Books added to the Library by students in ECLS (Semester One 2023/24)

Our Recommend a Book service for students allows you to tell us about the books you need for your studies. If we don’t have the books you need, simply complete the web form and we’ll see if we can buy them. For books we already have in stock, if they are out on loan please make a reservation/hold request using Library Search.

Further information about Recommend a book.

In Semester One, academic year 2023/2024 we successfully processed 32 requests in ECLS totalling just over £2706.

Attachment in the Classroom: The Links Between Children’s Early Experience, Emotional Well-Being and Performance in School
Authentic Assessment and Evaluation Approaches and Practices in a Digital Era
Child Development Theories: Critical Perspectives
Closing the reading gap Alex Quigley author. 2020
Designing Learning for Multimodal Literacy
Engaging Learners with Complex Learning Difficulties and Disabilities
Growth Mindset for Teachers: Growing Learners in the Classroom…
Handbook for Working with Children and Youth Pathways to Resilience Across Cultures and Contexts
Hooked on Books: Transforming the Teaching of Reading
Making Every RE Lesson Count: Six principles to support religious education teaching
Mastering Modern Psychological Testing
Medical and Healthcare Interactions Members’ Competence and Socialization
Multiliteracies in International Educational Contexts
Multiliteracies in International Educational Contexts Towards Education Justice
Natural Language Acquisition on the Autism Spectrum: The Journey from Echolalia to Self-Generated Language.
Psychological Testing: Theory and Practice
Reconstructing Educational Psychology 
Simple Writing Activities (Oxford Basics)
Teacher Man
Teaching L2 Composition Purpose, Process, and Practice
Teamwork Interactive tasks to get students talking
Tests & Us – A Collection of Real Stories
The Growth Mindset Classroom-Ready Resource Book (Growth Mindset for Teachers): A Teacher\’s Toolkit for Encouraging Grit and Resilience in All
The PMLD ambiguity: articulating the life-worlds of children with profound and multiple learning disabilities
The Psychology of Belonging
The Routledge Companion to Severe, Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties
Touch in Social Interaction, Touch , Lnaguage and Body
Transforming Professional Practice in Education: Psychology, Dialogue and the Practice of Becoming Human
Transit
Understanding Education Studies: Critical Issues and New Directions
Vygotsky and the social formation of mind
Working with Global Aphasia. Theory and Practice

Books added to the Library by students in ECLS (Semester Three 2022/23)

Our Recommend a Book service for students allows you to tell us about the books you need for your studies. If we don’t have the books you need, simply complete the web form and we’ll see if we can buy them. For books we already have in stock, if they are out on loan please make a reservation/hold request using Library Search.

Further information about Recommend a book.

In Semester Three, academic year 2022/2023 we successfully processed 12 requests in ECLS totalling just over £748

Assessment in Speech-Language Pathology: A Resource Manual
Best Practices in Writing Instruction
Essentials of Critical-constructivist Grounded Theory Research
Hegde’s Pocket Guide to Assessment in Speech-Language Pathology
How to create Autonomous Learners
Introducing Global Englishes
Linguistic Ethnography Interdisciplinary Explorations
Psychology of Gender
Scaffolding the Academic Success of Adolescent English Language Learners: A Pedagogy of Promise
School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Preparing Educators And Improving Schools
The Translanguaging Classroom: Leveraging Student Bilingualism for learning
Working with Emergent Language

Resource Trial: Siren Films

The library will be trialling the Siren Films collection from Thursday 15th February. The collection was started by a animal behaviourist research who started her work in the North East of England. The creators of this platform specialise in capturing different aspects of child development over time. The films in this collection aim to support academics, professionals, therapists, nursery staff and anyone who aspires to help children lead happy lives and reach their full potential. This is an ideal resource for any member of staff or student who is studying or researching child development or to support professional practitioners.

The collection of over 500 films includes the following categories:

  • Child development
  • Effective learning
  • Environment and materials
  • Play
  • Teaching and support
  • Theories and approaches

To find out more, see the introductory videos about Siren Films here.

To access the collection both on and off campus follow this link here via our catalogue, Library Search and authenticate using your Newcastle University ID and password

The trial ends on 14th April 2024 To help us evaluate it, please email us your feedback, or leave a reply on this blog.

Policy Commons

After a successful trial in October 2023, we are delighted we have managed to secure a subscription to Policy Commons. We received some great feedback from academics about how the platform would fit in with teaching and learning in Schools including :

“This is an absolute treasure, especially for my research. I am also sure it will be an invaluable teaching resource for the environmental law module starting next semester.”

“There are huge amounts of so-called ‘grey’ policy literature that students working and being taught policy-oriented skills and modules cannot access because it is fragmented, hosted by various institutions and the organisations which commissioned such reports. Policy Commons makes the universe of policy-relevant literature, which is often the cutting edge of a field and more up-to-date than academic literature, accessible to students through just one easily searchable source. This is a highly recommended resource, which improves student skills, research and their written work”.

