Library Assignment - EDU 100 / 300 - Contexts of Education - Subject Guides at University of Alberta Libraries

Educational Issues Library Research Assignment

Have a look at your assignment details in eClass for examples of educational issues as well as examples of perspectives to explore for your assignment.

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Education Multi-Database Search (ProQuest)
Searches 4 databases: Australian Education Index, CBCA: Social Sciences, Education Database, and ERIC.

Add Canad* or province name(s) to your search strategy as a separate concept to narrow the search results. (Canad* will search for Canadian or Canada.) For example: Canad* OR Alberta OR “British Columbia” OR “Prince Edward Island”...

Additional Search Tools

Canadian Newsstream
Newspapers are a good source of Canadian "popular" literature on a research topic, especially if it is recent or local.
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Canadian Newsstream coverage extends to a large number of newspapers, including the following:
- Calgary Herald (December 7, 1988- )
- Edmonton Journal (March 10, 1989- )
- Financial Post (January 5, 1985 - October 1998)
- Globe and Mail (November 14, 1977 -)
- Regina Leader Post (January 1, 2000 - )
- Montreal Gazette (January 2, 1985- )
- National Post (October 27, 1998- )
- Ottawa Citizen (September 3, 1985- )
- St. Catharines Standard (October 1, 1997- )
- Saskatoon Star Phoenix (May 27, 1996- )
- Vancouver Province (March 20, 1989- )
- Vancouver Sun (January 2, 1987- )
- Victoria Times Colonist (January 4, 1993- )
- Windsor Star (October 20, 1986- )
  
  Contains text in English and French / Français.
Education Research Complete
Topics covered include: all levels of Education from early childhood to higher education and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education and testing. Also covers areas of curriculum instruction as well as administration, policy, funding and related social issues.
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Database Search Strategies

Peer Reviewed? Academic? Popular?

What makes a publication scholarly or popular? How can you tell?

Here is a great quick comparison chart. An example of a trade publication in the field of Education is the ATA Magazine which will be in your search results if you use the Education Multi-Database Search.

For more information, you can also watch the library tutorials in Popular and Scholarly Publication Types

Database Search Tips

Developing a search query can be a challenge, but please consider these tips:

Check out a database's Thesaurus to find appropriate keywords for the item for which you are looking.

A longer search query helps databases retrieve more specific resources

Using "OR" between terms will retrieve more results

Using "AND" between terms will retrieve less results