Research Collections

University Libraries

The Faculty of Education offers undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate programs, and operates across three campuses - Clayton, Gippsland and Peninsula. Resources for education studies are distributed between these campuses - each reflecting the special needs of the programs run at each campus.

• The Matheson Library collects extensively in secondary education and adult and vocational education and training. Special emphasis is placed on material relating to education in Australia, particularly government policy, economic and social aspects and history of education. Strong collections are available in the areas of special education, educational philosophy and international education.
  
• Gippsland Library collects in the area of childhood development, primary and secondary education, with an emphasis on educational administration and outdoor education. The library includes a substantial curriculum materials collection.
  
• Peninsula Library collects in the areas of early childhood and primary education with a focus on literacy, teaching techniques, childhood development and
  exceptionality. The library includes a substantial teaching materials collection.
  

Child development and psychology

Additional material in areas of child development, child psychology and educational psychology is located in the Hargrave-Andrew Library and in the Gippsland, Caulfield and Berwick libraries. Research material for computers in education can be found in the Hargrave-Andrew and Matheson libraries. Materials for child and adolescent psychiatry, mental disorders and psychotherapy are located in the Monash Medical Center Library.

Curriculum materials

Gippsland and Peninsula libraries hold extensive collections of curriculum resources. These collections include musical instruments, puzzles, puppets etc, kits, music CD's and cassettes, pictures and slides, texts, (including VCE resources), fiction and non fiction children's books. Curriculum materials at Clayton are held in the Faculty of Education Library and Media Resources.

Databases for Education

Part of Monash University's library database collection includes those for education.

Voyager

The Monash University central Voyager catalogue contains records for material held at all campuses, including:

• monographs
• journals
• newspapers
• government publications
• audiovisual materials
• databases (indexes and full text articles)

Voyager does not include records for the materials held in the LMR in the Faculty of Education.