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Education: Books

A guide to resources for doing library research in the field of education, highlighting the specialized indexes and reference works to educational research.

Browsing by call number

Relevant titles fall throughout our collection, but the L call number section houses a sizeable amount of material:

  • L - General
  • LA - History of Education
  • LB - Theory and practice of education
    LB1025-1050.75 (Principles of teaching) ; LB1050.9-1091 (Educational psychology) ; LB1101-1602 (Early childhood through elementary ed.) ; LB1603-1696 (Secondary ed.) ; LB1705-2286 (Teacher Ed.) ; LB2300-2430 (Higher education) ; LB2801-3095 (School administration and organization)
  • LC - Special aspects of education
    LC8-59 (Forms of educ.) ; LC65-245 (Social aspects of educ.) ; LC251-951 (Moral and religious educ.) ; LC980-1099 (Types of educ.) ; LC1390-5160 (Education of special classes of persons)

  • LD-LG - Individual institutions
    LD (US) ; LE (Americas other than US) ; LF (Europe) ; LG (Africa, Asia, Australia + Pacific Islands)

  • LH - College & school publications
  • LJ - Student fraternities & organizations (US)
  • LT - Textbooks

 

Related areas include: BF 309-499 (Psychology - cognition & learning); BF 712-724 (Developmental psychology); HQ 768-799 (Child development & adolescence); KF 4100-4260 (Education law - US)

Our general stacks collection is large enough to make browsing a bit unwieldy.  Browsing the reference collection may prove more useful.