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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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Educational Research and Undiscovered Public Knowledge
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Barr, Jean – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2007
Donald Swanson, a library scientist at the University of Chicago, has coined the phrase "undiscovered public knowledge". As a university-based adult educationalist I am particularly interested in the "undiscovered public knowledge" which lies in the spaces beyond the academy, especially in the many associations, groups and movements involved in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Educational Research, Adult Educators
Cultures and Contexts of Adult Learning: The Case of Women and Science.
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Barr, Jean; Birke, Lynda – Studies in the Education of Adults, 1995
Draws on interviews with 40 women as well as radical education and feminist analysis to urge adult educators to challenge the authoritative knowledge called science in order to open it to more democratic ways of knowledge making. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Constructivism (Learning), Cultural Context, Females