MEd in Educational Practice

 Getting help

If you need help, please contact Adena Brons, Education Librarian at 778 782 7419 or abrons@sfu.ca or Ask a librarian.

  For self-service help, see the other tabs in the Education Resources guide.

Writing help. A Writing Services Coordinator and a team of Graduate Writing Facilitators are available to work with graduate students at any stage of the writing process. Learn more about their services.

Help with Zotero or Mendeley. Use these tools to keep track of your sources, organize them, and produce your in-text citations and bibliography. To get started, visit Citation Management Software.

More services. Here's what you need to know about using the library and services available to grad students. Students in the Faculty of Education are also eligible for Telebook; that is, free delivery of library books to your home. ​​​

Resources about action research and data analysis

Handbooks provide "how to" information about research methods (and other professional topics). 

Examples:

Journal articles

Search for articles by database

Education Source [search tips]
A comprehensive Education database, covering all levels of education from early childhood to higher education as well as multilingual education, health education and testing. Includes journals, books, conference papers, book reviews and educational tests.

ERIC (EBSCO) [search tips] 
A comprehensive Education database, covering education research and practice. Includes journal articles, conference papers, curriculum guides, lesson plans, theses and dissertations and more.

ERIC (US Government Site) [search tips]
Searches same content as above. Note: This version of ERIC is open access.

See all our Education databases.

Find articles by browsing journals

Search within key journals (or browse their table of contents).

Examples:

Did you know you can browse our journal collection using BrowZine? Create a virtual bookshelf of key journals, browse the current table of contents from your favourite scholarly peer-reviewed journals, and receive notification alerts when a new issue is published.

Other resources