Warren Hunting Smith Library: Education: Subject Guide

SUBJECT | EDUCATION

Keywords and Phrases

The success of your search will depend, in large part, on the keywords and phrases that you select. You can search them in combination or use the advanced search features and Boolean AND, OR & NOT to expand or narrow your results. For more savvy search tips, see the guide: How To: Begin Your Research Here. Hint: put phrases in quotations!
Here are some sample search combinations for Education:

Montessori AND (preschool OR kindergarten)
"primary sources" AND "social studies" AND elementary
(phonics OR "whole language") AND reading

See also the list of terms and descriptors in the ERIC Thesaurus:

ERIC Thesaurus

Scholarly Articles

ERIC This link opens in a new window
Education-related research and information

ERIC Online
Access ERIC via the Department of Education website to find articles and documents.

Education Index with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Articles from education journals including coverage of special education and other related topics.
PsycINFO & PsycArticles This link opens in a new window
Articles in the psychological sciences, including areas of child development.

Ebooks

Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
Interdisciplinary collection of ebooks. Most (not all) are unlimited in usage.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Interdisciplinary collection of scholarly articles and ebooks.
Very Short Introductions This link opens in a new window
Brief, authoritative ebooks from Oxford University Press introducing researchers to a wide variety of topics.

Data and Statistics

Digest of Education Statistics
Produced by the National Center for Educational Statistics, initiated in 1962, the Digest compiles statistical information covering the broad field of education from prekindergarten through graduate school. Data includes the number of schools and colleges, teachers, enrollments, and graduates, educational attainment, finances, and federal funds for education, libraries, and international comparisons.

Statista This link opens in a new window
Statistics, reports, and infographics, related to market data.
ICPSR Social Science Data This link opens in a new window
Datasets from the social sciences, such as crime stats and voting patterns.

Streaming Video

Education in Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
Documentaries in the field of Education - part of Films on Demand.
Education in Video This link opens in a new window
Demonstrations, lectures, documentaries, and primary-source footage of students and teachers in classrooms (a subset of AVON).

Coretta Scott King Awards

Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker by Patricia Hruby Powell; Christian Robinson (Illustrator)
Publication Date: 2014

Browse the Coretta Scott King award winning children's books in the HWS Library.

Coretta Scott King award-winning children's books

Education