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Are These Your Glasses?
Author(s): Gavin McCormack (click on the author's name for more titles)
Are These Your Glasses? tells the tale of, Sergio, a lonely penguin who is faced with many hurdles as he grows up. Sergio is a champion against bullying. With his father as a guide, he learns some valuable lessons.These lessons help him to show great determination and strength as he tries to find true friendship.
The book has been designed to inspire deep conversations within the classroom and home about what it feels like to be excluded. It explains how we can overcome bullying with care and love.
The story of Sergio has the potential to educate children on a variety of levels. It inspires deep conversations about what it feels like to be excluded from a group and teaches children that the gift of kindness is the greatest gift of all.
As Sergio embarks on his quest for love, the sky ‘Aurora Australis’ changes its colour depending on his emotional state. This should allow those children who find it difficult to express their emotions in words to relate to Sergio’s situation. The book has a strong moral focus with many fine details and inferential clues within the beautiful illustrations which can be great discussion starters with children. And to top it all off, it has a beautiful ending.
The book is supported by detailed guides for parents and educators to assist them to extend the learning with the children in their care.
About the author
Gavin McCormack is a primary school teacher based in Sydney Australia who wants to make a difference. As a child, he was bullied at school. The feeling of the bullying he faced stayed with him well into his adult life. After working with children for almost 20 years, he has seen patterns emerging, especially in those children who are socially excluded. He decided to write this book to eradicate social exclusion in primary schools and to educate young people about the long-term effects of bullying and exclusion.
RRP $29.95
Authentic Art with Children
EbookFrom the author, Dr Margaret Brooks For the past years many of my early childhood student teachers have struggled with the visual arts. There is a deeply ingrained belief that they cannot draw and are no good at art. This lack of self-efficacy is compounded by the lack of a strong contemporary theoretical framework for the visual arts in early childhood. The roles and rules for doing art with young children are not congruent with current practice. In confusion and frustration teachers turn to superficial and catchy activities that often have little to do with art. This book tries to address both issues, first by providing practical guides that demonstrate how to use authentic art materials and provide real artistic experiences for children. Then by threading contemporary theory throughout with a strong focus on the role of the teacher. There is even a section that teaches you how to draw.
RRP $54.00
Before 9 After 3
A Handbook for Outside School Hours CareAuthor(s): Alison Jones, Sue Tarrant (click on the author's name for more titles)
A comprehensive and practical Australian guide to setting up and providing quality care in Outside School Hours Care programs. Designed for trained and untrained child carers, TAFE students and teachers, and community members or parents in management committees.
RRP $34.95
Children's Rights Learning Book
Author(s): Deborah Harcourt (click on the author's name for more titles)
Children’s Rights Learning Book is the first book written by young children for young children and teachers about rights.
'… the need to take a more active stance on children’s participatory rights is particularly important when there are significant changes in early childhood education and care, including the implementation of the Early Years Learning Framework which seeks to embody these rights in educators’ daily practice'.
RRP $18.95
Conversations Behind Early Childhood Pedagogical Documentation
Author(s): Alma Fleet, Catherine Patterson, Janet Robertson (click on the author's name for more titles)
‘The ideas and concepts surrounding pedagogical documentation have been, for many, vague, slippery and hard to pin-down … This book teaches us to listen, speak, interpret, think, reflect as well as record the interactions between us, materials, representations and environments and space.'
RRP $89.95
Dancing With Reggio Emilia
Metaphors for QualityAuthor(s): Stefania Giamminuti (click on the author's name for more titles)
This is a book about the philosophical basis of a mode of early, preschool education. But that philosophical basis is not only set forth abstractly but explicated concretely by well observed examples of the daily life of those preschools. I happen to be a cittadino honorario of Reggio Emilia. And I confess that I am further honoured by the appearance of Ms Giamminuti’s book. For it brings that city and its pedagogical efforts into a universal context that honors us all.
[from the Foreword] Jerome Bruner, University Professor, New York University, NYC (USA)
As I read this book, the story emerged of a special educational project, seen and narrated through the eyes of a researcher who has positioned herself as a listener and observer of daily events in the municipal infant–toddler centres and ‘schools of childhood’ of Reggio Emilia. Stefania has narrated the possible which this experience attempts to bear witness to, proposing education as a primary and inalienable right of all children throughout the world.
[from the Epilogue] Claudia Giudici, President, Preschools and Infant—toddler Centres — Istituzione of the Municipality of Reggio Emilia
Your book stands out in that it gives a genuine feeling for the schools and the community while also speaking to the already published literature.
Howard Gardner, Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education (USA).
RRP $114.95
Documentation and the Early Years Learning Framework
Researching in Reggio Emilia and AustraliaAuthor(s): Jan Millikan, Stefania Giamminuti (click on the author's name for more titles)
This new title in our EYLF series links the EYLF and documentation. Drawing on research from both Reggio Emilia and Australia, the authors are well placed to offer these insights.
