ED 206: Introduction to Education
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Introduction to the basic foundations of the Western educational tradition with specific emphasis on the American pattern. An examination of teaching as a career, the legal and organizational frameworks, international education, cultural diversity and mainstreaming will be conducted.
INFORMATION LITERACY AND EDUCATION RESEARCH
If you are completely new to the library and research, we strongly recommend that you complete WCSU Libraries' TIP Tutorial, an online tutorial for information literacy and library-related skills.
DATABASE SEARCHING FOR CURRENT AWARENESS AND RESEARCH IN EDUCATION
The following databases are useful for researching education news, policies, standards and practices from the general, professional and scholarly literature. Use your Windows login to access articles from anywhere on campus. If you are working at another location, make sure to get a library pin code. You will be required to submit it before accessing articles from our databases remotely. Note that print periodicals and newspapers can be browsed on the 3rd floor of Haas Library.
ERIC (through EBSCOhost system)
- user friendly basic search and advanced search options; help is only a mouse click away.
- utilizes ERIC subject headings (called "descriptors" and "identifiers") for targeted, efficient searching (follow the "thesaurus" button to identify descriptors and identifiers for your search, or follow term links to search related articles directly.)
- automatically links to full text of articles (EJs) and documents (EDs) whenever available, even searching other library databases.
- use Ebsco Combined Databases feature, to search ERIC and Academic Search Premier (described below) simultaneously to retrieve more fulltext articles.
- register with the "MyEbscohost" free service to save searches and set up search alerts for tracking current news and issues.
Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost)
- contains full text
- includes many education and news publications
Educator's Reference Complete (Gale through iCONN)
- access to over 300 full text magazines and journals for educators
Expanded Academic ASAP (Gale/Thomson)
- contains full text
- many education and news publications
**NEWS ONLY DATABASES**
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe (Reed Elsevier)
- Excellent source for regional and national news sources, as well as legal news and information
Newspapers Full Text (Proquest through iCONN)
- Full-text of several national and international newspapers such as the New York Times, Christian Science Monitor and Boston Globe, as well as the Hartford Courant.
LOCATING BOOKS
CONSULS (CSU Online Catalog)
- Use CONSULS, the WCSU Libraries online catalog, to locate a rich collection of books and other materials related to education. Limit location to "WCSU" to retrieve our campus holdings.
- You may search CONSULS by author, title, subject, or keyword. Run keyword searches using AND, OR, NOT to combine more than one concept, for example education AND mainstreaming.
- If you do not retrieve enough items using subject search, be sure to run a keyword search as well. Books at CCSU, ECSU, SCSU can be delivered to WCSU using the CONSULS "Request Book" feature (accessible from book record display screen, using your library PIN code).
Browsing the Print Collection
- The education circulating book collection is housed on the 4th floor of Haas Library in the Library of Congress "L" Class.
- The education reference book collection is housed on the 1st floor of Haas Library in the same class.
- For educational psychology topics, browse in the "BF" class as well.
- The Curriculum Room on the 4th floor of Haas Library houses a strong collection of instructional guides, handbooks and teaching kits.
Other Library Catalogs
LOCATING INTERNET RESOURCES
Start with authoritative subject guides and directories. Then try searching general collections of scholarly and other high quality web resources. For a particularly hard-to-find topic, use a larger general search engine, such as Google or Yahoo.
REMOTE ACCESS
You can access any of the above resources from home, by pointing your browser to http://library.wcsu.edu/.
However, to access the journal databases, you will need to be an authenticated WCSU user with:
- Internet Access (AOL, SNET; DSL, Cable modem, etc.)
- Browser (MS Internet Explorer, Netscape or other)
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Library PIN
Jenny Innes
Public Services Librarian
innesg@wcsu.edu
203-837-9141
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