Selected Resources for
EDUC 562—Foundations of
Education
June 15, 2006
Gail Egbers 535-8869 egbersgl@plu.edu
BOOKS: Our computerized catalog provides access to the materials in our
library. Use the Library of Congress Subject Headings to identify
the best subject headings for your topic. Some topics that might
be of interest:
Education,
Elementary Curricula
Educational sociology -- United States
Education -- United States – Philosophy
Learning disabled children – Education
School discipline -- United States
Education -- Aims and objectives
FINDING ARTICLES
IN PERIODICALS/JOURNALS:
Periodical indexes provide the most efficient subject access to
journals, magazines, and newspapers. Indexes relevant to your
topics include:
EBSCOhost (via PLU Library home page) A
multi-disciplinary database that indexes roughly 4,500 journals,
magazines, and newspapers with 3,600 titles in full text. Of those,
nearly 2,600 titles are full text scholarly (peer reviewed)
publications. This academic database provides full text journal
coverage for nearly all academic areas - including social sciences,
humanities, natural sciences, and education.
ERIC
(EBSCO) Indexes and abstracts articles, books, theses, conference
proceedings, and unpublished papers in education, 1966 to present.
ProQuest Search
the full collection of journals, magazines and newspapers for
information on a broad range of general reference subjects including
arts, business, humanities, social sciences, and the sciences. Covers
almost 3,000 scholarly journals as well as popular magazines in all
subject and interdisciplinary areas, including the arts and humanities.
PROFESSIONAL
JOURNALS
Education
Week: Online via EBSCO
and ProQuest
Educational
Leadership: L11.E443
Phi
Delta Kappan: LJ121.P4
and online
LOCATING
PERIODICALS/JOURNALS:
Periodicals are arranged according to the Library of Congress
classification system. Use Journals at PLU to
identify the call number of the journal you need. Current issues
of
journals are shelved on the first floor. Older issues (bound
volumes
and microfilm) are interfiled with the books in the main collection on
the second and third floors. Journals at PLU will also help you locate full-text
journals online.
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REFERENCE MATERIALS
Encyclopedia
of education (ref. LB15.E47
2003)
Encyclopedia
of education and human development (REF LB15.E473 2005)
Greenwood
dictionary of education (REF
LB15.G68 2003)
World
education encyclopedia: a survey of educational systems worldwide
(ref. LB15.W87 2002)
OTHER INTERESTING
SOURCES
Educating everybody’s
children (VIDEO LB1027.3.E383 2000)
Qualities of effective
teachers (DVD LB1025.3.Q83 2004)
School, the story of
American public education (VIDEO LA212.S36 2001)
INTERNET:
The Internet is an attractive source of information but it does not
have the best information for all situations. Use the
Internet only for supplemental information. Read the handout
"Evaluating Information from the Internet” (http://www.plu.edu/~egbersgl/evalinternet.html)
Here are some good choices:
American Federation of
Teachers (http://www.aft.org/)
National Council for
Accreditation of Teacher Education (http://www.ncate.org)
NEA: (http://www.nea.org/index.html)
BEYOND PLU
PLU's library may not own all
of the materials you want to use. You may either order them from
Interlibrary Loan or go to a local library personally. We are
part of a consortium of libraries that includes: Northwest University, St. Martin's University, University of Puget Sound, Seattle Pacific University,
and Seattle University.
You may use your PLU ID card to check out materials from these
libraries. If you wish to order from Interlibrary Loan,
be sure to allow sufficient time for the materials to arrive.
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you have questions while doing
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