Child care
Find
Databases
Ebooks
- 101 Music Games for Children Fun and Learning with Rhythm and Song
- A-Z of play in early childhood education
- Child development and behaviour 0-8: a journey through the early years
- Child-initiated learning: positive relationships in early years
- Enabling environments in early years: making for provision for high quality and challenging learning experiences in earky years settings
- Every nursery needs a garden: a step-by-step guide to creating and using a garden with young children
- Music for early learning songs and musical activities to support children's development
- Reading with babies, toddlers and twos: a guide to choosing, reading and loving books together
- Vygotsky in action in the early years the 'key to learning' curriculum
Online videos
Journals
- Australasian Journal of Early Childhood
- Child Development
- Childhood Education
- Children Australia
- Children and Youth Services Review
- Early Child Development & Care
- Infant Behavior and Development
- International Journal of Children's Rights
- YC Young Children
Newsletters
Subscribe to these free online newsletters to keep up to date with hot topics in child care
- Australian Children's Education & Care Authority - fortnighly newsletter from ACECQA (formally the National Childcare Accreditation Council)
- ECA WebWatch - fortnightly from Early Childhood Australia
- ExchangeEveryDay - daily from ChildCareExchange.com.
Websites
Key Organisations
- Association for Children with a Disability
- Child Care Centres Association of Victoria
- Early Childhood Australia
- NAEYC - National Association for the Education of Young Children (US)
- NOSHA - National Out of School Hours Services Association
Australian
- Australia Children's Education and Care Quality Authority(ACECQA)
- Australian Institute of Family Studies
- Child Australia
- Child Family Community Australia
- Early Childhood Intervention Australia
- Environmental Education in Early Childhood Vic. Inc.(EEEC)
- mychild.gov.au
International
Radio and TV
- LifeMatters on ABC Radio National - a unique daily interview program about social change and day-to-day life. Listen to an MP3 or subscribe to a podcast or listen in Monday to Friday 9am. Repeated Monday to Thursday 9pm.
- TVNews
Australian television news, current affairs and selected documentaries from the free-to-air networks with links to the digitised video content in a compressed format.
Help
- Study help
How to find journal articles and more - Referencing
Harvard Style Guide, APA and EndNote - Ask your librarian
Contact us or email David Bradley or Emma Niehof for more help
