EDL 312: Flourishing in a Global Future
Flourishing in a Global Future
What educational approaches are needed to prepare for flourishing in a global future?
Exploring Resources Assignment
Find Basic Country Information
- Countries and Their Cultures (M.U. Only)Descriptive entries on each country, including demographic, historical, cultural, economic, religious, and political information.
- The World FactbookA reference website that provides background information on countries around the world. It is published by the CIA and updated regularly.
Historical
- Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new windowIndex with abstracts of journal articles, book reviews, media reviews, and dissertations on all aspects of world history from prehistory to the present. See America: History and Life for American and Canadian history. 1450 C.E. to the present.
Cultural
- eHRAF World Cultures This link opens in a new windowOxford campus users only. Contains ethnographic information organized by regions, subregions, and cultures. This collection does not include all of the culture groups from the original HRAF files so be sure to consult the Encyclopedia of World Cultures if a culture group is not included in this collection.
- Encyclopedia of World Cultures (M. U. only)Describes the various ethnic and national subcultures from around the world.
- World Education Encyclopedia (M.U. Only)Country-by-country survey of educational systems in 233 countries.
Community
Health
- MEDLINE (Web of Science) This link opens in a new window NOTE: If prompted, please enter your MU credentials. Do not select “Institutional Sign In.” Clearing web browser cookies and cache may also fix access issuesMEDLINE, accessed via Web of Science, is the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) premier bibliographic database, covering biomedicine and life sciences topics vital to biomedical practitioners, educators, and researchers, such as bioengineering, public health, clinical care, and plant and animal science, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, marine biology, and preclinical sciences. You’ll find references from journals, newspapers, magazines, and newsletters. Use Web of Science to perform a cited reference search, where you can look up an article and see how many times it has been cited. Users may encounter content in this database the library has not purchased.
- Web of Science (Core Collection) This link opens in a new window NOTE: If prompted, please enter your MU credentials. Do not select “Institutional Sign In.” Clearing web browser cookies and cache may also fix access issuesUse Web of Science to perform a cited reference search, where you can look up an article and see how many times it has been cited. The Web of Science Core Collection includes the following databases: Science Citation Index (1900-present), Social Sciences Citation Index (1900-present), Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present), Conference Proceedings Citation Index (1990-present), Book Citation Index (2005-present), Emerging Sources Citation Index (2005-present), Current Chemical Reactions (1985-present), Index Chemicus (1993-present). Users may encounter content in this database the library has not purchased.
International Newspapers
- Nexis Uni This link opens in a new windowSource for researching news, business, and legal topics. It contains full-text of sources from all over the world, drawn from print, broadcast, and online media.
Education
- ERIC (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new windowEssential and authoritative database for education research. An index from the US Department of Education that has been around since 1964 ,with some full-text access.
- Oxford Research Encyclopedia of EducationSubstantive, peer-reviewed, and regularly updated, the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education combines the speed & flexibility of digital with the rigorous standards of academic publishing.
Economic and Development
- Business Source Complete This link opens in a new windowIndexes and abstracts a number of scholarly business journals, the majority of which are available in full-text. Covers the subject areas of management, economics, finance, accounting, international business, and marketing.
- Europa World Plus This link opens in a new windowProvides political and economic information for more than 250 countries and territories. Information includes regional and country profiles, information on physical and social geography, history, economy, and country and comparative statistics. It also provides directory information for governmental, society, media, and business enterprises.
- World Press Encyclopedia (M.U. only)Arranged by country, entries include the number and type of media, press laws, censorship issues, and state-press relations for 200 countries.
Human Rights
- Humanities Abstracts This link opens in a new windowProvides abstracts and bibliographic indexing of the most noted scholarly sources in the humanities, as well as specialized magazines. Content includes feature articles, interviews, obituaries, and original works of fiction, drama, poetry and more. Limited full-text.
- Political Handbook of the World (M. U. only)Information on the major aspects of each country's government and political party system.
Religious Views
- ATLA Religion Database and ATLASerials, Religion Collection This link opens in a new windowATLASerials Oxford campus users only; ATLA Religion Database available to all users. A comprehensive reference database designed to support religious and theological scholarship.
Environment
- Environment Complete This link opens in a new windowEnvironment Complete is a leading full-text database for environmental studies. It provides hundreds of top environment journals and monographs covering agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, public policy, sustainability and other related subjects. It also includes millions of records and an environmental thesaurus.
Find Books and Videos
To find videos, search for your country and then limit to 'material type' and then 'videos.'
- Electronic Book Center -- EBC (OhioLINK)Scholarly and reference electronic books from ABC-Clio, Gale, Oxford University Press, Sage, and Springer. Also includes links to e-book collections at Oxford Reference Online, Safari Books Online, Netlibrary, and ACLS Humanities E-Books.
Find General Articles
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowA broad index to periodicals, Academic Search Complete covers most academic areas of study, including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts and literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.