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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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Adult Education2
Adult Learning1
Adult Students1
Educational History1
Higher Education1
Historiography1
History Instruction1
Postmodernism1
Social History1
Story Telling1
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Studies in the Education of…2
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Chase, Malcolm2
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Journal Articles2
Opinion Papers1
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Stories We Tell Them? Teaching Adults History in a Postmodern World.
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Chase, Malcolm – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2000
Although postmodern perspectives can be incorporated into the teaching of history to adults, they require greater awareness of epistemological issues and less concern with disciplinary boundaries. Teaching history requires critical engagement with postmodern thinking, enabling adult learners to act as peer reviewers of the output of historians.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, History Instruction, Postmodernism
"Mythmaking and Mortmain": The Uses of Adult Education History?
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Chase, Malcolm – Studies in the Education of Adults, 1995
Writing on adult education history is dominated by the "Great Tradition" perspective. A new historical agenda that is more open to movements and ideas in contemporary social history could move the field from history of adult education to histories of adult learning. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Educational History, Higher Education