Subject - Education
Learning and teaching resources
This guide will help you to find and use all the available useful sources to help you get just what you need fast!
Begin with Library Catalogue
When you get your first assignment, look for information on your topic in Library Catalogue – the Library’s search engine.
Research
Depending on your assignment you may also need to use one of our specialised databases. Databases are extremely useful tools for researching specific information, recent information and scholarly articles.
Key Databases
A+ Education
In partnership with the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) Australia this database encompasses all aspects of learning from early childhood through to tertiary, adult learning, assessment, distance learning, international education, indigenous education and literacy.
Academic Search Ultimate
Scholarly resource providing superior full-Text, academic journals covering the major areas of academic research, with more than 13,780 indexed and abstracted journals, and full text for over 4,770 journals
Education Source Education Source contains education articles on a variety of topics such as education theory, curriculum instruction, administration, policy, funding, and social issues. In addition to articles, Education Source includes full text books, conference papers and other documents
ERIC Education Database
ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and resources. The database contains more than 1.3 million records and provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index.
Informit Australian Collections
Informit is a major Australian database providers covering A+ Education, Australian Public Affairs-FT, Business, Families & Society, Health, Humanities & Social Sciences, Indigenous and Literature & Culture Collection
This is just a selection of the thousands of ebooks available
Early Language Learning and Teacher Education by
The chapters focus on the complexity of teacher learning, innovations in mentoring and teacher supervision, strategies in programme development and perceptions, and knowledge and assessment in early language learning teacher education.
Publication Date: 2019
The Oxford Handbook of Higher Education in the Asia-Pacific Region by
Since the turn of the millennium it has become clear that the Asia-Pacific Region is, economically, the fastest growing continent in the world, and is likely to remain so for some time despite the setbacks of the COVID-19 pandemic. Asia-Pacific's share of the world's Gross Domestic Product(GDP) doubled from 15 per cent to 30 per cent between 1970 and 2017 and is projected to account for half of global GDP by 2050. With South East and South Asia also growing rapidly, with over half the world's population and three of the world's five largest economies, Asia is soon poised to home halfof the world's middle class - a class that is both the driver and the product of higher education.The quality of a country's system of higher education may be seen both as a gauge of its current level of national development as well as of its future economic prospects. It is therefore natural that the putative "Asian Century" should generate interest in the region's higher education systemswhich, on the one hand, share common characteristics-a fixation with credentials and engineering, high technology (especially among male students), and business degrees-while at the same time are also highly differentiated, not only across countries but also within. As such, a better understandingof higher education achievements, failings, potential, and structural limitations in the Asia-Pacific Region is imperative.This handbook presents a number of significant country case-studies and documents cross-cutting trends relating to, among other things: the trilemma faced by governments juggling competing claims of access, accessible cost, and quality; the balance between teaching and research; the links betweenlabour markets (demand) and higher education (supply); preferred fields of study and their consequences; the rise of the research university in Asia; the lure of institutions of international reputation within the region; new education technologies and their effects; and, trends in government policywithin the wider region and sub-regions.
Publication Date: 2023
The Disruptive Power of Online Education by
In higher education, disruptive effects are mainly visible on a program/product level, with an increasing number of programs including some element of online education.
Publication Date: 2018
The Wiley Handbook of Teaching and Learning by
Assessment of student learning, evaluation of teachers, trends in teacher education programs, technological advances in content delivery, the important role for school leaders, and innovative instructional practices to increase student learning.
Publication Date: 2018
Education and Expertise by
Explores professional expertise for professional education practice, curriculum design and assessment All contributions are philosophically grounded and reflect interdisciplinary advances in understanding expertise
Publication Date: 2018
Inclusive Education by
Examines; How to strengthen inclusive practice : to examine how it is enacted in educational settings from early childhood, schools, and communities and further and higher education; to contemplate the restrictions that it might inadvertently create; and to consider its effects on members of educational communities.
Publication Date: 2017
Teacher Education Across Minority Serving Institutions by
The book moves beyond a singular focus on teacher racial diversity that has characterized scholarship and policy work in this area. Instead, it pushes for scholars to consider that racial diversity in teacher education is not simply an end in itself but is, a means to accomplish other goals, such as developing justice-oriented and asset-based pedagogies.
Publication Date: 2017
Self-Narrative and Pedagogy by
In this book, teachers from a variety of backgrounds reflect upon their journeys into and within teaching to discuss the impact of their diverse experiences on the ways in which they teach.
Publication Date: 2017
Communication and Learning by
This handbook serves researchers, professors, and graduate students by surveying the collective findings of research and experience concerning the intentional activity of teaching and learning.
Publication Date: 2016
Human Rights in Language and STEM Education by
This volume explores the challenges of teaching and learning Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) subjects in local languages and local contexts in a range of countries around the world.
Publication Date: 2016
International Handbook of Research on Children's Literacy, Learning and Culture by
Critically reviews past and current research in order to influence future directions in the field of literacy Offers literacy scholars an international perspective that recognizes and anticipates increasing diversity in literacy practices and cultures
Publication Date: 2013
Useful Websites
PETAA - Primary English Teaching Association Australia
A national, not-for-profit professional association supporting primary school educators in the teaching and learning of English.
Australian Literacy Educators' Association
An independent professional association dedicated to literacy and English language learning from early childhood through all stages of schooling and tertiary education.
Australian Association for the Teaching of English (AATE)
The AATE is a national professional association established and supported by state and territory English teaching associations.
Learning and Teaching resources
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