Re: [xmca] tracking changing terms in the literature

[Phil Chappell <philchappell@mac.com>]

Hi Helen

Try this http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/

I searched your terms (see link below)  - you may need to adjust the criteria!

Cheers

Phil

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=professional+development%2C+professional+learning&year_start=1800&year_end=2011&corpus=0&smoothing=3


On 22/09/2011, at 11:16 AM, Helen Grimmett wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'm wondering if anyone can help me work out a way to find out when the
> educational research literature started moving away from the term
> 'professional development' and began using 'professional learning'? I
> vaguely remember someone talking here about some sort of web program that
> could do this but I can't even work out what words to use to google such a
> thing! Maybe there is even an easy way to do this without special software
> that my post-ISCAR jet-lagged brain just cannot fathom at the moment!
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks,
> Helen
> 
> -- 
> Helen Grimmett
> PhD Student, Teaching Associate
> Faculty of Education
> Monash University, Peninsula Campus
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