Education

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Curriculum Resources Collection

This is a special collection held by the University Library for education students. It consists of school level material, including syllabus documents and practical teaching texts.

Location: The Collection is located on the first floor of the Library, across from the 300s.

All material in the Collection is available for loan and can be taken on student teaching placements.

Items in the Collection have call numbers with a CR preface.

Key databases

ERIC
The ERIC database abstracts the academic literature in the field of education. ProQuest Help

A+ Education Australian flag Full Text
A+ Education provides full-text journal articles from more than 100 education journals.

Gale Databases Selected Full Text
The Gale Databases cover the arts and humanities, social sciences, science and technology. They includes peer-reviewed journal articles, ebooks and online encyclopedias.

SAGE Premier Full Text
SAGE Premier includes 550+ journal titles in business, humanities, social sciences, science, technology and medicine with full-text back to 1999.

IDP Database of Research in International Education
The IDP Database indexes books, articles, conference papers and reports on international education.

ProQuest Education Selected Full Text
ProQuest Education provides access to over 760 publications in education and related fields, including more 600 in full text. ProQuest Help

Emerald
Emerald is a collection of over 190 peer-reviewed journals in management and related disciplines. Emerald Help

The Emerald database is also good for adult education topics.

Worth a look

APA-FT Australian flag Full Text
Australian Public Affairs Full-Text provides access to articles from nearly 400 journals in the social sciences and humanities.

AUSPORT Australian flag
The Australian Sport Database indexes material relevant to Australian sport.

BEI: British Education Index
British education journals (see list). Current year only on Web, contact your Faculty Librarian for full search.

DELTAA: Australian flag
DELTAA abstracts research in Australia and New Zealand into teaching English to Adults.

Humanities and Social Science Collection Australian flag Selected Full Text
This database abstracts research on all aspects of cultural, creative, Indigenous and social life in Australia.

JSTOR Full Text
JSTOR contains the full-text journals across the disciplines from archaeology to zoology.

JSTOR includes 66 education journals going back as far as the 19th Century in some cases.

LLBA Selected Full Text
Language and Linguistic Behavior Abstracts covers all aspects of language and applied linguistics, including language teaching and learning.

MAIS Australian flag
MAIS abstracts published and unpublished material on immigration and multiculturalism in Australia.

PsycINFO Selected Full Text
PsycINFO indexes scholarly literature in the behavioral sciences and mental health. ProQuest Help

Science And Geography Education Australian flag
Science and Geography Education indexes a broad range of science-related subjects.

The Source Selected Full Text
The Source covers children's literature awards and prizes worldwide. It includes a subject, author, genre and title guide to books, short stories and poetry for children.

Taylor & Francis Full Text
Taylor & Francis journals cover the humanities, economics, management, geography, environmental sciences and the social sciences.

Taylor & Francis journals include more than 140 titles in the area of Education.

VOCEDplus Australian flag Selected Full Text
VOCEDplus abstracts articles, reports and other materials on vocational education and training.

Wiley Online Library Full Text
The Wiley Online Library includes current journals in a wide range of disciplines.

Wiley Interscience journals include more than 60 education titles.

Assignment help

EDEC310 Child Advocacy
EDEE 112 Short Essay
EDEE 921 Secondary Education - English 1
Children's literature
Finding lesson plans
Finding Syllabus documents online (Current Syllabi)

Encyclopedias and dictionaries

Gale Virtual Reference Library titles relevant to education include:

Encyclopedia of children and childhood
Encyclopedia of school psychology
Web-based learning: a practical guide

Oxford Reference
Oxford Reference offers a range of dictionaries and encyclopedias listed by subject.

Oxford Reference Online includes language dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, and reference dictionaries and encyclopedias in all subject areas including the Oxford Dictionary of Education and the Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature.

SAGE Knowledge
SAGE Knowledge is a set of multidisciplinary encyclopedias.

