Education - General
[See also the Children's Literature guide under Course Pages and the Special Education guide under Education Topics]
Background Information
NOTE: Encyclopedia Britannica, Columbia Encyclopedia, or Wikipedia can help you familiarize yourself with a subject, but are not considered appropriate, citeable sources for a college-level research paper.
Key Databases
- Education Journals (Proquest) -- Full-text access to over 600 education journals, including text and images
- ERIC -- Educational Resource Information Center
- Professional Collection -- Full-text periodicals for teachers and school administrators
- Teaching Books -- Children's book information for teachers and library media specialists, including author videos
Databases designed specifically for K-12 school students:
Search Multiple Education Databases
(Includes ERIC, Junior Edition, Kids Edition, Kids InfoBits, Professional Collection, Student Edition and book catalog.)
Recommended Websites
Journals
Key print journals available in Miller Information Commons:
General topics:
- Harvard Educational Review
- Syllabus
Early/Elementary/Middle education:
- Childhood Education
- Cricket
- Early Childhood Education Journal
- Early Childhood Today [Scholastic Early Childhood Today]
- English Journal
- Horn Book Magazine
- Ladybug
- Ranger Rick
- Reading Teacher
- Reading Today
- Science Teacher
- Social Studies and the Young Learner
- Spider
- Teaching Children Mathematics
- Teaching Pre K-8
- YC - Young Children
- NCTM News Bulletin
- NSTA Reports
- Voices from the Middle
Higher Education:
- Change, the Magazine of Higher Learning
- Chronicle of Higher Education
- College Teaching
- Connection - the Journal of the NE Bd of Higher Education
- Language Arts
- New Directions for Teaching and Learning
- THE Journal
- Teaching Philosophy
Special Education:
- Journal of Special Education Technology
- Exceptional Children
Books and E-Books
In the stacks, books about various aspects of education will be found in the following call number ranges:
- L -- Education (general)
- LA -- History of education
- LB -- Theory and practice of education
- LC -- Special aspects of education
- LD -- Individual educational institutions in the U.S.
- LF -- Individual educational institutions in Europe
- Other call number ranges which may be useful include:
- BF -- Psychology
- HQ -- Child development, the family
Super Sources in the Reference Section:
Print reference books are located in the reference section on the main floor of Miller Information Commons. Some likely choices include:
General:
- Encyclopedia of American Education, 2nd Edition, [Ref] LB17 U57 2001
- Encyclopedia of Education [Ref] LB15 .E47 2003
- Elementary education : a reference handbook [Ref] LB1555 .H297 2005
- Middle grades education : a reference handbook [Ref] LB1623 .M53 2003
- Handbook of language and literacy : development and disorders [Ref] LC149 .H36 2004
- Educational Media and Technology Yearbook [Ref] LB1028.3 .E24 2006, 2007
Special Education:
- Encyclopedia of Learning Disabilities [Ref] LC4704.5 .T93 2001
- Encyclopedia of Special Education [Ref] LC4007 .E53 2000
- Handbook of learning disabilities [Ref] LC4704 .H364 2003
Child and adolescent development:
- Blackwell handbook of childhood cognitive development [Ref] BF723.C5 B5 2002
- Blackwell handbook of childhood social development [Ref] BF713 .B565 2002
- Child Development [Ref] HQ772 .C53 2002
- Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence [Ref] HQ772 .G15 1997
- Blackwell handbook of adolescence [Ref] BF724 .B487 2003
- International Encyclopedia of Adolescence [Ref] HQ796 .I58 2007
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