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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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Fowler, Cathrine; Dunston, Roger; Lee, Alison; Rossiter, Chris; McKenzie, Jo – Studies in Continuing Education, 2012
This paper reports on a small exploratory study that investigates the place and role of reciprocal learning within a partnership-based home visiting program for mothers experiencing depression. The study is one important example of an increased focus on reciprocal learning within practice that has significant implications for the development of…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Foreign Countries, Mothers, Nurses
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Maher, Damian; Seaton, Leonie; McMullen, Cathi; Fitzgerald, Terry; Otsuji, Emi; Lee, Alison – Studies in Continuing Education, 2008
The use of writing groups to support students undertaking post-graduate research within universities has begun to receive attention from academic supervisors and doctoral researchers. Very little has been written by doctoral students themselves on the benefits of working within such writing groups. In this article, the experiences of working…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Student Experience, Group Activities, Writing (Composition)
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Fowler, Cathrine; Lee, Alison – Studies in Continuing Education, 2007
Many healthy human experiences and practices have become medicalized and professionalized within health during the past century. In the example used in this article, the legitimation of formal, "evidence-based" scientific knowledge about parenting within nursing and midwifery can have the effect of replacing and discrediting embodied, informal and…
Descriptors: Obstetrics, Health Services, Figurative Language, Constructivism (Learning)