InfoGuides: Multicultural Education: Find Articles

Key Databases

These databases can be used to find peer-reviewed articles.

Education Databases

APA PsycInfo (EBSCO)
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.
Education Database
Gives users access to over 900 educational publications, including more than 600 of the titles in full text from 1988 to present. Coverage spans the literature on primary, secondary and higher education as well as special education, home schooling, and adult education.
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. Provides indexing for over 1,800 journals, as well as full-text for over 900 journals, 81 books, and numerous education-related conference papers.
Social Sciences Citation Index
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.
Taylor and Francis Online
Search, browse, and access the full text of more than 2,000 journals published by Taylor & Francis covering the humanities, medicine, the social sciences, science, and technology.
Wiley Online Library
Provides access to: the full-text of nearly 1500 journals; the table of contents and abstracts of print books and reference works; as well as some full-text access to e-books. Subject areas include the sciences, social sciences, business, education, law, computer science and technology.

All Education Databases

Education and Higher Education Databases
Additional databases may be found on the Education subject on the Library's website

Interdisciplinary Resources

Research questions in multicultural education may be interdisciplinary. Consider reviewing the following subjects for other databases.

Education meta search tool

This tool allows you conduct a real-time search across 20 databases and ejournal collections.

Select Scholarly Journals

Subscription Journals

These select journals require George Mason University affiliation to access. This is a small selection of journals available. These have been included based on relevance to the discipline.

Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development
Concerned with research, theory, and program applications pertinent to multicultural and ethnic minority interests in all areas of counseling and human development.
Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
The Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development is a cross-disciplinary journal for researchers from diverse scholarly and geographical backgrounds. It is concerned with macro-level coverage of topics in the sociology and social psychology of language, and in language and cultural politics, policy, planning and practice.
Multicultural Education
Provides articles, interviews, promising practices & resources in multicultural education.
Multicultural Perspectives
Multicultural Perspectives (MCP) promotes the philosophy of social justice, equity, and inclusion. It celebrates cultural and ethnic diversity as a national strength that enriches the fabric of society.
Multiple Voices for Ethnically Diverse Exceptional Learners
Includes articles on effective classroom/postsecondary practices, assessment, family/community empowerment techniques, research, material and test reviews, recruitment, and other issues pertaining to culturally and linguistically diverse exceptional populations.
Race Ethnicity and Education
Provides a focal point for international scholarship, research and debate by publishing original and challenging research that explores the dynamics of race, racism and ethnicity in education policy, theory and practice.

Open Access Journals

Open access journals are ones that do not require an institutional subscription to access. This means they are free to use and share. The ones in this list have been selected as they are relevant in the discipline.

Journal of Educational Controversy
The purpose of this peer reviewed journal is to provide a national and international forum for examining the dilemmas and controversies that arise in the education of citizens in a pluralistic, democratic society.
From 2006 to present
International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning
Publishes the outcomes of research and current debates on development education and related concepts such as global learning, global education, and global citizenship
Available from 2008 to the present
International Journal of Multicultural Education
Committed to promoting educational equity, cross-cultural understanding, and global awareness in all levels of education.

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