Library Course Assessment for
EDUC 842
November 8, 2004
Introduction | Monographs | Serials | Bibliographic Tools | Costs
Introduction
This is the Library’s report for Education 842 Sociocultural Perspectives on the Psychology of Development and Education. This course will first be offered in Fall 2005 and annually thereafter with an expected enrollment of 10 students.
Monographs
An illustrative reading list was provided with the course outline. The Library is actively collecting in the subject areas covered by this course, and holds all but a small percentage of the material on the sample reading list. No additional ongoing funds are required to support this course. The following titles from the reading list are not in the SFU Library collection and should be acquired:
Action and self-development: theory and research through the life-span / Brandtstadter & Lerner, eds. Sage Publishing, 1999. 0761915435. $134
The Child and other cultural inventions: Houston Symposium 4 / Kessel & Siegel, eds. Praeger, 1983. 0275910253. $159
Cultural and critical perspectives on human development / Martin J. Packer and Mark B. Tappan, eds. State Univ. of N Y Press, 2001. 0791451798. $96
Cultural psychology: essays on comparative human development / edited by James W. Stigler, Shweder, & Herdt, eds. Cambridge Univ. Press, 1990. 0521378044. $71
Educational psychology: a century of contributions, BJ Zimmerman. Lawrence Earlbaum, 2002. 0805836810. $155
The handbook of education and human development: new models of learning, teaching and schooling / Olson & Torrance, eds. Blackwell Publishing, 1998. 0631211861. $58
Inventing our selves: psychology, power, and personhood / Nikolas Rose. ( Cambridge Studies in the history of psychology) Cambridge Univ Press, 1996. 0521434149. $68
Learning, working and imagining / Y. Engestrom. Orienta-Konsultit, 1990. 9519593349. $45
Lev Vygotsky: revolutionary scientist / Fred Newman. Routledge/Taylor & Francis, 1993. 0415064422. 1993. $40
Readings on the development of children / Gauvain & Cole, eds. Worth Publishing, 2001. 0716751356. $43
Sources: notable selections in human development, 2nd ed. / Diessner & Tiegs, eds. Dushkin Pubs/McGraw-Hill. 0072404388. $37
Total one-time cost: $906
These acquisitions can be covered from within the existing Library budget.
Serials
The Library’s existing collections of journals in Education and Psychology will be useful for students in this course. In particular, the following titles are relevant to the subject of the course:
American psychologist
Child development
Cognitive development
Contemporary educational psychology
Developmental psychology
Educational psychologist
Educational psychology review
Educational researcher
Ethos
Human development
International journal of behavioral development : IJBD
Journal for research in mathematics education
Journal of adult development
Journal of human development
Review of educational research
Social psychology of education
The Library has adequate serial holdings to support this course.
Bibliographic Tools
The Library’s existing bibliographic tools will be adequate for locating resources for this course. In particular, the following indexes provided by library license will be useful:
ERIC, PsycInfo, CBCA Fulltext Education.
Costs
There are no new library costs associated with this course.
Note: The materials required for this course are located in the WAC Bennett Library on the Burnaby campus. This assessment is based on the assumption that the course will be offered at SFU’s Burnaby campus. If the course was to be offered at SFU Surrey or Harbour Centre, or as an off-campus course, additional Library costs would be incurred.