Principle of Childhood Education

Finding books:
Look up on CONSULS - the online catalog for SCSU, CCSU, ECSU, and WCSU.  It can be accessed through http://library.southernct.edu

Search by subject or keyword on your topic

e.g. education and children and principle – keyword search

LB1140.5.L3 M36 2003 Designing early literacy programs : strategies for at-risk preschool and kindergarten children / Lea M. McGee, Donald J. Richgels, New York : Guilford Press, c2003

Finding articles:

Accessible through the online databases via the library homepage. These are the recommended databases:

Academic Search Premiere

Education Abstract

ERIC

InfoTrac

Professional Collection

Social Sciences Abstracts

Humanities Abstracts

Use these connectors when searching online: AND, OR, NOT.

Evaluate websites for children:

http://intranet.dalton.org/faculty/rhf/ala/

Useful websites for young children:

http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/greatwebsites/greatwebsiteskids.htm

http://www.bristol-lea.org.uk/cyp/websites.html

http://www.familyrapp.com/kidswebsites.asp

http://www.beritsbest.com/

http://serp.la.asu.edu/Link_dir/ChldSite.html

Research Guide

There are many useful links to education related sites through the library Research Guide under Education Internet Resources either via the library homepage or directly at http://library.scsu.ctstateu.edu/educbib.html

For more information, check out my webpage or contact me directly: http://home.southernct.edu/~chengx1/mypage