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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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"They Give You Tools and They Give You a Lot, but It Is up to You to Use Them": The Creation of Performing Artists through an Integrated Learning and Teaching Curriculum
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Guile, David; Okumoto, Kaori – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2009
This article explores the extent to which aspiring entrants to the performing arts industry have to develop both the forms of "vocational practice" employers require and "social capital" to enable them to operate effectively in external labour markets (i.e. contract-based and networked-generated work). It focuses on the work of one college--the…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Labor Market, Social Capital, Foreign Countries