Education
Resources for Education
Education definitions, facts, figures and overviews
- Dictionaries help you to define your keywords
- Encyclopedias help you to get an overview of your topic and provide more information than a dictionary
- Handbooks and manuals provide figures and facts
Online dictionaries, encyclopedias and handbooksPrint dictionaries, encyclopedias and handbooks
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The cyclopedic education dictionary
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370.25/1
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The International encyclopedia of education
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370.321/2
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The action learning handbook
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370.1523/104
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To find additional reference items
- Search the Library Catalogue
- Select advanced keyword search
- Combine a broad keyword AND the word dictionar**
education AND dictionar**
education AND encycloped**
education AND handbook**
- To retrieve variations of your keyword use the truncation symbol **
e.g. educat** will retrieve educate, educates, education, educational  Need help? Ask a question
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Education books and moreSearch the Library Catalogue to find books, videos, CDs If you know the exact title
- Select title search
- Type in the exact title
- Check the location, call number and status boxes to find the item in the Library collection
If you don't have an exact title OR only have a topic area
- Select advanced keyword search
- Type in keywords from your topic
- Combine your keywords with AND to find catalogue records that contain all of your keywords
e.g. history AND teaching
- To retrieve variations of your keyword use the truncation symbol **
e.g. teach** will retrieve teaches, teacher, teaching Catalogue search tips:
- Too many hits? Add another keyword e.g. history AND teaching AND australia
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Use the limit functions in advanced keyword search e.g. limit by publication date, format, location
- Found a useful title? Click on the subject headings to find similar material
- Studying at a different UOW campus? Use an advanced keyword search and limit by location
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Education journal articlesSearch a database to find journal articles, book chapters, conference papers, research reports and newspaper articles. Try these first
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Notes
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Truncation symbol
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Proquest
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Many educational journals indexed and abstracted where most are provided in fulltext. International content
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Proquest search tips
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ERIC
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Indexes research documents, journal articles, technical reports, program descriptions and evaluations, and curricular materials in the field of education
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Ovid search tips
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A+ Education
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Education and related fields. This is Australian Education Index with selected fulltext added.
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Informit search tips
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APAFT
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Business, health, current affairs, economics, humanities, law, literature, politics and social sciences. Indexing and fulltext, it has Australian coverage
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Informit search tips
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Expanded Academic
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Information in arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology. Fulltext of many of the reference
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Infotrac search tips
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Complete list of Education databases Found a useful reference?Some databases do not provide the fulltext of the article. To locate these articles, you will need to search the catalogue to determine if the Library holds the journal title(s) either in print or electronically on another database. Database search tips:
- Break your topic into keywords and/or phrases. The search strategy worksheet will help you
- Consider alternative keywords or spelling variations
- To narrow your search combine your keywords with AND to find records that contain all your keywords
e.g. learning theor* AND primary education
- To broaden your search combine your keywords with OR to find records that contain either of your keywords
e.g. primary OR elementary
- Use truncation to retrieve variations of your keyword. Symbols vary between databases
e.g. learn* retrieves learns, learners, learning.
- Found a useful reference? Use the subject headings to find similar material
More information: Finding Journal Articles Tutorial Need help? Ask a question. top of page
Education Internet sitesIt is important to critically evaluate all information found on the Web. Try the following sites as a starting point. Indigenous Education
- Indigenous Peoples of Australia: EducationA comprehensive site for anyone interested in indigenous education
- Indigenous Education
Created by the Indigenous and transitions group of DEST. Provides indigenous education links including an overview of Australian Government Indigenous education programmes
- Aussie Educator
Resources for educational research and teaching of Indigenous Australians
- What Works
For people working in education and training institutions - part of the national effort designed to improve outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students.It provides some information about that effort and, more importantly, provides advice and.
- Dare to Lead
This site provides resources for active, practical, and local support for school leaders in their commitment to make differences for their Indigenous students.
- NATSIEW The National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education website is an educational gateway to over 1700 resources for educators or those training to be educators.
Government departmentsStatisticsSearch engines and directoriesSearch engines create databases using computer programs called 'spiders', 'robots' or 'crawlers' that trawl the web and other Internet sites and return results to the database. Try these first: Remember to evaluate all information. Directories organise Internet resources by subject. The information provided in directories is created, arranged and maintained by people rather than machines. UOW sitestop of page
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