LibGuides: Early Learning and Childcare: Home

Yukon early learning educators
This is a space to help early childhood educators in the Yukon to promote child-led discoveries to inspire their confidence to innovate solutions to tomorrow’s challenges; direct purposeful play to develop skills children will need to create a strong and healthy community; model the empathy and care you hope to see reflected in children as empathetic and caring adults; listen to, learn from and support the work of Indigenous knowledge holders and Elders with the understanding that education is key for reconciliation; and celebrate the unique culture and background of each child ensuring that they see themselves, their cultures and their identities reflected in their environments.

Start your search

1. Select a topic that meets the requirements of your assignment.

2. Explore information: explore ideas and perspectives and identify potential sources of information.

3. Narrow your topic: identify key points you want to explore and formulate a question or argument around them.

4. Refine your search & evaluate resources: explore information related to your argument and make connections between your ideas and the ideas of others.

5. Use information appropriately: give credit to the original creators of information and strengthen your argument with citations and references.

Learn more about the search process and search strategies with this guide.

Search tips

Use Boolean Operators (AND, OR, NOT) to combine keywords. E.g.: childcare AND sleep routines

When doing your search, use nouns instead of a question. For example, instead of searching for "how to socialize toddlers in day care centres?", search for toddlers AND socialization AND day care centres

Explore ERIC to find articles. Also try ERIC's thesaurus search (top left of the database). Learn more about the thesaurus search here.

Including keywords or using search filters that describe a specific age group can help you narrow results. Example: storytelling AND toddlers instead of storytelling AND children (children is more generic and will include results concerning various ages).

Consider using synonyms or related keywords separated by the boolean operator OR. Use advanced search or group the keywords using parenthesis (nested search). Example: childcare AND (toddlers OR infants OR young children).

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