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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
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
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 $39.95
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 $39.95
EDEC5010 Family and Community Contexts
Custom textbook for Curtin University course EDEC5010 Family and Community Contexts If the shopping cart is asking you to add postage, please email enquiry@pademelonpress.com.au and we will process your order manually. We appreciate your patience while the IT folks iron out this issue. Thanks
RRP $70.00
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.
Insights - 7 eChapter Bundle Pack
Insights - 7 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.
Insights — eBook
Behind early childhood pedagogical documentationThis eBook is in a PDF format.
RRP $69.95
Liam’s Story: So why do I wear Dad’s medals?
Author(s): Marg Baber, Madeline Fussell, Kim Porter (click on the author's name for more titles)
Liam’s Story is a true story and the people in the pictures are the real characters in the story. Liam’s Story deals with the feelings experienced by one young boy, whose father was killed on active duty in a recent conflict, as he goes about his day on ANZAC Day. As well as exploring empathy and resilience in young readers, it explains a difficult concept such as war and the effect it has on children and families.
Liam’s Story: So why do I wear Dad’s medals? is also about ANZAC Day, yet it can be used as a resource all-year round when discussing issues of war and loss with children. The authors have included references to both Australia and New Zealand throughout. With the ANZAC centenary this year, the book should prove especially popular yet it is not tied to the centenary and so can be used as a classroom resource for years to come.
The book is designed to be read on three levels. If reading to a very young child, you can simply read the text in the yellow banner across the top of the page. If reading to a slightly older child, that yellow banner text flows into the text beneath it in the blue section of the page. The addition of the fact boxes make it an ideal learning resource as well as these link in with the early primary history and social sciences curriculum.
Extension activities and teaching notes will be available on our website as a resource for educators and families. Liam’s Story is based on research conducted by the authors through the University of New England.
‘We live in a world where the consequences of war are all around us; where families and children who have been traumatised by violence live in our street and attend our schools. As educators, parents, friends, community members we can support children and families; we can show that we acknowledge their experiences, empathise with their struggle and believe in their ability to stay strong and build happy lives despite the trauma. In a perfect world, children would never have to face the loss of a parent. In our less than perfect world, we need resources such as this book to make us aware, and to help us think what we might do to help make this world we live in a little better.’
Margaret Sims, Professor of Early Childhood, University of New England
RRP $24.95
Outdoor Playspace Naturally, The
For Children Birth to Five YearsAuthor(s): Sue Elliott (click on the author's name for more titles)
The Outdoor Playspace Naturally arose from concerns shared by the editor and contributing authors about children's playspaces in early childhood services in Australia. It reveals their concerns and offers guidance and information to early childhood educators, centre co-ordinators, management committees, designers and all those involved in the provision of early childhood services.
RRP $89.95
Program Planning for Infants and Toddlers - 2nd Revised Edition
In Search of RelationshipsAuthor(s): Margaret Sims (click on the author's name for more titles)
This book is designed as a resource for students and caregivers of infants and toddlers in group settings. It aims to support the curricula of both New Zealand — Te Whāriki, and Australia — Early Years Learning Framework, with particular reference to how these curricula relate to children three years and under.
RRP $89.95
Sustainability and The Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF)
Author(s): Sue Elliott (click on the author's name for more titles)
As momentum around early childhood education for sustainability has built over the last decade, it is evident that starting sustainably in early childhood is not only possible, but also necessary. For children, families and educators to collaboratively construct sustainable early child communities is the goal and this can be facilitated by implementing the EYLF through a lens of sustainability.
Reflecting on and implementing the EYLF from a sustainability perspective is a critical starting point for every early childhood community.
RRP $39.95
Unearthing Why
Stories of thinking and learning with childrenAuthor(s): Jill McLachlan, Clare Britt (click on the author's name for more titles)
Unearthing Why is a collection of stories offering a distinct and hopeful outlook for the future of education.
Each chapter invites you to consider the complexity and beauty of children’s capacity to learn, think and be together. Jill McLachlan’s and Clare Britt’s retellings of their experiences learning alongside children in prior-to-school and primary school based contexts will gently, but compellingly, invite you to join them in considering the deep purposes of education — questioning the ‘whys’, just below the surface, that inform ‘what’ and ‘how’ you teach.
Perhaps, as they have, you will find yourself looking beneath the surface of your everyday and begin (or continue in) asking questions that lead you towards new and optimisticways of being with children and living out your teaching with a new measure of dignity and joy.
“This book has great potential to contribute to and extend the conversations around the inspirations from the educational project of Reggio Emilia.The context of the early years of school offers rich possibilities for dialogue amongst those teachers who might have considered themselves to be outside the ‘Reggio space’. This is a welcome contribution, and one that will no doubt be relevant to contexts outside the Australian one”.
Stefania Giamminuti,
Lecturer, Early Childhood Education, Curtin University (Perth, WA).
RRP $64.95
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