Liaison Librarian
Karen Liston
Contact:
AQ8554@wayne.edu
(313) 577-5596
You can make an appointment (above), or when I'm available, you can drop in on my Zoom Meeting Room by pasting this URL into your browser: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/3135775596 If I'm available, I'll admit you within a few minutes. Try it out - I'd love to see you!
(313) 577-5596
You can make an appointment (above), or when I'm available, you can drop in on my Zoom Meeting Room by pasting this URL into your browser: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/3135775596 If I'm available, I'll admit you within a few minutes. Try it out - I'd love to see you!
Subjects: Education, Language and Area Studies
Scholarly Versus Popular Articles
Scholarly and Practitioner (Trade)
Group Activity
Each group contains a link to a peer reviewed scholarly journal and a peer reviewed practitioner publication.
For the group you have been assigned, open each of the links and review the publications. Answer the following questions:
1. Which of the publications do you believe is scholarly, and which is practitioner?
2. What are two substantive similarities between the publications (if you need to refresh, watch the Scholarly vs. Popular video for some ideas).
3. What are two substantive differences between the publications (if you need to refresh, watch the Scholarly vs. Popular video for some ideas).
4. Is there a professional organization affiliated with your publication? If yes, who are they?
Examples of Empirical Research Articles from Scholarly Journals
Finding Articles
Searching Summon
Summon is a library discovery search engine. Use Summon to search almost all of the library's full-text article holdings, plus books and ebooks, at one time.
Subject Specific Database: ERIC (Education Resources Information Center)
- ERIC (Education Resources Information Center)ERIC is a database dedicated to proviing access to publications and other information sources in the broad field of Education. It provides access to articles from peer reviewed scholarly and practitioner journals and commerical publications like EdWeek, book information entries, and other materials like dissertations, government agency reports, and NGO documents.
Specialized Database: GALE Opposing Viewpoints in Context
This database provides access to scholarly, practitioner and popular articles, video, images, statistics and more, and specializes in covering content related controversial topics.
- Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context This link opens in a new windowOpposing Viewpoints in Context is the premier online resource covering today's hottest social issues, from Offshore Drilling to Climate Change, Health Care to Immigration. Opposing Viewpoints in Context helps students research, analyze and organize a broad variety of data for conducting research, completing writing assignments, preparing for debates, creating presentations and more.
Developing Keywords
You can download a blank copy of the worksheets used in class.
Some keywords to consider when searching:
| "Community Attitudes" | "School Community Relationship" | Poverty |
| "Community Characteristics" | "Educational Quality" | "Low Income" |
| "Social Characteristics" | "Access to Education" | Socioeconomic |
| "Social Problems" | "Economic Factors" | "Racial Differences" |
| "Social Justice" | "Economically Disadvantaged" | "At Risk" |
Using Keywords to Search
Social Justice
- Equal OpportunityThe Spring 2011 issue of American Educator was devoted to issues related to educational equity. American Educator is a practitioner journal.
Linking to Full Text
Look for the 
in the databases or a link that says Full Text@Wayne to access Full-Text, or order items that are not available in full text for electronic delivery to your WSU e-mail address
Help with Citing Sources
- ZoteroBibZoteroBib creates a bibliography in the style you need, including APA, MLA and Chicago/Turbaian. Just enter the from URL, title, DOI and other information, select your style and Zotero will compile a formatted citation list.
Textbooks, Reference & Recommended Sources
Learning to Liberate: community-based solutions to the crisis in urban education by Call Number: [Electronic Book]ISBN: 9781136593871Publication Date: 2012 (New York, NY: Routledge)Though educators have tried to remedy the severe crisis in urban schools, dismal results persist. Learning to Liberate presents true and compelling community-based approaches to school reform. Uncovering four distinct pedagogies - of communication, community, compassion, and commitment - Vajra Watson pulls together their key strategies to create a theoretically grounded framework that is both useful and effective.
Place- and Community-Based Education in Schools by Call Number: [Electronic Book]ISBN: 9780415875196Publication Date: 2010 (New York, NY : Routledge)This text addresses two critical local gaps in the experience of many children now growing up in the United States: contact with the natural world and contact with community. It offers a way to extend young people's attention beyond the classroom to the world as it actually is, and to engage them in the process of devising solutions to the social and environmental problems they will confront as adults. This approach can increase students' engagement with learning and enhance their academic achievement.
Power, Equity, and (Re)design: Bridging learning and critical theories in learning ecologies for youth by Call Number: [Electronic Book]ISBN: 9781641131797Publication Date: 2018 (Charlotte, NC : Information Age Publishing)This volume brings together design thinking, critical social theory, and learning sciences to describe promising learning innovations that foster rights, dignity, and social justice for youth. Each of the chapters provides a case study of a project and discusses underlying theories and behind-the-scenes accounts of implementation and lessons learned.
Inclusive Practices and Social Justice Leadership for Special Populations in Urban Settings: A Moral Imperative by Call Number: [Electronic Book]ISBN: 9781681231082Publication Date: 2015 (Charlotte, NC : Information Age Publishing)
Teaching with Poverty in Mind by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9781416610113Publication Date: 2009Veteran educator and brain expert Eric Jensen takes an unflinching look at how poverty hurts children, families, and communities across the United States and demonstrates how schools can improve the academic achievement and life readiness of economically disadvantaged students. Effective strategies from those who have succeeded and ways to replicate those best practices at your own school.
- Books & eBooks: Education and Social JusticeThis link will take you to a list of books on the aspects of the topic of Education and Social Justice.
Data Sources for Michigan and Detroit Public Schools
Statistics Resources for the State of Michigan
- Education Statistics by Congressional DistrictUse this database to retrieve statistics from the most recent American Community Survey. For historical data, Table B15001 from the American Community Survey has statistics on educational attainment for the population 18 and over. Search for B15001 in American Factfinder and select All Congressional Districts in the United States using the Geographies options. You would need to download for each of the Congresses during the period of interest.
- MI School DataData about the performance of Michigan’s K-12 public schools and students. Create a report for a particular school or district, which is e-mailed to you.
- Navigating MI School DataThis PowerPoint gives a brief overview of how to navigate MI School Data and create reports.
- Graduate Rate Map Toolfrom edweek.org
- Kids Count Data Center--Michigan100 measures of child well-being, including community-level data.
Statistics Resources for Detroit Public Schools and Southeast Michigan
- Annual Reports for Detroit Public SchoolsHistorical reports on the Detroit Public School system.
- Socioeconomic characteristics of children by Detroit subcommunityAlthough a bit dated, these reports contain hard to find statistics, available at the neighborhood level. Data include school enrollment, spoken language, employment status of parents, income, and poverty rates. Also includes a map of Detroit subcommunities.
- Wayne County GISInteractive Maps include school district boundaries.
- SEMCOG Southeast Michigan Council of GovernmentsCreate. Community profile for cities and counties in southeast Michigan.
- Drawing Detroit: EducationCreating by the WSU staff at the Center for Urban Studies. These maps address socio-economic questions surrounding Detroit and Southeastern Michigan.
Other Tools You Can Use
- YouTube--Wayne State LibrariesLink to online videos to help with searching for articles, using library databases, accessing full-text, and more.