Library and Academic Success: Early Childhood Education: Start your Research

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Jennifer Varcoe

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Terri Doubrough

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Databases

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Looking for information for an assignment? Enter your keywords below to find books, journal & newspaper articles, streaming video & more in one click.

Education Research Complete
Covers a wide range of topics from curriculum, administration and policy to funding and childcare issues. Includes Canadian content.
ERIC
ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals.
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Educator's Reference Complete
Over 250 journals that contain information about the latest breakthroughs in education. From teaching techniques, technological advances, instruction and development.
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MAS Ultra School Edition
Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database provides full-text for more than 650 popular general interest and current events publications with information dating as far back as 1975 for key magazines. MAS Ultra - School Edition also provides more than 500 full-text pamphlets, 541 full-text reference books, 84,074 biographies, 86,135 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily.
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Childcare Exchange Videatives
Off-campus access is allowed. Email the library for username and password.
Films on Demand
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Contains over 5,000 videos on topics in business, nursing, social sciences, health, science and technical education. Available on and off campus.
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Older link - http://digital.films.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?cid=2006&aid=7939
Criterion on Demand
Criterion on Demand provides easy access to educationally relevant feature films used in Canadian Higher Education Institutions and represents a large number of feature film producers.

Online picture books, storytimes and other resources

The public libraries in our area have an agreement with Georgian College. Our students are able to become members by using their Georgian OneCards as proof of identification. Please feel free to check your local library to see what resources they have to offer.

Bibliovideo
You are able to listen to authors tell their stories, give interviews and other information about children's literature.
The Center for Early Childhood Education
From Eastern Connecticut State University
Children's programs
The Owen Sound & North Grey Union Public Library is offering infant & toddler story times, and tent stories.
HarperKids
Storytimes, read alongs, sing alongs and craft activities
Kids' Zone
Offers online programs and picture books for children from the Barrie Public Library
School at Home Help
From the Orillia Public Library.
Storytime sessions
From the Orillia Public Library
Tumble Books - Barrie Public Library
Offers read alongs, eBook of the day and a wide range of picture books.
Tumble Books - Orillia Public Library
An online collection of animated, talking picture books.

eBooks to get you started

Early Childhood Education by Harry Morgan
ISBN: 9781442207455
Publication Date: 2010-12-01
Harry Morgan lays the foundations of what early childhood education is by integrating the history of the field with the philosophy and theories behind this discipline.
Early Childhood Activities for a Greener Earth by Patty Born Selly
ISBN: 9781605542034
Publication Date: 2012-06-22
More than 100 classroom activities to help children learn about and care for the earth Educate young children about the environment through experience and play. These activities encourage children to develop a sense of wonder, curiosity, and joy for nature.
Men in Early Childhood Education and Care by Jo Warin
ISBN: 9783319895383
Publication Date: 2018-06-06
This book examines the current interest in recruiting and supporting more men in the early childhood education workforce. Drawing on extensive empirical data from case studies of an unusual English preschool setting and interviews with Swedish male preschool staff, the author explores the potential benefits to society linked to the increased presence of men in early childhood education, and how this might be achieved.
Family Involvement in Early Education and Child Care by John A. Sutterby (Editor); John A. Sutterby (Editor)
ISBN: 9781786354075
Publication Date: 2016-11-21
This being the 20th volume in the series of Advances in Early Education in Day Care, it encourages reflection on previous volumes. Family involvement has been an issue in early education going back to Pestalozzi almost two centuries ago.
Understanding Early Childhood by Helen Penn
ISBN: 9780335262694
Publication Date: 2014-01-01
Understanding Early Childhood is an introductory text for students on early years courses which offers broad and insightful perspectives across a range of themes on the ways in which we understand and study young children
Nurturing Habits of Mind in Early Childhood by Arthur L. Costa; Bena Kallick
ISBN: 9781416627111
Publication Date: 2019-02-19
In the first years of life, as children observe, imitate, and interact with people and their environment, the brain is structuring a foundation for vocabulary, values, cognitive processes, and social skills.

Recommended E-Resources

Encyclopedia on Early Childhood Education
This is an e-resource.
Produced by the Centre of Excellence for Early Childhood Development, this encyclopedia has articles on 42 topics related to the psychosocial development of young children conception to the age of 5. Articles explore topics from three perspectives: development, services and policy.
Infants and Young children: an interdisciplinary journal of early childhood intervention
Articles currently provided in full text
Journal of Childhood Studies
Published by the Canadian association for young children. Click on the Table of Contents then click PDF to see the complete article. Archives from 2009- current.

Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology (CJLT RCAT)
A peer-reviewed educational journal about technology and learning.
Click on the issue to see the table of contents
Childhood Explorer
Written by the Association for Childhood Education International which is a non-profit agency. The publication focuses specifically on the experience of childhood around the world.
Green Teacher
You need to sign in using GeorgianCollege as the user name and GTMember2020 as the password. Then click magazine access to find current or older editions.
The International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education (IEJEE)
This is a peer-reviewed, international journal discussing the learning, development, instruction and teaching in elementary grades.
Click on the issue to view the table of contents.
International journal of child care and education policy
This is an open access journal that is peer-reviewed and disseminates research and analysis regarding major issues of child care and education policy regarding young children and their families to a broad international readership.
Journal of Teaching and Learning
An international peer-reviewed journal about the theories and questions from historical and contemporary education.
Transition
Published by the Vanier Institute of Family.
Voices of Practitioners
It is NAEYC's peer-reviewed, professional online journal. Its main purpose is to provide a vehicle for publishing the research of early childhood teachers, who are often underrepresented as authors in the educational research arena.
Zero to Three
This journal provides health and wellness strategies to adults who care for this age group of children.

Early Childhood Education