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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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Africanising Scholarship: The Case of UDW, Natal and UKZN Postgraduate Educational Research (1995-2004)
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Karlsson, J.; Pillay, G. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2011
In 2004 the universities of Durban-Westville and Natal merged as part of the national restructuring of higher education in South Africa. These institutions' faculties and schools of education were, arguably, centres of excellence for research in adult education, teacher education and professional development, mathematics education and gender in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Student Research, Graduate Students
Rurality and Rural Education: Discourses Underpinning Rurality and Rural Education Research in South African Postgraduate Education Research 1994-2004
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Nkambule, T.; Balfour, R. J.; Pillay, G.; Moletsane, R. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2011
Historically, rurality and rural education have been marginalised bodies of knowledge in South Africa. The post-1994 era has seen an emerging government concern to address the continuing interplay between poverty, HIV/AIDS, underdevelopment, and underachievement in schools categorised as rural. To address these concerns, scholars in South African…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Student Research, Graduate Students
Post-Graduate Supervision Practices in South African Universities in the Era of Democracy and Educational Change 1994-2004
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Pillay, G.; Balfour, R. J. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2011
Supervision might be understood as the provision usually by an academic to a student of either the expert guidance in subject knowledge or genre knowledge in relation to postgraduate thesis development. The Project for Postgraduate Educational Research (PPER) team members, in the course of their field visits, sought to interview supervisors of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Supervision, Student Research
Researching Postgraduate Educational Research in South Africa
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Karlsson, J.; Balfour, R.; Moletsane, R.; Pillay, G. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2009
This article is about the national project to gather together information about postgraduate education research (PPER) in South Africa conducted over a ten-year period, namely 1995-2004, being the first decade in the democratic era for South Africa. The ideas informing the PPER Project are provided and the complex process of developing the PPER…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Educational Research, Foreign Countries, Context Effect