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Outdoor Education: Background

An IslandWood Outdoor Educators guide to tapping into conversations

Encyclopedias & Handbooks

Academic encyclopedias and handbooks are useful when starting your research as they provide thorough overviews, key terms, and references for further reading. An encyclopedia article may be more brief while a handbook can be an edited book-length manuscript. 

Finding Encyclopedias and Handbooks

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Find a handbook using the main UW Libraries catalog search, using "handbook" as an additional search term. 

UW Libraries catalog search with terms: handbook and outdoor and education or learning

 

 

Subjects: Education