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Education, Development, Teaching and Learning

This guide provides links to the most useful databases and resources for information on Language, Literacy, and Special Education. It will assist in searching for books, research articles, current news, and pertinent government information.

Dictionaries and encyclopedias

Gale Virtual Reference Library includes, among many others, the following electronic education-related encyclopedias:

Search results in the Gale Virtual Reference Library will include all encyclopedias unless you click on a specific title and use the Quick Search box within the specific title page

Oxford Reference Online
With over two million entries, Oxford Reference Online is a superb cross-searchable resource to use when you are at the "looking for a clue" or "needing verification" stages of your research. Oxford Reference provides quality, up-to-date information from a series of well-respected books--and unlike Wikipedia you can cite Oxford Reference in a paper!

Use Quick Reference materials to discover a variety of Subjects, Timelines, Quotations, English Dictionaries, and Bilingual Dictionaries.

Oxford's Reference Library is divided into Subject Categories, drawn from the 308 volumes of the Oxford Reference Library. Those categories are:

Archaeology Media studies
Art & Architecture Medicine and health
Bilingual dictionaries Music
Classical studies Names studies
Encyclopedias Performing arts
English Dictionaries and Thesauri Philosophy
History Quotations
Language reference Religion
Law Science and technology
Linguistics Social Sciences
Literature Society and culture

 

Historical Dictionary of American Education
Print Location: Ref LB15 .H57 1999

Dictionary of concepts, pedagogy, trends, legislation, people and places with historical significance to the development of education in the United States. Arranged alphabetically by topic, not chronologically. Includes bibliography.  Useful for biography of educators, as well.

 

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