Canada: research, policy, and practice related to early education
- Early Years Study (Early Years Study 3 full report located here)
- Education indicators in Canada 2011 (Statistics Canada)
- Child care resource and research unit
- Council of Ministers of Education, Canada
- National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY)
Pakistan: research, policy, and practice related to early education
General resources on childhood development and early education (pre-primary and early primary)
- Encyclopedia on early childhood development
- Centre of excellence for early childhood development
- BestStart: Ontario’s maternal, newborn, and early child development resource centre
- Consultative group on early childhood care and development (international)
- Bernard van Leer Foundation publications (international)
- Society for Research in Child Development
Peer-reviewed academic journals (open access)
- Directory of Open-Access Journals: Free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, covering all subjects and many languages
- Early Childhood Research & Practice
- Frontiers in Developmental Psychology
- Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation
- International Education Studies
- World Journal of Education
- Asia-Pacific Education Researcher
- Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
- Child Health & Education
- Current Issues in Comparative Education
- Asia-Pacific Journal of Research in Early Childhood Education
Research resources
- UNESCO Education Statistics
- UNESCO Global Education Digest 2012 – Interactive Data Tool
- International cross-time, cross-system education data for researchers (still in beta stage but lots of potential)
- Web center for social research methods
- Community-based participatory research: a training manual for community-based researchers
Academic professional development resources
- Explorations of Style (a blog about academic writing)
- The ins and outs of a professional academic website (blog post)
- Publishing your thesis online (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6)
- The Thesis Whisperer (a blog dedicated to helping research students, particularly with thesis writing)
- Pat Thompson’s blog (support for researchers, students, thesis-ers, etc.)
