ECE201~ History, Theory, and Practice of Early Childhood Education

 

Is this a scholarly article or a popular article?

    How to distinguish between the two.

     

    Women of Early Childhood Education:

    Susan Blow, Ella Victoria Dobbs, Abigail Eliot, Lucy Gage, Elizabeth Harrison, Patty Smith Hill, Margaret McMillan,

    Rachel McMillan, Lucy Sprague Mitchell, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Caroline Pratt, Margarethe Schurz, Alice Temple, and

    Kate Douglas Wiggin

     

Selected databases to search for information on theorists, theories, and early childhood topics.

Academic Search Complete
Provides abstracts from almost 8,200 periodicals in the social sciences, humanities, general science, multicultural studies, and others, with full text articles from nearly 4,650 titles. PDF's go back to 1975 or further, and almost every topic of study is covered.

ERIC via EBSCO
is a key source for education information. Allows users to access articles from scholarly as well as professional periodicals, in addition to ERIC documents. Many articles are available in full-text, and there are links to full-text ERIC documents available.

JSTOR
An electronic archive of titles, often going back to the first issue of a journal's existence. Articles can be found in the following collections: Arts and Sciences I, II, III, IV, and Complement; Health & General Sciences; Business II and Biological Sciences. JSTOR does not include current issues of journals.

MAS-Ultra, School Edition
Designed for high school libraries, this database provides articles from over 700 popular publications dating back to 1975. Every article is assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). This database also includes book reviews, pamphlets, reference books as well as biographies and primary source documents, and an extensive collection of photos, maps and flags. Useful for Education majors.

Professional Development Collection
Designed for professional educators, provides full text of articles from nearly 550 journals, many of which are peer-reviewed.

 

Search for articles in multiple databases simultaneously using WebFeat.

 

How can I find the Journals cited by these databases that are not full-text ?

    Illinet Online is the catalog of the A.C. Buehler Library at Elmhurst College. Use this resource to find books and journal titles owned by Elmhurst College and information about items located in 65 libraries in Illinois. The consortium of sixty-five Illinois libraries that share an online union catalog consists of each state-supported university, thirty-six private colleges and universities, thirteen community colleges, the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, the Newberry Library, and the Illinois State Library.


    Suggested Subject Headings:

    Early Childhood Education--United States--History

    Education--Philosophy--Terminology.
    Educators--Philosophy--History.
    Education--Philosophy--History.


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Updated  September, 2007~ Donna Goodwyn, Associate Librarian