Bloomsbury Education and Childhood Studies Case Studies

Offering peer-reviewed articles and scholarly books on education and childhood studies , Bloomsbury Education and Childhood Studies has wide-ranging potential for use in the classroom. Keep reading to learn how lecturers are using Bloomsbury Education and Childhood Studies to improve the learning experience for their students.

Case Study with Steven Bembridge, Academic Librarian at the University of Derby

For what course(s) do you use Bloomsbury Education and Childhood Studies?

I work as an Academic Librarian at the University of Derby and have integrated Bloomsbury Education and Childhood Studies into Education’s subject specific LibGuide

Did you build the course around the resource or do you slot the resource into an existing teaching plan?

Whilst not teaching as an academic, I did build the resource into the LibGuide with a clear indication of its context in mind. The student can work their way through the relevant section of the guide to understand how Bloomsbury can expand their research:

What particular needs does Bloomsbury Education and Childhood Studies help you meet (course needs, teachers’ needs, students’ needs, institutional needs)? How does it help you to meet them?

It provides excellent current knowledge about a subject, and its country comparison is an extremely useful way to demonstrate to students the resource’s potential for their own research—particularly if they are thinking about working overseas or exploring the way things work in other educational systems.

What did you find in Bloomsbury Education and Childhood Studies that you couldn’t find in anything else?

The cross-country comparison stands out to me, as does the separation of content into levels of education.

Can you describe in some detail how you have incorporated particular articles or other resources on the platform into teaching?

As a librarian, this element is not very relevant to me, but I do ensure that I incorporate the resource into all sessions I lead. I will run the same search across many different databases, including Bloomsbury, to demonstrate how they all relate and how they provide different types of content for the students to use.

Are there any features of the resource that you or your students have found valuable?

The cross-country comparison is mentioned to me and gains a positive response.