Library guides: Vocational and adult education: Reference sources

Reference sources

International encyclopedia of education
editors-in-chief, Penelope Peterson, Eva Baker, and Barry McGaw
International Encyclopedia of Education by Rob Tierney (Editor-In-Chief); Fazal Rizvi (Editor-In-Chief); Kadriye Ercikan (Editor-In-Chief)
International Encyclopedia of Education, Fourth Edition updates readers on emerging interests and developments in the field. The book presents comprehensive reviews of research in various areas, but also includes illustrations/examples from regions, nations, locations--situated and contrastive (i.e., rather than exemplars serving transferability rather than generalizability avoiding standardization and homogenizations).
SAGE directions in educational psychology
Educational psychology is a broad field which incorporates information from sub-disciplines such as human development across the life span, developmental psychology, & curriculum & instruction. Salkind has mined the extensive backlist of SAGE education & psycology journals to create this collection of 100 articles on the subject.
The Wiley Blackwell handbook of the psychology of training, development, and performance improvement
edited by Kurt Kraiger, Jonathan Passmore, Nuno Rebelo dos Santos, and Sigmar Malvezzi : 2015.

Oxford Reference
Oxford Reference is the home of Oxford’s quality reference publishing, bringing together over 2 million entries, many of which are illustrated, into a single cross-searchable resource. Newly relaunched with a brand new look and feel, and specifically designed to meet the needs and expectations of reference users, Oxford Reference provides quality, up-to-date reference content at the click of a button. Made up of two main collections, both fully integrated and cross-searchable, Oxford Reference couples Oxford’s trusted A-Z reference material with an intuitive design to deliver a discoverable, up-to-date, and expanding reference resource.
Macquarie Dictionary Online
The Macquarie Dictionary & Thesaurus Online features easy, comprehensive and interactive searching of over 121,000 headwords and phrases and over 210,000 definitions, with the ability to search either the dictionary, thesaurus or both.