WHY HAVE WE DEVELOPED THIS?

Staff at the Centre for Popular Education are often asked if they can recommend reading matter on topics they are researching. We then rustle various pieces of literature together and send them off. This database now provides a more efficient way of sharing our references.

WHAT YOU CAN FIND

References (books, journal papers, reports, websites, newspaper articles, videos) about:

* arts and health
* CCD (community cultural development) with a focus on evaluation
* celebrations, festivals
* community arts
* community building, community capacity building, community development
* community engagement, community consultation with a focus on evaluation and measurement
* community leadership
* community organising
* critical pedagogy
* development theories
* environmental advocacy and environmental education
* health promotion, community health, health education, health literacy with a focus on evaluation and measurement
* informal education
* libraries, community development and social capital
* participatory learning
* popular education - history, meanings, traditions, theories and practices
* radical education, progressive education
* photovoice
* political education
* popular theatre, community theatre
* school - community partnerships
* social capital with a focus on evaluation and measurement
* union organising

HOW YOU CAN FIND IT

You can use any combination of terms in your database search. For example, if you are interested in evaluation of community cultural development you (a) type in CCD (yes, we used an acronnym) as a keyword; then (b) type in evaluation as a keyword in the second search box. To get references specifically about evaluation of community cultural development as opposed to general evaluation references, connnect the two search terms with 'and' rather than 'or.' If you are interested in drawing on traditions of informal education for environmental education you should (a) type in 'informal education' and then (b) environment.

Note that if you are searching for references using two or more words you should put quotation marks around them. For example, if you are searching for references about popular education, type in: "popular education". If you do not include the quotation marks then the search will generate all references about education and references with the word popular.

NAVIGATION

Navigation between the pages can be performed from either the side bar navigation subsection or the link below the page's information, as here: Search database

SOURCES FOR ABSTRACTS

In most cases abstracts have been taken from a book dustcover, or the author's abstract in the journal paper, or the journal database search engine. Occasionally, the abstracts have been written by staff at the Centre for Popular Education.

This database is being continually expanded and will be updated about every three months.