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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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Envisioning a Critical Social Pedagogy of Learning and Work in a Contemporary Culture of Cyclical Lifelong Learning
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Grace, Andre P. – Studies in Continuing Education, 2007
In Canada, current federal learning-and-work policy is focused on individual learner-worker development using an iteration of lifelong learning as cyclical. This policy aims to enhance the social as an effect of enhancing the economic. In this neoliberal milieu, cyclical lifelong learning has become not only a norm but also a culture and an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Adults, Federal Government, Lifelong Learning
"Thinking the Practice": Academic Adult Educators' Reflections on Mediating a Summer Institute as a Multicultural Learning Journey for Graduate Students.
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Grace, Andre P.; Gouthro, Patricia A.; Mojab, Shahrzad – Studies in Continuing Education, 2003
Three adult educators who conducted a summer institute for 40 graduate students discuss how their positionalities influence conceptions of pedagogy and multiculturalism and shape inclusive teaching/learning interactions. They describe the sometimes uneasy intersections of the personal, the professional, and the political. (Contains 18 references.)…
Descriptors: Adult Educators, Foreign Countries, Graduate Study, Higher Education
Using Models of Feminist Pedagogies To Think about Issues and Directions in Graduate Education for Women Students.
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Grace, Andre P.; Gouthro, Patricia A. – Studies in Continuing Education, 2000
Reviews the status of graduate education for women in the United States and Canada, historical perspectives on women's work in the workplace and home, and barriers to graduate education for women. Uses psychological and liberatory models of feminist pedagogy to elucidate a feminist direction for graduate education. (Contains 49 references.) (SK)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Females, Feminism, Foreign Countries
Where Critical Postmodern Theory Meets Practice: Working in the Intersection of Instrumental, Social, and Cultural Education.
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Grace, Andre P. – Studies in Continuing Education, 1997
Outlines a critical postmodern adult education practice that is inclusive of peoples and knowledges and inhabits a dynamic space. Key concepts include identity difference; intersection of power relations; community as a social contract; and conflict, voice, and dialog for transformative learning. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Critical Theory, Cultural Education, Postmodernism