Sage eReference includes the Encyclopedia of Bilingual Education, Encyclopedia of Educational Psychology, Sage Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods and Encyclopedia of Survey Research Methods

Free Online Databases and Directories

ERIC Online — Free internet access to the ERIC databases. Less functionality than UNE e-resources versions above.
Education-line — An offshoot of the British Education Index (available in Dixson Library) this new database offers full-text conference papers and some theses dating back to 1996.
Eldis — A database of ten thousand key documents and one hundred thousand selected websites regarding development information. Excellent for snapshots of education in other countries. Maintained at the Institute for Development Studies, University of Sussex.
IDP Database of Research into International Education — Includes international and Australian research: references to articles, books conference papers, reports; links to websites. Updated monthly.
GED — The Global Education Database accesses education data compiled by USAID from UNESCO and DHS sources - very comprehensive. Permits construction of tables of data using standard spreadsheet programs.
UNESCO portal — This site contains electronic theses and dissertations on education, as well as links to pages about primary, secondary, and higher education worldwide.
World Data on Education — Published by UNESCO’s International Bureau of Education, this site features two fully-searchable databases with information on education world-wide with text as well as statistical data.

Education networks and State departmental Web sites

Web sites and Internet resources

Aboriginal Education

Indigenous Peoples of Australia:Education This website, covers the whole spectrum of content, including education.
Aboriginal Studies WWW Virtual Library Maintained by Dr Ciolek of the Australian National University, this site provides links to over one hundred and thirty specialist information facilities. Sites are evaluated before being added to this portal page.
INFOKOORI Index to the Koori Mail at the State Library of NSW. also includes Our Aim, Dawn, New Dawn and Identity. UNE holds copies of Dawn, New Dawn, Identity and Koori Mail.
Literacy and Numeracy The outcome of a research project by the ACT Department of Education and Community Services, this site presents standards, skills and guidelines, as well as research relating to the project.

Adult Education/VET

Highlander Center The Highlander Center serves as an adult education center for community workers involved in social and economic justice movements. Its goals provide education and support to poor and working people fighting economic injustice, poverty, prejudice, and environmental destruction and helps grassroots leaders create the tools necessary for building broad-based movements for change.
International Literacy Explorer A multimedia teacher training tool, created by the International Literacy Institute at the University of Pennsylvania.

Evaluating education sites

Evaluation of information sources A useful portal site on how to evaluate web sources.
eSKILLS UNE The library site for evaluating and referencing electronic resources.

Literacy

Google Literacy Project A resource for teachers, literacy organisations and anyone interested in reading and education.

LOTE/ESL teaching

ACTA The homepage for the Australian Council of TESOL Associations features new ESL courses pages, links to interactive sites and course providers, publications in the area of multilingualism, employment opportunities, conferences, and events.
CILT The homepage of the Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research in the UK.
Dave's ESL Cafe Meet up with other ESL teachers and students, chat, hunt through the ideas cookbook, find what jobs are going, and more on this fun, interactive site.
I Love Languages This portal site links to over two thousand language-related internet resources.
TESL-EJ A fully refereed e-journal that has become an internationally recognised source of ESL and EFL information. With articles dating from 1994 to the present.
TESOL Connects! From Virginia in the US, the TESOL organisation, with information on accreditation, publications, professional development, and a job finder search engine.
The Language Teacher Online A publication of the Japan Association for Language Teaching, this e-journal has fulltext articles dating from 1996 to the present.
Resources in Language Testing A language testing database, articles, reviews, news, and conference details from this site hosted by Surrey University.

Research Papers & Websites

Australian Association for Research in Education AARE facilitates contact between education researchers, and assists them by conducting conferences and workshops, forming special interest groups, and publishing general and specific professional publications. This site also includes full text conference papers.
Qualitative Research Web Sites Provides links to online journals as well as information on qualitative research.
Action Research website maintained at southern Cross University, has information on action research and links to other relevant websites.