Resource Guide:
Early Childhood Education
Websites and Digital Archives
The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.
- Virginia SOL-Based Resources
- NEA Lesson Plans
- Early Childhood Education (Dept of Education)
- National Association for the Education of Young Children
- National Association of Early Childhood Teacher Education
- Child Care & Early Education Research Connections
- Clearinghouse on Early Education and Parenting (CEEP)
- Early Childhood Education (National Education Association)
- CYFERnet: Children, Youth and Families Education and Research Network
- Children, Youth and Family Consortium Electronic Clearinghouse
- Administration for Children & Families
- International Montessori Index
- Sesame Workshop
- Children’s Literature Web Guide
- Child Stats
- Child Trends
Subject Headings
Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.
- Early Childhood Education
- Early Childhood Educators
- Preschool children
- Education, Preschool
- Education, Primary
- Kindergarten
- Adopted children
- Arts and children
- Child abuse
- Child care
- Preschool teaching
- Child development
- Cognition in children
- Curiosity in children
- Curriculum planning
- Day care centers
- Nursery Schools
- Head Start Program (U.S.)
- Child care workers
- Discipline of children
- Educational games
Research Databases
The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.
- Academic Search Complete
- Credo Reference
- Debating Issues in American Education
- Education Research Complete
- Encyclopedia Britannica
- ERIC
- Health Source – Consumer Edition
- JSTOR
- Legal Collection
- MasterFILE Premier
- Military & Government Collection
- Newspaper Source Plus
- OAISter
- Oxford Reference
- Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
- Teacher Reference Center
Online Journals
The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. You can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.
- Child and Family Social Work
- Child: Care, Health, and Development
- Child Development
- Child Study Journal
- Children
- Children and Schools
- Children and Society
- Children Today
- Children’s Literature
- Children’s Literature in Education
- Early Childhood Education Journal
- Infant and Child Development
- International Journal of Early Childhood
- Journal of Research in Childhood Education
- Primary and Middle Years Educator
- Primary Teachers
- Reading Research and Instruction
- Reading Research Quarterly
- Reading Teacher
- Topics in Early Childhood Special Education
- Young Children (YC)
Print Materials at the Von Canon Library
Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.
| Title | Call Number |
|---|---|
| Handbook of Research on the Education of Young Children | Credo Reference |
| Key Concepts in Early Childhood Education and Care | Credo Reference |
| Cambridge Encyclopedia of Child Development | Credo Reference |
| Encyclopedia of Special Education | Credo Reference |
| Philosophy of Education: An Encyclopedia | Credo Reference |
| Teaching young children with ADHD | LC 4713.2 .L68 2007 |
| Learning to teach everyone’s children : equity, empowerment | LC 1099 .G725 2006 |
| The sandbox investment : the preschool movement and… | LB 1140.23 .K57 2006 |
| Handbook for working with children and youth | BF 723 .R46 H357 2005 |
| Handbook of early childhood literacy | LB 1139.5 .L35 H36 2003 |
| Handbook of Child Psychology | REF BF 721 .H242 |
| Childhood in America | HQ 792 .U5 R345 2002 |
| From neurons to neighborhoods: the science of early child… | HQ 767.9 .F76 2000 |
| Dictionary of American children’s fiction, 1859-1959 | PS 374 .C454 |
| The Oxford companion to children’s literature | PN 1008.5 .C37 |
| Supporting children’s learning in the early years | e-Book |
| Negotiating critical literacies with young children | e-Book |
| Strategies for including children with special needs | e-Book |
| Educating and caring for very young children | e-Book |
| Contemporary Perspectives and Research on Early Childhood Education | eBook |
| International Perspectives On Early Childhood Education And Care | eBook |
| Handbook of Early Childhood Education | eBook |
| The Early Childhood Care and Education Workforce : Challenges and Opportunities: A Workshop Report | eBook |
| Early Childhood Education : History, Theory, and Practice | eBook |