The library provides online access to electronic versions of many reference books, including general resources such as Encyclopedia Brittanica and specific encyclopedias, almanacs, and dictionaries. You have the option of searching an entire collection of reference books using the general search options listed here, or you can search within specific reference books.
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Encyclopedia of Bilingual Education
Available through Sage eReference, contains 300 discrete topics organized into several categories focused on: Family, Communities, and Society; History; Instructional Designs; Languages and Linguistics; People and Organizations; Policy Evolution; Related Social Sciences; and Teaching and Learning. Each entry contains a list for further reading.
Available through Sage eReference, "offers a compendium of information drawn from the various dimensions of education law that tells its story from a variety of perspectives." Entries are arranged alphabetically, a Reader's Guide organizes the entries into 17 subject areas, including: Collective Bargaining, Constitutional Rights and Issues, Curricular and Instructional Issues, Parental Rights, Primary Sources: Excerpted U.S. Supreme Court Landmark Cases, Religion in Public Schools, and Special Education and Rights of Disabled Persons. Includes some coverage on international issues.
The SAGE Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods
Available through Sage eReference, presents current information and techniques, facts, and examples from the field of qualitative research, designed to appeal to undergraduate and graduate students, practitioners, researchers, consultants, and consumers of information across the social sciences, humanities, and health sciences. The entries cover every facet of qualitative methods, including gaining access to research participants, data coding, and research ethics. Each entry is designed to provide an introduction to the topic at hand and includes a list of key readings on the topic.
21st Century Education: A Reference Handbook
Available through Sage eReference, "the two-volume work highlights the most important topics, issues, questions and debates any student obtaining a degree in the field of education ought to have mastered for effectiveness in the 21st century.
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