Rethinking Education with ICT

By Nicola Yelland

This book brings together a number of academics who have conducted research and written about effective practices and pedagogies that incorporate the use of information and communications technologies (ICT).

The book is intended for graduate and undergraduate students in Teacher Education programmes, as well as teachers and those who are interested in contemporary educational issues. The authors in this book have been engaged in rethinking education with ICT. Implicit in this, is the view that we need to reconceptualise our pedagogies and practices in order to make schools relevant to the lives of the young people who inhabit them.

The chapters in this book are based on empirically grounded research work. The chapters illustrate the various dimensions of innovative practices with ICT that can extend teachers’ pedagogies and engage learners so that they are able to extend their potential for knowledge building in new and dynamic ways.

Nicola Yelland is a professor in the school of education at Victoria University

Pricing & Order

SIXTH GRADE STYLE QUEEN (NOT!)

By Sherryl Clark

Told in the form of a verse novel, Sherryl Clark brings to life all the beauty, vulnerability and pain of twelve-year-old emotions. Dawn doesn't know where she belongs. It's not with the style queens at school. And it's not at home, where all her parents do is fight. Even her best friend, Emily, doesn't seem to want to be best friends any more. With words that are more like snapshots, Sherryl lets us into Dawn's world: a world that is dark at times, but can also feel like 'sunlight'.

Sherryl Clark teaches in the Diploma of Professional Writing & Editing TAFE at St Albans campus. Sixth Grade Style Queen (Not!) was recently shortlisted for the CBCA Awards, which will be annnounced in August 2008.

Pricing & Order

PRACTICE SKILLS IN SOCIAL WORK AND WELFARE

By Ronnie Egan et al

Human service workers need more than just common sense. Practice Skills in Social Work and Welfareoffers a comprehensive introduction to practice skills required across the human service sector.The authors use critical analysis to systematically outline the key stages of interaction with clients: engagement, assessment, intervention and evaluation. Drawing on a strengths approach, they examine the skills needed for working with different types of clients: individuals, families and community groups. They also explore the dilemmas faced in daily practice, including the challenges of working with involuntary clients, clients from different cultural backgrounds, and clients in crisis situations.Practice Skills in Social Work and Welfareprovides a model of integrated practice which incorporates the key components of ideology, theory, phase, skill and context. Detailed case studies demonstrate how welfare services can be delivered in different contexts.Written by experienced teachers and practitioners from Australia and New Zealand, Practice Skills in Social Work and Welfareis a practical and user friendly text for students and reference for practitioners

Ronnie Egan is a lecturer in Social Work at Victoria University. She teaches in the skills, organisational context  and human development aspects of the course. She continues to provide consultative supervision across fields of practice in the human services sector and is a member of the editorial committee for the Women against Violence journal. She is currently completing her Phd on the provision of social work supervision across Australia. She has co authored this skills text with Dr Jane Maidment from Deakin University and they are currently undertaking the second edition of this text for release in January 2009.In this process they are also producing, in collaboration with Deakin University, Knowledge Media Division, a DVD about skills using the case scenarios from the second edition.  Her research interests include supervision, skills teaching and womens services.

Pricing & Order

SHIFT TO THE FUTURE

By Nicola Yelland

New technologies are dramatically changing early childhood education in the 21st century, as well as the of face childhood itself. Access to new technologies - in the western world at least-provide young children with a myriad of possible activities and explorations that were not possible even a few years ago. But how can we explain and understand the nature of these differences and explore their implication for education? And how are the broader personal and social experiences of young children affected by these new classroom technologies? Focusing on the range of technologies that are available to children and exploring what they think of them and how they use them, childhood expert Nicola Yelland considers research that illustrates the was in which learning and engagement with ideas is made possible by creative interaction and uses of information and communications technologies (ICT) and the ways in which these technologies have opened up the world so that young people are able to extend the boundaries of their social interaction.


Contributors
Nicola Yelland is a Professor in Education at Victoria University.

Pricing & Order

90 YEARS 90 LEGENDS

2006 sees the University celebrate 90 years of education services.

This publication lists 90 legends of Victoria University, read about the proud heritage of VU.

Pricing & Order

WEIGHT TRAINING FOR AUSTRALIAN FOOTBALL

by Con Hrysomallis, Nathan Buckley & David Buttifant

Weight Training for Australian Football offers a thoroughly modern approach to weight training for all levels of Australian football, from juniors to senior elite players. Weight training – using free weights, machines, body weight, elastic resistance and other methods – increases strength, power, muscular endurance and/or size, all key aspects in training for success in Australian football.

The book contains descriptions of more than 100 exercises, includes information on exercise level and training focus, and will expand most training repertoires. It provides variation and stimulation to training programs, and includes practical examples that show how the benefits of weight training can transfer to on-field performance. Photographs of the exercises illustrate all the techniques required.

Con Hrysomallis Ph.D. is a lecturer in anatomy and weight training at the School of Human Movement, Recreation and Performance and a member of the Centre for Ageing, Rehabilitation, Exercise and Sport at Victoria University. He also works as a consultant in strength and conditioning at the elite level of Australian football and has conducted funded research for the AFL.

Pricing & Order

ENGAGING THE NEW WORLD

by Grewal and Kumnick (Eds)

Published as a tribute to the life and work of Peter Sheehan, Engaging the New World reflects his outstanding contribution to public discourse in Australia as researcher, writer, leader, consultant and adviser to governments.

The book is divided into four sections: the global knowledge economy; health care and pharmaceuticals; employment, retirement and welfare; and public finance and regional economies. Each of the twenty-three essays make a valuable contribution to debates over the development of economic policy in each of these fields. They articulate the challenges and explore the opportunities present in the construction of national and global economic policies.

Topics covered in the different sections include; the role of the knowledge economy in Australian agriculture, the benefits to society of new drugs and pharmaceuticals, innovation and industry structure in the biomedical industry, budget management reform in China, and the microfinance movement in China.

Pricing & Order

FOUR QUARTERS

By Tom Petsinis

Tom Petsinis is a poet & regular contributor in the Melbourne media. He is also a lifelong footy fan (AFL) & has spent years writting odes about the sport. This book contains the best of his footie poems along with emotive sketches of the game. Whilst not for every fan the poems & sketchs will appeal to anyone who has a notion of the romance of the sport.

This book will get media coverage & will also make a great gift. Note the book is releasing early to coincide with the footy season & should sell through to the finals in September

Pricing & Order