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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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"The Freedom to Choose": Neoliberalism, Feminism, and Childcare in Canada
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McKenna, Emma – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2015
In the second-wave women's movement in Canada (1965-1985), the rhetoric of ''freedom'' and ''choice'' occupied a prominent position in public discourses. Waged as rallying points to resist entrenched forms of gender inequality in all areas of social, economic, and political culture, this language…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Feminism, Child Care, Sex Fairness
Reproduction of Difference through Learning about a "Different Culture": The Paradox of Double Subject Positions and the Pedagogy of the Privileged
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Doerr, Neriko Musha – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2015
Culture is not a predetermined, static, bounded unit. Both its boundaries and what is considered cultural difference are constructed through social processes. Ray McDermott and Herve Varenne (1995) argue that only certain differences are noticed, usually according to what is regarded as meaningful difference in one's own society. For example,…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Social Influences, Social Environment, Ethnography
Nomadic Teaching, Vagabond Dreaming: An Examination of the Spaces That Schools Might Become
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Burke, Kevin J.; DeLeon, Abraham – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2015
This article examines the multiple spaces of schooling as it shifts architecturally, geographically, and increasingly virtually. It aims to examine how how teachers might find new networks of power and subjectivities--using the interlocking concepts of the vagabond, the nomad, and imaginal machines--of historically situated bodies that perform and…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Teacher Role, Teaching Methods, Teaching (Occupation)
Training the Body for Health"ism": Reifying "Vitality" in and through the Clinical Gaze of the Neoliberal Fitness Club
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Wiest, Amber L.; Andrews, David L.; Giardina, Michael D. – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2015
In the last thirty years there has been a broad shift in ideas and practices concerning the individual's responsibility to pursue healthiness (in particular ways, with particular idealized outcomes). This is a result of the ''unwinding'' (Packer 2013) of the social welfare contract between governments and its citizens, and…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Health Behavior, Neoliberalism, Physical Fitness
In Search of Critical Pedagogy in Sexuality Education: Visions, Imaginations, and Paradoxes
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Sanjakdar, Fida; Allen, Louisa; Rasmussen, Mary Lou; Quinlivan, Kathleen; Brömdal, Annette; Aspin, Clive – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2015
The broad aim of most sexuality educational programs is to improve and promote health among students (Epstein and Johnson 1998; Allen 2005; Aggleton and Campbell 2000). Various education programs aim for young people to receive preparation for their sexual lives and be educated against sexual abuse and exploitation (Carmody 2009; Bay-Cheng 2003),…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Sex Education, Critical Theory, Health Promotion