Welcome to your Childhood Practice Subject Research Guide
Watch the video to meet your Academic and Digital Library Liaison – Stephanie Fair, then have a look in the sections below to find useful and relevant resources for your course.
If you are not able to find what you are looking for please contact your Academic Digital Library Liaison, listed at the bottom of the page, who will be happy to help you with all library and subject research needs.
Education, Literacy & Learning
Development, Play & Safeguarding
Child Behaviour & SEN
Reflective Practice & Leadership
Library Search
eCore is an essential tool for finding, via one single search box, information from the physical and online library resources available to you, including:
- Research Starters
- Library catalogue
- Ebooks
- Magazines articles
- News and newspaper articles
- Encyclopedia articles
- Additional Online Resources
Magazines
Nursery World
The sectors leading magazine. It covers the latest news, industry trends, and best practice guides.
EYE Magazine
EYE is essential reading for anyone working with children aged from birth to five-years-old. You can find this Magazine at Granton and Sighthill Libraries.
The Study Skills Handbook
This is the ultimate guide to study skills, written by million copy bestselling author Stella Cottrell. Her tried and tested approach, based on over twenty years’ experience of working with students, has helped over a million students to achieve their potential.
Key topics covered include:
- Essay Writing
- Research & note-taking
- Time Mangement
- Organisation Skills
- Exam practice and writing
- Critical Thinking
- Studying Effectively
Podcasts
Podcasts are a good way to keep up with the latest discussions and trends related to your field of study. Here you can find relevant Podcasts, from trusted organisations and authors, for your subject area.
- Early Interaction with Suzanne Zeedyk
- Nurturing Brain development from birth to three – with Alison Gopnik
- Outdoor Education with Sue Palmer
- What is Toxic Stress?
- Risky Play with Tim McGill
- Play Well Podcast – Partnership Working
- Frobel Trust – What does it take to become a Froebelian early years setting?
- Why We Play Childhood: Exploring the world through play
Policies, Standards and Guidance Documents
Below you can find a links to some key documents relevant to the Childhood Practice sector. These documents have been produced by various different organisations and bodies, and span Legislation, Guidance, Policies, Frameworks, Standards and Codes of Practice.
Health and Social Care Standards: My Support, My Life
SSSC Continuous Learning Framework
Curriculum & Frameworks
How Good is Our Early Learning and Childcare?
Play
Rights & Wellbeing
UN Conventions on Rights of The Child
Clickview
ClickView is Edinburgh College’s media player.
Here are some relevant videos for your course.
- Outdoor Learning with Forest School
- How We’re Wired: What Is Neurodiversity
- Inclusive Schools and Classrooms
- What Are We Feeding Our Kids?
- Planet Child: Child Development
- The Evolution of Child Rights
- The Story of Children’s Play
- Babies: Their Wonderful Word
- Panorama: Kids Without Phones
- Growing Up Poor: Britains Homeless Kids
Online Resources
Credo
A useful resource for all subject areas, featuring reference works such as encyclopedias and dictionaries alongside textbooks.
You can display your search results in a traditional list layout, or you can choose to have them displayed in a concept map where linking themes, people, and events can be explored easily to expand upon your research topic.
Issues Online
Issues Online provides key information and statistics about the Social Issues of today.
Click here for an access Guide.
Gale
Using Gales PowerSearch you can search across newspapers, scholarly journals, and general reference magazines for content on all topics and subjects. Read current and historical newspaper coverage from local, national and international press, browse general magazine content, and explore articles from scholarly journals and other authoritative sources.
Online Courses
Referencing at Edinburgh College: Online Course
Our online course (approx. 30min) provides a simple introduction to referencing and plagiarism using the Harvard system of referencing. If you are new to referencing this is the ideal place to start. We provide introductory guidance on what referencing is, why you need to reference, and how to correctly reference some of the most common sources in your assignments.
The course is divided into 7 sections. Sections have short activities that you can undertake to test your own understanding of the topics you have read about.
Research Skills Course
Information finding and ‘googling’ are very regular parts of our everyday lives, but being asked to research as part of your studies involves a much more specific and systematic approach to the general ‘information finding’ we are used to.
There are many skills that need to be developed in order to conduct effective and efficient research, and this short course will give you an introduction to what we mean by research and provide you with opportunities to develop general research skills.
AI Guidance for Students
As AI becomes increasingly integrated into our daily lives, Edinburgh College is aware of the impact this could have on the student experience.
Whilst there are many applications of AI which could be beneficial to your studies, it is also crucial that you are aware of the drawbacks and limitations of this emerging and constantly developing technology, and that you are mindful of the biases, ethical and data considerations inherent in its use.
Support
Contact Stephanie Fair at stephanie.fair@edinburghcollege.ac.uk
Find contact information for the Library team by visiting our Contact and Support page