So if you aren’t familiar already, the database is one resource to locate publications from policy experts, NGO’s and think tanks. Publications include :
-The Council of Europe
-Environmental Law Institute
-European Parliamentary Research Service
-Center for Security Studies
-OECD
-World Bank Group
-United Nations
-International Institute for Environment and Development

This short video from Policy Commons tells you a little bit more

To access Policy Commons follow this link via Library Search

New modules added to our SAGE Research Methods collection

Following a successful trial of the resources in 2022-23, we have added two additional modules to our SAGE Research Methods collection. Through the Library you now have access to a host of guidance, worked examples, teaching resources and practice materials from SAGE Research Methods, SAGE Research Methods Video, SAGE Research Methods Datasets and SAGE Research Methods Data Visualisation.

Datasets

SAGE Research Methods Datasets is a collection of hundreds of teaching datasets and instructional guides that give you the chance to learn data analysis through hands-on practice.

This new resource is a bank of topical, practice datasets, indexed by method and data type. For academic staff, the datasets have been optimised for use in your teaching and can be used for in person teaching or within Canvas materials. This will save you the time of sourcing and cleaning data for use by you and your students.

The decisions researchers make when analysing data can be a mystery to students embarking on research for the first time. Through practicing analysis using real data from SAGE Research Methods Datasets, you can see how analytic decisions are made, helping you become confident researchers.

  • Quantitative datasets are taken from surveys and experiments and come with instructions to analyze the data in SPSS or R.
  • Qualitative datasets are taken from academic research projects, providing bite-size examples from interviews, focus groups, documentary sources, and more, plus advice on how to approach analysis.

You will find lots of guidance on how to get the most out of the datasets module on the SAGE Research Methods LibGuide.

Data Visualisation

SAGE Research Methods Data Visualisation will help all researchers, from beginners to more advanced practitioners develop the fundamentals of data and design necessary to create impactful visualisations. Through a series of practical video tutorials, text guides and practice datasets, the resources will help you identify the chart types that best fit your specific data story.

Researchers increasingly grapple with complex or big data and need to present their data in an understandable, easy to interpret, and informative way to disseminate their research successfully. Mastering the skills and techniques of data visualisation is, therefore, key for any researcher. This new resource will help you and your students to communicate data with impact so that audiences can grasp difficult concepts or identify new patterns and relationships easily.

You are able to search and browse by data and chart type to find how to guides and explainer videos, explore a directory of data visualisation software and access datasets to help you practice communicating data.

Books added to the Library by students in ECLS (Semester Two 2022/23)

Our Recommend a Book service for students allows you to tell us about the books you need for your studies. If we don’t have the books you need, simply complete the web form and we’ll see if we can buy them. For books we already have in stock, if they are out on loan please make a reservation/hold request using Library Search.

Further information about Recommend a book.

In Semester Two, academic year 2022/2023 we successfully processed 44 requests in ECLS totalling just over £3793.

(En)countering native-speakerism : global perspectives
A narrative approach to life story work
Academic discourse across disciplines
Advising on research methods: A consultant’s companion
Audio Education Theory, Culture, and Practice
Australian English Reimagined
Beyond Smarter: mediated learning and the brain’s capacity for change
Brain-based learning
Brain-based learning : the new paradigm of teaching
Changing Practices for the L2 Writing Classroom: Moving Beyond the Five-Paragraph Essay
Cognition, Education, and Communication Technology
Demoralized: Why Teachers Leave the Profession They Love and how They Can Stay”
Developmental psycholinguistics: Three ways of looking at a childs\’ narrative
Digital L2 Writing Literacies Directions for Classroom Practice
Education for sustainable development in the Caribbean: pedagogy, processes and practices
English speech rhythm: form and function in everyday verbal interaction
Entrepreneurial Women in the Caribean: Critical inisghts and policy implications
Glocal Narratives of Resilience
Handbook of Self-Regulation of Learning and Performance
International Faculty in Higher Education: Comparative Perspectives on Recruitment, Integration, and Impact
interthinking: putting talk to work
Learning in Landscapes of Practice: Boundaries, identity, and knowledgeability in practice-based learning
Learning to Collaborate, Collaborating to Learn: Understanding and Promoting Educationally Productive Collaborative Work
Metacognition in Learning and Instruction: Theory, Research and Practice
Method Meets Art: Arts-Based Research Practice
Mindful L2 Teacher Education A Sociocultural Perspective on Cultivating Teachers\’ Professional Development
Multimodal Communication in Intercultural Interaction
Non-native Educators in English Language Teaching
Professional Capital: Transforming Teaching in Every School
Provoking Thought: Memory and Thinking in ELT
Reason & Rigor How Conceptual Frameworks Guide Research
Reconsidering Patient Centred Care: Between Autonomy and Abandonment
Reflective practice in action: 80 reflection breaks for busy teachers.
Revisiting Insider-Outsider Research in Comparative and International Education (Bristol Papers in Education)
School connectedness for students with disabilities: From theory to evidence-based practice
Social Communication Development and Disorders
The Place of English as an International Language in English Language Teaching: Teachers’ Reflections
The Pronunciation of Standard English in America
The Sage Handbook of Social Constructionist Practice
The Theoretical Framework in Phenomenological Research: Development and Applicat
Towards Dialogic Teaching: rethinking classroom talk (4th Edition)
Video-mediated communication
Voice Unearthed: Hope, Help and a Wake-up Call for the Parents of Children Who Stutter
Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks: A Guide to Academic Publishing Success (second edition)

