Research In the History Of Education

Research In the History Of Education

Reference Books

R 016.370973 H41	The history of American education
R 305.2303 En1	Encyclopedia of children and childhood in history and society
R 370.3 En1	The Encyclopedia of education
R 370.9 H62	The Historical dictionary of American education
R 370.973 Un3	Encyclopedia of American education
R 372.2103 En1	Encyclopedia of early childhood education
Online	Encyclopedia of education and human development

Books on two-hour reserve

372.21 W835	Learning from the past : historical voices in early childhood education
372.2109 B73	History and theory of early childhood education
372.21092 P37	Pioneers of early childhood education
372.41 M22s	Childhood, culture, and class in Britain : Margaret McMillan

Finding Books In the Library Catalog

You can use Subject or Keyword searches to find books on your topic. The catalog uses Library of Congress Subject Headings, which may be found in detail in: Reference 025.49 L61 Library of Congress Subject Headings, or on the Library of Congress website where you can search for subject headings. When you put in a search term, the results will list terms in a table. Those with a red button marked, "Authorized and references" are terms that the Library of Congress uses in subject catalogs. Clicking the button may show more specific ("narrower") terms.

The catalog is accessible off campus at http://library.chemeketa.edu/cataloghome.htm.

Some Subject Headings To Use

Early Childhood Education
Education, preschool
Education - History (also try these terms in Keyword search)
Kindergarten
[Name of educator] (last name first: Dewey, John)
Nursery Schools

Periodical Databases

The databases listed below have information on subjects relating to education. To access them, go to http://library.chemeketa.edu/information/database.htm. If you are off campus, you will need your My Chemeketa user name and password to access the articles.

Education Full Text: Includes indexing and abstracts of more than 600 education periodicals (400 peer-reviewed). Full text of articles from over 350 journals as far back as 1996.
Educator's Reference Complete [Gale]: Intended for professional educators. Indexes approximately 1200 periodicals, including nearly 800 peer-reviewed periodicals related to the field of education, with around half in full text.
ERIC: Large database of educational materials. Includes books and documents as well as periodical articles. Documents since 1993 are in full text.

Web Sites

The History of American Education Web Project: http://www.nd.edu/~rbarger/www7/
History of Education: Selected Moments of the 20th Century: http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/research/edu20/moments/
Chemeketa Library Web Site: http://library.chemeketa.edu/

Stumped?

You should be able to find information on historic figures in education in reference books listed at the top of this page, and in the reserve books at the circulation desk. Below are listed some "best bets" for finding information in other sources. Periodical database searches for the less famous individuals may be tricky at times, and no search will bring up 100% relevant results. You will need your My Chemeketa user name and password to access the articles.

Comenius

Try this search in Google Scholar:
+Comenius +child* +education
Look for a PDF file an article in the United Nations journal, Prospects.

In Gale General OneFile try this search:
tx comenius n10 child*

Or try: Comenius search

Eliot

Try the Gale General OneFile database in addition to the education databases. She may appear as Abigail Eliot or Abigail Adams Eliot. In an Internet search engine, try her name with quotation marks around it.

Erasmus

Look up Erasmus in the library catalog. Several of Erasmus's works on education are available in full text on the Internet. Some that pertain to education are De Ratione Studii (Upon the Right Method of Instruction), The School-Master's Admonitions, and Scholastic Studies.

Look for Erasmus in the Encyclopedia of children and childhood in history and society (REF 305.2303 En1). You might try looking up Erasmus, who is known primarily as a philosopher, in the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, which is shelved in Reference at the call number 100 R76.

If you look up Erasmus in Education Full Text, look to the left of the results for ways to refocus your search. "Erasmus, Desiderius" will probably be one of the choices.

Friendship and Thomas More: using Erasmus's letter to Ulrich von Hutten as a tool in developing a classroom management plan.

Froebel

Try the Encyclopedia of education and human development.

Go to the History of American Education site listed above, click European Influences, and look for "Froebel."

In Gale Educator's Reference Complete on the library Database Page, try searching for Froebel and sort results by relevance.

McMillan sisters

Try the Spartacus Online Encyclopedia of British History. On this page you will find a link to "Education 1700-1950," where you can find articles about Margaret and Rachel McMillan.

Or try a Google Scholar search on the Web for the following (exactly as printed below):

    +"Margaret McMillan" "early childhood"

In Educator's Reference Complete try searching for "Margaret McMillan" in the full text of the article.

Pestalozzi

For reference books, try Discovering Collection, the Encyclopedia of education and human development, or one of the printed reference books listed "above.

Look in the library catalog under "Pestalozzi" as a title key word.
OR
In Gale Educator's Reference Complete try this search:
Pestalozzi and early childhood
in the full text of the article. Sort the results by Relevance.

In Educator's Reference Complete, search for "Pestalozzi" as a keyword, limiting results to full-text articles.

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