EDUC 250: Building Trust: Education in Global Perspective
Research & Instruction Librarian
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Welcome
This course guide is intended to provide links to information resources for researching topics in EDUC250:
Building Trust: Education in Global Perspective
Background/Topic Overviews
Use the resources below to get overviews of broader topics.
- Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
Access to general and subject-specific reference books (encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations and proverbs). Provides a graphics-based Concept Mapping option for topic exploration.
- eBooks (Gale) This link opens in a new windowSearch across subject-specific reference encyclopedias.
- Oxford Reference Online This link opens in a new windowResource of reference materials such as dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. Provides database-wide searching, subject searching across sources, and individual title searching.
- CQ Researcher This link opens in a new windowAccess to original reporting and analysis on issues in the news. Coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy.
Scholarship
Scholars often use a case study in order to examine a broader issue, and its impact, within a local context. Use these article databases to search for case studies by scholars on your topic.
- ERIC (Education Resources Information Center -- ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Note: Due to budget cuts at the Department of Education, the number of sources indexed in ERIC will be reduced by approximately 45% starting April 24, 2025.
Comprehensive research database in the field of education. Use to find journal articles, educational research reports, curricula, dissertations, conference papers, and more.
- Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new windowInterdisciplinary resource with popular, scholarly, and peer-reviewed articles and citations. Includes speeches, newspapers, and polls.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Large collection of scholarly journals and books from all disciplines, with stronger coverage for the humanities and social sciences. Current issues from journals (the most recent 3-5 years) are generally not available in JSTOR.
- Project MUSE This link opens in a new windowAccess to journals in the humanities and social sciences, covering literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and economics.
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- Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS) This link opens in a new window
Index to scholarly journals, books, and conference papers in the social sciences and humanities covering the field of Latin American studies.
- African Journals Online (AJOL) This link opens in a new windowThe world’s largest online library of peer-reviewed, African-published scholarly journals.
- Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) This link opens in a new windowIndexes Western language literature including books, chapters from books, periodical articles and pamphlets on Asian studies.
News Databases (local and international)
- Access World News: Research Collection This link opens in a new window
International, national, regional, state, and local newspaper articles and video clips. Includes over a thousand international news sources from scores of countries on six continents, translated into English when written in other languages.
- Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Credible source for news, legal and business sources that is updated daily. Includes access to print and online journals, television and radio broadcasts, newswires and blogs, as well as local, regional, national and international newspapers, legal sources for federal and state cases and statutes, business information on U.S. and international companies and executives. For Business Nexis Uni covers company and industry news, detailed company financial data, and includes major accounting journals. In Law, the database provides texts of federal and state court decisions, federal and state agency regulations, and law journal articles.
- PressReader Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Access to thousands of newspapers from over 100 countries and 60 languages. Includes 90 days of back issues and translation in 16 languages. Create a PressReader account in order to save articles, create collections, and read content offline. Must be on campus or connected to the VPN to create an account.
- US Newsstream (ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowCurrent U.S. news content, as well as archives that stretch back into the 1980s. It features top newspapers, wires, broadcast transcripts, blogs, and news sites in full-text format. US Newsstream provides key national and regional news sources from the U.S. and includes exclusive and preferred access to top titles, including The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Newsday, and Chicago Tribune.
- Chronicle of Higher Education This link opens in a new windowThe nation’s largest newsroom dedicated to covering colleges and universities. For off campus access and to set up email notifications, you must create a free account with your Macalester email address while on campus or connected to the VPN.
WorldCat Search
Streaming Media
- Academic Video Online This link opens in a new window
Academic Video Online is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary video subscription that supports the entire range of curriculum, from anthropology to zoology. It includes a variety of video material available with curricular relevance: documentaries, interviews, feature films, performances, news programs and newsreels, and demonstrations. Patrons will find thousands of award-winning films, including Academy®, Emmy®, and Peabody® winners. Academic institutions will find frequently used films for classroom instruction, plus newly released films and previously unavailable archival material.
- Digital Public Library of America This link opens in a new windowDPLA materials come from America’s libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions. All of these are freely available and include; photographs, books, maps, news footage, oral histories, personal letters, museum objects, artwork, government documents, etc.
- Films on Demand This link opens in a new windowStreaming video platform offering thousands of multidisciplinary videos.
- Kanopy This link opens in a new windowVideo streaming service offering films from independent and specialty producers, with a focus on documentary films. Videos and clips can be embedded into Moodle.
- Platino Educa This link opens in a new windowPlatino Educa offers unlimited access to hundreds of Spanish and Ibero-American movies, classified by subjects and covering themes across the Environment, Social Sciences, Language and Literature, Arts, and Social Justice.
- Swank Digital Campus This link opens in a new windowSwank Digital Campus is an online streaming service that provides access to thousands of feature films, documentaries, foreign films and TV shows suitable for any academic department. Faculty can sign up for an instructor account and select titles to stream for their classes. Titles are available for one year from the initial request date.
Education Agencies & Organizations
- U.S. Dept. of EducationED's mission is to promote student achievement and preparation for global competitiveness by fostering educational excellence and ensuring equal access.
- National Center for Education StatisticsThe primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education.
- American Federation of TeachersThe American Federation of Teachers is a union of professionals that champions fairness; democracy; economic opportunity; and high-quality public education, healthcare and public services for our students, their families and our communities.
- International Bureau of Education (IBE)The International Bureau of Education (IBE) is the UNESCO institute specializing in educational contents, methods and structures. - See more at: http://www.ibe.unesco.org/en/about-the-ibe.html#sthash.V1TB39yL.dpuf
- Global Partnership for EducationGPE is a multi-stakeholder partnership and funding platform that aims to strengthen education systems in developing countries in order to dramatically increase the number of children who are in school and learning.
- United Nations: Global IssuesOverviews, with links to resources, of major global issues.
- Harvard Kennedy School Think Tank SearchA Google Custom Search of more than 1200 think tanks and research centers.
- International Organizations (list)A list of international Education organizations from the Assoc. of International Education Administrators
Government Sources: when researching specific countries, look at the websites of the education departments of those countries. Also look at other government departments that pertain to your topic to find information about published research or government programs.