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Ebsco eBook Collection
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.
APA PsycBooks (EBSCO)
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Over 4,300 APA books, handbooks, classic books, and entries from the Encyclopedia of Psychology.
SAGE Research Methods and Cases Online
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.
ScienceDirect
Provides online access to 63 education-related e-books published by Elsevier and its partners.
Springer eBook Collections
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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.

Education Books

17,000 Classroom Visits Can't Be Wrong
Examines successful practice and practical tools ready for immediate classroom application and provides opportunities for reflection and closure designed to help you consider (or reconsider) your current beliefs and practices. EBSCO e-Book
Adventurous Learning: A Pedagogy for a Changing World
Explores how elements of authenticity, agency, uncertainty and mastery can be incorporated into educational practices. It outlines key elements for a pedagogy of adventurous learning and provides guidelines grounded in accessible theory. Proquest e-Book
Bringing Montessori to America
Chronicles detail one of the most fascinating partnerships in the history of American education—that between Maria Montessori and S. S. McClure. Proquest 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. Proquest Ebook
Despite the Best Intentions: How Racial Inequality Thrives in Good Schools
Diamond and Lewis' research brings clarity and data into a debate that is too often dominated by stereotyping, race-baiting, and demagoguery. An in-depth study with far-reaching consequences, Despite the Best Intentions revolutionizes our understanding of both the knotty problem of academicdisparities and the larger question of the color line in American society.
Proquest e-book
Education & Equality
Examines the ideological impasse between vocational and humanistic approaches that has plagued educational discourse, offering a compelling proposal to finally resolve the dispute. EBSCO e-Book
Education Reform and the Concept of Good Teaching
Offers a direct critique of structural and systematic education reforms. EBSCO e-book
International Teacher Education: Promising Pedagogies
Focuses on teacher education matters that have been locally deliberated and enacted by countries around the world. Pedagogies are named, origins (cultural/practical/theoretical/policy roots) are traced and a live example of the pedagogy unfurling in the local setting is presented from an insider-view. EBSCO e-Book

Academics in Action! A Model for Community-engaged Research, Teaching, and Service
Academics in Action! describes a more integrated model wherein students and faculty work with communities, learn from them, and bring to bear findings from theory and research to generate solutions to community problems.
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.
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
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
Offers an accessible introduction to the most recent evidence-based research into teaching, learning, and our education system.
LB1060 .M45 2014
Fenwick Stacks

Early Childhood Education: An International Encyclopedia
Fills a long-standing gap in major reference works devoted solely to early childhood education.
LB1139.23 .E272 2007
Fenwirk Reference
Encyclopedia of Infant and Early Childhood Development
A collection of what we have learned about infant and child behavior by the researchers who have contributed to this knowledge
Elsevier e-Book
Encyclopedia of School Psychology
ollection of what we have learned about infant and child behavior by the researchers who have contributed to this knowledge.
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 from theory to practice and is a critical reference for researchers as well as those working in the special education field.
LC4007 .E53 2007
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
Springer e-Book
International Encyclopedia of Education
This book encapsulates research in the field of education for the twenty-first century reader. It contains over 1,350 articles across 24 individual areas.
Elsevier e-Book
International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences
Offers a source of social and behavioral sciences reference material that is broader and deeper than any other. It provides authoritative, foundational, interdisciplinary knowledge across the wide range of behavioral and social sciences fields.
Elsevier e-Book
Learning and Memory: A Comprehensive Reference
Presents a summary of the present state of research in the neurobiology and psychology of learning and memory.
Elsevier e-Book
Philosophy of Education
Philosophy of Education introduces students to the evolution of educational thought, from the founding fathers to contemporary theorists, with consideration of both analytic and continental traditions.
ProQuest ebooks

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