Oxford Bibliographies Online

After trialling on several occasions we have recently been able to purchase the Oxford Bibliographies Online collection which gives staff and students access to a comprehensive collection of articles published and reviewed by academics covering a wide range of subject areas. Users can personalise their experience by saving citations and articles to their own profile.

Oxford Bibliographies Online

Subject areas covered (click on subject to link to resource via Library Search)

Oxford University Press Very Short Introductions

In the library we love these short guides from OUP who provide a variety of great concise books on lots of different topics.

We’ve recently updated this collection so it includes to most recent publications from OUP published in 2022 and 2023.

This series offers concise introductions to a diverse range of subjects—from artificial intelligence to folk music to medical ethics—in 35,000 words or less.

Each one of these big little books provides intelligent and serious introductions written by experts who combine facts, analysis, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make even the most challenging topics highly readable.

On our catalogue, Library Search you can search by keywords like in the screenshot below so “very short introduction” and browse through or add in Oxford to add in results for that publisher. Re-sort your results to “newest” if you’d like to browse through the latest ones added to our collection.

Or visit the OUP Very Short Introductions website directly and then filter using the subject categories. OUP have arranged the titles under headings such as Medicine and Health, Arts and Humanities, Law, Social Sciences

if you are accessing off campus then once you’re on the OUP site please click “sign in” (on the left hand menu and select Newcastle University from the list to enter your Campus ID and password.)

Oxford University Press also have a podcast you can subscribe to about titles and topics in this collection.

Books added to the Library by students in ECLS (Semester One 2022/23)

Our Recommend a Book service for students allows you to tell us about the books you need for your studies. If we don’t have the books you need, simply complete the web form and we’ll see if we can buy them. For books we already have in stock, if they are out on loan please make a reservation/hold request using Library Search.

Further information about Recommend a book.

In Semester One, academic year 2022/2023 we successfully processed 9 requests from 7  students (5  PGR, 2  PGT and  0 UGT) in ECLS totalling £325.00.

Despair and the Return of Hope: Echoes of Mourning in Psychotherapy

Global Englishes: A Resource Book for Students (Routledge English Language Introductions)

Reading Unbound: Why Kids Need to Read What They Want – and Why We Should Let Them

Teacher Noticing: Bridging and Broadening Perspectives, Contexts, and Frameworks (IN PRINT)

The Art of Statistical Thinking: Detect Misinformation, Understand the World Deeper, and Make Better Decisions

The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics

The Owl Factor: Reframing your Teaching Philosophy

Thematic analysis : a practical guide

Youth Justice A Critical Introduction

Books added to the Library by students in ECLS (Semester Three 2021/22)

Our Recommend a Book service for students allows you to tell us about the books you need for your studies. If we don’t have the books you need, simply complete the web form and we’ll see if we can buy them. For books we already have in stock, if they are out on loan please make a reservation/hold request using Library Search.

Further information about Recommend a book.

In Semester Three, academic year 2021/2022 we successfully processed 23 requests from 12 students (9 PGR,  3 PGT and 0 UGT) in ECLS totalling just over £2000.

Advances in Design for Cross-Cultural Activities Part I

Combining Methods in Educational and Social Research

Corpus Linguistics for English for Academic Purposes

Educational Research An Unorthodox Introduction

Eye-tracking in Interaction

Getting published in academic journals: navigating the publication process

Handbook of Cultural Intelligence Theory, Measurement, and Applications

Handbook of Integrative Developmental Science: Essays in Honor of Kurt W. Fischer

Inquiry as stance: Practitioner research for the next generation.

JD Salinger’s the Catcher in the Rye

Language and Learning in the Digital Age

Language in Use: A Reader

Qualitative Content Analysis: A Step-by-Step Guide

Quantitative methods in educational research: The role of numbers made easy

Reframing Sociocultural Research on Literacy

Research in psychology: Methods and design / 6th

Social Semiotics: Key Figures, New Directions

The Age of Artificial Intelligence: An Exploration

Thematic Analysis: A Practical Guide

Understanding and Challenging the SEND Code of Practice

Using Art Therapy with Diverse Populations: Crossing Cultures and Abilities

Validity Theoretical Development and Integrated Arguments

What We See and What We Say Using Images in Research, Therapy, Empowerment, and Social Change