliana – Research in Drama Education, 2009
The post-modern curriculum, drawing on chaos and complexity theory, recognises the realities of a world in flux and posits that the teacher and the class are always teetering "in the midst" of chaos, "not linked by chains of causality but [by] layers of meaning, recursive dynamics, non-linear effects and chance" (Osberg 2008, viii). The phenomenon…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Drama, Figurative Language, Postmodernism
A View of Canada.
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Saxton, Juliana; Miller, Carole – Research in Drama Education, 2002
Offers a view of Drama Education in Higher Education in Canada. Presents the reply in letter form. Discusses the complexity of the Canadian governmental and educational scene. (SG)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Politics of Education, Program Effectiveness
"Sophisticated Pedagogical Underpinnings"? A Response to Roper and Davis's "Howard Gardner: Knowledge, Learning and Development in Drama and Arts Education" (RIDE, 5[2]).
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Saxton, Juliana; Miller, Carole – Research in Drama Education, 2001
Responds to an article in the previous issue of this journal discussing Howard Gardner's work and its relation to drama education. Suggests that when Gardner's multiple intelligences theory is applied in teaching, differences are valued and communities are strengthened. Concludes that Gardner's theory helps to validate the practice and place of…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Drama, Educational Research, Higher Education