Psychology & Early Childhood Studies

Starting your research

Starting your Research

Encyclopedias, handbooks and subject specific dictionaries will help provide useful background information, as well as terms to use when searching the databases. For example:

Decker, Celia Anita. (2009). Planning and administering early childhood programs. Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Merrill.	Schirrmacher, R. & Fox, J. E. (2009). Art & creative development for young children. New York : Thomson/Delmar Learning.
Trawick-Smith, J. (2009). Early childhood development: A multicultural perspective. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Merrill.	Price, Harriet. (2009). The really useful book of ICT in the early years. New York : Routledge.

A GOOGLE search can also help find background information and suggestions for more keywords.

Keywords & OPAC

Keywords & OPAC

Use OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue) to find books, journal titles and audio-visual materials in the Library. When searching for information, you need to use keywords. See below for some suggestions.

Child psychology	Classroom management	Creative expressions
Developmental psychology	Early childhood	Early years
Educational psychology	Emotions psychological aspects	Intelligence tests
Learning psychology	Memory psychological aspects	Personality
Psychology pathological

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Finding Articles Online

Finding Articles Online

The articles inside magazines, journals & periodicals are very useful sources of information. Articles are different from books because:

• they are much more up-to-date
• they are shorter (less to read!)
• they concentrate on topics or specific aspects of topics
• there are many articles being published all the time so you have more choice.

The library catalogue, OPAC, does NOT tell you what articles the Library has, only which journals or periodicals, so the easiest way to find articles is to use the online databases.

• Academic Search Premier

• Business Source Premier

• PsycARTICLES

• MAS Ultra: School Edition

Newspaper Articles

Newspaper articles are also very useful sources of information, and can be found in the LexisNexis Academic and the Factiva databases.

• Factiva (Dow Jones)

• LexisNexis Academic

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Click here for a list of all the databases subscribed to by TP Library.

Recommended Websites

Recommended Websites

Intute: Social Sciences: Psychology - for evaluated and categorised resources on psychology. Try the search option for fast access to relevant websites.

Learning-Theories.com - looking at how people learn, this website offers short explanations and examples on a number of different learning theories, from Behaviorism to Humanism.

Psychology World Wide Web Virtual Library - keeping track of online information in psychology, this website provides links to an exhaustive range of psychological topics; from Academic Departments and Books to Stress Management and Transpersonal Psychology.

EarlyChildhood.com - This site is a resource for information, products and ideas for early childhood teachers & parents. It consists of links to several informative websites such as Teacher Quicksource & Early Childhood news.

National Association for the Education of Young Children - NAEYC is a professional organization which promotes excellence in early childhood education. This site provides information for educators and parents, conference information, research papers etc.

The Montessori Foundation - Information you need to know on becoming a Montessori teacher and the Montessori method.

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