From the Foreword by Jennifer Sumsion:
Jan and Stefania have taken up the challenge of ensuring that belonging, being and becoming doesn’t descend into cliché. As they explain, they have written ‘with the aim of sparking enriched responses to belonging, being and becoming’. And indeed, they have succeeded beautifully in showing how the principles of the Reggio Emilia educational project in Northern Italy can map so effectively onto the principles of the EYLF.
But importantly, they also show how bringing Reggio Emilia principles into conversation with the EYLF can provoke new ways of thinking about the possibilities of the EYLF. By focusing particularly on documentation, they make a timely and valuable contribution. They challenge some of the many myths about documentation that have emerged and taken hold over recent years. They complicate every day understandings and push readers to think more deeply about the possibilities that this distinctive aspect of early childhood practice affords. But equally importantly, they discuss ethical issues and related concerns that have been raised about documentation.
RRP $42.95
Drawing to Learn
EbookFrom the author, Dr Margaret Brooks This book is the theoretical companion to my more practical book, ‘Authentic Art with Children’. It lays out and discusses a theoretical framework and rationale for teaching the visual arts with young children. I carefully unpack a Vygotskian, social constructionist theory with many examples to clarify some difficult concepts. I believe we need to know why we are teaching the way we do and have the tools to critically evaluate what we do.
RRP $64.00
Eco Smart
A Sustainable Standard for Early EducationEcoSmart: A sustainable standard for early education will support your team on its journey to a more sustainable community with the introduction of concepts, actions and resources that will inspire the whole team. ECEEN believes experiences in our early years provide an opportunity for life-long learning and that our habits of future years will be influenced by the actions of those around us now. We believe the relationships fostered in children’s services between educators, children and families are the foundations of a caring, sustainable community to nurture ECEEN’s DREAM. ‘Together we must dream of a great place to live, a place that is fair and equitable, that values the Earth and all its life and resources for the present and for future generations. This revised edition of Eco Smart is very timely. The young children we educate today will be adults in the frontline when global warming exceeds a predicted 2 degree threshold. Critical reflection about how we work in early childhood services for sustainable futures for all children is an imperative. Aligned with the NQS, Eco Smart offers a comprehensive set of action points for urgent change across policy and practice in early childhood services. Dr Sue Elliott Course Coordinator BT(ECE), BEd(EC), BEd(ECT), BEd(ECP) & BEd Studies School of Education University of New England The strategies and actions in Eco Smart – A sustainable standard for early education are supporting Kids Uni CBD to move together with children, families and their local community to advocate and act for a sustainable world. Kellie Grose Children Services Manager, Kids’ Uni, UOW Pulse Ltd,
RRP $42.95
EDEC4003 Social Justice and Diversity in Early Childhood
Author(s): Stefania Giamminuti (click on the author's name for more titles)
A custom e- textbook for your course Social Justice and Diversity in Early Childhood from Pademelon Press.
For over 25 years, Pademelon Press has given a voice to early childhood educators through our quality publications. Pademelon Custom Texts are a cost-effective solution for students to access those publications.
Professional Experience 6 Custom Textbook includes chapters from the following books:
• Talkin’ Up and Speakin’ Out: Aboriginal and Multicultural Voices in Early Childhood
• Insights: Behind Early Childhood Pedagogical Documentation ebook
• Conversations: Behind Early Childhood Pedagogical Documentation
• Dancing with Reggio Emilia: Metaphors for Quality
• Documentation and the Early Years Learning Framework: Researching in Reggio Emilia and Australia
The individual books are also available so if you like the work of an author or authors and want to read more of it, you can purchase the complete book.
Questions? Just give us a call on 02 4236 1881 and we will be happy to help.
RRP $66.00
EDEC5010 Family and Community Contexts 2020 edition
Custom textbook for Curtin University course EDEC5010 Family and Community Contexts
RRP $70.00
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This gift voucher will entitle the recipient for $25 credit to be used with Pademelon Press. The gift voucher will be emailed to you, and you can email it on or print it out to send to the recipient.
RRP $25.00
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This gift voucher will entitle the recipient for $50 credit to be used with Pademelon Press. The gift voucher will be emailed to you, and you can email it on or print it out to send to the recipient.
RRP $50.00
Gift Voucher - $75 Value
This gift voucher will entitle the recipient for $75 credit to be used with Pademelon Press. The gift voucher will be emailed to you, and you can email it on or print it out to send to the recipient.
RRP $75.00
Insights - 3 eChapter Bundle Pack
Insights - 3 eChapter Bundle Pack Insights: Behind Early Childhood Pedagogical Documentation EBOOK Insights is available as the WHOLE E-BOOK or INDIVIDUAL E-CHAPTERS. It is PDF format so you can read it on any computer (does not require a specific e-reader!). Buy the whole book for $69.95 or buy chapters of your choice. You can buy a bundle of chapters.
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