Finding books using OneSearch
Once you have a good understanding of your topic, including who is involved, a time frame or era to focus on, where to place your topic, such as the United States or California, and why it is so important, you will want to locate books that will provide you with credible and reliable information.
Search the library catalog for print and online books using the keywords you developed and learned from your background search. Suggested keywords:
- multiculturalism
- multicultural education
- ethnicity, ethnic groups
- cultural competence, cultural rights, cultural diversity
- inclusive education
- sociology of disability
- people with disabilities (choose a specific disability such as deafness, nonverbal communication
- race, racism,
Check out the Library Research: The Process for more help in starting your research paper.
Book chapter example
Health Literacy in Nursing by Publication Date: 2014-07-01"Dr. Parnell has captured the essence of health literacy and cultural competence, not only for nurses, but also applicable to all care providers and community workers and provides us with a road map to enhance our success through health literacy and cultural competence.
Here is an example of using three different chapters from the book Health literacy in nursing: Providing person-centered care.
Terri Ann Parnell writes a chapter entitled "Culture, language, and communication access services." Parnell is the author of several chapters as well as being the editor of the book.
In the same book, Jennifer H. Mieres writes a chapter entitled "Delivering patient-centered care in a diverse environment." Mieres is a contributor to the book's breadth and scope.
The third example is the chapter "Mental health disorders" by Fallon Edwards.
All three chapters deal with disability, health care, and communications.
Language Assoc.)
Terri Ann Parnell, MA, DNP, RN. Health Literacy in Nursing : Providing Person-Centered Care. Springer Publishing Company, 2014.
APA 7th Edition (American Psychological Assoc.)
Terri Ann Parnell, M. D. R. (2014). Health Literacy in Nursing : Providing Person-Centered Care. Springer Publishing Company.Role of Cluture
Terri Ann Parnell, MA, DNP, RN. Health Literacy in Nursing : Providing Person-Centered Care. Springer Publishing Company, 2014.
APA 7th Edition (American Psychological Assoc.)
Terri Ann Parnell, M. D. R. (2014). Health Literacy in Nursing : Providing Person-Centered Care. Springer Publishing Company.Role of Cluture
Role of Culture, Language, and Communication Access Services
MLA 8th Edition (Modern Language Assoc.)
Terri Ann Parnell, MA, DNP, RN. Health Literacy in Nursing : Providing Person-Centered Care. Springer Publishing Company, 2014.
APA 7th Edition (American Psychological Assoc.)
Terri Ann Parnell, M. D. R. (2014). Health Literacy in Nursing : Providing Person-Centered Care. Springer Publishing Company.
MLA 8th Edition (Modern Language Assoc.)
Terri Ann Parnell, MA, DNP, RN. Health Literacy in Nursing : Providing Person-Centered Care. Springer Publishing Company, 2014.
APA 7th Edition (American Psychological Assoc.)
Terri Ann Parnell, M. D. R. (2014). Health Literacy in Nursing : Providing Person-Centered Care. Springer Publishing Company.
Library Resources: eBooks
Below are library resources that will provide you with information as well as give you some insight into each author.
My Sense of Silence: Memoirs of a Childhood with Deafness by Publication Date: 2008-06-09Lennard J. Davis grew up as the hearing child of deaf parents. In this candid, affecting, and often funny memoir, he recalls the joys and confusions of this special world, especially his complex and sometimes difficult relationships with his working-class Jewish immigrant parents. Gracefully slipping through memory, regret, longing, and redemption, My Sense of Silence is an eloquent remembrance of human ties and human failings.
Cross Cultural Competence: a field guide for developing global leaders and managers by Publication Date: 2015-04-14'Cross Cultural Competence' serves as a comprehensive, practical, and workshop-based program that allows facilitators and organizational change agents to help organizations and people develop cross cultural skills and global competence. The book is grounded in the most rigorous and relevant theories, research, and learning methods and makes them easily accessible and fun to apply.
Inclusion, Disability and Culture by Publication Date: 2015-01-01This book examines some theoretical and empirical aspects about complexities of inclusion, disability and culture. It challenges the globalized technical and reductionist approach of inclusion and argues that concepts of disability and inclusion are culturally constructed.
Cultural Competence Now: 56 exercises to help educators understand and challenge bias, racism, and privilege by Publication Date: 2020-02-18What will it take to create equitable educational opportunities for all students? According to veteran educator Vernita Mayfield, teachers and school leaders need to learn how to recognize culturally embedded narratives about racial hierarchy and dismantle the systems of privilege and the institutions that perpetuate them with knowledge, action, and advocacy. Cultural Competence Now provides a structure to begin meaningful conversations about race, culture, bias, privilege, and power within the time constraints of an ordinary school.
Culture and Disability: Providing Culturally Competent Services by Publication Date: 2004-08-07Culture and Disability provides information about views of disability in other cultures and ways in which rehabilitation professionals may improve services for persons from other cultures, especially recent immigrants. The book includes chapters with descriptions of the interaction of culture and disability.
Sociopolitical Aspects of Disabilities: the social perspectives and political history of disabilities and rehabilitation in the United States by Publication Date: 2010-03-01This new edition continues the discussion of the evolution of societal attitudes toward persons with disabilities and explains how social attitudes impact social interactions which in turn create a need for political action to correct injustices and/or increase opportunities for persons with disabilities.
Intersectionality of Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender in Teaching and Teacher Education by Publication Date: 2018-04-12In Intersectionality of Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender in Teaching and Teacher Education, the editors bring together scholarship that employs an intersectionality approach to conditions that affect public school children, teachers, and teacher educators. Chapter authors use intersectionality to examine group identities not only for their differences and experiences of oppression, but also for differences within groups that contribute to conflicts among groups. See ch. 7 for disabilities.
Fantasies of Identification by Publication Date: 2014-04-25Combining literary analysis, legal history, and visual culture, Ellen Samuels traces the evolution of the "fantasy of identification"--the powerful belief that embodied social identities are fixed, verifiable, and visible through modern science.
