InfoGuides: Educational Leadership: Focus on Ways of Knowing

Resources for Ways of Knowing

Education Database This link opens in a new window
Coverage spans the literature on primary, secondary and higher education as well as special education, home schooling and adult education.
Education Research Complete This link opens in a new window
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Education Research Complete covers all aspects of education including multilingual education, health education, testing, curriculum instruction, administration, policy, funding, and all levels of education from early childhood to higher education
APA PsycInfo (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
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Covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and other areas. Includes more than 3.7 million records.
Tutorial for the APA PsycInfo database.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Access (searching and browsing) journals and eBooks published by Elsevier and its partners. Covers most disciplines, including science, medicine, economics and the social sciences.
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Social Sciences Citation Index This link opens in a new window
Indexes more than 3,000 journals across 55 social science disciplines, as well as selected items from 3,500 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals. Covers from 1900 to the present. Part of Web of Science.
Tutorial for the Social Science Citation Index Expanded database.
Teacher Reference Center This link opens in a new window
Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.
Tutorial for the Teacher Reference Center database.

Action Research
A forum for the development of the theory and practice of action research. The journal publishes quality articles on accounts of action research projects, explorations in the philosophy and methodology of action research, and considerations of the nature of quality in action research practice.
from 07/01/2003 to present
Complicity: An International Journal of Complexity & Education
Contains scholarly & original research linking complexity & related theories to the field of education at all levels; srives to serve as a forum for both theoretical & practical contributions to this field of educational research.
from 01/01/2004 to present
Educational Researcher
Publishes scholarly articles that are of general significance to the education research community and that come from a wide range of areas of education research and related disciplines.
from 01/01/1999 to present
Journal of Transformative Education
JTED offers articles that test, build on, and elaborate existing theoretical perspectives; demonstrate innovative and creative applications of the theory in practice; and explore the international and cross-cultural issues of the theory and practice of transformative learning.
from 01/01/2003 to present
Mid-Western Educational Researcher
Research-based articles addressing a full range of educational issues.
from 01/01/2006 to present
Modern Language Journal
Dedicated to promoting scholarly exchange among researchers and teachers of all modern foreign languages and English as a second language.
from 1996 to present
Professional Geographer
Publishes short articles of academic or applied geography, emphasizing empirical studies and methodologies. These features may range in content and approach from rigorously analytic to broadly philosophical or prescriptive.
from 02/01/1997 to present
Teaching & Teacher Education
Concerned primarily with teachers, teaching, or teacher education situated in an international perspective or in an international context.
from 1985 to present

Cultivating a Culture of Learning : Contemplative Practices, Pedagogy, and Research in Education
Illustrates portraits of practice from a variety of teacher education programs, bringing together a rich collection of voices from diverse settings.
Proquest e-Book
Future Wise
A toolkit for approaching that question with new insight. There is no one answer to the question of what's worth teaching, but with the tools in this book, you'll be one step closer to constructing a curriculum that prepares students for whatever situations they might face in the future. K-12 teachers and administrators play a crucial role in building a thriving society.
Proquest e-Book
Integrative Learning : International Research and Practice
Current teaching, learning and assessment practices can lead students to believe that courses within a programme are self-sufficient and separate. Integrative Learning explores this issue, and considers how intentional learning helps students become integrative thinkers who can see connections in seemingly disparate information, and draw on a wide range of knowledge to make decisions.
Proquest e-Book
Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions - 50 Years On
his volume offers a timely reappraisal of the legacy of Kuhn’s book and an investigation into what Structure offers philosophical, historical, and sociological studies of science in the future.
Springer e-book
Learning the Virtual Life : Public Pedagogy in a Digital World
Offers ways to consider the local and global effects of digital media on educational environments, as well as the cultural transformations of how we now define learning and literacy.
Proquest e-Book

Different Ways of Knowing: TED Talk
Daniel Tammett explores the nature of perception and how different kinds of perceiving create different kinds of knowing and understanding. (Video)
Ways of Knowing
Beginning and experienced teachers alike are invited to appropriate, borrow directly, or adapt freely any of this tried and trusted content. The various class activities and units of inquiry evolve. They are tweaked each time they are tested in the classroom. Activities that fall flat or prove otherwise unsuccessful with my students are dropped from the site.