Subject - Education

This guide will help you to find and use all the available useful sources to help you get just what you need fast!

Starting your search

When you get your first assignment, look for information on your topic in the Library Catalogue – the Library’s search engine. 

Featured Resources

Australian Literacy Educators' Association (ALEA) Journals

Australian Journal of Language and Literacy - directed at Australian and overseas audiences whose research interests range from early childhood to adult literacy, education, English as an additional language, Indigenous education and learners with diverse language and literacy needs.

Literacy Learning: the Middle Years - focuses on the learning and teaching of literacies in School Years 5 to 9.

Practical Literacy: The Early & Primary Years - designed to inspire and assist early years and primary school classroom teachers to enhance their literacy teaching.

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