Australian Thesaurus of Education Descriptors

Third edition

Author(s): Editor, Anna Gifford

Publisher: ACER Press, 2003

An indispensable research resource that contains a structured listing of terms designed for indexing and searching the literature of education in Australia.

Now it its third edition, the Australian Thesaurus of Education Descriptors contains over 5400 descriptors used to index the Australian Education Index and Education Research Theses databases. It is an invaluable taxonomy to educators, indexers and experts or novices undertaking indexing and subject searches in education.

Features:

• New descriptors reflecting trends and emerging areas of interest in education literature
• Alphabetically listed descriptors with links to broader, narrower and related terms
• 9884 vocabulary terms, of which 5454 are main entry descriptors, 4430 are non-preferred terms with references to the preferred terms
• 140 new main entry terms
• Rotated descriptor display which provides an alphabetical index to all words that form thesaurus terms

Price: $131.94  
ISBN: 086431681X