EDEC 2383: Early Childhood Education

Some concepts or names to research in conjunction with relevant learning theories:

• Montessori
• John Locke
• John Dewey
• Friedrich Froebel
• High/Scope

Search with synonyms and related words.

• In addition to play, also search on playing.
• In addition to learning, search on education.

Truncate terms for variant endings.

• Use an asterisk (*) in most databases.
  
• theor* will find theory and theories.
• child* will find childhood, children, child, childish, and childlike.
  
• Our catalog uses ? to truncate; a few databases may use other symbols
  

Quotation marks keep phrases together.

• Searching in ERIC for learning theories with play* finds all 2,446 results that include learning and include theories and include play*.
• Searching for "learning theories" with play* finds only the 479 results with the exact phrase "learning theories" (that also include play*).

Subject terms can focus results.

• ERIC: Drop-down field on Advanced Search.
• ERIC: "Refine Results" Subject section to the left of search results
• ERIC: Thesaurus

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