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Ebsco eBook Collection includes 2,900 electronic books, or eBooks related to education. Subjects covered include: educational technology, educational change, psychology of learning, teaching and learning, multicultural education, educational philosophy, curriculum planning, and more.
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Over 4,300 APA books, handbooks, classic books, and entries from the Encyclopedia of Psychology.
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Includes over 1,600 e-books on various aspects of education research methods (quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods sciences. Also includes a searchable collection of over 200 case studies of real education social research, commissioned and designed to help users understand abstract methodological concepts in practice.
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Provides online access to 63 education-related e-books published by Elsevier and its partners.
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Provides access to more than 1,000 titles for education including: learning & instruction, linguistics, child & school psychology, linguistics, and higher education. The e-books are searchable down to the chapter level.
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Education Books

17,000 Classroom Visits Can't Be Wrong
Provides a map for shifting the classroom dynamic from teaching to learning.
EBSCO e-Book
Adventurous Learning: A Pedagogy for a Changing World
Outlines key elements for a pedagogy of adventurous learning and provides guidelines grounded in accessible theory.
EBL e-Book
Bringing Montessori to America
Traces in engrossing detail one of the most fascinating partnerships in the history of American education—that between Maria Montessori and S. S. McClure, from their first meeting in 1910 until their final acrimonious dispute in 1915.
EBL e-Book
Common Sense about Common Core: Overcoming Education's Politics
Breaks down everything you need to know about the Common Core, from how it was implemented to where we are now. This book will show that Common Core is a necessary initiative for achieving America's Race to the Top.
ebrary e-Book
Education & Equality
This book offers a critical clarification of just how important education is to democratic life, as well as a stirring defense of the humanities.
EBSCO e-Book
Education Reform and the Concept of Good Teaching
This volume offers a direct critique of structural and systematic reforms such as Race to the Top, concluding that it does not respond adequately to the issues of education reform but rather raises new problems and actively stymies progress.
EBSCO e-book
International Teacher Education: Promising Pedagogies
Political forces shaping public opinion in individual nations (particularly the U.S.) are deeply divided concerning how teacher education should proceed. Focuses on 'the practical' matters that have been locally deliberated and enacted.
EBSCO e-Book

Academics in Action! A Model for Community-engaged Research, Teaching, and Service
This edited volume chronicles teaching, research, and community action that influences both inside and outside the classroom as well as presents dimensions of a participatory model that set such efforts into action.
LB1028.24 .A23 2016
Fenwick Stacks
Adolescent Identity and Schooling: Diverse Perspectives
Examines a range of issues related to student adjustment and achievement through research on student identity. Drawn from leading experts in psychology and sociology, it attends to important contemporary topics in educational and developmental psychology.
LB1607.5 .A36 2016
Mercer Library/STC Stacks
American Education in Popular Media
Explores how popular media has represented schooling in the United States over the course of the twentieth century.
LA217 .A73 2015
Fenwick Stacks
Anxiety and Depression in the Classroom: A Teacher's Guide to Fostering Self-regulation in Students
This book lays out with richly detailed examples the signs to look for so educators can direct their students to help and ensure emotional wellness in the classroom.
LB3430 .R45 2015
Fenwick Stacks
Education and Learning: An Evidence-based approach
This book explores the different facets of education and the factors that affect learning – from ability, creativity and gender to culture, metacognition, age, and technology.
Fenwick Stacks
Equity, Trust and the Self-improving Schools system
Riddell draws on his interviews with senior managers in schools, academy chains and the regions during the UK Coalition Government to analyze the changes in education policy to the present.
LC213.3.G7 R54 2016
Fenwick Stacks

Early Childhood Education: An International Encyclopedia
This reference works is devoted solely to early childhood education
LB1139.23 .E272 2007
Fenwick Reference
Encyclopedia of Infant and Early Childhood Development
A valuable resource for all of those interested in child development,
Elsevier e-Book
Encyclopedia of School Psychology
Provides both an introduction to the field and a way for experienced practitioners to gain a deeper understanding of how school psychology has progressed to match the demands of the 21st century.
Sage e-Book
Encyclopedia of Special Education: A Reference for the Education of Children, Adolescents, and Adults with Disabilities and Other Exceptional Individuals
addresses issues of importance ranging comprehensive A to Z compilation of authoritative information on the education of those with special needs. All articles are cross-referenced, and citations guiding you to related sources appear at the end of each entry.
LC4007 .E53 200
Fenwick Reference
Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning
Provides up-to-date, broad and authoritative coverage of the specific terms mostly used in the sciences of learning and its related fields, including relevant areas of instruction, pedagogy, cognitive sciences, and especially machine learning and knowledge engineering.
Sage e-Book
International Encyclopedia of Education
A combination of authoritative scholarship and comprehensive coverage, this book aims to encapsulate research in this vibrant field for the twenty-first century reader.
Elsevier e-Book
International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences
This book maps all the fields encompassed in social and behavioral sciences
Elsevier e-Book
Learning and Memory: A Comprehensive Reference
This book examines Learning Theory and Behaviour, Cognitive Psychology of Memory, Memory Systems, and Molecular Mechanisms of Memory.
Elsevier e-Book
Philosophy of Education
Designed to give the education student a comprehensive look at philosophical thought in relation to teaching, learning, research, and educational policy
ProQuest ebooks