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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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Hlalele, D.; Alexander, G. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2012
University access programmes inherently and inevitably provide students with a "label". Firstly, students are generally segregated and stigmatised as they are treated as a separate group that accessed university somewhat "illegitimately". Access programmes generally place more emphasis on academic development and in so doing seem to undermine the…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Evidence, Racial Discrimination, Access to Education
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Alexander, G.; Khabanyane, K.; Ramabenyane, J. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2010
The purpose of this study is to highlight the importance of reflection by a higher education institution on its engagement with the community. In this article the authors demonstrate how the Faculty of Education at the University of the Free State engaged with school educators in a module concerning teaching and learning styles. A quantitative…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Cognitive Style, Teaching Styles, Rote Learning
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van Wyk, M. M.; Alexander, G.; Moreeng, B. B. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2010
Alexander, Van Wyk, Bereng and November (2009) are of the opinion that the purpose of education is the development of human capital towards meeting and achieving the individual and psycho-social needs of learners and communities which should be brought about through a process of transformation. In essence, this would imply that any discourse with…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Human Capital, Change Strategies, Educational Change