English Education Research Guide

Conducting Your Search

Our library catalog, Educat+ can show you results for both physical and ebooks in our collection.

When you have found a resource you are interested in, select the link “Available at Gottesman Libraries" to learn more about the item’s location, and the number of copies available in the library’s holdings. The item's location will appear as a call number (i.e. LB 1570 N49 1978) that can help you locate the item within the library in our open stacks. Collection directories are available at the Services Desk. The call number of the item you are looking for will correspond to a certain floor and level within the stacks. Resources from any of the following collections can be pulled from the shelf and checked out at the Services Desk: Cafe, Curriculum, Juvenile, New Faculty, New TC Press, Oversize, and Stacks.

**Materials on Course Reserves can be requested at the services desk. Items located in the Closed Stacks can be requested through placing a hold in Educat+.

Placing a Hold

Items in Educat+ listed as “Not Available” (these items are currently checked out of the library) and items listed as “Available at Gottesman Libraries Closed Stacks” can be requested and placed on hold.

Select the link “Not Available” or “Available at Gottesman Libraries Closed Stacks.” Then, login and complete the form to request a hold.

For more information about navigating Educat+ please refer to A Guide to Educat+ on the library blog.

Using an E-Book

Searching Educat+ will also display results for ebooks that are available. We are a digital first library, meaning we choose to acquire materials in their digital format first before considering a physical copy. You can access the ebook copies of our materials by clicking the link that appears under the heading "Full Text Availability".

Can't find a Book? Try CLIO!

While Gottesman Libraries provides access to books on topics related to our programs in Education, Health, Psychology, and leadership, we also have access to all books throughout the Columbia Libraries System. Search CLIO, Columbia Libraries catalog, to find both physical and ebooks. Results will appear in the first panel for the catalog, but some ebooks will also appear under the panel Articles+.

Suggestions from your librarians in collaboration with faculty members of authors to keep on your radar for the English Education program

• Bettina Love—scholar of We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom and Hip Hop’s Li’l Sistas Speak: Negotiating Hip Hop Identities and Politics in the New South .Writes on education reform, anti-racism, carceral studies, abolition, and Black joy.
• Maxine Greene—Philosopher, author and professor emerita who was perhaps the most iconic and influential living figure associated with Teachers College. Greene wrote about aesthetic education, social imagination, and wide-awakeness.
• Leigh Patel—scholar discussing the narratives that facilitate societal structures. Patel has a background in sociology and researches and teaches about education as a site of social reproduction and as a potential site for transformation.
• Janet Miller—TC Professor Emerita who writes on feminist curriculum theorizing, constructions of teachers' identities in collaboration and school reform efforts and issues of representation, especially in autogiographical and biographical forms.
• Valerie Kinloch—Dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Education and scholar of critical literacy education, author of Harlem on Our Minds: Place, Race, and the Literacies of Urban Youth.

• Marcelle Haddix—experiences of students of color in literacy and English teaching and teacher education and the importance of centering Blackness in educational practices and spaces. Books include Cultivating Racial and Linguistic Diversity in Literacy Teacher Education: Teachers Like Me.

Selections from the Catalog

Books from the Gottesman Libraries catalog from the authors above and more. Click through the links provided or search by title, author, or ISBN on Educat+ to locate these materials.